Month: May 2023

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A working photojournalist was among about a dozen people arrested at a protest over last week’s chokehold death of New York City subway rider Jordan Neely. Stephanie Keith said Tuesday she was charged with disorderly conduct after her arrest at Monday’s protest outside a Manhattan subway

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has sanctioned a son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, three members of the Sinaloa cartel and two Mexican-based firms, alleging they trafficked fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. Tuesday’s sanctions came the day Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former BNSF worker who was named one of the railroad’s employees of the year in 2021 for her work in supporting LGBTQ+ workers is now suing the railroad where she worked for 30 years. She argues that after being promoted regularly earlier in her

By JAKE BLEIBERG, GENE JOHNSON and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press ALLEN, Texas (AP) — The shooter with neo-Nazi leanings who killed eight people at a suburban Dallas shopping mall brought eight legally purchased guns to the scene, apparently chose his victims randomly and was shot dead by police within four minutes, authorities said Tuesday.

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A children’s book author who prosecutors say killed her husband has been battling with his relatives over the family estate since his death last year, court documents show. Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors was confronted Tuesday with a revised domestic violence charge stemming from a woman’s allegations that the Marvel star twisted her arm, struck her head and shoved her into a vehicle in New York City in March. Majors, appearing by video, did not

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has awarded $1.15 million to a medic who worked on the “Rust” film set. Cherlyn Schaefer accused prop master Sarah Zachry and others of negligence. Schaefer said she was traumatized by her desperate attempt to save the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was fatally shot

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency is defending its use of a surveillance tool that was used to send threatening text messages to Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site two years ago. A leading civil rights group has asked Israel’s Supreme Court to halt the

By OMAR ALBAM and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press QORQANYA, Syria (AP) — The U.S. military says it is investigating reports that it killed a civilian in a recent strike in northwest Syria that meant to target a senior al-Qaida leader. Relatives and neighbors of a 60-year-old man killed in the May 3 strike in the

By The Associated Press Robert De Niro has welcomed another child. The 79-year-old is now the father of seven. A representative for De Niro confirmed the birth to The Associated Press on Tuesday but said no other details were expected. At a film premiere Tuesday night, De Niro told The Associated Press about becoming a

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it has disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage campaign that stole sensitive information from computer networks in dozens of countries, including the U.S. and other NATO members. Prosecutors linked the spying operation to a unit of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, and accused

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Matthias Pintscher will become music director of the Kansas City Symphony for the 2024-25 season. He was  offered the job just five days after conducting the orchestra for the first time. The symphony announced his five-year contract on Tuesday. The 52-year-old had not led the orchestra until arriving for rehearsals

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Civil Guard says it has arrested 26 people in raids on illegal wells in the Andalusia region, as part of a widening crackdown on unauthorized water use amid a prolonged drought. The Civil Guard’s environmental crimes division identified 250 infractions by fruit farmers in the Axarquia

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers investigating the use of Pegasus spyware say they are deeply concerned about abuses in Hungary and Poland. They’re also lamenting the lack of government cooperation with their inquiry. The spyware developed by Israeli company NSO has been used around the world to break into

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Rita Lee Jones, Brazil’s million-selling “Queen of Rock” who gained an international following through her colorful and candid style and such hits as “Ovelha Negra,” “Mania de Você” and “Now Only Missing You,” has died at 75. Otherwise known as Rita Lee, she died at her

The Associated Press About 8.3 million Hyundais and Kias dating to the 2011 model year can be stolen easily by using just a screwdriver and a USB cord, creating an auto-theft outbreak across the U.S. The cars lack theft immobilizers, whereby computer chips in car keys and steering columns must recognize each other before the

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their vehicles, caused by a security flaw that was exposed on TikTok and other social media sites. So far, it hasn’t solved the problem. Across the country, thieves are still

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Automatic balls and strikes could soon be coming to the major leagues. Much like the players themselves, the robo-umps are working their way up through the minors with the goal being promoted to the show. The goal is to eliminate the individual and sometimes inconsistent

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats are clinging to a one-seat Pennsylvania House majority but that could change when voters fill a suburban Philadelphia vacancy next week. At stake in the Delaware County special election is whether freshman Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro will have at least one chamber to aid his

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Christie’s is auctioning a staggering 700 pieces of jewelry from the collection of the late Heidi Horten, an Austrian heiress whose German husband built a retail empire starting in the 1930s — in part from department stores and other assets sold by desperate Jews as they fled

MT. VERNON, Ill. (AP) — Police say a state trooper was wounded in southern Illinois during an exchange of gunfire that left a New Mexico motorist dead. Illinois State Police say a trooper stopped about 3 a.m. on Interstate 64  to assist a stranded motorist. That officer encountered 23-year-old motorist Brandon L. Griffin of Albuquerque,

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs will pay $215 million to settle a years-long class action lawsuit that claimed the bank discriminated against women when it came to pay, performance evaluations and promotions. The lawsuit, initially filed in September 2010, was set to go to trial next month. The