Month: October 2022

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — One University of Mississippi student was killed and another was injured when a pickup truck struck them in a parking lot early Sunday behind Oxford City Hall. Law enforcement officers arrested two suspects by Monday. Both are from Collierville, Tennessee. Police say 18-year-old Tristan Holland was taken into custody Sunday on

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday officially kicked off the application process for his student debt cancellation program, opening the door for millions of Americans to apply for up to $20,000 in forgiveness. The Biden administration touts it as a simple, straightforward application that should only take about five minutes. Here’s how to

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortion providers and an abortion-rights group want some judges to permit more trained health professionals in North Carolina to prescribe pills for medication-induced abortions. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic filed a request Monday asking that a law be blocked that limits the dispensing from just certain

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.” The book is an “afterlife noir” set during Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war. Karunatilaka won the 50,000 pound ($57,000) award for his second novel. He is the

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Opening statements are expected Wednesday in a civil case brought by a publicist who accused Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis of raping her almost a decade ago. Jury selection began Monday in a New York courtroom. His accuser says the screenwriter and director lured her to his

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings in Northern California has a criminal history that includes traffic violations and convictions for drug crimes. The California corrections department said Monday that 43-year-old Wesley Brownlee was sentenced in 1999 to two years in prison

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s private company arranged for the Secret Service to pay for rooms at his properties in excess of government-approved rates at least 40 times, including two charges for more than $1,100 per room, per night, according to documents released Monday by a congressional committee. The

FAIRWAY, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Historical Society plans to search the grounds of a former Native American boarding school to determine if any children were buried there. The site in Fairway, Kansas, housed students from several tribes in the 1800s and early 1900s. It was one of many schools across the country designed to

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The office of U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson says the Iowa congresswoman will remain hospitalized with a kidney infection overnight Monday. That follows a statement issued Monday morning by Hinson’s chief of staff saying the congresswoman was admitted Sunday night to a hospital in Cedar Rapids. In light of Hinson’s medical

By BEN FINLEY, HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An avid runner and the mother of three boys. A woman who was the “rock” of her family and knew everyone in the neighborhood. A Navy veteran whose wedding was two weeks away. These were among the victims of Thursday’s

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An emotional Kevin Spacey testified in a New York courtroom Monday that he never made a sexual pass at the actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued for millions of dollars in damages, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to take him to bed

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For a news organization, NBC is leaning aggressively into education. The company is making its leaders available to students this week for a one-day digital seminar on how to succeed in the news business. It’s part of NBCU Academy, a nearly two-year-old education initiative that

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press A group of major U.S. businesses wants the government to hide key import data — a move trade experts say would make it more difficult for Americans to link the products they buy to labor abuse overseas. The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee is made up of executives from 20

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A prominent Lebanese legislator allied with the militant Hezbollah group says the war in Ukraine and rising demand for natural gas around the world has helped speed up a U.S.-mediated maritime border deal between Lebanon and Israel. Gebran Bassil, who is under sanctions by

By EDITH M. LEDERER and EVENS SANON Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Mexico say they are preparing a U.N. resolution that would authorize “an international assistance mission” to help improve security in crisis-wracked Haiti so desperately needed humanitarian aid can be delivered to millions in need. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury has heard closing arguments in the trial of a think tank analyst accused of lying to the FBI about his role in the creation of a discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump. The arguments on both sides delved for the first time into

CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is about to hit the campaign trail ahead of the Nov. 8 election, but first he and former first lady Michelle Obama came home to vote. The two arrived at the downtown Chicago Board of Elections Supersite shortly after noon, voted and left. The former president is about

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley’s fundraising advantage over Republican rival Ted Budd widened during the past three months and entering the campaign’s final weeks. Budd’s campaign reported over the weekend that it raised close to $4.8 million during the three months ending

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s presumed next premier, Giorgia Meloni, and former Premier Silvio Berlusconi are seeking to put days of acrimony behind them over possible Cabinet picks. They met and presented a united front Monday, before they go into formal consultations over the formation of Italy’s first far-right-led government since

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The federal government is demanding that the state remove double-stacked shipping containers placed to fill gaps in the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying they are unauthorized and violate U.S. law. The Cocopah Indian Tribe in southwestern Arizona welcomed the call to take down the containers in

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria say a mother and her young daughter were killed by armed men who attacked a church during Sunday services. The hunt for suspects intensified on Monday following the violence at the Celestial Church in Kogi state, which borders the Nigerian capital of Abuja.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall are dropping their audience mask requirement starting Oct. 24, ending policies in place since they reopened last year. The decisions make wearing of masks optional and put the institutions in line with Broadway theaters, which made face coverings optional last July. The

By MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The state and national Republican parties are suing anew in Pennsylvania in an effort to block some mail-in ballots — those lacking the voter’s handwritten date on the outside envelope — from being counted in the November election. The GOP’s filing late Sunday

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Officials say three U.N. peacekeepers have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in northern Mali. The explosion on Monday took place 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the town of Tessalit, where the peacekeepers were on a mine search and detection patrol. Their deaths come just