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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican Navy says it is using ships and a plane to search for three Americans who went missing along with their sailboat off Mexico’s northern Pacific coast. The Navy said Monday it is using four patrol boats and a prop airplane to search the area, but apparently no sign of

BEIJING (AP) — China’s economy grew 4.5% in the first quarter of the year, boosted by increased consumption and retail sales, after authorities abruptly abandoned the stringent “zero-COVID” strategy. The growth in the world’s No. 2 economy from January to March compared to the same quarter last year outpaced the 2.9% growth in the previous

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alexis Dowdell’s Sweet 16 birthday party ended with her kneeling beside her fatally wounded brother on the blood-slicked floor of a dance studio in small-town Alabama, the bodies of other wounded teens scattered around them. Dowdell told the story of Saturday’s terror in

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — An outside investigation determined that the head of the Organization of American States showed poor judgment by carrying out a romantic relationship with a younger staffer but didn’t favor her in any salary or personnel decisions, according to a copy of the review seen by The Associated

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, who was elected in November after promising to take on the city’s out-of-control homeless crisis, announced Monday she would recommend spending what she called a record $1.3 billion next year to get unhoused people into shelter and treatment programs. The

By GAURAV SAINI, Press Trust of India VYPIN ISLAND, India (AP) — Known locally as “Mangrove Man,” T. P. Murukesan has turned to planting mangroves along the shores of areas around Kochi, a city in the southern India state of Kerala, to counter the impacts of rising waters on his home. Sea level rise and

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday overturned Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it approved the ordinance. The measure, which took effect in 2020 to cheers from environmentalists, was intended to reduce emissions of

By SOPHIE AUSTIN and DAMIAN DOVARGANES Associated Press/Report for America PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a small piece of land on a Native American reservation in Palm Springs he described as a “little world of its own,” surrounded by the parts of the city that were tourist

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An 84-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri was charged Monday with first-degree assault for shooting a Black teen that mistakenly approached his house while trying to pick up his siblings. Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson said at a news conference that there

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Kevin Stitt is calling for the resignations of four officials in southeast Oklahoma after a newspaper’s audio recording apparently captured some of them talking of knowing hit men and complaining about two of the paper’s journalists. Gov. Kevin Stitt said Sunday that he’s seeking

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers are pushing to adjourn by the end of the week as they look for an exit from a session that has been eclipsed by the fallout of the Republican supermajority expelling two young Black Democrats and a growing to push to