Month: February 2023

By JULIO CORTEZ and LEA SKENE Associated Press FALLSTON, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man was taken into custody early Friday, ending a 39-hour manhunt during which he wounded two Baltimore County police officers in separate shootings and holed up in a wooded area behind a suburban shopping center, authorities said. David Linthicum, 24, was

Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eight Croatian nationals have pleaded not guilty to new child trafficking charges in a Zambian court. The eight — four couples — were rearrested earlier this week on fresh charges of attempting to traffic four children from neighboring Congo. A senior Zambian immigration officer in the central city of

Associated Press Brazil’s Federal Police have performed eight searches targeting money laundering derived from illegal gold mining in Roraima state, where the Indigenous Yanomami people are in a health crisis. A police statement says the criminal organization targeted Friday carried out transactions $12 million over a two-year period. The police operation represents part of the

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Don’t feed the bears! Wildlife biologists and forest rangers have preached the mantra for nearly a century at national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and for decades in areas where urban development increasingly invaded native wildlife habitat. But don’t feed the birds? That may be a

Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink is being probed over its shipping methods after an animal rights group contacted the U.S. Department of Transportation. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said that public records show untrained Neuralink employees transported “contaminated” devices that were removed from the brains of “infected” monkeys without safely packaging them. Neuralink is

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former Miss Universe Cayman Islands has been found guilty of damaging two cars and assaulting three people, including a police officer. Tiffany Conolly had pleaded self-defense in the October 2019 incident, in which authorities said she visited her ex-boyfriend’s home and assaulted him and his father and later

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Danielle Deadwyler says racism and misogynoir played a role in this year’s Academy Awards nominations, where she and Viola Davis were overlooked in the best actress category. Going into Oscar nominations last month, Deadwyler was widely seen as a likely nominee for her lauded performance

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — With a stunning musical career already spanning decades, Dionne Warwick couldn’t be blamed for slowing down a bit at age 82. That is nowhere near happening. The Grammy-winning, multimillion-selling singer and her music producer son Damon Elliott are among the co-producers of an upcoming 50-city touring

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press Dutch police say they are investigating a stunt that saw a text alluding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory projected onto the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, causing outrage across the country. The words “Ann [sic] Frank invented the ballpoint pen,” referring to a debunked claim that the Jewish teenager’s

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas lawsuit with a key deadline this month is posing a threat to the nationwide availability of medication abortion, which now accounts for the majority of abortions in the U.S. The case filed by abortion opponents who helped challenge Roe v. Wade seeks to reverse a

By FU TING, GRACE EKPU and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Corruption is undermining the management of some of the world’s most threatened fishing grounds. That’s according to a review of criminal case files and media reports by The Associated Press. At least 45 government officials have been accused of graft or extortion

By ANDREW DAMPF and ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press MERIBEL, France (AP) — Mother Nature and global warming are having just as much to say about when and where to hold ski races these days as the International Ski and Snowboard Federation. Warm weather and a lack of snow wiped out nearly a month of racing

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — An unarmed U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile has been launched from California in a test of the defense system. The Air Force Global Strike Command says the Minuteman III missile lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base late Thursday night. Its reentry vehicle traveled about 4,200 miles over the

By KEN SWEET and MAE ANDERSON The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — How the mighty have fallen. Cryptocurrency companies grabbed the spotlight during the 2022 Super Bowl, with commercials from a handful of newcomers to advertising’s biggest stage: FTX, Coinbase, Crypto.com and eToro. Some marketing experts dubbed it the “Crypto Bowl.” A year later,

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One day in 2020, at the pandemic’s height, an earnest-looking man with long hair the color of Buffalo sauce stepped up to a podium in Lincoln, Nebraska, to address his city council during its public comment period. His unexpected topic, as he framed it: It

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say at least two people were killed and 20 others were injured when an apartment building collapsed in the country’s north. It said the collapse of the four-story building in the city of Damanhour was triggered by a ‘‘gas pipe explosion.’’ Search efforts are underway to find those still missing