Month: April 2023

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. government is embarking on an effort to record the oral histories of survivors and descendants of boarding schools that sought to “civilize” Indigenous students, often through abusive practices. The Interior Department announced a partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities on Wednesday to document the experiences of thousands

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Large numbers of Sudanese have been massing at a border crossing with Egypt and at a main port, desperately trying to escape the violence roiling their country. Residents in the capital of Khartoum and the neighboring city of Omdurman have reported sporadic clashes between the military and

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Disney sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday over the Republican’s takeover of its theme park district, alleging the governor waged a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” after the company opposed a law critics call “Don’t Say Gay.” The lawsuit was filed in Tallahassee minutes after

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press Montana’s governor is asking lawmakers to expand the state’s proposed TikTok ban to more social media companies that provide certain data to foreign adversaries. A spokesperson for the governor says the amendment would address the “technical and legal concerns” associated with the TikTok bill passed earlier this month. Experts have

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s governmental human rights commission has called on ten of the country’s 32 states to get rid of old laws that ban marriage between people with “chronic, incurable, hereditary or contagious diseases” saying that could discriminate against the HIV-positive or people living with AIDS. The National Human Rights Commission

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis says it’s offering buyouts to groups of white-collar and unionized employees in the U.S., as well as hourly workers in Canada. The company says it needs to cut costs to remain competitive as the auto industry shifts from internal combustion vehicles to those powered by

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Communities along the Upper Mississippi River scrambled Wednesday as the always massive river swelled to near record levels, forcing some to be evacuated from their homes while others downstream stacked sandbag walls and closed off flood-prone areas near the waterway. The river has grown so large because

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nomination for the next labor secretary, Julie Su, has advanced through a Senate committee. But a handful of Democrats are withholding support, creating uncertainty ahead of a vote in the full chamber. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee advanced Su’s nomination on

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer There is a growing phenomenon at historically Black colleges and universities. HBCUs are adding sports outside the more typical offerings of football, basketball, and track and field. Black athletes are participating more at the NCAA level in sports such as women’s gymnastics and men’s volleyball. HBCUs are catching up

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America CONWAY, Miss. (AP) — A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail and is suspected in a Monday night killing died after barricading himself in a home and setting it on fire during an armed standoff with deputies, authorities said Wednesday. Plumes of smoke emanated from the charred

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The remains of a U.S. Army corporal killed during the Korean War and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor have been identified 73 years after he was declared missing, President Joe Biden said Wednesday during a welcome ceremony at the White House for South Korea’s president. Luther

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The trilateral Commission for Environmental Cooperation established by the U.S., Mexico and Canada has recommended opening an investigation into Mexico’s multibillion-dollar tourist train project on the Yucatán peninsula. Environmentalists filed a complaint saying the project threatens jungles and limestone caves containing precious fresh water. The caves

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A writer has told a jury that Donald Trump raped her after she accompanied him into a luxury department store fitting room in 1996. E. Jean Carroll began testifying Wednesday in the trial of her federal lawsuit. Trump denies Carroll’s allegations. He

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization is not liable for an elder who raped a member of his congregation. The ruling Wednesday overturned lower courts that had found in favor of a Welsh woman who was raped more than 30 years ago. The Supreme Court ruled that

North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed a bill Monday that limits access to bathrooms, locker rooms and shower rooms for transgender and gender-nonconforming people in several state facilities. That includes dorms and living facilities controlled by the state board of higher education, penitentiaries and correctional facilities for youths and adults. Restrooms and shower rooms

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Federal authorities in Michigan have filed charges against nine people in a scheme to defeat air-pollution rules by tampering with software and hardware in heavy-duty diesel engines. Records show the nine have agreed to plead guilty, along with three companies. Diesel Freak LLC, based in Gaylord, has agreed to pay

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY and LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has met with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for talks aimed at making progress on an intercontinental trade deal. But his differences with the European Union on the war in Ukraine remained evident Wednesday. The 27-member EU

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Country music star Miranda Lambert is dishing on the recipes from her family and friends in East Texas. Her new cookbook is called “Y’All Eat Yet?” and is equal parts Lambert’s family memoir, a guide to Texas-style entertaining and church potluck cookbook. Lambert says

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — British regulators have blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard over worries that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market. The Competition and Markets Authority said Wednesday that “the only effective remedy” to the substantial loss of competition “is

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping said Wednesday that Beijing will send an envoy to Ukraine to discuss a possible “political settlement” to Russia’s war with the country. Beijing has previously avoided involvement in conflicts between other countries but appears to be trying to assert itself as a global

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The former chief executive of South African power utility Eskom has refused to name high-ranking politicians allegedly involved in corrupt activities at the state-owned firm. Andre de Ruyter appeared virtually from an undisclosed location before a parliamentary committee on Wednesday. He claimed in a February television interview

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A video camera that had been missing for more than 15 years after it was dropped by a Japanese journalist who was fatally shot during a street protest in Myanmar has been handed over to his sister at a ceremony in Bangkok. Kenji Nagai was recording the

MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he could be handed a life sentence on a set of new extremism and terrorism charges that he has described as a Kremlin-ordered political vendetta. Navalny exposed official corruption and organized massive anti-Kremlin protests in Russia, and survived a nerve-agent poisoning that he blamed on

By AMY BETH HANSON, SAM METZ and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republicans barred transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from the House floor on Wednesday, wielding “decorum” rules after she rebuked colleagues supporting a ban on gender-affirming care for children and protested their efforts to silence her. The punishment marks the first

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has doubled its growth forecast this year for the Europe’s largest economy after the country made it through the winter without major energy problems. It said Wednesday that it now expects gross domestic product to grow by 0.4% — up from the 0.2% expansion it forecast in late January.