Month: April 2023

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers have approved a bill aimed at helping parents opt their children out of public school lessons with LGBTQ-themed materials. The Republican-controlled Kansas House voted 76-46 on Thursday to approve a “parental rights” measure that would allow a parent to place their child in

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea, the U.S. and Japan have called for stronger international support of efforts to ban North Korea from sending workers abroad and curb the North’s cybercrime. They say such steps are necessary to block the country’s means to fund its nuclear program. The top

By AMANDA SEITZ and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or Social Security benefits, and a majority support raising taxes on the nation’s highest earners to keep Medicare running as is. The new findings, revealed in a March poll by The Associated

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Some 200 firefighters battled a huge blaze in Mexico City’s sprawling wholesale market Thursday night without any reported injuries. The Central de Abasto supplies the capital’s other neighborhood markets, restaurants and other parts of the country. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said the fire started in an area of the market

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An unused lifeboat, a door and other fragments believed to be from a Japanese army helicopter have been found after the Black Hawk carrying 10 crew members was presumed to have crashed at sea. Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada told reporters none of the missing crew members has

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China is imposing sanctions against the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and other U.S.- and Asian-based organizations in retaliation for the closely watched meeting this week between the U.S. House speaker and Taiwan’s president. The Reagan library in California was the site of the rare high-level, bipartisan

By JULIE WATSON and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal regulatory group has voted to officially close king salmon fishing season along much of the West Coast after near-record low numbers of the fish returned to California’s rivers in 2022. The Pacific Fishery Management Council approved the closure of the 2023

By KEN RITTER and TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project. The $233 million pact with the Gila River Indian

By VICTOR R. CAIVANO and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — At the start of the long Easter weekend, the airport in Argentina’s capital is eerily quiet before dawn, hours before it will fill with travelers. About 100 people who sleep inside the facility are getting ready to start their day. One

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Brooks Koepka carved out a new identity that sure looked familiar Thursday in the Masters. This wasn’t about his surprising defection last year to LIV Golf, or even his victory four days ago that made him the Saudi-funded circuit’s first multiple winner. He just looked

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge is expressing skepticism about whether he can order any changes in response to a lawsuit against Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, that attempts to force her to carry out an execution. Judge Frank Moskowitz has agreed to let attorneys brief their arguments in the coming weeks.

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A bill that would ensure a permit isn’t required to carry a concealed handgun in Arkansas is on its way to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ desk. The bill approved by the majority-Republican House is intended to clear up a decade-old disagreement about the state’s gun

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Air National Guard this week traveled nearly 660 miles (1,062 kilometers) to rescue a pregnant woman on a small island 2 miles (3 kilometers) from Russia, reflecting the challenges patients face in the nation’s largest state where the most remote areas have no roads

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three men were given life sentences on Thursday for the 2018 killing of star rapper XXXTentacion, who was shot outside a South Florida motorcycle shop while being robbed of $50,000. Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, were each convicted last month of first-degree murder and armed

By MATT O’BRIEN and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Details of how tech executive Bob Lee came to be fatally stabbed in downtown San Francisco early Tuesday were scarce as friends and family continued to mourn the man they called brilliant, kind and unlike others in the industry. San Francisco police found

By RICH PEDRONCELLI and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A man fleeing police in Northern California took two hostages at a public park, killing one of them before surrendering, after earlier wounding a California Highway Patrol officer, authorities said. It happened Thursday in Roseville, a city of about 150,000 northeast of Sacramento,

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A lawsuit over a salad has been tossed. Sweetgreen said Thursday it will change the name of one of its salads in response to a lawsuit filed earlier this week by Chipotle. Los Angeles-based Sweetgreen added the Chipotle Chicken Burrito Bowl to its menu last week. On Tuesday, Chipotle

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York suburban police officer turned drug dealer has been convicted in the strangulation death of one man and the execution-style murders of three others. Nicholas Tartaglione was convicted Thursday in federal court after a three-week trial. The bodies were recovered from a mass grave in December 2016.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper Coolio suffered an accidental death from the effects of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine last year, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office reported Thursday. The county agency also cited cardiomyopathy, a disease that makes it more difficult for the heart to pump blood to the body, as a “significant

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A lawyer for two Canadian women who just returned from Syria says they were arrested by Canada’s federal police force. The two are among four Canadian women and 10 children who arrived in Montreal after being freed from prison camps in northeastern Syria. Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon says the women have not

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Pres DENVER (AP) — Police in Colorado are digging out a body encased in concrete that was found in a condo crawl space they believe is of a man allegedly killed by a friend and alleged partner in crime during a fight last year. The mounded concrete grave, with apparent human

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU’s national champion women’s basketball team will accept an invitation from President Joe Biden to visit the White House. University spokesman Michael Bonnette confirmed LSU’s intentions on the matter on Thursday, a day after Tigers star forward Angel Reese suggested during a podcast interview that her team should celebrate their

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After an hourslong search, a Utah ski resort confirmed that nobody was hurt or killed from an avalanche that gushed from the backcountry into its boundaries on Thursday. Snowbird, a mountain resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon southeast of Salt Lake City, said on Thursday afternoon that it had completed a

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three Alaska Native tribes have sued to block what they say would be one of the largest gold mines in the world. They argue that federal agencies failed to properly analyze health and environmental concerns for the project in southwest Alaska. Tribes from the communities of Kwethluk, Tuluksak and Bethel filed

By JIM SALTER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Two teenagers in love. A retiree who would “give you the shirt off his back.” A woman with a fondness for her dog, and pigs. A young man who was the “life of the party.” Those were the lives lost in the early-morning darkness Wednesday when a

By SEAN MURPHY OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s attorney general says death row inmate Richard Glossip’s first-degree murder conviction should be thrown out. Attorney General Gentner Drummond outlined the state’s position Thursday in a filing with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. It comes just days after an independent counsel appointed by Drummond to look