Month: October 2022

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The outlook of the U.S. economy from Wall Street’s biggest banks is getting gloomier and gloomier, after the industry spent the past year and a half trumpeting that the U.S. economy is strong and the U.S. consumer resilient. Half a dozen banks reported their quarterly

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Wynton Marsalis has done just about everything in the world of music. One thing he hasn’t, however, is team up his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with a college marching band — until now. “I’ve never seen a jazz band like ours play with a

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — As gangs in Haiti blockade and loot key fuel supplies, the fuel crisis is now trickling over to the neighboring Dominican Republic. An illicit petroleum contraband industry on the countries’ 240-mile shared border has flourished in the wake of soaring gasoline prices in Haiti. Both Dominicans and

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Key financial regulators having approved U.S. Bank’s $8 billion acquisition of Japanese financial titan MUFG’s Union Bank franchise. The moves clear big regulatory hurdles for a deal that will push U.S. Bank closer to the size of Wall Street’s mega banks. The regulators stipulated in

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Workers have begun loading radioactive fuel into a new nuclear reactor in Georgia. The announcement Friday by utilities means the first new nuclear reactor built in decades in the United States is on track to begin generating electricity in coming months. Georgia Power says workers will transfer

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A standoff between a powerful gang federation and Haiti’s government is testing how much power both sides wield and threatens to further derail a paralyzed country where millions of people are struggling to find fuel and water. A former police officer who leads a

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany say a man has been detained after biting a service dog and resisting arrest. Officers were called to a dispute between two 29-year-old men and a 35-year-old woman in the western town of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg in the early hours Friday. The trio acted in an “extremely aggressive and uncooperative” fashion,

LONDON (AP) — Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a crime-solving psychologist on TV series “Cracker” and the half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died. He was 72. Coltrane’s agent Belinda Wright said he died Friday at a hospital in Scotland. She did not give a cause. Coltrane came to fame as a

By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian polling companies have been facing threats of a crackdown after their surveys for the presidential election’s first round significantly understated the vote for the president and his allies. President Jair Bolsonaro’s Justice Ministry called for a Federal Police investigation and the antitrust regulator on Thursday

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Californians are voting now through Election Day on a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion and contraception. Proposition 1 is among several measures on state ballots to address reproductive health care following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. Proposition 1 is expected

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND and MATTHEW AGIUS Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — In a stunning reversal, two brothers who are on trial for the car-bomb murder of a Maltese anti-corruption journalist on Friday entered guilty pleas on the first day of trial. Only hours earlier at the start of the trial in a Valletta

By ALI SWENSON Whether a state requires voters to request an absentee ballot or participates in universal mail-in voting, all ballots cast by mail or dropped off at a drop box are vetted to ensure their legitimacy. The ballots are logged when sent out and turned in, checked against registration and, in many cases, checked

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A top Indiana lawyer has questioned the validity of a lawsuit brought by a group of residents who argue that the state’s abortion ban violates their religious freedoms. A judge heard arguments Friday in an Indianapolis courtroom, spurred by claims from five anonymous residents and

MILWAUKEE (AP) — No charges will be filed in the death of a man who fell from a Milwaukee drawbridge that was raised as he was walking across it, prosecutors said Friday, noting that investigators found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Richard Dujardin, 77, of Providence, Rhode Island, was crossing the Kilbourn Avenue Bridge in

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published October 14, 2022, about a request from SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk that the Defense Department take over funding for his satellite network that has provided battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces, The Associated Press erroneously identified Musk as the founder of the electric vehicle maker.

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A state appeals panel has ruled that public housing agencies in Tennessee can no longer include provisions in their leases that bar tenants from having guns in their homes. A three-judge panel of the Tennessee Court of Appeals made the decision unanimously Thursday, saying that the

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French and a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization have filed a complaint for alleged “complicity in war crimes” against TotalEnergies. They accuse the French oil giant of having operated a gas field that allegedly makes kerosene used by Russian warplanes in Ukraine. TotalEnergies denied producing kerosene for the

By BILL BARROW and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker on Friday denied his previous support for an outright national ban on abortion, though he has insisted at various points throughout the campaign that it was a proposal he endorsed. Walker, a staunch anti-abortion politician recently accused

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his country wants to strengthen ties to Mongolia, citing the country’s wealth of key commodities such as copper and rare earth metals. Speaking after a meeting in Berlin Friday with Mongolia’s prime minister, he said the two leaders had agreed to “deepen and also expand cooperation between

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A line of cars snaked through the garbage-strewn streets of the Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem, as Palestinians waited to pass an Israeli checkpoint. Alaa Gharab was sunk down behind the steering wheel at an intersection that resembled a ragged war zone, littered with burnt tires,

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The European Union’s energy commissioner says natural gas from undersea deposits in the eastern Mediterranean can help replace Russia’s supply of the fossil fuel to Europe. Commissioner Kadri Simson told a conference in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia, on Friday that the region can play an increasingly

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has no plans to participate in a debate against Democratic opponent Dr. Jason Martin. The Republican told reporters earlier this week that he’s focused on being governor. It’s a response he’s repeated when pressed about the gubernatorial race. Lee’s avoidance of sharing