Month: June 2022

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With London’s stages closed for much of the pandemic, Mark Rylance — one of the theater’s most soulful actors — made six films. They span a wide gamut. A tech billionaire in Adam McKay’s apocalypse satire “Don’t Look Up.” Satan in Terrence Malick’s upcoming “The

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former product manager at an online marketplace has been arrested in what federal authorities are calling the first ever digital asset insider trading scheme. Nathaniel Chastain, a former employee of a company that does business as OpenSea, was arrested Wednesday in Manhattan. He was released

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Roughly two dozen New Jersey residents are demanding federal officials speed up and improve disaster aid. They held an event Wednesday in Trenton, nine months to the day since remnant of Hurricane Ida hit the state. The storm killed 30 people and wrecked numerous properties. One

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A civil rights group says workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children. The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Wednesday that it had filed a discrimination complaint on the woman’s

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sheryl Sandberg, the No. 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta, who helped turn its business from  startup to digital advertising empire while also taking blame for some of its biggest missteps along the way, is stepping down. Sandberg has served as chief

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Indigenous leaders have met with Canadian bishops and were told that Pope Francis won’t add more stops to his trip to Canada, when he will apologize in person for abuse suffered by Indigenous people at the hands of the Catholic church. The pope will head to Canada

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press Gov. John Bel Edwards agreed on Wednesday to a request from Louisiana lawmakers that he and his top attorneys testify before a bipartisan committee investigating allegations of a cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene. The request came just days after The Associated

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers says that if he loses reelection in November, Republicans will take the “breathtaking” step to ban books, particularly those related to the LGBTQ community. Evers made his comments after a ceremony outside the state Capitol kicking off the start of Pride

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico’s Navy has admitted that the country’s Caribbean coast is facing an atypical problem with a kind of seaweed known as sargassum, and that Navy boats assigned to catch it before it drifts ashore are working poorly. Navy Secretary José Ojeda says the boats sit low in the

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford’s chief executive says the global auto industry is headed for a huge price war in the coming years as electric vehicle costs drop and companies sell EVs priced around $25,000. CEO Jim Farley told the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference on Wednesday that the $25,000 electric

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The gunmen in two of the nation’s most recent mass shootings legally bought the semi-automatic rifles they used in their massacres after they turned 18. That’s prompting Congress and some governors and state lawmakers to revisit the question of whether to raise the minimum age

SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A young boy found dead inside a suitcase in a heavily wooded area of southern Indiana was laid to rest Wednesday following a memorial service in which a police chaplain called the unidentified child an “unknown angel.” Mourners gathered at the Weathers Funeral Home in Salem, Indiana, for Wednesday morning’s service.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s parliament has voted into office a new, center-left government, replacing a right-wing one that had pushed the moderate European Union nation toward populism. Lawmakers voted 53-28 Wednesday for the Cabinet of Robert Golob, head of the liberal-green Freedom Movement party and a former business executive who only recently entered politics.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — President Joe Biden marked the 101st anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, saying “hell was unleashed” when a white mob looted and burned a section of the city, killing hundreds of Black people. Biden traveled to Tulsa one year ago to mark the 100th anniversary of the massacre. He saidWednesday

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against prosecutors filed by the family of a white Nebraska bar owner who killed himself after being charged in the fatal shooting of a Black man during 2020 racial injustice protests. U.S. District Judge John Gerrard said

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Reproductive health providers have sued Florida over a new law banning abortions after 15 weeks. Planned Parenthood and other health centers filed the case Wednesday in state court in Tallahassee alleging the law violates the state Constitution. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the 15-week ban into law

LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been identified after authorities say he waded into a lake inhabited by alligators to find Frisbees and other flying discs to sell. The Largo Police Department said Sean Thomas McGuinness, 47, was found Tuesday morning at the Taylor Park lake by someone walking a dog. Although the

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas primary runoff between Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and his progressive challenger, Jessica Cisneros, was too close to call Wednesday, more than a week after the election. After a final update in Bexar County, Cuellar leads Cisneros by 136 votes, or 0.3 percentage points, out of 45,282 ballots counted

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — After a six-week trial, a civil jury in Virginia spent about 12 hours over three days deliberating defamation claims by Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard. The jury on Wednesday afternoon awarded Depp more than $10 million in damages, while finding that Heard’s counterclaim had merits too, awarding her $2

PESCADERO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a quick-thinking custodian safely confined a mountain lion in an empty classroom after it entered a Northern California high school. The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office says no students or staff were at Pescadero High School south of San Francisco yet when the cat strolled onto campus.  An official

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered the world’s largest plant off the Australia coast — a seagrass meadow that extends underwater. Genetic analysis has revealed that the seagrass bed is a single organism that has grown by cloning itself repeatedly over 4,500 years. It covers an area larger than

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man accused of killing 10 Black people in a racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on a state domestic terrorism and hate crime charge that would carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Payton Gendron is