FBI finds violent crime declined in 2023. Here’s what to know about the report
Violent crime in the U.S. dropped in 2023, according to FBI statistics that show a continued trend downward after a coronavirus pandemic-era crime spike. Overall violent crime ...
Jazz saxophonist and composer Benny Golson dies at 95
Jazz great Benny Golson, a tenor saxophonist and composer of standards such as “Killer Joe” and “Along Came Betty,” has died. He was 95. Golson died Saturday at his home in ...
Iran’s president accuses Israel of seeking wider Mideast war and laying ‘traps’ to lead Iran into it
Iran’s president accused Israel on Monday of seeking a wider war in the Middle East and laying “traps” to lead his country into a wider conflict. Masoud Pezeshkian told about ...
As he welcomes Gotham FC, Biden says ‘a woman can do anything a man can do,’ including be president
President Joe Biden on Monday said “a woman can do anything a man can do … including being president of the United States,” ...
‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, ...
Trump is set to travel to Pennsylvania stops focused on countering China
Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail Monday and expected to travel to the swing state of Pennsylvania to speak about his plans to counter the U.S. reliance on China with a ...
IndyCar finalizes charter system that doesn’t guarantee spots in Indianapolis 500
IndyCar on Monday finalized a charter system for 25 entrants that, while it pales in comparison to the contentious deal reached between NASCAR and its teams over their revenue sharing model, does ...
UN expert says prisoners sent by Russia to fight in Ukraine are committing crimes when they return
A U.N.-backed human rights expert monitoring President Vladimir Putin’s Russia decried on Monday increased violence in the country caused by former prisoners who have their sentences ...
Most Hispanic Americans support abortion access: AP-NORC poll
For decades, some political analysts have sought to depict Hispanic Americans as “socially conservative” — and indeed many of them are. But a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for ...
AP Player of the week: James Madison’s Alonza Barnett III accounts for 7 TDs in win over Tar Heels
The Associated Press national player of the week in college football for Week 4 of the season: Alonza Barnett III, James Madison The Dukes’ quarterback had a hand in a program-record seven ...
A vandal’s rampage at a Maine car dealership causes thousands in damage to 75 vehicles
A Maine man damaged 75 vehicles at an automobile dealership, smashing windows and denting hoods of vehicles before he was arrested, police said. The 25-year-old man from ...
Feds: Man accused in apparent assassination attempt wrote note indicating he intended to kill Trump
The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump wrote a note months earlier saying that he intended to kill the former president, the Justice Department ...