Month: October 2021

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer After a record-breaking start, October’s box office closed out quietly this weekend with “Dune” repeating at number one and two prominent genre newcomers, “Last Night in Soho” and “Antlers,” stumbling. Whether it’s due to Halloween falling on a Sunday, too many new options or simply a lack of enthusiasm,

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — A 7-year-old Missouri boy has died after he fell off a hayride and was struck by the trailer he had been riding in. The Jackson County Sheriff’s office says the accident happened Saturday near Lee’s Summit. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a tractor was pulling the trailer and that

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man has been shot and killed in Indianapolis. The death early Sunday moves the city closer to matching the record number of criminal homicides with two months still left in the year. Police responded to a house about 2 a.m. and found a man dead with gunshot wounds. Ron Gee, a

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — One of the two candidates In Boston’s historic mayor’s race has found herself questioned about her decision to identify as a person of color. Annissa Essaibi George describes herself as Polish-Arab American. But she acknowledges she hasn’t always identified herself as a person of color. That’s in

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil has a long history of police violence and now authorities are looking at body cameras as a way to avoid deadly incidents involving officers. The biggest program of that kind started in June in Sao Paulo state, involving 3,000 police officers. There

By EMILIO MORENATTI and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — A volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma that has been erupting for six weeks has spewed more ash from its main mouth a day after producing its strongest earthquake to date. The Spanish Geographic Institute said the

By MOHAMED IBRAHIM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A proposal to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new public safety unit goes to the city’s voters this week. The idea on Tuesday’s ballot has its roots in the abolish-the-police movement that erupted after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is hoping to easily secure a second term Tuesday. His reelection campaign has offered an opportunity to show he can raise millions as he seeks to elevate his profile at a national level. Suarez has gained name recognition for launching an

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — It once would have been unthinkable for a city to erect a monument to Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party co-founder who was feared and hated by many Americans. Members of the party were dismissed as racist, gun-toting militants. But the unthinkable has happened in

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — It once would have been unthinkable for a city to erect a monument to Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party co-founder who was feared and hated by many Americans. Members of the party were dismissed as racist, gun-toting militants. But the unthinkable has happened in

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A statistical method used by the U.S. Census Bureau for the first time in 2020 to protect confidentiality has made people and occupied homes vanish, at least on paper, when they actually exist in the real world. The technique is called differential privacy. It involves the intentional addition of errors

PARIS (AP) — Some 3,600 amateur runners faced off against Kenyan marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge in a special race in the heart of Paris, as the city prepares to host the 2024 Olympics. The runners raced along the historic, cobblestoned Champs-Elysees, with Kipchoge starting off last. All those he failed to catch over the 5-kilometer

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Some people questioned during jury selection about the killing of Ahmaud Arbery have said he was “racially profiled” by the white men who chased and shot him. Others have said he was singled out “due to his color” and targeted for being a Black person suspected

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Joe Biden is praising a new U.S. and European Union agreement that would crack down on “dirty steel” that leads to carbon emissions. It would also patch up a trans-Atlantic rift over Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs. Biden and European Commission President Ursula

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The diplomatic row between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia is aggravating divisions in Lebanon, already reeling from an economic meltdown and social tension. Pressure is mounting on Lebanese leaders to remove a Cabinet minister whose comments on the war in Yemen sparked the spat with the Saudis.

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police and witnesses say a man dressed in a Joker costume and brandishing a knife stabbed at least one passenger on a Tokyo commuter train and started a fire. Some people scrambling to escape the attack jumped from the train’s windows. The Tokyo Fire Department says 17

MADRID (AP) — A 55-year-old man in eastern Spain has bled to death after being gored in the leg by a bull during a festival in which the animals are released into the streets. The town hall of Onda said that it would suspend the last day of bull-running after the man was gored on

By SYLVIE CORBET and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press ROME (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have stuck to rival positions in their countries’ post-Brexit dispute over fishing in the English Channel. The two leaders addressed the escalating tensions over the granting of fishing licenses as they held separate news

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is preparing to hear a gun rights case that could lead to more guns on the streets of New York and Los Angeles and threaten restrictions on guns in subways, airports, bars, churches, schools and other places where people gather. The case the justices

By JAY REEVES Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Supporters of a proposal to provide paid family medical leave are dealing with another disappointment in Sen. Joe Manchin’s home state of West Virginia. Jessi Garman was looking to get a job and also have a third child. But doing both at the same time doesn’t

By ZARAR KHAN and BABAR DOGAR Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s government and an outlawed radical Islamist party have reached an agreement to end a 10-day long  — at times deadly violent — rally calling for the closure of France’s embassy and the release of the party’s leader. Neither Pakistan’s foreign minister nor a

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published Oct. 31, 2021, The Associated Press identified Paul Barrett as teacher of a seminar in law, economics and journalism at New York University. The story should also have noted that his title is deputy director of NYU’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. 

BERLIN (AP) — German federal police have apprehended 23 migrants along the German-Polish border and detained two suspected traffickers. German news agency dpa reported on Sunday that there were several children among the people discovered inside a van during a routine checkup. All migrants were from Iraq, the two suspected traffickers were Syrians. The car

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has told people to pray so that “the cry of the Earth” is heard at the U.N. climate summit. Francis, in comments to the public in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, noted that it was the first day of the crucial gathering in Glasgow, Scotland. He told the crowd:

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden heads to a United Nations climate conference Monday energized by a new legislative framework that would be the largest action ever taken by the United States to address climate change. The $555 billion plan for climate spending is the centerpiece of a sweeping domestic

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has recorded a new daily high number of coronavirus cases as much of the country’s businesses remain closed in an effort to counter a weekslong surge in infections. The national coronavirus task force on Sunday reported 40,993 new infections over the previous day, up more than

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — Police say a suspect has been arrested in a shooting that left one person dead and nine more wounded at a Halloween party in eastern Texas. Police in Texarkana, Texas, say 21-year-old Keuntae McElroy of Texarkana, Arkansas, turned himself in late Sunday morning. McElroy was booked into jail on one count

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The U.N. climate summit, known as COP26 this year, brings officials from almost 200 countries to Glasgow to haggle over the best measures to combat global warming. COP is short for Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The first summit

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as part of the Group of 20 summit on Sunday. The outreach is designed to ensure that the intensely competitive relationship between the world’s two largest economies doesn’t veer into open

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Ministry of Migration and Asylum says a small cargo ship carrying 382 people has been towed to the island of Kos and 375 of the passengers moved to a special migrant facility. One woman has been transferred to a health center in the nearby island of Karpathos and six people

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Thousands of opposition supporters have filled the street outside Georgia’s national parliament building to protest municipal election results that gave the country’s ruling party a near-sweep. Candidates of the Georgian Dream party won 19 of the 20 municipal elections in runoff votes on Saturday, including the

By FRANK JORDANS and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — A crucial U.N. climate summit opened Sunday amid papal appeals for prayers and activists’ demands for action, kicking off two weeks of intense diplomatic negotiations by almost 200 countries aimed at speeding up the global response to global warming. Patricia Espinosa, who is

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations chief has urged Sudan’s generals to reverse their takeover of the country. Sunday’s appeal came a day after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the largest pro-democracy protest since last week’s coup. Antonio Guterres says the generals should “take heed”

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden has told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that their countries must cooperate more and better manage disagreements after their partnership was tested by Turkey’s threat to no longer recognize the American envoy and its purchase of a Russian missile defense

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has flown a B-1B strategic bomber over key maritime chokepoints in the Mideast with allies including Israel. The air force said Sunday the flight a day earlier comes amid ongoing tensions with Iran as its nuclear deal with world powers

By NICOLE WINFIELD, DAVID MCHUGH and KARL RITTER Associated Press ROME (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest economies have agreed to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries. They’ve also made a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century.” The commitments came as the Group of 20 biggest economies wrapped

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel-winning author, sees his country’s many problems — misgoverning politicians, systemic corruption, violent extremists, and kidnapping bandits — yet he does not despair. At 87, he says Nigeria’s youth may have the energy and the know-how to get the troubled country back on