Month: April 2023

MILAN (AP) — Romelu Lukaku’s management company has reacted with outrage after the Inter Milan forward was shown a second yellow card and then sent off for a gesture toward Juventus fans who directed racist chants at him. The incident occurred after Lukaku converted a penalty in stoppage time to earn Inter a 1-1 draw

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he opposes the charges brought against former U.S. president Donald Trump. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he thinks  the charges are “political, electoral” in nature. The Mexican president said the charges brought in New York had been “made up to affect” a political adversary. López Obrador had

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican governors in Indiana and Idaho have signed into law bills banning gender-affirming care for minors, making those states the latest to restrict transgender health care as Republican-led legislatures continue to curb LGBTQ+ rights this year. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed legislation Wednesday that will

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening rules that limit emissions of mercury and other harmful pollutants from coal-fired power plants. That’s an update to standards imposed more than a decade ago. The proposal would lower emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants that can harm brain development

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (AP) — A near-century old abortion ban that fueled one of the largest ballot drives in Michigan history was repealed Wednesday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, just months after voters enshrined abortion rights in the state’s constitution. “Today, we’re going to take action to make sure that our statutes

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Donald Trump stepped into a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday afternoon, his usual bravado was replaced with palpable anger and notable silence as the former president was reduced to a criminal defendant in custody. By the time he returned to his Mar-a-Lago club hours later, he was

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten through college, the first of several possible new laws restricting the rights of transgender people pushed through by Republican legislators over the wishes of the Democratic governor. The Legislature on Wednesday overrode Gov.

Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers in Montana are advancing legislation that would alter next year’s U.S. Senate primary in an apparent bid to thwart the reelection of Sen. Jon Tester, one of several Democrats on the ballot in GOP-leaning states. The measure would allow the top two candidates in the primary,

By LEA SKENE, BRIAN WITTE and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused over 600 children and often escaped accountability, according to a long-awaited state report released Wednesday that revealed the scope of abuse spanning 80 years and accused church

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The candidates vying against former President Donald Trump for the White House in 2024 are battling for air time and media attention this week. The GOP front-runner’s indictment and arraignment is dominating headlines. Still, some are trying. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson used the historic moment

By MICHAEL BLOOD, LISA MASCARO and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has welcomed Taiwan’s president in a rare high-level meeting on U.S. soil. The face-to-face session with President Tsai Ing-wen risks anger from China. More than a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers joined Republican McCarthy for the

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government says it’s ordered cuts to the bonuses of top executives of Credit Suisse worth tens of millions combined as the troubled bank heads toward a forced merger with rival UBS. The country’s executive branch announced Wednesday that it’s instructed the Finance Department to cancel altogether or reduce by either

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is expected to testify in a London courtroom in June in one of his phone hacking lawsuits against British tabloids. Lawyers for the Duke of Sussex said Wednesday in High Court that he will probably testify in early to mid-June. The trial against the publisher

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the creators of “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” initially set out to adapt the book that critiques the docility of climate activism, director Daniel Goldhaber had a very different vision than what they eventually made. They eventually decided on a kind of heist thriller

CHICAGO (AP) — Three firefighters were injured, one critically, while battling a blaze in a high-rise building on Chicago’s North Side on Wednesday, authorities said. The blaze was reported before 8 a.m. on the 27th floor of the condo and apartment building in the Gold Coast neighborhood. Fire department video showed flames and smoke pouring

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government has terminated the national state of disaster it declared two months ago to deal with an electricity crisis, although there are no signs that the power problems are ending. The government ended the state of disaster Wednesday while Africa’s most

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press Lewis Capaldi’s first album went multiplatinum and led to chart-topping hits, sold-out stadiums, and a Grammy nomination for the singer-songwriter. Besting that with his sophomore album was daunting enough, but then he agreed to allow a Netflix documentary crew to follow him. Capaldi says, with his trademark wit, he wouldn’t

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge orders that a Moroccan man held for killing a church officer in January in the southern city of Algeciras be examined at a psychiatric center. He was arrested after allegedly killing one church worker and injuring a priest in attacks at two Catholic churches on Jan. 26. The court

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Starting next year, anyone in Idaho who provides gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could end up a convicted felon, after the state’s Republican governor signed legislation banning the treatment late Tuesday. That makes Idaho one of at least 13 states to enact a law restricting

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has emerged as one Ukraine’s most ardent supporters during Russia’s invasion despite historical grievances between the neighboring nations that stir up bad feelings to this day.The tensions between the country at war and its staunch ally were acknowledged Wednesday when Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

By LIZZIE KNIGHT Associated Press Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven years, “Being.” The genre-crossing album, released by Marathon Artists last Friday, is explores those themes and showcases traditional African instruments along with futuristic electronic sounds. The

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department says it has tentatively settled a lawsuit over the 2017 mass shooting at a Texas church that will pay victims and their families more than $144 million. More than two dozen people were killed when Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire during a

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday he has “no doubt” that Russia has wrongfully detained an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was arrested last week on spying allegations. However, Blinken said a formal determination of Evan Gershkovich’s wrongful detention has not

DETROIT (AP) — An electric Ram pickup truck with up to 500 miles of range per charge is among the new vehicles being introduced Wednesday at the New York International Auto Show. The pickup looks more like the gas-powered model than a more futuristic concept vehicle the company showed off in January. But it’s full

By DAVID BILLER and LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and invaded a daycare center Wednesday in Brazil, killing four children and wounding at least five others, authorities said. The assailant turned himself in at a police station and did not appear to

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesman has defended Berlin’s record on delivering arms to Ukraine after the vice chancellor said he was “deeply ashamed” that it took Germany so long to shift its position. Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck was a rare prewar advocate of providing Kyiv with weapons. He took a business delegation

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker in North Carolina announced Wednesday that she is jumping to the Republican Party, giving the GOP veto-proof majorities in both the state’s legislative chambers that should make it easier to enact conservative policies over the opposition of Gov.