Month: May 2024

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press TEPATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — She sold snacks in a small town in central Mexico as a girl. She rose to national politics with a biography that could help take her to the heights of power. But polls show Xóchitl Gálvez trailing the ruling party’s candidate ahead of Mexico’s June 2

By KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — The smell of wood fire wafting on the breeze is the first sense that gets triggered at the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in Memphis, where smoke is as essential an ingredient as salt. For the teams that annually compete at the so-called Super Bowl

By ANNIE MA and COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidents of Northwestern and Rutgers universities defended their decisions to end pro-Palestinian encampments through negotiations rather than police force, telling a House committee on Thursday that they defused the danger without ceding ground to protesters. “We had to get the encampment down,”

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The crack of bat on ball and the sight of Venezuelan children running the bases on the soccer field turned baseball diamond on the outskirts of Peru’s capital are watched with confusion by locals accustomed to soccer. The questioning looks don’t deter the young Venezuelans for

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump may be stuck in a Manhattan courtroom for his hush money trial, but he knows his favorite television analysts. In getting the last word after a day’s testimony in his trial, the former president reads aloud commentaries to say the “legal scholars” all

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Republican lawmakers in states across the U.S. have been rejecting Democrats’ efforts to protect or expand access to birth control, an issue Democrats are promoting as a major issue in this year’s elections along with abortion and other reproductive rights concerns. Former President Donald

By ALBERTO MENDOZA Associated Press SAN PEDRO GARZA GARCIA, Mexico (AP) — The collapse of a stage in heavy winds at a campaign rally in northern Mexico has killed at least nine people, including a child, and injured 121, the governor of Nuevo Leon state said Thursday. The collapse occurred during an event Wednesday evening

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. independent investigator says thousands of journalists have fled their home countries in recent years to escape political repression, save their lives and escape conflict. But Irene Khan said that in exile they are often vulnerable to physical, digital and legal threats. She said

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A book presentation about neoclassical economic theory may not sound like a crowd-pleaser. But on Wednesday in Buenos Aires, mobs of star-struck fans packed a giant auditorium to hear their president, the libertarian economist Javier Milei, lecture on the importance of freeing capital from the

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert Thursday over Chinese military exercises being conducted around the self-governing island democracy where a new president took office this week. China’s military said its two-day exercises around Taiwan were punishment for separatist forces seeking

BEIJING (AP) — State media say an explosion at an apartment building in Harbin, a city in northeastern China, has killed one person and injured three others. Videos on social media showed that parts of a five-story apartment building were damaged, with one apartment’s balcony completely blown off. A local media outlet reported that a