Month: June 2022

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court on Thursday upheld Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction and 23-year prison sentence, rejecting the former movie mogul’s claim that the judge at his landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him by letting women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the criminal case.

By FREIDA FRISARO Assocaited Press MIAMI (AP) — A loggerhead turtle whose left fin was destroyed in a shark attack is rehabbing at Zoo Miami’s new Sea Turtle Hospital, where veterinarians were able to save more than 100 of her eggs after she was rescued. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sent the turtle

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court is to rule on efforts to stop British oil giant Shell from conducting any further seismic surveys in the country’s Indian Ocean waters to explore for offshore oil and gas deposits. Environmental and community groups in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province won an

NEW YORK (AP) — “This is Us” star Chrissy Metz is teaming with partner Bradley Collins on a children’s book about parenting and religious faith. Flamingo Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, announced Wednesday that “When I Talk to God, I Talk About You” will be published Feb. 14 of next year. Flamingo says

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Brittney Griner can’t play with her WNBA colleagues. She can’t call them, either. But she can write. In one small bit of normalcy, Griner has been able to receive emails and letters from WNBA players during her detainment in Russia. Hundreds of emails have been sent by players to

BOSTON (AP) — Two manholes exploded in downtown Boston on Thursday morning, shattering a window, forcing the evacuation of two buildings and sending one person to the hospital. The explosions were reported at about 8:30 a.m. near the High Street and Federal Street area in the Financial District. There was no immediate word on the

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Authorities in Virginia say search teams have found the body of one of two women missing for days after a dozen people on rafts and paddleboards went over a dam on the James River. Henrico County police tweeted that the body of 23-year-old Lauren Winstead was found just west of a

By SALLY HO AND GARANCE BURKE Associated Press Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make better, more racially equitable decisions. The move comes weeks after an Associated Press review of a

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Commission chief says the disbursement of pandemic recovery funds to Poland depends on the government’s ensuring of judicial independence. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was in Warsaw Thursday to officially confirm the EU executive’s long-delayed approval of Poland’s pandemic recovery plan, which would enable conditional release of billions

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has declined to put a former Detroit police chief on the Republican ballot for Michigan governor. James Craig is the third candidate to lose a court challenge after state election staff said campaign petitions were marred by fraudulent signatures. It’s a remarkable setback for Craig,

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press POTASHNYA, Ukraine (AP) — In 100 days of war in Ukraine, countless lives have been forever shattered. Nila Zelinska and her husband Eduard are one of those families. They returned for the first time since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion to what used to be their home in

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man charged with carrying out a racist mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated domestic terrorism and other charges as a prosecutor called the evidence against him overwhelming. A lawyer entered the plea for Payton

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Since last week’s shooting in Uvalde, Texas, one Associated Press writer has, like so many parents, struggled to escape the thought of someone barging into her son’s classroom with a gun. And she is shaken by the devastating reality that some day she will have to

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s health minister says the country has marked its first day after more than two years without a single COVID-19 death. He lauded this as a significant milestone for a nation that long had the highest number of coronavirus cases in the Middle East. The ministry on Thursday reported 175 new

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston subway system is experiencing service disruptions after a crash the night before that sent four employees of the city’s troubled transit system to the hospital. Both Green Line trains derailed in the collision Wednesday evening. A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesperson says a two-car train with 20 to 25 passengers

By PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — 2022 is expected to be the best summer job market for teens in 15 years. Researchers at Drexel University’s Center for Labor Markets and Policy predicted in a report last month that an average of 33% of youths ages 16 to 19 will

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Long before Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary won an Oscar for co-writing “Pulp Fiction,” they were just a couple of cinephiles working at a video rental store in Manhattan Beach, Calif, discussing and recommending movies and becoming the filmmakers they were meant to be. Now almost 40 years after

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for stealing book proceeds from Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who catapulted him to fame as he represented her in courtrooms and cable news programs during her legal battles with then-President Donald

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — A speller has been reinstated into the Scripps National Spelling Bee field after successfully appealing that he was denied relevant root information about a word. Surya Kapu, a 13-year-old from South Jordan, Utah, misspelled “leucovorin” — a medicine used to counteract the side effects of

PRAGUE (AP) — A massive fire in a nursing home for Alzheimer patients in the Czech Republic has left two people dead and injured more than 50 others. The regional rescue service said the bodies of the two patients were discovered in the badly damaged building following the fire that broke out late Wednesday at

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week with the number of Americans collecting unemployment at historically low levels. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 11,000 to 200,000 for the week ending May 28, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time applications generally track the number of

By DEEPA BHARATH of The Associated Press and ADELLE BANKS of Religion News Service Associated Press About two years ago, when coronavirus cases began to peak in her impoverished San Antonio neighborhood, the Rev. Norma Fuentes-Quintero found herself taking on an additional duty – helping congregants deal with anxiety. The pastor, who leads El Templo

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An official funeral ceremony has been held in Albania for former President Bujar Nishani, who died as a result of an undisclosed, long-running illness at the age of 55. Thousands of people, including the president, parliament speaker, government ministers and politicians, paid their respects to Nishani

By SEAN MURPHY, JILL BLEED and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press A gunman who killed his surgeon and three other people at a Tulsa medical office blamed the doctor for his continuing pain after a recent back operation and bought an AR-style rifle just hours before the rampage, police said Thursday. The patient called the clinic

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have killed a suspected militant and captured another after a brief gunbattle with rebels aligned with the Islamic State group who are blamed for recent bombings in the south. Military officials say army troops and police clashed briefly with fighters of the Daulah Islamiyah group in Cotabato province while

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press SHANGHAI (AP) — Shanghai’s landmark old city garden has sprung back to life as residents took advantage of the renewed sense of freedom following the easing of 2-month-old COVID-19 restrictions. Authorities in China’s largest city have dialed back some of the most intrusive measures that prompted rare public protests.

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is saying thank you to the people who helped him win freedom from court oversight. U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman had freed Hinckley in September from all remaining restrictions but said his order wouldn’t take

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing countries including Russia will raise production by 648,000 barrels per day in July and August, offering modest relief for a global economy suffering from soaring energy prices and the resulting inflation. The decision Thursday steps up the pace by the alliance, known as

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers say the country’s parliament will set up a commission of inquiry into last year’s evacuation mission from Afghanistan and a fact-finding commission on Berlin’s two-decade involvement there. Senior lawmakers from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition and from the main opposition Union bloc of ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says that Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a nationwide truce for another two months. The U.N. envoy to Yemen commended the two sides in a statement on Thursday, calling the cease-fire “a significant shift in the trajectory of the war.” The announcement

By JOHN LEICESTER and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces in the country’s east are locked in a grinding battle as they try to prevent significant Russian advances before the arrival of advanced rockets and anti-aircraft weapons pledged by Western nations. With the weapons deliveries possibly weeks away, military analysts say