Month: May 2023

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. highway safety regulators have closed an investigation into Tesla allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while vehicles are moving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted Tuesday that Tesla disabled the feature called “passenger play” with an online software update in December of 2021,

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister has met Tesla CEO Elon Musk and said U.S.-Chinese relations require “mutual respect” while touting the promise of the country’s electric vehicle industry. U.S.-Chinese relations are especially tense after Washington shot down a Chinese balloon that was believed to be gathering intelligence and

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A humanitarian charity says that hundreds of refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab camps have been affected by a cholera outbreak as the population in the facilities grows rapidly. Doctors Without Borders or MSF said Tuesday that 2,786 refugees have been affected so far “and there is an imminent risk of outbreaks of

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Boris Johnson established an independent inquiry while he was U.K. prime minister into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the inquiry wants to see what Johnson wrote to other U.K. officials as the outbreak raged. But the government is fighting a demand to hand over

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian authorities said Tuesday that a beluga whale, which was first spotted in Arctic Norway four years ago with an apparent Russian-made harness and alleged to have come from a Russian military facility, has been seen off Sweden’s coast nearly 2,000 kilometers (around 1,250 miles)

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say three patients have died in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in a town just outside Vienna. The blaze started in a fourth-floor room at the hospital in Moedling, and rescuers were unable to save three men who were in that room. It wasn’t immediately clear

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local authorities say at least 17 people have been killed by extremist rebels in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province. The civilians were killed by fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces — believed to be linked to the Islamic State group — in the Bambuba-kisiki area in

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States and the European Union’s top justice official are criticizing Polish plans for a law that could keep political opponents from holding public office without full legal recourse. The  EU also threatened to take measures if it became fully clear such a law would undermine

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet If you’re struggling to keep up with payments or save toward a goal, continuing to use a credit card for all purchases can hinder financial progress. Credit card rewards or other incentives don’t hold as much value when you’re carrying a hefty balance and paying steep interest charges. By taking

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state-run news agency says international inspectors have closed off two lines of inquiry into Tehran’s nuclear program ahead of a scheduled quarterly report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog. The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, however, did not immediately respond to questions

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has ruled that the government’s policy against same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, in a closely watched decision that supporters say is a step toward marriage equality. The ruling is the second that found that the government’s denial of same-sex marriage violates the constitution, while two

BEIJING (AP) — China has expressed its support for Serbia following renewed violence between ethnic Serbs and NATO troops in Kosovo. China’s ruling Communist Party has long been a critic of the NATO alliance, stemming partly from the bombing of Beijing’s embassy in Belgrade during the 1999 air campaign to end Serbia’s brutal assault on

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A 15-year-old soccer player has been hospitalized with life-threatening brain injuries after being struck by an opposing player in a post-match fight during an international youth tournament in Germany. A 16-year-old from a French team was jailed pending further investigation by a judge in Frankfurt, where the match with a team

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — German truck maker Daimler, Toyota and two other automakers plan to work together on new technologies, including the use of hydrogen fuel, to help fight climate change. The automakers said Tuesday that Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., whose top stakeholder is Daimler Truck, and Hino

By KARIN LAUB Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A free concert, a henna party and other celebrations have taken place ahead of Jordan’s first major royal wedding in years. On Thursday, 28-year-old Crown Prince Hussein is to marry 29-year-old Saudi architect Rajwa Alseif at a palace in the capital of Amman. It’s the same

LONDON (AP) — The big cheese of extreme U.K. sports events is back. Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper’s Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England. The first racer to finish behind the fast-rolling cheese gets to

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — NATO will send 700 more troops to northern Kosovo to help quell violent protests after clashes with ethnic Serbs there left 30 international soldiers wounded, the alliance announced Tuesday. The latest violence in the region has stirred fear of a renewal of the

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army says troops have rescued a Saudi citizen kidnapped over the weekend in Beirut and held for ransom. The Lebanese military said in a short statement on Tuesday that Mushari al-Mutairi was released in a “special operation” along the Lebanon-Syria border where the kidnappers held him hostage. It gave no

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting in mixed trading Tuesday after Washington reached a tentative deal to avoid a potentially disastrous default on its debt. The S&P 500 was up 0.1% in midday trading, remaining near its highest level in nine months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press SAINT-LAURENT-DE-LA-PLAINE, France (AP) — If time travel was possible, medieval carpenters would surely be amazed to see how woodworking techniques they pioneered in building Notre Dame Cathedral more than 800 years ago are being used again today to rebuild the world-famous monument’s fire-ravaged roof. Certainly the reverse is true for

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — At least 10 people died and 55 were injured when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims skidded into a mountain gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Police said the overloaded bus was on the way to Katra from Punjab state when it fell off the highway bridge and into the gorge near Jammu city.

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY and RENATA BRITO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s snap general election breaks the coalition he built with the far-left United We Can party, with the aim of bringing to heel the unruly faction whose internecine conflicts damaged the coalition’s results in local elections. On Monday, Sánchez brought

By KANIS LEUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Amnesty International says a Uyghur student who it had said was missing in Hong Kong after being interrogated did not travel to the city, easing concerns over his safety but raising questions over how the allegations first emerged. The human rights group

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing last week has returned home after being released by his captors. Sami Abrahim’s colleagues and brother confirmed his release. Abrahim publicly supported former Prime Minister Imran Khan. According to his family and emplyer, BOL TV, Abrahim went missing Thursday when eight people in four

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors say Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers made meritless arguments in a bid to convince a judge to toss out criminal charges alleging that the FTX founder stole from investors in his multibillion dollar cryptocurrency fund. Prosecutors filed papers late Monday in Manhattan federal court. Their

By STEVE PEOPLES, HANNAH FINGERHUT and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stepped up to Donald Trump at his campaign kickoff event in Iowa, vowing to “fight back” against the former president as the GOP’s 2024 campaign enters a new phase. Until now, the 44-year-old Republican governor whose slogan

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire from conservatives, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked strenuously Tuesday to sell fellow Republicans on the debt ceiling and budget deal he negotiated with President Joe Biden and win approval in time to avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default. Leaders of

By COLLIN BINKLEY and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Supreme Court decides the fate of affirmative action, most U.S. adults say the court should allow colleges to consider race as part of the admissions process, yet few believe students’ race should ultimately play a major role in decisions, according to a

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and LEKAN OYEKANMI AP Technology Writer BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is in custody at the Texas prison where she will spend the next 11 years serving her sentence for overseeing an infamous blood-testing hoax, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Holmes entered the minimum-security, federal women’s

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robert Bowers carried out the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history when he killed 11 people and injured seven others by storming a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find. On that, everyone agrees. Even though Bowers’ defense acknowledged at the outset of his federal trial

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire stadium is being recognized for playing a largely unheralded role in helping racially integrate baseball. Much of the attention has been on Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But a year earlier, Hall of

By SUSIE BLANN and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A rare drone attack jolted Moscow before dawn, causing only light damage but forcing evacuations as residential buildings were struck in the Russian capital for the first time in the war against Ukraine. The Kremlin, meanwhile, pursued its relentless bombardment of Kyiv with

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Wildfires in Canada’s Atlantic coast province of Nova Scotia have caused thousands to evacuate. The Halifax Regional Municipality says preliminary estimates indicate approximately 200 homes or structures have been damaged, based on initial visual inspections by first responders. Halifax deputy fire Chief David Meldrum says an estimated 14,000 people were

BEIJING (AP) — China has launched a spacecraft carrying a new three-person crew for its orbiting space station. This comes as it plans to put astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade. The Shenzhou 16 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan launch center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Police launched a search Tuesday for three suspects they believe to be the gunmen who opened fire along a crowded Florida beachside promenade on Memorial Day, wounding a 1-year-old and eight others while sending people frantically running for cover. Hollywood police sought the public’s help in