Month: June 2022

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Teslas with partially automated driving systems are a step closer to being recalled. That’s because the U.S. has elevated its investigation into a series of collisions with emergency vehicles or trucks with warning signs. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that it’s upgrading the

By JULIE WATSON and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities say a second military aircraft crashed and everyone on board survived near the California desert site where a Marine Osprey aircraft went down a day earlier, killing all five people aboard. The Navy says four people were aboard a Navy Seahawk

By SARAH RANKIN and STEPHEN WHYNO Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia General Assembly is abandoning for the year legislation intended to lure the NFL’s Washington Commanders to the state, a top lawmaker said Thursday. The legislation offering hefty tax incentives had already been languishing amid a series of controversies involving the team

By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization is recommending in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is required into whether a lab accident may be to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic. This marks a sharp reversal of the U.N. health agency’s initial assessment of the

By ED WHITE and SARA BURNETT Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Republican candidate for Michigan governor has been charged with misdemeanors for his role in the 2021 post-election riot at the U.S. Capitol, further complicating an already messy GOP primary. Ryan Kelley is an ardent defender of former President Donald Trump who led protests

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has a pattern of looking the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — In a story published June 9, 2022, about inflation, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of shopper Nina Cooper.

By JAMIE STENGLE and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — As the small Texas city of Uvalde struggles to heal after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school, thoughts have also turned to making sure the school’s legacy as the place that was at the heart of a

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped back up ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve meeting where it’s expected to announce another increase to its main borrowing rate. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate jumped to 5.23% this week from 5.09% last week.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed that he plans to stand for reelection next year. Erdogan made the announcement on Thursday during a speech in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir. He challenged the main opposition party’s leader to announce the candidate who would challenge him on behalf of an

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shirley Jackson had a gift for evoking years of anxiety in the space it might take to summarize a baseball game. Two very brief and previously unreleased stories of hers have been published in the summer issue of The Strand Magazine. They’re titled “Charlie Roberts”

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Basil Rajapaksa, the younger brother of Sri Lanka’s president and the country’s former finance minister, has resigned from Parliament amid mounting criticism of his role in the island nation’s economic crisis, as the United Nations launches an appeal for $47 million in emergency aid. The

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Selznick’s next book was inspired in part by a famous friend, Steven Spielberg. Billed by publisher Scholastic as a “love letter to the natural world,” Selznick’s “Big Tree” tells the story of two sycamore seeds and their quest across time and space to save

JERUSALEM (AP) — Washington is reversing a Trump administration policy on U.S.-Palestinian relations ahead of President Joe Biden’s possible visit to Israel. The new rule announced on Thursday means Palestinians will deal directly with the State Department in Washington, rather than go through the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem first, reestablishing a line of communication cancelled

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s president has met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who was welcomed with pomp as he visited the North African nation. Maduro arrived Wednesday evening, greeted at the Algiers airport by Algeria’s prime minister, as he began what Algeria’s state APS news agency called a two-day “working and friendship visit.” Like

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A second jury has found a former Kansas police officer not guilty in the 2017 shooting death of a man inside his vehicle while responding to a report of a domestic dispute at a home. The Kansas City Star reports that Matthew Harrington was acquitted Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter in the

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The European Union is urging Algeria to reverse its decision to suspend a two-decade-old friendship treaty with Spain. Algeria ordered the treaty’s suspension on Wednesday. It was the North African nation’s latest move to ratchet up pressure on Madrid after the Spanish government changed its long-standing

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press A long-planned temporary shutdown of a leaking aqueduct that supplies about half of New York City’s drinking water will be pushed back a year, giving officials more time to prepare for the monthslong closure. The city has spent nine years working on a $1 billion bypass tunnel far beneath the

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police say they have seized servers that were used to sell social security numbers and other personal information stolen from 24 million U.S. citizens. A cybercrime official said Thursday that four websites were taken down in a joint operation with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s independent vaccine advisory panel is recommending that shots against monkeypox be prioritized for people recently exposed to the virus that causes the disease. The panel, known by its German acronym STIKO, circulated a draft recommendation Thursday in which it said that due to limited supply, the smallpox vaccine Imvanex should be

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Grammys are adding a special song for social change award and five new categories including songwriter of the year, giving the Recording Academy an avenue to honor music’s best composer. The academy announced Thursday that the new non-classical songwriter category will recognize one

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar has ruled that prosecutors presented sufficient evidence against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Australian economist Sean Turnell and three other defendants to continue their trial on charges of violating the official secrets law. Turnell had served as an adviser to Suu Kyi,