Month: March 2023

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Bryant Gumbel will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 44th Annual Sports Emmy Awards on May 22 in New York, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Tuesday. Gumbel’s career has spanned more than 50 years on NBC, CBS and HBO. He has hosted “Real Sports

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority. He says in a letter to the president dated Tuesday that the White House position “could prevent America from meeting its obligations and hold

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says it will not participate in this week’s U.S.-led Summit for Democracy, a move seen in part as an effort by the impoverished Islamic nation to assuage longtime ally China, which was not invited. The Biden administration has invited 120 global leaders to the summit being

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A new indictment charges FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with directing $40 million in bribes to one or more Chinese officials to unfreeze assets relating to his cryptocurrency business. The rewritten indictment unsealed Tuesday adds a charge of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign

By DEREK GATOPOULOS, COSTAS KANTOURIS and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country’s intelligence agency Mossad helped Greece stop a terrorist attack planned against at least one Jewish site in Athens. Greek authorities said two men described as being of Pakistani origin and not named have

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet For millennials with chronic medical conditions — or those raising kids with chronic conditions — health care can be an enormous expense. About 44% of older millennials have at least one chronic health condition, including migraines, major depression and asthma, according to a 2021 poll. And many millennials are caring

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — MLB The Show has broken a video game barrier: For the first time, the franchise will insert some of the greatest Negro League players — from Satchel Paige to Jackie Robinson — into the 2023 edition of the game as playable characters. Video gamers

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. and U.K. say they have slapped sanctions on four Syrians and two Lebanese involved in manufacturing and trafficking the amphetamine drug Captagon. The six include cousins of Syrian President Bashar Assad and notorious Lebanese drug lynchpins, according to the government’s statements on Tuesday. Experts say

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer confidence inched up in March after two straight monthly declines, even as persistent inflation, bank collapses and anxiety over a possible recession weighed on Americans. The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 104.2 in March from 103.4 in February. The

PARIS (AP) — The French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office says authorities have raided the Paris offices of five banks on suspicion of tax fraud. The raids come as part of five preliminary investigations opened in December 2021 on counts of alleged money laundering, and alleged tax fraud linked to dividend payments, the office said in

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — In a story published March 28, 2023, about a leak of water containing radioactive material at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the water leaked into the river. Officials with Xcel Energy and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency have said the water containing tritium has remained

NEW YORK (AP) — HBO’s “Succession” opened its fourth and final season with a record first-night audience of 2.3 million viewers, the Nielsen company said on Tuesday. That tops the previous high for the drama about a backbiting family of media moguls. It beat the 1.7 million who watched last season’s finale the first night

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen affirmed America’s commitment to enhancing corporate transparency along with more than 20 other countries participating in this week’s Summit for Democracy. While the Biden administration is already working to establish a new database on small business ownership, Yellen pledged Tuesday that her department

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The U.S. gambling industry is adopting a new responsible marketing code that will ban sports books from partnering with colleges to promote sports wagering. It also will prohibit payments to college and amateur athletes for the use of their name and image, and will end

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is defending its record on helping relieve migrant suffering in Libya after U.N.-backed investigators accused the bloc of abetting human rights abuses and other crimes there. Libya is a major departure point for people willing to put their lives at risk for better lives

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A leading international rights group has decried what it said were double standards by Western countries that have rallied behind a “robust response” to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but remain “lukewarm” on issues of human rights violations in the Middle East. According to Amnesty International, such double