PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tyrone McDougald wore a long-eared, leopard-style hat as he sorted through racks of warm clothes at a homeless service center in Portland, Oregon. He was already wearing multiple layers, but with no roof of his own, he grabbed two more coats to help him face a bitter cold snap arriving in
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said.The U.S. Air Force’s Mideast command said it struck over 60 targets at 16 sites in
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fruit Stripe Gum, something of a childhood icon for many gum chewers over the past five decades, will soon head over the rainbow with its multicolored zebra mascot Yipes — seemingly for good. The manufacturer of Fruit Stripe Gum, the Chicago company Ferrara Candy Co., gave the magazine Food & Wine
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S.-led airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels over their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea pulled the world’s focus Friday back on the yearslong war raging in the Arab world’s poorest nation, even as shipping across the wider Mideast remains threatened. As the bombing lit the predawn sky over
WASHINGTON (AP) — When U.S. and U.K. warships and aircraft launched waves of missiles at Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen early Friday in Sanaa, it capped weeks of warnings to the militant group to cease their drone and missile attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea or face severe consequences. Previously the U.S. had
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — People’s rights are being suppressed and threatened everywhere in the world, from wars to selective government outrage about some abuses and silence about others because of “political expediency,” a leading human rights group said Thursday.“We only have to look at the human rights challenges of 2023 to tell us what we
TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. Air Force on Friday announced the end of its more than a month long search and recovery operation at the site of a CV-22B Osprey crash that occurred off the southern Japanese coast in late November, expressing regret at not being able to find the last of the eight crew
JANUARY 5 – 11, 2024A winter storm brings flooding and snow to regions of the U.S., protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war block a highway in Seattle, and a football player does a flip as he takes the field in Arizona. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in North
Jan. 4-11, 2024This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in the Asia-Pacific region made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.Devotees crowd during the annual Black Nazarene procession in Manila, Philippines, supporters of the Democratic Progressive Party candidate cheer during a rally in Taipei, Taiwan, ahead of Saturday’s presidential
MALACCA, Malaysia (AP) — Ethnic Chinese devotees towed a giant replica of a royal barge on a wheeled platform through a Malaysian city on Thursday in a rare and colorful procession aimed at collecting and banishing evil spirits.Steeped in religious and cultural rites, the Wangkang — or royal ship — procession snaked along a 9-kilometer
