Author Archives: Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS - The new trial for the man convicted of manslaughter in the 2016 shooting death of former Saskatchewan Roughriders running back Joe McKnight following a traffic dispute cannot include a m...

WASHINGTON - Prosecutors in Donald Trump's impeachment trial said Wednesday they would prove that Trump was no "innocent bystander" but the "inciter in chief" of the deadly attack at the Capitol aimed...

TAMPA, Fla. - Tom Brady made his seventh Super Bowl title look familiar -- despite moving south to a new team and conference during a pandemic. Brady threw two touchdown passes to old friend Rob Gronk...

NEW YORK - Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film "The Sound of Music" and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award acting winner in history, has di...

LONDON - Capt. Tom Moore, the Second World War veteran who walked into the hearts of a nation in lockdown as he shuffled up and down his garden to raise money for health-care workers, has died after t...

WASHINGTON - As the House prepares to take the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming ...

By Andrew Dalton, Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conver...

ATLANTA - Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record and gracefully left his mark as one of baseball's greatest all-around players, die...

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that "democracy has prevailed" as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherited a confluence o...

PHOENIX - The pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week aimed to "capture and assassinate elected officials," federal prosecutors said in court documents. The remark came in a motion prose...