Month: March 2023

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — “All Quiet on the Western Front” has won an Oscar for best international film. It was one of nine nominations for the Netflix film based on the classic 1929 novel. The German-language movie is set during World War I and follows a young soldier who enlists

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Dawn Staley has South Carolina six wins away from finishing off a historic season. The Gamecocks are looking to become the 10th women’s basketball team to go undefeated for an entire season as the they enter the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed. Staley’s squad has been

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ke Huy Quan has won the supporting actor Oscar to complete an inspiring Hollywood comeback story. The Vietnam-born actor was honored for his role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” in which he plays three different incarnations of his character. Quan rode a huge wave of

By TERRY TANG Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” has had an Oscar wish come true. The director’s stop-motion, musical take on the puppet who longs to be a real boy won Netflix its first animated feature trophy on Sunday. Del Toro asked the audience to keep animation in the conversation,

By GABRIELA SELSER and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua ’s government says it has proposed suspending relations with the Vatican days after Pope Francis compared President Daniel Ortega’s administration to a communist or Nazi dictatorship amid a crackdown on the Catholic Church in the country. Relations between the church and the

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The top overall seed, Alabama, has been on a roll despite being entangled in a murder case. Another No. 1 seed, defending national champion Kansas, is coming off a blowout loss and has a coach coming out of the hospital. Yet another, Houston, just watched its best player go

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press Authorities say a former University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student emailed threats to kill the children of students, staff members and professors. Online court and jail records say 32-year-old Arvin Raj Mathur was being held Sunday at the St. Clair County Jail in Michigan, where he was arrested after traveling to

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press SOUTH AMBOY, N.J. (AP) — Bruce Springsteen’s planned performance Tuesday in Albany has become the third concert in a week postponed by the New Jersey rocker, who cited illness as the reason in a tweet Sunday but did not give specifics. The postponements come a month into Springsteen’s first major

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fan Bingbing made a regal entrance in sparkling silver and emerald green as the champagne-colored carpet heated up Sunday at the 95th Academy Awards. The “X-Men” star wore Tony Ward Couture, with her hair sculpted into an Old Hollywood bob. Some of the men among

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — As President Joe Biden prepares a final decision on the huge Willow oil project in Alaska, his administration announced he will prevent or limit oil drilling in 16 million acres in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. Plans announced Sunday night will bar drilling

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean and U.S. militaries have begun their biggest joint military exercises in years. In apparent protest, North Korea said it conducted submarine-launched cruise missile tests. The launches on Sunday signal North Korea likely will conduct more weapons testing during the U.S.-South Korean drills

BRUSSELS (AP) — A major trade union organization has fired its general secretary after he admitted accepting donations from a suspect in a European cash-for-influence scandal. The International Trade Union Confederation said on its website Saturday that “Luca Visentini no longer had the confidence of the General Council as ITUC General Secretary.” Visentini was named

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — M.M. Keeravani has brought the spotlight back to India after a historic Oscar musical win. Keeravani won best original song for his joyously energetic anthem “Naatu Naatu” from the film “RRR.” The music was written by Keeravani and lyrics by Chandrabose.“Naatu Naatu” is one

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities say rebels in eastern Congo killed at least 19 people and set fire to a health center and houses. The former governor of North Kivu province said in a Sunday interview with state media that gunmen suspected of being part of the Allied Democratic Forces

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Federal officials are pausing a proposal to rename Georgia’s Lake Lanier and Buford Dam, both names that come from onetime Confederate soldiers. The pause comes in response to objections by some local residents and officials. Lake Lanier is a massive reservoir impounding the Chattahoochee River and was named for poet Sidney

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio judge is set to decide this week on the validity of the insanity defense submitted by a man charged with fatally shooting two of his girlfriend’s three young sons and wounding the third. The Toledo Blade reports Judge Eric Allen Marks must decide whether 29-year-old Kevin Moore knew his

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the government will assess the Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse and determine whether or not to assist Israeli companies. Netanyahu said at a Cabinet meeting on Sunday that he and senior Israeli officials would consider “whether or not actions are necessary to assist Israeli companies in

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a Chicago firefighter’s two remaining children have died days after a fire at the family’s Northwest Side home also fatally injured his wife and 7-year-old son. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the Cook County medical examiner’s office says firefighter Walter Stewart’s 2-year-old son, Emory Day-Stewart, and his 9-year-old daughter, Autumn Day-Stewart,

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The government in Nigeria says gunmen killed at least 16 people during an attack in the country’s northwest. A spokesperson for the local government told The Associated Press on Sunday that the assailants stormed the Zangon Kataf Local Government Area in Kaduna state and opened fire

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and GREGORY BULL Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — At least eight people were killed when two migrant smuggling boats capsized in shallow but treacherous surf amid heavy fog, authorities said Sunday, marking one of the deadliest maritime human smuggling operations ever off of U.S. shores. A Spanish-speaking woman on one of

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Can Washington come to the rescue of the depositors of failed Silicon Valley Bank? Is it even politically possible? That was one of the growing questions in Washington Sunday as policymakers tried to figure out whether the U.S. government — and its taxpayers — should

By HILARY POWELL Associated Press LAKE CITY, S.C. (AP) — Prepping for his first trip out of the country, 28-year-old Zindell Brown of Lake City, South Carolina, had something more than nerves. Perhaps it was a premonition about the trip he and several friends were taking to Mexico. “He said, ‘Something, it just doesn’t feel

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar weekend belonged to “Scream VI” in theaters, as the horror sequel notched a franchise-best $44.5 million in domestic ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group co-production sailed past expectations, easily surpassing the previous series high of $32

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Iran’s mission to the United Nations says a breakthrough agreement with Saudi Arabia restoring bilateral relations will help bring a political settlement to Yemen’s yearslong war. That’s according to reports from Iranian state media on Sunday. Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed Friday to reestablish diplomatic relations and

By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two-time World Series champion Shane Victorino has been intrigued by the sport of slap fighting since becoming enamored with one of the sport’s best strikers, Koa Viernes, known to his fans as “Da Crazy Hawaiian.” That was long before his good friend and UFC President Dana

By NIC COURY and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Wet, miserable weather continued across huge swaths of California on Sunday as an atmospheric river that caused major flooding flowed eastward, while a new storm threatened another onslaught of rain, snow and gusting winds as soon as Monday. The National Weather Service said

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat claimed Sunday that a prisoner swap was near with the U.S., though he offered no evidence to support his assertion. The U.S. immediately dismissed his comments as a “cruel lie.” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has made similar comments in the

By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — An unpopular bill that would raise the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 has gotten a push forward. The French Senate voted 195-112 on Saturday to adopt the measure, despite protests and tons of uncollected garbage piling higher by the day. The legislation is expected