VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (AP) — The City of Virginia Beach declared a state of emergency after a tornado moved through the area Sunday and damaged dozens of homes, downed trees and caused gas leaks. City officials said it’s unclear how many homes had been damaged but they estimated between 50 and 100, after the tornado
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Workers and activists around the world marked May Day on Monday with rallies calling for higher salaries, reduced working hours and other better working conditions. In France, unions plan massive demonstrations to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s recent move to raise the retirement age from 62
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III hasn’t even been crowned yet, but his name is already etched on the walls of Hill House School in London. A wooden slab just inside the front door records Nov. 7, 1956, as the day the future king enrolled at Hill House, alongside other
Continue Reading By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The pioneering and scandalous French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923. She owed her fame not only to her acting talent but her instinct to use the press for branding decades before the
Continue Reading By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkish forces have killed the leader of the Islamic State group during an operation in Syria. Erdogan told TRT Turk television late Sunday that the IS leader, code-named Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, had been killed in a strike the previous day
Continue Reading TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The 2-year-old daughter of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett drowned in a swimming pool at the family’s home on Sunday, police said. Officers, responding to a call that a child had fallen into a pool, were sent to Barrett’s home in the Beach Park neighborhood in south Tampa shortly before
Continue Reading By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Musician Deronne White is ready to play on King Charles III’s coronation day. The flautist and his fellow young musicians aren’t playing anything regal or solemn — they’re planning to parade through south London’s streets entertaining crowds with an uplifting “coronation carnival” set mixing gospel, jazz, grime,
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma will be a visiting professor at Tokyo College, a research institute run by the prestigious University of Tokyo. The university said Monday that Ma will research sustainable agriculture and food production. It said Ma, who heads his own Jack Ma Foundation,
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A large number of workers and activists in Asian countries are set to mark May Day on Monday with protests calling for higher salaries and better working conditions, among other demands. May Day, which falls on May 1, is observed in many countries as a
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces have fatally shot a Palestinian teenager in a raid in the occupied West Bank. The death was part of a relentless wave of violence that has rocked the region for the last year. The Israeli military said gunmen
Continue Reading By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he personally favors his country becoming a republic but it’s not a change he intends to push for as leader. Hipkins made the comments to reporters hours before he was due to depart for this week’s coronation of
Continue Reading By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the first Monday in May: Welcome to Met Gala mania. With a livestream available when the evening gets underway, the world’s most fashionable fundraiser takes on one of the world’s most prolific — and controversial — designers, the late Karl Lagerfeld, as the starry
Continue Reading By DÉBORA REY Associated Press ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguayans voted overwhelmingly to keep the long-ruling Colorado Party in power for five more years, backing its presidential candidate and giving it majorities in both houses of Congress. Santiago Peña, a 44-year-old economist, had 43% of the votes in a preliminary count from Sunday’s election, with
Continue Reading DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — The rising Mississippi River will continue to test flood defenses in southeast Iowa and northwest Illinois on Monday as it crests in the area. The peak water levels this spring will likely rank in the top 10 of all time in many places, but the National Weather Service said river levels
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion’s biggest night is just a few hours away. After all, it is the first Monday in May. Follow along for real-time updates on the 2023 Met Gala from The Associated Press. We’ll be bringing you news in all formats, all day and all night, from the carpet and behind the
Continue Reading By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — The Seattle Kraken converged from all points on the ice to the same spot — Philipp Grubauer’s net. A fitting gathering place to celebrate another first for this young franchise. Grubauer was stellar in stopping 33 shots, Oliver Bjorkstrand scored twice and the Kraken eliminated the
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — Wilson Garcia hadn’t even asked his neighbor to stop shooting his gun. People in their rural town north of Houston are used to people firing their weapons to blow off steam, but it was late Friday night, and Garcia had a month-old son who was
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — With Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serving a life sentence, his sons steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities of the cheap, deadly drug that they smuggled into the U.S., prosecutors revealed in
Continue Reading By STEVE PEOPLES and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat-turned-Independent long known for his centrist views, voted for Joe Biden in 2020. But as Biden’s reelection campaign begins, Lieberman is preparing to recruit a third-party candidate capable of defeating the Democratic president. “Centrists and moderates feel that
Continue Reading By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — State Sen. Shevrin Jones can often be seen at the Florida Capitol greeting staff and colleagues with a smile or laugh, but when he’s alone it’s a different story. “The outward expression is to show God’s love. That’s what I was taught,” said Jones, a Democrat.
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