Month: April 2023

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Finding a franchise quarterback is the quickest path to success so it’s no surprise teams made them a priority in the NFL draft. Bryce Young, C.J. Stroud and Anthony Richardson were among the top four picks Thursday night, an expected result in a

PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AP) — A speedboat carrying 74 people capsized in rough seas in western Indonesia, killing at least 11 and leaving one person missing. Many of the dead were women and children. Officials say 62 people were rescued, including some who were unconscious after drifting in the choppy waters for hours. They were hospitalized

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Cracked windows, a bat colony in the ceiling, spotty heating and close proximity to hazardous contaminants in a long-dilapidated school brought over 100 tribal members to the Nevada Legislature on Thursday, where they said longstanding funding pleas for a new school have been

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy surprised Washington when he united the raucous House Republican majority to pass a sweeping debt ceiling package. Next moves are more difficult, and uncertain. McCarthy’s opening bid is awaiting President Joe Biden’s response. So far, the White House is rejecting the

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a Florida election law that a lower court had ruled was aimed at suppressing Black voters. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that U.S. District Judge Mark Walker’s March 2022 ruling was flawed. The three-judge panel said in a 2-1 split decision that

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawsuit filed in state court alleges California’s corrections agency routinely refers inmates who appear to be “foreign-born” to federal immigration authorities even if they are U.S. citizens. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Alameda County also says that inmates reported to U.S. immigration are denied access to rehabilitative programs. A spokesperson

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer sought Thursday to pick apart a decades-old rape claim against the former president, questioning why accuser E. Jean Carroll did not scream or seek help when Trump allegedly attacked her in a department store. But Carroll, a writer and

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A judge has ordered a former student who shot and wounded a student and a teacher at an Indiana middle school in 2018 to remain in custody after a corrections employee said he “fist-bumped” her breast. The former student was 13 at the time of the shooting and has been detained

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s student loan agenda would be all but obliterated by the U.S. debt legislation passed by House Republicans, dooming his mass cancellation s, scrapping a more generous loan repayment option and permanently barring future regulation around student debt. Republicans see it as a victory

SAO PAULO (AP) — Telegram’s CEO says the company will appeal a Brazilian judge’s decision to block access to the social media platform in Brazil for failing to hand over data on neo-Nazi activity. He claims compliance is “technologically impossible.” In a statement posted Thursday to his Telegram account, Pavel Durov says that Telegram sometimes

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — He is a senior at 16. His grade point average is 4.98. Even before graduating from high school, he has earned 27 college credits and, perhaps the most impressive numbers of all, he has scholarship offers from around 130 colleges and universities that, as of Thursday,

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press The Vermont Legislature passed reproductive and gender-affirming health care bills on Thursday with a late addition aimed at protecting access to a medication widely used in abortions even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration withdraws its approval of the pill, mifepristone. The bills protect providers from discipline for providing

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The nonprofit Global Citizen announced Thursday a new campaign to support the reform of global banks and climate financing. The Global Citizen NOW summit in New York brings together politicians, business and philanthropic leaders and celebrities to try to channel the support of individuals from around

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An effort to advance a bill that would ban abortion once cardiac activity can be detected, generally around the sixth week of pregnancy, fell one vote short Thursday of breaking a filibuster in the Nebraska Legislature. That means the bill is unlikely to move forward

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bebe Rexha has channeled the freedom, musicality and glam of the ’70s with her new album, “Bebe.” The 12-track self-titled project boasts mostly dance music, as Rexha says she “wanted to do something a little different” and make feel-good dance music. She got ready by

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press Florida officials are threatening to revoke the teaching license of a school superintendent who criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis, accusing the educator of violating several statutes and DeSantis directives and allowing his “personal political views” to guide his leadership. Such a revocation by the state Department of Education could allow DeSantis

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Paramount Pictures, still riding high on the success of “Top Gun: Maverick’s” nearly $1.5 billion in worldwide ticket sales, brought a slew of stars from Rihanna to Martin Scorsese to CinemaCon for its presentation to theater owners Thursday. The studio announced, for 2025, “The Spongebob

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to swiftly reverse their increasingly harsh restrictions on women and girls. Those include severely restricting education to banning women from most jobs, public spaces and gyms. The resolution urges all other

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A man accused of firing into a large crowd at a Hawaii cockfight during a shooting that killed two people has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges. Jacob Borge’s attorney entered the pleas on his behalf during a brief arraignment Thursday. Borge appeared in

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities in Mississippi say a man who escaped from jail last weekend and fled to Texas after allegedly stealing a public works vehicle has been arrested in Houston. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones says Jerry Raynes was apprehended days after he and three other

By PAUL J. WEBER and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The swift punishment brought down on Zooey Zephyr, a transgender lawmaker in Montana, began over words that others in American politics have used without hesitation or consequence: saying opponents have “blood” on their hands. The governor of Texas. A GOP congressman

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Democrat who’s the heir apparent to the late Sen. Harry Reid’s role as chief defender of the mining industry across the West is for the first time feeling the wrath of environmentalists, who otherwise consider her an ally. National environmental groups, Native American tribes

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A freight train has derailed in southwestern Wisconsin, possibly injuring one crew member. Officials say that the train derailed in Crawford County along the Mississippi River at about 12:15 p.m. Thursday. BNSF Railway spokesperson Lena Kent says two of the train’s three locomotives and an unknown number of cars carrying “freight

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Thursday reported stronger-than-expected revenue and profits for the first quarter, sending its stocks higher in after-hours trading. But its prices took a dip in the evening amid concerns about a continued slowdown in the company’s profitable cloud computing unit AWS. The Seattle-based company

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft’s charm offensive with the world’s governments is starting to lose some of its luster as the software giant is confronting its toughest antitrust scrutiny since co-founder Bill Gates was in charge. A blow came this week when British regulators said they would block Microsoft’s planned $69-billlion takeover of