AP Week in Pictures: North America
Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 2024 Orcas surface near a fishing boat in San Diego, prisoners work on a farm at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, and Taylor Swift kisses Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce after a football
Rising seas and frequent storms are battering California’s piers, threatening the iconic landmarks
SAN DIEGO (AP) — More storms, rising seas and huge waves are taking their toll on California’s iconic piers that have dotted the Pacific coast since the Gold Rush, posing the biggest threat yet to the beach
Punxsutawney Phil prepares to make his annual Groundhog Day winter weather forecast
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil’s winter weather forecast will be announced sometime after sunrise Friday in Gobbler’s Knob, the scene of the country’s largest and most well-known Groundhog Day celebration. The annual event is a tongue-in-cheek
US jobs report for January is likely to show that steady hiring growth extended into 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Few saw this coming. A year ago, most economists envisioned a bleak 2023 for the United States. The economy, they warned, seemed sure to falter, probably sinking into a recession, with employers adding barely
9 hospitalized after 200 prisoners rush corrections officers in riot at Southern California prison
BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) — Eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of a Southern California prison, authorities said Thursday. The violence erupted around 10
Prosecutors weigh perjury charge for ex-Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg over civil fraud trial testimony
NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors are weighing a potential perjury charge against Donald Trump’s former corporate finance chief in connection with testimony he gave in October at the ex-president’s New York civil fraud trial, two people
Investigation into killings of 19 burros in Southern California desert hits possible breakthrough
NEEDLES, Calif. (AP) — There may finally be a breakthrough in a long-running investigation into the killing of wild burros in California’s Mojave Desert nearly five years ago, federal authorities said Thursday. Nineteen burros were found shot
Several fatalities reported after small plane crashes into Florida mobile home park
By Daniel Trotta and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -Several fatalities were reported on Thursday after a small plane crashed into and demolished a mobile home in Clearwater, Florida, officials said. Images posted online by the Clearwater Fire &
Police: Armed man found dead at Colorado mountaintop amusement park had researched mass shootings
DENVER (AP) — A heavily armed man who was found dead at a Colorado mountaintop amusement park last year had researched mass shootings online, but investigators haven’t determined why he amassed such an arsenal or didn’t follow
Ellen Gilchrist, 1984 National Book Award winner for ‘Victory Over Japan,’ dies at 88
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner whose short stories and novels drew on the complexities of people and places in the American South, has died. She was 88. An obituary from her
