Month: May 2023

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died. She was 86. Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna, according

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a hole taller than the Washington Monument at the bottom of one of Greenland’s major glaciers in the last couple years, accelerating the retreat of a crucial part of the glacier, a new study found. And scientists worry that the phenomenon

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a bill into law that allows public school teachers and government employees to ignore the pronouns their transgender students and colleagues use. It is effective immediately. The new law also requires teachers to tell a parent or legal guardian if

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — At a courthouse just miles away from the sight of a limousine crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York, a jury heard opening statements in the trial that’ll determine whether the limo company’s operator is guilty. Nauman Hussain, operator of Prestige Limousine,

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The search is focusing on the Atlanta area for a teenage suspect in a 2022 ambush that killed a 14-year-old and wounded several other teenagers outside a Philadelphia high school after a football scrimmage. U.S. marshals in Philadelphia said Monday that they are seeking help from the public in light of information

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press New results from a U.S. Census Bureau simulation suggests a significant number of noncitizens were missed in the 2020 census, a national head count during which the Trump administration tried but failed to prevent people in the country illegally from being tallied. A simulated head count by the statistical agency

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — An SUV driver who killed eight people when he slammed into a group waiting at a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas, was charged with manslaughter, police said Monday as investigators tried to determine if the crash was intentional. Authorities believe driver George Alvarez, 34, of Brownsville,

MOSCOW (AP) — Wildfires have raged in Russia’s Ural mountains and in Siberia this week, with authorities promising to swiftly contain them. Blazes engulfed thousands of hectares in Sverdlovsk and Kurgan, as well as Tyumen and Omsk regions. A state of emergency has been declared in the latter two, while in Sverdlovsk and Kurgan officials

By COLLEEN LONG and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden would veto a House GOP bill that aims to restrict asylum, build more border wall and cut a program that allows migrants a chance to stay in the U.S. lawfully. Republicans are looking to capitalize on the

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a teenager who became trapped in a hole that was dug in the sand on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The 17-year-old male died Saturday in the small resort town of Frisco along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The National Park

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Americans have bet over $220 billion on sports with legal gambling outlets in the five years since the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for all 50 states to offer it. The industry shows few signs of slowing despite some recent scandals that have put

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, plan to welcome the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball champions to the White House later this month. The University of Connecticut Huskies men’s team beat San Diego State 76-59 in April to secure its fifth national title. The Louisiana State University Tigers women’s

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — If one thread ran throughout the festivities marking the coronation of King Charles III, it was the idea of public service. It was there when Charles stood before a choirboy at Westminster Abbey on Saturday and promised to serve. It was there in the words of his

By JAKE BLEIBERG, GENE JOHNSON and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The man accused of killing eight people and wounding several others in a mass shooting at a suburban Dallas shopping mall researched when it was busiest and posted photos on social media in mid-April of a store near where he ultimately

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press

MADRID (AP) — The organizers of a women’s running race in Spain have apologized after the winner was offered a food processor to take home. It has sparked accusations of sexism. The 10-kilometer (more than four-mile) Carrera de la Mujer (Women’s Race in Spanish) issued a statement on Twitter on Monday saying organziers hadn’t considered

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — A union of government employees has  sued Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and President Joe Biden to try to stop them from complying with the law that limits the government’s total debt, which the lawsuit contends is unconstitutional. The lawsuit comes just weeks before

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer told a jury Monday that Donald Trump should be held accountable for sexually attacking an advice columnist in 1996 because even a former president is not above the law. Attorney Roberta Kaplan delivered the first closing argument in the federal civil trial, showing jurors

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Uzbekistan’s leader has called a presidential election for this summer. The announcement on Monday came a week after a constitutional referendum extended the term from five years to seven. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is in his second term which is the maximum allowed by the constitution. But the referendum passage allows him