AP National News

By TERRY TANG, DEEPA BHARATH and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — For those who made their way to the Star Ballroom over the years, Ming Wei Ma was a bright light, always smiling and encouraging those who came to the Los Angeles area dance hall popular with older Asian Americans. Ma

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean and Japanese coast guards are searching for 17 crewmembers of a cargo ship that sank early Wednesday in waters between South Korea and Japan. The coast guard of the South Korean island of Jeju said five crewmembers were rescued by

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Police say they located the suspect in the random killing of three people at a convenience store in Yakima, Washington, after he borrowed a stranger’s cell phone to call his mother and confess to what he had done. Yakima Police Chief Matt Murray said the suspect, Jarid

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reiterating that he will block Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of California from serving on the House committee that oversees national intelligence. He says the decision is not based on political payback but because “integrity matters, and they have failed in

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Chris Hipkins was sworn in Wednesday as New Zealand’s 41st prime minister, following the unexpected resignation last week of Jacinda Ardern. Hipkins, 44, has promised a back-to-basics approach focusing on the economy and what he described as the “pandemic of inflation.” He will have less

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Attorneys for a Native Hawaiian man who has been imprisoned for more than 20 years for the 1991 sexual assault, kidnapping and murder of a white woman visiting Hawaii began presenting new evidence in court Tuesday — including DNA testing — they say proves he is

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — More than 50 people have died in ongoing street protests in the weeks since Peru’s elected leader was jailed, mostly demonstrators at the hands of police officers, but only a few international voices of concern have emerged. The relative silence of much of the regional and

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities say a 21-year-old man wanted in the random killing of three people before dawn at a convenience store in Yakima, Washington, shot and killed himself as officers approached him several hours later. Yakima Police Chief Matt Murray said at a news conference that authorities had received

By ZEKE MILLER, FARNOUSH AMIRI, COLLEEN LONG and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The mishandling of classified documents is not a problem unique to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. At least three presidents, a vice president, a secretary of state and an attorney general have all been tripped up. The

By LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has hosted the Democratic congressional leaders at the White House. The Tuesday afternoon meeting came as Democrats are staring down a debt ceiling crisis and running up against a new House Republican majority eager for confrontation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press In a country with more guns than people — and one emerging from three years of isolation, stress and infighting amid the pandemic — Americans are beginning 2023 with a steady barrage of mass slaughter. Eleven people killed as they welcomed the Lunar New Year at a dance hall popular

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Scott Rolen sat with his son in the parking lot outside Indiana’s Bloomington South High School in 2018, waiting to coach grade schoolers in basketball and listening on the radio for results of his first appearance on baseball’s Hall of Fame ballot. “`Dad, I think

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer Georgia has made its most extensive comments on the car crash that killed football player Devin Willock and a recruiting staff member. Athletic director Josh Brooks says they were not on department business at the time of the incident, which occurred shortly after the Bulldogs celebrated their second straight

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia school board is scheduled to vote this week on the departure of its superintendent after a 6-year-old student shot and wounded his teacher. The Newport News School Board has posted an agenda for a special meeting on Wednesday. It says it will vote on

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A farmworker killed seven people in back-to-back shootings in a case of “workplace violence” at two Northern California mushroom farms, officials said Tuesday as the state mourned its third mass killing in just over a week. Chunli Zhao, 66, was

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Documents with classified markings were discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence ‘s Indiana home last week, his lawyer says, the latest in a sobering string of recoveries of supposedly secure information from the homes of current and former top U.S. officials. A small number of

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Art returned to a glittering Chanel couture universe Tuesday with monumental animal sculptures gathering in the center of the runway-in-the-round like a surreal zoo for its Paris Fashion Week show. Designer Virginie Viard collaborated with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder

HOUSTON (AP) — A powerful storm system took aim at the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, spawning a tornado that caused damage east of Houston. The National Weather Service had issued a tornado emergency for that area, warning that a “large, extremely dangerous and potentially deadly tornado” was on the ground Tuesday afternoon and was headed

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Portland Thorns have fired their athletic trainer after an outside investigation found he illegally distrubted a controlled substance to players, the National Women’s Soccer League said. The NWSL, beset in recent years by abuse and misconduct allegations, announced that the trainer, Pierre Soubrier, was

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, along with the state’s Republican attorney general, say the state will prosecute pharmacists who dispense abortion-inducing pills. The Food and Drug Administration recently implemented a rule change that broadens access to the pills. The rule change’s impact has been blunted in states like South Dakota by