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UK breaks record for highest temperature as Europe sizzles

July 19, 2022 12:00 AM
LONDON (AP) — Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe — and the national weather forecaster predicted it would get hotter still in a country ill prepared for such extremes.
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Police: 3 people and gunman dead in Indiana mall shooting

July 18, 2022 12:00 AM
GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Three people were fatally shot and two were injured, including a 12-year-old girl, at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said.
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US inflation reached a new 40-year high in June of 9.1%

July 13, 2022 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted U.S. inflation to a said in a June AP-NORC poll that they thought tackling inflation should be a top government priority this year, up from just 14% who said so in December.
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Jan. 6 probe: Trump sets rally after ‘unhinged’ WH meeting

July 13, 2022 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states’ voting machines and then, in a last ditch effort to salvage his presidency, summoned supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol for what turned into the deadly riot, the House Jan. 6 committee revealed Tuesday.
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Biden admin: Docs must offer abortion if mom’s life at risk

July 11, 2022 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court’s decision to end a constitutional right to abortion.
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Average US gasoline price falls 19 cents to $4.86 per gallon

July 11, 2022 12:00 AM
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline plunged 19 cents over the past two weeks to $4.86 per gallon.
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One scandal too many: British PM Boris Johnson resigns

July 07, 2022 12:00 AM
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday amid a mass revolt by top members of his government, marking an end to three tumultuous years in power in which he brazenly bent and sometimes broke the rules of British politics.
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Biologists’ fears confirmed on the lower Colorado River

July 06, 2022 12:00 AM
DENVER (AP) — For National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Arnold, it was a moment he’d been dreading. Bare-legged in sandals, he was pulling in a net in a shallow backwater of the lower Colorado River last week, when he spotted three young fish that didn’t belong there. “Give me a call when you get this!” he messaged a colleague, snapping photos.
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Great Salt Lake hits new historic low for 2nd time in a year

July 06, 2022 12:00 AM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Great Salt Lake has hit a new historic low for the second time in less than a year as the ongoing megadrought worsened by climate change continues to shrink the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi.
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46 migrants found dead in abandoned trailer in San Antonio

June 28, 2022 12:00 AM
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Forty-six people were found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in San Antonio in the latest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico to the U.S. Sixteen people were hospitalized, including four children.
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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion

June 24, 2022 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
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Jan. 6 panel: Trump ex-campaign manager pulls out of hearing

June 13, 2022 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Without a key witness, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot opened its hearing Monday after a scrambled delay as Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Bill Stepien abruptly pulled out of testifying, citing a family emergency.
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Long-serving Utah US Senator Orrin Hatch dies at age 88

April 25, 2022 12:00 AM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Orrin G. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history who was a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades, died Saturday at age 88.
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Good News Thursday: Citizens aid in birdwatching research, Sherpa guide uses savings to feed families

June 17, 2021 12:00 AM
Ecuador doctors put off wedding to fight COVID-19 pandemic
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Politics of climate change put corporations in tough spot

August 30, 2019 12:00 AM
The polarizing politics of climate change have forced companies to choose between supporting the Trump administration's deregulation policies that could boost profits or opposing them to win over environmentally conscious consumers.
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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

August 28, 2019 12:00 AM
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the real facts:
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Things you should know today: 9/14/18

September 14, 2018 12:00 AM
Officials work to pinpoint cause of ‘Armageddon’-like blasts
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Pence to Israel: US embassy will move to Jerusalem in 2019

January 22, 2018 12:00 AM
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence walks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. Pence is receiving a warm welcome in Israel, which has praised the American decision last month to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The decision has infuriated the Palestinians and upset America’s Arab allies as well. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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