Author Archives: Associated Press

LONDON - British Airways has cancelled almost all its flights for 48 hours, affecting as many as 195,000 travellers, due to a strike by pilots over pay. The U.K.'s flagship carrier said in a statement...

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump doesn't make mistakes. At least according to him. Trump's relentless justifications of his erroneous warnings that Hurricane Dorian was threatening Alabama on Sunday,...

WILMINGTON, N.C. - A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a ferocity that seemed to take storm-hardened residents by surprise, and hundreds were feare...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Hurricane Dorian raked the Carolina coast with howling, window-rattling winds and sideways rain Thursday, spinning off tornadoes and knocking out power to more than 200,000 homes an...

LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson kept up his push Thursday for an early general election as a way to break Britain's Brexit impasse, as lawmakers moved to stop the U.K. leaving the European Union...

FREEPORT, Bahamas - The ground crunched under Greg Alem's feet on Wednesday as he walked over the ruins of his home, laid waste by Hurricane Dorian. He touched a splintered beam of wood and pointed to...

KABUL - The Taliban on Tuesday defended their suicide bombing against an international compound in the Afghan capital that killed at least 16 civilians and wounded 119 people, just hours after a U.S. ...

MCLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas - Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas as a catastrophic Category 5 storm Sunday, its record 185 mph winds ripping off roofs, overturning cars and tearing down power...

ODESSA, Texas - At least five people were dead after a gunman who hijacked a postal service vehicle in West Texas shot more than 20 people, authorities said Saturday. The gunman was killed and three l...

ODESSA, Texas (AP) - Police say there are "multiple gunshot victims" in central Texas after one or more suspects opened fire. The Midland, Texas, Police Department said Saturday that one of the suspec...