Month: August 2021

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery players will get more chances to win giant jackpots as the Powerball game shifts to three drawings a week in an effort to build larger prizes and boost sales. The expansion will begin Monday, Aug. 23, marking the first time the game will expand

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son will be attending an exclusive private school not far from Mar-a-Lago. The Palm Beach Post reports that 15-year-old Barron Trump will be attending Oxbridge Academy starting next week. Administrators at the West Palm Beach school sent an email to parents on Wednesday telling

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — U.S. Naval Academy officials announced Friday that 18 midshipmen have been expelled and another 82 sanctioned after an investigation into cheating on an online physics exam in December. After 653 midshipmen took the final exam for General Physics I through a website in December, officials say they learned that outside sources

LONDON (AP) — A police watchdog says a 22-year-old man who fatally shot five people in southwestern England this month had his confiscated shotgun and gun license returned to him after he completed a program that aims to keep offenders out of the British criminal justice system. Police have said that Jake Davison killed his

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO foreign ministers have committed to focus on ensuring the safe evacuation from Afghanistan of their citizens and of Afghans deemed at risk after the Taliban takeover, centering on improving operations at Kabul airport first. Many of the 30 allied nations raised “the need to work harder

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A jury has found a chiropractor and Navy veteran guilty in the gruesome killings of four people at a North Dakota property management firm in April 2019. Jurors returned guilty verdicts Friday on all counts against Chad Isaak, who was charged in the deaths of RJR Maintenance & Management co-owner Robert

By IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press/Report for America HELENA, Mont. (AP) — While large companies across the U.S. have announced that COVID-19 vaccines will be required for their employees to return to work in-person, there is one state where such requirements are banned. The Republican-controlled Montana Legislature passed a new law earlier this year that says

FINLAND, Minn. (AP) — Authorities fighting a northeastern Minnesota wildfire have ordered additional evacuations after the blaze jumped a highway. The U.S. Forest Service sent in ground crews and water-dropping aircraft Friday after the Greenwood Fire crossed over to the west side of Lake County Highway 2, just north of Stony Lake. Deputies were evacuating

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has issued a call for experts to join a new advisory group it’s forming, in part to address the agency’s fraught attempts to investigate how the coronavirus pandemic started. In a statement on Friday, the U.N. health agency said the new scientific group would provide the WHO with

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ordered the government to take money from the prison account of a former Michigan sports doctor who owes about $58,000 to victims of his child pornography crimes. Larry Nassar has received about $13,000 in deposits since 2018, including $2,000 in federal stimulus checks. But Nassar has paid

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban face a major challenge in cementing control of Afghanistan: Money. The military blitz that enabled the Taliban to retake Afghanistan did not extend to finances. The Afghan Central Bank’s holdings are almost entirely abroad and can’t be accessed by the Taliban. The International Monetary Fund

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The parents of a 1-year-old boy who drowned in the Florida Everglades after a car wreck have been arrested. Marc Dorizar faces a manslaughter charge while he and Charline Coriolan face numerous counts of child abuse and neglect. They were arrested this week for the Sept. 3 wreck. The Florida

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An amusement park in Ohio says the world’s second-tallest roller coaster won’t open again this year after a person standing in line was hit in the head by a metal object that flew off the ride. Cedar Point says its 420-foot tall Top Thrill Dragster roller

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Major League Baseball is ending a 70-year relationship with trading card company Topps after signing a new partnership with a rival company. The loss of the MLB partnership immediately scuttled a deal announced earlier this year that would have made Topps a publicly traded company. The special-purpose acquisition company

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Producer Mike Richards stepped down from his brief tenure as host of “Jeopardy!” after a report about past misogynistic comments surfaced this week and following a drumbeat of criticism about his selection and how it was made. Richards was chosen last week as the successor

By MICHAEL HILL and MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s lawyer has again attacked the accuracy of the report that led to his resignation. Cuomo attorney Rita Glavin claimed in an online briefing Friday that the report contained omissions and errors. Attorney General Letitia James’ office has defended

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Faced with slowing numbers of people getting COVID-19 vaccinations, South Africa has opened eligibility to all adults to step up the volume of inoculations as it battles a surge in the disease driven by the delta variant. The country on Friday started offering shots to everyone aged

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — K-pop isn’t the only entertainment export from South Korea that’s earned fans across the globe. Their TV shows, often referred to as K-dramas, are also growing in popularity. Some fans are so dedicated they volunteer to translate the shows’ subtitles to their native language on the

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Jason Momoa doesn’t get to play many ordinary guys. He’s Aquaman. He’s Khal Drogo. He’s Conan the Barbarian. It’s part of the reason why he wanted to be in “Sweet Girl,” a new action drama that’s now available on Netflix. In the film he’s an ordinary Pittsburgh father named

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is extending a ban on nonessential travel along the borders with Canada and Mexico to slow the spread of COVID-19 despite increasing pressure to lift the restriction. U.S. border communities that are dependent on shoppers from Mexico and Canada and their political representatives have urged the Biden administration to

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson will replace Chairman and CEO Alex Gorsky with another veteran company executive starting next year. The world’s biggest maker of health care products said late Thursday that Joaquin Duato will become CEO and a member of the company’s board of directors on January 3. Duato currently

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Anyone who has to get an injection in the U.S. probably has horseshoe crabs to thank for keeping the needle clean. A test used to screen medical products for bacteria has a crucial ingredient — the milky blue blood of the horseshoe crab. The blood is

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The embattled leader of the Minnesota Republican Party has been forced to resign following accusations that she ran an operation that was rife with verbal abuse, intimidation and sexual misconduct. Jennifer Carnahan initially resisted calls to resign, saying she had no knowledge of sex-trafficking allegations against a close friend and prominent GOP

By JAMES ANDERSON and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Anxiety in the United States over COVID-19 is at its highest level since winter. The heightened worry is reflected in a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. It comes amid another nationwide spike in infections, spurred largely by the

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish refugee rights group says 32 people who fled Afghanistan have been trapped for 12 days in an area between Poland and Belarus. The group called on Polish authorities Friday to allow them to apply for refugee status. Polish authorities are refusing to let them