Month: June 2023

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she wants the state to have regulatory authority over boats that operate in caves and similar waterways following a fatal tour boat accident this week. The governor’s office said Friday that the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation regulates commercial boats, but currently lacks

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The weary Indigenous men gathered at their base camp, nestled among towering trees and dense vegetation that form a disorienting sea of green. They sensed that their ancestral land — Selva Madre, or Mother Jungle — was unwilling to let them find the four children

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gun battles between drug cartels forced about 700 people to flee their rural villages in the western Mexico state of Michoacan, activists and a local priest said Friday. Rev. Jorge Armando Vázquez said dozens of people are sleeping in the nave of a parish church in

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An NCAA panel is calling for the removal of marijuana from the organization’s list of banned drugs, suggesting that testing should be limited to performance-enhancing substances. The proposal released Friday from the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports would mark a big change

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and LISET CRUZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Balloons with rainbows and Minnie Mouse surrounded the casket of an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody as dozens of people gathered Friday to remember Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez in New York City. Her family had been heading to the city

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Brittney Griner did not play for the Phoenix Mercury in their first game in Washington since returning from her imprisonment in Russia. But the WNBA star was embraced by opponents and fans in the nation’s capital down the road from many of the folks in the

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and the Democrat who is trying to unseat him this year, Brandon Presley, are trading barbs about crime, courts and transgender health care. They made separate appearances Friday at the Mississippi Press Association convention. Reeves defended his own signing of

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors charged former “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson with reckless driving Friday, three months after authorities said he crashed into a Beverly Hills home. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed one misdemeanor count of reckless driving against the actor and writer

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The Justice Department on Friday issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd’s killing because of inadequate oversight and an unwieldy process for investigating complaints. The probe began in April 2021, a day after former officer Derek Chauvin, who

BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility. “Reddit is killing third-party applications (and itself),” multiple subreddits wrote in

BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — If you hopped on Reddit to scroll through your favorite forums this week, you may have encountered “private” or “restricted” messages. That’s because thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company’s plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access

SAO PAULO (AP) — Authorities in the southern Brazil state of Rio Grande do Sul say eight people are dead and 19 are missing after a severe winter storm swept through the region. Gov. Eduardo Leite said Saturday that among the dead was a 4-month-old baby. Several roads are still blocked, flights to the state’s

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer and the key witness against him in his New York state criminal prosecution lost his bid Friday for early release from probation following a three-year prison sentence after federal prosecutors said he’s lying again. U.S. District Judge Jesse M.

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in central Arizona say a bear attack has left one person dead. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said the attack happened Friday morning in the area of Groom Creek, roughly 100 miles north of Phoenix. The bear was also killed. Sheriff’s officials say there is no threat to the public.

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin is touting Russia’s prospects at the country’s main international economic forum despite heavy international sanctions imposed because of the war in Ukraine. Western officials and investors steered clear of this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which started Wednesday and runs through Saturday.

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Three men face federal charges alleging they vandalized multiple homes associated with New Hampshire journalists in retaliation for a report detailing sexual misconduct allegations against a prominent businessman. The men from Salem, Seabrook, and Nashua were charged Friday with conspiring to commit stalking through interstate travel.

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — The cries of adoring fans filled the air as stars like actor Jacob Elordi and Italian singer Elodie arrived for the Valentino show, which opened Milan Fashion Week menswear previews on Friday. The Milan menswear calendar was missing some mainstays, but Valentino’s menswear repatriation for this

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Martin Amis, one of the most consequential British authors of his generation and who died last month, has been posthumously knighted by King Charles III in his first birthday honors list, which were unveiled late Friday. Amis, who died of esophageal cancer at the age of 73

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge issued an order Friday stopping an Indiana ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors from taking effect as scheduled July 1. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican-backed law, which was

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died. He was 92. Ellsberg, whose actions led

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s Supreme Court upheld an immigration agreement between the United States and Canada that says asylum seekers must apply in the first country they arrive in. The 2002 agreement between the U.S. and Canada says migrants who go to an official Canadian crossing are returned to the

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee County’s first openly LGBTQ+ county supervisor says an assailant called him a gay slur, then punched him in the face at a suburban mall this week. News outlets on Friday quoted Wauwatosa police as saying that Supervisor Peter Burgelis was struck in the face while inside a store at the Mayfair

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly before setting out for Beijing, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is emphasizing the importance of the U.S. and China establishing better lines of communication. He will be the highest-ranking member of the Biden administration to visit China. Blinken says the U.S. wants to make sure “that

BOSTON (AP) — The son of a woman whose body was donated to Harvard Medical School for research purposes has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all families who believe their loved ones’ body parts were mishandled by the school’s former morgue manager. The suit was filed Friday in a Boston court. It said

WASHINGTON (AP) — Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak the Pentagon Papers made him an instant hero to opponents and a traitor in the eyes of the White House. That has been true of others who have exposed what they see as government wrongdoing. Ellsberg will be remembered in a largely positive light following his death

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Take no prisoners — peacefully,” Carlos Santana sometimes tells his bandmates before taking the stage. Santana, now 75, can still whip a crowd into a frenzy like few others. He’s been doing it since he stormed onto the San Francisco scene in the late ’60s.

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Take no prisoners — peacefully,” Carlos Santana sometimes tells his bandmates before taking the stage. Santana, now 75, can still whip a crowd into a frenzy like few others. He’s been doing it since he stormed onto the San Francisco scene in the late ’60s.

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to overhaul his party’s 2024 presidential primary schedule remains unsettled. A Democratic rules committee has given New Hampshire more time to comply with new rules that leaders there fiercely oppose, but opted not to immediately offer such an extension to another battleground state,

MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say three small-town Pennsylvania police officers collectively “kicked, punched, choked and otherwise used excessive force” in 22 arrests over a three-year period. The charges unveiled Friday accuse one current Mount Carmel officer and two former officers of violating civil rights in attacks between 2018 and 2021 that caused

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An exhibition by a provocative Chinese artist that criticizes the country’s human rights record has opened at a Polish state-run contemporary art museum despite pressure from the Chinese Embassy to cancel it. The Center for Contemporary Art in the capital, Warsaw, says it’s shocked by the

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime producer for Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after he was deemed responsible for the on-air headline that referred to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” because of the indictment of former President Donald Trump. The producer, Alex McCaskill, confirmed his

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America AKRON, Ohio (AP) — The eight police officers who shot Jayland Walker last summer used excessive force when they fired 94 bullets at him during a foot chase, a new federal lawsuit alleges, and were part of a “culture of violence and racism” within Akron, Ohio’s police department.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States Treasury has announced sanctions on a Mexico-based migrant-trafficking gang that supplied asylum seekers with false papers to game the process. Known as the Hernandez Salas organization, the gang is based in the border city of Mexicali, across the border from Calexico, California. Since at least 2018, the gang