Month: January 2023

NEW YORK (AP) — Bestselling authors Leigh Bardugo, Jerry Craft and Rainbow Rowell are contributing forewords to new editions of three famed Marvel Comics series. Penguin Classics is teaming with Marvel on Penguin Classics Marvel Collection, which already includes “Black Panther,” “Captain America” and “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Three new books will be out Sept. 12:

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Visceral World War I drama “All Quiet on the Western Front” has a field-leading 14 nominations for the British Academy Film Awards. Unorthodox comedies “The Banshees of Inisherin“ and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” are each nominated in 10 categories. Baz Luhrmann’s flamboyant musical biopic “Elvis” is

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia has sentenced a former Bosnian Serb military commander to 15 years in prison for taking part in a 1993 atrocity in which 20 people were hauled off a train and killed during Bosnia’s interethnic war. The court ruled Thursday that Boban Indjic was among Bosnian Serb soldiers

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy In a rare move for philanthropy, Adam Holofcener and his family emptied their foundation’s coffers and gave $1 million — nearly all the money it had left to give — to support Lisa Snowden-McCray’s dream: a free newspaper staffed by Black editors and writers

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon is ending a charity donation program it ran for a decade in its latest cost-cutting move. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said the program, called AmazonSmile, will shut down by February 20 because it had “not grown to create the impact” the retailer had hoped.

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic says he is worried about his left hamstring after beating 191st-ranked French qualifier Enzo Couacaud 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-0 in the second round of the Australian Open. Djokovic also was bothered by a persistent heckler during the match. Djokovic says his leg

By MATT O’BRIEN and ARIJETA LAJKA NEW YORK (AP) — Countless artists have taken inspiration from “The Starry Night” since Vincent Van Gogh painted the swirling scene in 1889. Now artificial intelligence systems are doing the same, training themselves on a vast collection of digitized artworks to produce new images you can conjure in seconds

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russia and China will conduct naval drills off the coast of South Africa next month in another indication of their strengthening relationships with Africa’s most developed country amid the war in Ukraine and global financial uncertainty. The South African armed forces say they, Russia

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Dance, theater and geometry have merged in the installment of Paris menswear week. All eyes looked toward Louis Vuitton’s fall winter spectacle to be held later Thursday. A writhing dancing troupe at Issey Miyake performed on the runway against a backdrop of optically striped lighting which

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s state RTS television says emergency teams are searching for two people after they were swept away by a swollen river in a southwestern town. Heavy rainfall this week across the Balkans has caused rivers to rise dangerously in Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro, flooding some areas

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE, TATIANA POLLASTRI AND ERALDO PERES XAPURI, Brazil (AP) — Veja, an expensive global sneaker brand, is making shoes from traditionally-harvested Brazilian Amazon latex in collaboration with local rubber tappers. The project has reenergized production of a sustainable forest product and at the same time improved the standard of living for hundreds of

By DAVID KEYTON and MASHA MACPHERSON Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Prominent climate activists including Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate are condemning corporate VIPs and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland, for prioritizing short-term profits from fossil fuels over people affected by the climate crisis. They were joined by campaigners Helena Gualinga and Luisa Neubauer

By SALLY HO, ANGELIKI KASTANIS and LINDSEY BAHR Associated Press With hundreds of new movies released each year, many of us depend on the expertise of film critics to help curate our own watching — a thoroughly communal yet deeply personal experience. To honor the supporting role that entertainment journalism can play in this beloved

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand is ushering in a new age of train travel with Southeast Asia’s biggest railway station. The government says the huge, modern development on the edge of central Bangkok will bolster the country’s position as a regional hub. Almost all of Thailand’s long-distance domestic

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The new executive director of European Union border agency Frontex says he will work at ensuring illegal pushbacks of migrants trying to reach Europe don’t take place under his watch. Hans Leijtens’ promise came on Thursday. He was appointed as a replacement for Fabrice Leggeri who resigned

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has called for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to be put on the European Union’s terrorist list and insisted that sanctions targeting Tehran had to be expanded after the violent suppression of protests. The legislature mustered a large majority in a nonbinding resolution on Thursday to call on the EU’s 27

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Researchers say efforts to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere aren’t being scaled up fast enough and can’t be relied on to meet crucial climate goals. A report published Thursday by scientists in Europe and the United States found that new methods of CO2 removal currently account

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Greg Steube sustained “several serious injuries” when he fell off a ladder while cutting trees on his property on Florida’s Gulf Coast, his office said Thursday. Steube spent the night in the intensive care unit where doctors are still assessing several serious injuries

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, the highest level meeting between the two allies since Israel’s most right-wing government ever took power last month. Sullivan’s visit comes amid unease in Washington over Netanyahu’s policies and over several members of his ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox governing

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The United Nations cultural organization is training law enforcement and judiciary officials from countries on Ukraine’s western borders seeking to prevent the trafficking of looted cultural objects from Ukraine amid Russia’s war against its neighbor. UNESCO partnered with Poland’s Culture Ministry to hold three days of

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has asked that annual profits from a 1 billion-pound ($1.2 billion) Crown Estate windfarm deal be used for the public good rather than the royal family. The Crown Estate confirmed Thursday that it had signed lease agreements for six offshore wind projects. Such a

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — For Kyle Shanahan, the chance to coach the San Francisco 49ers against the Dallas Cowboys in a playoff game is a throwback to when that rivalry was the biggest in football. Shanahan’s formative years were spent watching his father, Mike, as offensive coordinator

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban officials say 78 people have died in just over a week during Afghanistan’s harsh winter, adding to the country’s humanitarian crisis. Since January 10th at least 78 people and more than 75,000 livestock have died as result of cold weather in different parts of the country,

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The value of the Lebanese pound has hit an all-time low, now trading at 50,000 to the U.S. dollar, as the country’s deeply-divided Parliament failed to elect a president for an 11th time. All but 18 of Lebanon’s 118 legislators showed up in Parliament Thursday, with most

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two Iranian-born Swedish brothers have been given lengthy prison sentences for spying for Russia and its military intelligence service GRU for a decade. The oldest of the two naturalized Swedes was sentenced on Thursday to life while his younger brother was sentence to nine years

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is off to a historically slow start in failing to resolve any cases in which it has heard arguments since early October. By this point, more than three months after the start of the court’s term, the justices had until now always decided at

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s attorney general has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he must fire a key Cabinet ally following a court ruling disqualifying the minister from serving in government. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s letter, made public Thursday, compounds the pressure on Netanyahu to fire Aryeh Deri, which

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in northern Poland are facing questions over why they released without detailed interrogation three divers rescued from near a key oil port, where they had no authorization to be. Security experts are saying the presence of the divers in the sensitive area of the Gulf of Gdansk last weekend raised

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New research shows climate misinformation has been flourishing on Twitter since Elon Musk bought the platform last year. Analysts at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue find searches for information about climate change turned up recommendations for content that denied the reality of climate change or made misleading