Associated Press VACAVILLE — Power was restored Tuesday at an overcrowded California men’s prison that ran on emergency generator power for three days following a major electrical outage amid a …
By Mike Stobbe | Associated Press NEW YORK — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated …
By Brian Melley and Jill Lawless | Associated Press LONDON — Britain’s Labour Party was headed for a huge majority in a parliamentary election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, …
By Laurie Kellman | Associated Press The age question for presidential candidates is more than four decades old. President Ronald Reagan answered it with a pledge to resign if he …
By Martín Silva and John Myers Jr. | Associated Press TULUM, Mexico — Hurricane Beryl ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95% …
By Jill Lawless | Associated Press LONDON — Rishi Sunak has covered thousands of miles in the past few weeks, but he hasn’t outrun the expectation that his time as …
By Hillel Italie | Associated Press NEW YORK — Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of “Shampoo,” “The Last Detail” and other acclaimed films whose work on “Chinatown” became a …
By Jim Vertuno | Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Singer, songwriter, satirist and novelist Kinky Friedman, who led the alt-country band Texas Jewboys, toured with Bob Dylan, sang with Willie …
By MARK THIESSEN A wildfire in Oregon’s high desert, near the popular vacation destination of Bend, grew rapidly Wednesday, and officials urged the continued evacuations of hundreds of homes in …
By Jake Coyle | Associated Press NEW YORK — Bill Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man, has died. He …