Month: February 2023

By NARDOS HAILE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Blonds shined like gaudy, shimmering jewels in the label’s fall/winter debut, which closed out New York Fashion Week. The show was held on Wednesday evening at the Gallery at Spring Studios in New York. Colorful, glistening jewels set the tone for the night. One of

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Plans for a major renovation of the National Archaeological Museum in Greece have been announced by the country’s Culture Ministry, expanding exhibition space at the Athens site that houses the most important collection of Greek antiquities in the world. The project, announced Wednesday, expected to last

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California congresswoman Barbara Lee has filed paperwork to enter the race for the seat held by long-serving Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Lee would bring another Democrat and a nationally recognized Black woman to a growing field that includes two other members of the U.S. House. Lee

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — National Park Service employees have swept through a large homeless encampment three blocks from the White House tearing down dozens of tents and warning that people who resisted would be subject to arrest. The action is the latest development in a long-running saga involving the District of

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Subpoenas have been sent to the chief executives of the five largest tech companies as congressional Republicans moved to investigate what they assert is widespread corporate censorship of conservative voices.House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued the subpoenas Wednesday as the latest in a series of escalations by

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Colorado are considering repealing the state’s ban on rent control, as housing prices reach crisis levels. The bill, which was heard in a committee hearing Wednesday, would allow local towns and counties to pass their own caps on rents. If passed, Colorado

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the arms embargo on Yemen’s Houthi rebels and an asset freeze and travel ban on Houthi leaders and top officials until Nov. 15. The British-drafted resolution aopted Wednesday also extends the mandate of the U.N. panel of experts monitoring the sanctions until

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The University of Texas at Dallas says it has banned a woman from attending classes on campus while she serves house arrest in Texas ahead of trial in a Las Vegas-area stabbing that drew international attention. A campus statement came Wednesday after a judge in Nevada

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua has cancelled the citizenship of 94 political opponents, including writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli. Appeals Court Justice Ernesto Rodríguez Mejía read a ruling Wednesday that declares the 94 “traitors” and says they have lost their Nicaraguan citizenship. The judge also says their properties will

By ERIC TUCKER and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI searched the University of Delaware in recent weeks for classified documents as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of sensitive government records by President Joe Biden. The search, first reported by CNN, was confirmed to The Associated Press by a

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Oakland Police Department has lost its seventh head of police in as many years over the alleged cover-up of an officer’s misconduct. The firing threatens to extend two decades of federal oversight, which is the longest of any police department in the country and

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears have bought the property that they’ve been sizing up for a new enclosed stadium in suburban Arlington Heights. The Bears announced Wednesday afternoon that they bought the 326-acre property for $197.2 million. The Bears cautioned that the purchase doesn’t mean their plans for a new stadium and

By KIMBERLY CHANDLER, LOLITA C. BALDOR and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Black Hawk helicopter from the Tennessee National Guard crashed Wednesday in Alabama, killing two crew members, the Tennessee National Guard said. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of two Tennessee National Guardsmen, and our prayers are with their

By SOPHIE AUSTIN and GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California and Nevada could ban involuntary servitude as lawmakers move toward potential ballot measurers that would remove all forms of slavery from their state constitutions. Lawmakers backing the legislation hope to replicate the success of similar measures that passed last fall

BEIJING (AP) — China said Wednesday it will take measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast. At a daily briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details and did not identify the targets of the measures. China says the balloon was a

By CLAIRE RUSH and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Local governments in Oregon can’t declare themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries and ban police from enforcing certain gun laws, a state appeals court decided Wednesday, in the first court case filed over a concept that hundreds of U.S. counties have adopted in recent years.

By MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois grand jury on Wednesday formally indicted the father of a man charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago, the Lake County State’s Attorney Office said. The indictment charges Robert Crimo Jr., 58, with seven counts of reckless

By BERT WILKINSON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Top officials from Canada, the U.S. and Haiti are meeting behind closed doors to talk about the spiraling chaos in Haiti. It’s a topic expected to dominate a three-day meeting of a Caribbean trade bloc that convened Wednesday evening in the Bahamas. Bahamas

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NCAA asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to reject a legal effort to make colleges treat Division I athletes like employees and start paying them an hourly wage. Lawyers for the student-athletes said that weekly, they often spend 30 hours or more on their sport

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Transgender teens, their parents and supporters have protested outside the Mississippi Capitol. They want legislators to kill a measure that would ban gender-affirming health care for people younger than 18. House Bill 1125 passed the Republican-led House on Jan. 19, with all opposition coming from

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The head of Alabama’s prison system said Wednesday that a protocol for using nitrogen gas to carry out executions should be finished this year. “We’re close. We’re close,” Alabama Commissioner John Hamm said of the new execution method that the state has been working to develop

By TRISHA AHMED and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld state laws that prohibit people with felony convictions from voting until they finish their parole, and put the burden on the Legislature to decide whether voting rights should be restored when people leave prison. Supreme Court

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis woman depicted in videos pounding on a family’s door and hurling racial insults is facing charges. Judy Kline, who’s 54, was charged with burglary, property damage and unlawful use of a weapon after prosecutors reviewed the videos. It took more than a year for charges to be filed

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The state commission that regulates slap fighting — in which opponents take turns striking each other in the face — attempted Wednesday to address a critical question for the budding sport: What constitutes a legal slap? Competitors in the Power Slap League must deliver only

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A record 193 homeless people died in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, in 2021, a 53% increase compared with the previous year, according to a new county report released Wednesday. Substances contributed to about 60% of those deaths, the report found, mirroring trends

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The top Republican in Pennsylvania’s Democrat-controlled House is warning of potential chaos when state lawmakers reconvene next week, six weeks after they elected a speaker and left the Capitol without doing any other business. Minority Leader Bryan Cutler of Lancaster County says the chamber’s razor-thin majority

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — When the texts began coming in about a shooter at Michigan State University, training that many students started receiving as schoolchildren automatically kicked in. They ran. They found a place to hide. They locked and barricaded the doors. Then they waited as