Month: September 2022

BOSTON (AP) — Brian McGrory, under whose leadership The Boston Globe won three newsroom Pulitzer Prizes, is stepping down after 10 years at the helm to become chair of Boston University’s journalism department. McGrory on Wednesday called his time as editor an honor. He started at the Globe in 1989 and was named top editor

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, returned to the White House Wednesday, unveiling official portraits with a modern vibe in an event that set humor and nostalgia over his presidency against the current harsh political talk about the survival of democracy. While her husband cracked

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The criminal case against the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie involves so much potential evidence that prosecutors say they need more time to review it. The suspect, Hadi Matar, appeared in a western New York courtroom Wednesday. Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt asked for additional time to comply

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has revoked bond for a man charged with killing a Memphis woman who was abducted during a pre-dawn run near a university campus. Cleotha Abston will be held without bond on charges including first-degree murder in the abduction and slaying of 34-year-old Eliza

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of people in Haiti’s capital and other major cities have organized new protests to demand safer streets, more affordable goods and the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. The occasional crack of gunfire mixed with the shouting and clapping of protesters on Wednesday as they

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of federal health advisers voted Wednesday to recommend approval for an experimental drug to treat Lou Gehrig’s disease, a remarkable turnaround for the much-debated medication that was previously rejected by the same group earlier this year. The Food and Drug Administration advisers voted 7-2

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks said Wednesday it will reinstate seven employees who were fired in February after leading an effort to unionize their Memphis store. The seven will get their jobs back after the Seattle-based coffee giant lost an appeal of a lower court’s order to reinstate them. Starbucks said the employees

By STEFANIE DAZIO and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When the phone rang inside a Northern California police station around midday Wednesday, the homicide suspect — an off-duty sheriff’s deputy accused in a shocking double-slaying — was on the line. But the detectives working the case were all out in the

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has acquired a previously unknown ancient papyrus bearing a Hebrew inscription dated to around 2,700 years ago that had long been in possession of a Montana resident, the country’s antiquities authority said Wednesday. The scrap of papyrus — scarcely larger than a postage stamp with

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s former business manager has testified at the singer’s federal trial in Chicago that he believed the singer’s denials of sexual misconduct when allegations emerged against his boss in the late 1990s. Taking the stand Wednesday, Derrell McDavid said he came to understand that

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer After two editions much diminished by the pandemic, the 47th Toronto International Film Festival is set to roar back to life beginning Thursday with a lineup crowded with much-anticipated titles, including Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” and Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King,”

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Nick Carusillo died when he was hit by multiple vehicles on a Georgia interstate, just days after he was abruptly discharged from an addiction treatment center. Now his parents hope a substantial jury verdict in their favor will prompt change that helps others suffering from mental illness

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York woman has admitted to laundering money made from an ex-convict’s plot to extort and force into labor or prostitution some women he met at his daughter’s on-campus housing at Sarah Lawrence College. Isabella Pollok entered a guilty plea on Wednesday to a money

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Several dozen faculty at Eastern Michigan University are striking after their union and the school’s administration failed to agree on a new labor contract. They held signs aloft Wednesday calling for a fair contract outside Welch Hall on the school’s Ypsilanti campus, about 35 miles southwest of Detroit. The union warned

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk will be able to include new evidence from a Twitter whistleblower as he fights to get out of his $44 billion deal to buy the social media company, but Musk won’t be able to delay a high-stakes October trial over the dispute, a judge ruled Wednesday. Chancellor

By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A fugitive Russian paratrooper who published a book online denouncing his government and military is seeking refuge in France. Pavel Filatiev was part of a Russian unit that seized the Ukrainian port city of Kherson early in the war. He spent two months in Ukraine before he

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban-appointed foreign minister has acknowledged that the former insurgents’ year-old government in Afghanistan remains isolated. But he claimed it’s still able to conduct business and trade internationally as if it were officially recognized on the global stage. The remarks by Amir Khan Muttaqi to reporters on

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After three years as the festival director of the New York Film Festival, Eugene Hernandez has been tapped to lead the Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Institute announced Wednesday that Hernandez will become the festival’s fourth director in its nearly four-decade history, in addition to

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Prosecutors say a man charged with capital murder in the deaths of his live-in girlfriend and her son in rural central Alabama has admitted killing the two. Tallapoosa County authorities made the statement about 37-year-old José Paulino Pascual-Reyes in a court document filed Tuesday. They’re asking a judge to order the

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government has written to its NATO and European Union partners and the U.N. chief, urging the formal condemnation of increasingly aggressive rhetoric from neighboring Turkey. It also suggested that current tensions could escalate into a second open conflict in Europe, this time between two NATO

ATLANTA (AP) — An iconic part of Atlanta’s skyline is back in the hands of lenders after its owner defaulted on a loan. The foreclosure on much of Peachtree Center points to uncertainty in the office space market since the pandemic prompted many Americans to work from home. Six office towers and an underground mall

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Some 61 migrants who were reportedly stranded for days aboard a crippled fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea are now safely on the Greek island of Crete. Greek authorities said Wednesday they had airlifted a 4-year-old girl and her mother off the BBC