Month: March 2023

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have identified the suspect who allegedly shot and wounded three officers as a 32-year-old wanted parolee who was found dead hours after the standoff. The officers, all senior officers and members of a Los Angeles Police Department K-9 dog-handling unit, remained hospitalized Thursday in stable condition after Wednesday’s

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ROB GILLIES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will visit Canada for the first time since taking office. The one-night trip will take place on March 23 and 24. It was previously discussed when Biden met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in January in

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers and Tennessee’s governor have given their final signoff on a push to cut Democratic-leaning Nashville’s metro council in half. The action in the Senate and by Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday follows the council’s rejection of efforts to host the 2024

MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian police say they are investigating two alleged secret “police stations” operated by Chinese authorities in Quebec. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say its Integrated National Security Team has opened investigations into the suspected police stations in Montreal and Brossard, a suburb just south of the city. RCMP Sgt. Charles Poirier says

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A former Maryland police chief was convicted Thursday of intentionally setting fire to buildings belonging to his adversaries, leading various law enforcement agencies on a sprawling investigation that linked a dozen arsons spanning nearly a decade and crisscrossing several counties. David Crawford, 71, was arrested in March

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer Flashy footwear is a feature of this year’s World Baseball Classic. Stadium Custom Cleats has provided about 42 specially designed shoes for three dozen players. The company owned by Alex Katz, a pitcher for Israel at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and at this year’s WBC. Puerto Rico closer Edwin

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland and Slovakia are urging their allies to provide fighter jets to Ukraine, saying they are ready to send their their Soviet-made MiG-29 jet fighters to Kyiv as part of an international coalition. However, it still remains unclear if any other Western supporters of Ukraine are ready to take

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says it has signed an agreement to purchase a very large vessel that can transfer more than 1 million barrels of crude now stranded in a rusting old tanker off the coast of war-torn Yemen. It’s the first step in an eventual

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The best actress category at the 95th Oscars is full of great awards season drama, from the surprise nomination of Andrea Riseborough to the potential history to be made if Michelle Yeoh wins on March 12, which is all but assured if not for a Cate Blanchett

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Tammy Brady began her career as an Atlantic City casino dealer at the age of 18. Now 55, she has stage 2 breast cancer. “While I’m not sure we will ever know the exact cause of my illness, I can’t help but wonder if it would

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer La Nina seemed to treat Louisiana and the rest of the Southeast United States like a punching bag. Its three-year barrage of body blows has come to an end, but left behind a lot of scars from hurricanes and tornadoes among other weather disasters. Experts caution that attributing any

BERLIN (AP) — European countries say they have decided to dissolve a system that was conceived in 2019 to enable trade with Iran and protect companies doing business with it from U.S. sanctions, but only ever processed one transaction. The German and French foreign ministries said the 10 shareholders of INSTEX — Belgium, Germany, Finland,

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who shot five people, killing one, during a small racial justice protest in Portland, Oregon, last year pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and other charges on Wednesday, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. Benjamin Smith, 44, faces the potential of life in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced on April

CHICAGO (AP) — Two former prosecutors have been charged with lying about the relationship one had with a witness in the trial of a man who alleged he was tortured when questioned about the 1982 slayings of two Chicago police officers. Special prosecutor Lawrence Oliver II on Wednesday unsealed charges against Nicholas Trutenko and Andrew

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former Goldman Sachs banker has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in looting a Malaysian development fund. The money stolen from the fund known as 1MDB paid for billions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks used to finance lavish parties,

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A third person has died after being injured in a stampede after a weekend concert by the rapper GloRilla in western New York, police said Thursday. Aisha Stephens, 35, of Syracuse was the only person who remained hospitalized following a Sunday evening performance by the Memphis, Tennessee, rap star and Finesse2tymes

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican lawmaker has accused the FBI of wrongly searching for his name in foreign surveillance data, underscoring the challenges ahead for U.S. officials trying to persuade Congress to renew their authorities to collect huge swaths of communications. Rep. Darin LaHood of Illinois made

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Thursday that his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared to depict the synthetic opioid epidemic largely as a U.S. problem, and said the United States should use family values to

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed Daniel Werfel to serve as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service by a vote of 54-to-42. Werfel, who pledged before senators not to expand tax audits on businesses and households making less than $400,000 per year during his confirmation hearing, will serve

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has slapped more sanctions on people and firms associated with Iran and with what it calls an illicit banking network used to conceal transactions. The U.S. said Thursday it placed the penalties on 39 firms linked to a shadow banking system that helped to

By MARK PRATT and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A man charged with attacking a flight attendant and attempting to open an airliner’s emergency door on a cross-country flight over the weekend remained in custody Thursday after a federal court ordered him to undergo a mental health evaluation. Francisco Severo Torres, 33, of

By ALFREDO PEÑA, MARK STEVENSON and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible. In a letter