Month: October 2021

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Personal property recovered from the destroyed units of a South Florida condo building that collapsed will be divided into two categories: soft items and hard items. Only the hard items collected at the site where the Champlain Towers South building once stood will be returned to survivors and family members

PAUL DAVENPORT CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Officials in Arizona say two people are dead after their helicopter crashed following a mid-air collision with a single-engine plane outside a suburban Phoenix airport. Chandler police say the collision happened Friday morning near Chandler Municipal Airport. The plane was able to land safely, and the flight instructor and

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press U.S. officials are rolling out a new flood insurance program they say will more accurately calculate rates to reflect a home’s risk. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the new pricing method will more fairly determine how much property owners pay to insure homes against flood. The

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The prime minister of Georgia says former President Mikheil Saakashvili has been arrested after he had returned to the country. The announcement Friday by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili came about 18 hours after Saakashvili posted on Facebook that he was back in Georgia ahead of of

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The governments of 15 countries in the Northeast Atlantic have created a new protected area of the sea they say is bigger than the combined area of Germany and the United Kingdom. The countries designated a marine protected area for seabirds covering nearly 600,000 sq. km.. It is part of their

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says Taliban fighters have raided a hideout of the Islamic State group north of the capital, Kabul, killing and arresting an unspecified number of militants. The spokesman says the raid took place in the city of Charikar in Parwan province on Friday. Her didn’t provide more details and

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon during the month of September dropped to the lowest in two decades. September is historically Brazil’s worst month for forest fires and, while the data is positive, environmental experts question whether the trend will be confirmed by coming

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit France as the Biden administration tries to smooth over hurt feelings and other damage caused by excluding America’s oldest ally from a new Indo-Pacific security initiative. The State Department says Blinken will visit Paris next week for an international

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has launched his run for another term. Beshear filed paperwork Friday allowing him to raise and spend money on his 2023 reelection bid. It comes days after he landed a record-shattering economic development deal putting Kentucky at the forefront of the

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman has filed suit claiming a hospital’s response to a cyberattack led to the death of her infant daughter. The lawsuit by Teiranni Kidd contends Springhill Medical Center in Mobile was deep in the midst of a ransomware attack when Nicko Silar was born on July 17, 2019. It

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s coup leader Col. Mamady Doumbouya has been sworn in as president of the West African nation but isn’t giving any updates on when democratic elections might be held. The inauguration ceremony Friday in the capital, Conakry, comes nearly a month after Doumbouya and his junta

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Daimler’s truck and luxury car businesses are going their separate ways. Daimler AG shareholders made the decision at an extraordinary meeting on Friday. The move gives the separate businesses the freedom to pursue different technologies as the push toward zero emission vehicles transforms the industry.

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a 59-year-old man has died after a piece of ammunition exploded on the edge of a small lake in southern Austria. A Carinthia state police spokesperson said the man was handling the ammunition by the shore of Lake Ossiach early Friday when it exploded, killing him. It wasn’t immediately clear

By HOLLY MEYER The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top committee in the Southern Baptist Convention is facing mounting pressure from within the denomination over issues related to sexual abuse. Many seminary presidents, state leaders and pastors want the Executive Committee to stop delaying and act. They want the committee to accept the

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Media reports say a man in Turkey joined a search party for a missing person not realizing the individual being pursued was him. Beyhan Mutlu went drinking with a friend in a forest in northwest Turkey late Tuesday. His wife reported him missing after he did not return home and she

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A deputy with the St. Louis Sheriff’s Department has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a carjacking suspect. A grand jury on Thursday also indicted 53-year-old James Buchanan on a felony count of armed criminal action in the July 2020 killing of 27-year-old William Wade

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India says Britons arriving in the country will be subjected to COVID-19 tests and a 10-day quarantine, in response to the same measures imposed on Indians visiting the U.K. India has been demanding that Britain revoke what it calls a discriminatory advisory that includes Indians even

JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president says he will prohibit Cabinet officials from attending an ongoing Senate inquiry on suspected irregularities in massive government purchases of medical supplies in a brewing constitutional crisis. President Rodrigo Duterte accused critical senators of using the televised hearings to gain political mileage ahead of

By KHADIJA KOTHIA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The adventures of the honey-loving bear “Winnie the Pooh” have captivated children — and their parents — for nigh-on 100 years. Fans now have a chance to own a central piece of Pooh’s history, when a countryside bridge from the south of England goes up for auction

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Gandolfini’s face is thinner. His hair is thicker. His presence a little gentler. But there’s no mistaking it. He looks like his dad. It’s something he’s heard many times in his 22 years, especially recently. In “The Many Saints of Newark,” the “Sopranos” prequel,

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement have joined a search that spans three counties for a missing college student who disappeared a week ago after a maintenance man entered her apartment. Orange County Sheriff John Mina says Armando Caballero is the “prime suspect” in the disappearance of 19-year-old

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Philanthropies are pouring millions into programs aimed at persuading Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19. The money is being spent on community-based organizations, local social media influencers and other things aiming to dispel myths and misinformation. The Helmsley Charitable Trust, the charity established by the late hotel magnate Leona

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for COVID-19. The high court said in a press release Friday that Kavanaugh has no symptoms and has been fully vaccinated since January. Kavanaugh had a routine coronavirus test ahead of Friday’s ceremonial investiture

ROME (AP) — Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of a Lady,” which went missing for nearly 23 years after its theft from an Italian museum, will star in an exhibit about the Austrian artist that is opening this month at a Rome museum. Art experts announced in January 2020 that a painting discovered hidden inside a Piacenza

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer in South Bend, Indiana, in a killing that snarled then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign. The family of 54-year-old Eric Logan sued the city of

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Hungarian academic and activist is among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for her work on a children’s book that put a focus on LGBT rights in the Central European country. The magazine included Dorottya Redai on its annual TIME100 list last

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Few books have been more anticipated among art lovers. John Richardson’s fourth and final volume of his biographical series on Pablo Picasso comes out in November. Richardson’s “A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years” completes a project he began more than 30 years ago with