Nation and World
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Elephants in U.S. zoos? Without breeding, future is uncertain
Feb 28, 2023 12:00 am - FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole carved inside a large boulder, captivating the atte...
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Drones fly deep inside Russia; Putin orders border tightened
Feb 28, 2023 12:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - Drones that the Kremlin said were launched by Ukraine flew deep inside Russian territory, including one that got within 60 miles of Moscow, signaling bre...
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UK's Sunak tries to win over skeptics to his Brexit deal
Feb 28, 2023 12:00 am - LONDON - U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak traveled to Belfast on Tuesday to sell his landmark agreement with the European Union to its toughest audience: Unionist politic...
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While California wearies of snowstorms, Northeast greets one
Feb 28, 2023 12:00 am - Jennifer Cobb and her husband planned on staying four days in their vacation rental in the San Bernardino Mountains. A week later, and they're still there - trapped by a...
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Blinken warns Central Asia of dangers from war in Ukraine
Feb 28, 2023 12:00 am - The Biden administration on Tuesday pledged to support the independence of the five Central Asian nations in a not-so-subtle warning to the former Soviet states that Rus...
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Ukraine's northeastern front could decide new battle lines
Feb 28, 2023 12:00 am - KUPIANSK, Ukraine - A tank carrying Ukrainian infantry speeds toward a target position marked with a metal sheet. The soldiers climb down, hurl grenades and unleash a cr...
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Slain Hong Kong model's in-laws, ex-husband detained
Feb 27, 2023 12:00 am - HONG KONG (AP) - The ex-husband and former in-laws of a slain Hong Kong model were detained Monday on charges in her killing after police found body parts in a refrigera...
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Germany seeks North Sea wind park link to those of neighbors
Feb 27, 2023 12:00 am - BERLIN - The German government said Monday that it wants to set up a new power line network to connect its own offshore wind parks with those of its North Sea neighbors ...
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Ex-SC mayor taking over White House Office of Engagement
Feb 27, 2023 12:00 am - COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - President Joe Biden on Monday announced the appointment of former Columbia, South Carolina, Mayor Steve Benjamin as a top adviser, filling a key Wh...
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Winds shred Southern Plains; California to see more snow
Feb 27, 2023 12:00 am - OKLAHOMA CITY - Parts of the Southern Plains counted the injured and surveyed the damage Monday after tornadoes and other powerful winds swept through, while some Michig...