Month: August 2022

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after a park employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park, officials said Thursday. Tuesday’s discovery at Abyss Pool led to the temporary closure of the West Thumb Geyser Basin

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will serve an 11-game unpaid suspension, pay a $5 million fine and undergo professional evaluation and treatment as part of a settlement with the NFL following accusations of sexual misconduct by two dozen women. The league had sought to ban

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia sheriff’s deputy has been charged with a federal civil rights violation after he allegedly punched and pepper sprayed a suspect. Authorities say Monongalia County Deputy Lance Kuretza was arrested Thursday. He also is accused of writing a false report on the January 2018 incident. According to the indictment,

By KATE BRUMBACK and MEG KINNARD Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Prosecutors investigating whether Donald Trump committed crimes as he sought to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia are running into increasing resistance as they seek to call witnesses to testify before a special grand jury. The latest illustration of that came Wednesday, when

By ED WHITE Associated Press Prosecutors have rested their case against two men on trial for a second time in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. The jury heard seven days of testimony before prosecutors finished Thursday in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr.

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are making extra monkeypox vaccine available to places with upcoming gay pride events. The government on Thursday announced the launch of program that sets aside a pool of 50,000 doses for different cities and states. At least a dozen U.S. pride events

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion health care benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online. Google parent company Alphabet had pledged to pay travel and other health care costs for employees seeking an out-of-state

By EDEN STIFFMAN of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy While grantmakers have historically put more resources into elementary and secondary education than early childhood, support for the youngest learners is on the rise. From 2006 to 2013, foundations overall gave at least $4.6 billion to support early-childhood education, according to data from Candid.

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge has declared a Florida law that restricts race-based conversation and analysis in business and education unconstitutional. The ruling came in a case in which a Florida business claimed their free speech rights are curtailed because the law infringes on company training programs

ROME (AP) — The Vatican says a preliminary church investigation into sexual assault allegations by a Canadian woman against a top cardinal has determined the case doesn’t warrant further investigation.Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a statement responding to reports this week that Cardinal Marc Ouellet was one of several people named in a class-action lawsuit

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Supreme Court is keeping the state’s near-total abortion ban in effect. The high court says the state’s ban will remain in place while it reviews arguments by abortion clinics challenging the state law. It was the latest legal setback for the two

By MATTHEW BROWN and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge struck down a $192 million oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico over future global warming emissions from burning the fuels. It came at a pivotal

LONDON (AP) — New coronavirus cases reported globally in the last week dropped by nearly a quarter while deaths fell by 6%. That’s according to the latest report on the pandemic released Thursday by the World Health Organization. The U.N. health agency reported 5.4 million new COVID-19 cases last week, a decline of 24% from

By SIAN WATSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, document their takeover of lower-league Welsh soccer team Wrexham AFC in the new Netflix series, “Welcome to Wrexham.” Reynolds says he has fallen head-over-heels in love with the beautiful game — so much so that he schedules

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has refused to grant bail to the man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie as the acclaimed author prepared to give a talk in western New York. Hadi Matar appeared in a western New York courtroom after a grand jury indicted him on

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The 22-year-old king of TikTok finally has another title: Italian. Influencer Khaby Lame took his oath of Italian citizenship on Wednesday. Lame moved to Italy from his native Senegal when he was an infant. Because of Italy’s strict citizenship laws, he hadn’t become an Italian citizen until

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press TULUM, Mexico (AP) — Unchecked development has hit the once laid back beach town of Tulum on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. It’s so intense that developers are now eager to build condominiums and hotels even in a shantytown. Police are trying to evict squatters so towering condos can be built next

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong officials say they are seeking the return of citizens who traveled to Southeast Asia for jobs that entrapped them in scams and virtual slavery. The victims, who also came from Taiwan and mainland China, took jobs in call centers that sought to cheat Chinese speakers into making payments on

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has testified in a prison courtroom in the capital Naypyitaw for the first time in her official secrets case. Suu Kyi, who has been detained since her government was ousted last year by the military, is being tried with  Australian

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The MTV Video Music Awards later this month will have not one emcee but three, with rap stars LL Cool J, Nicki Minaj and Jack Harlow all set to anchor the ceremony. They’ll introduce and present the famous Moonmen trophies alongside performers including Lizzo, Anitta,

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The housing market’s comedown from its high-flying days early this year is deepening, with home sales in July falling for the sixth straight month. Sharply higher mortgage rates, surging inflation and prices that remain near all-time highs are making homes less affordable. The National Association

BERLIN (AP) — An iconic lighthouse at the northern German port of Bremen has tilted sideways and could soon topple over entirely, officials said Thursday. Public broadcaster Radio Bremen quoted the head of the water police, Uwe Old, as saying that nothing could be done to save the lighthouse. “Unfortunately, I think the tower is

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Dubai court has found that a cargo ship’s mishandled peroxide caused an explosion at the city-state’s busy Jebel Ali port in 2021, a blast felt through the emirate. That’s according to a report on Thursday by Abu Dhabi’s English-language newspaper The National. The Dubai Misdemeanor Court sentenced five