Month: June 2023

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German officials say that an array of climate measures being introduced by the government will bring the country closer but not all the way toward meeting its national goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Germany’s Climate Ministry said Wednesday that measures already in place or

JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States says it’s seeking more information about the closure of an Israeli military investigation into the death of a 78-year-old Palestinian-American, who was detained, gagged and left unconscious shortly before being pronounced dead. Israel had announced that it would not bring criminal charges against the soldiers involved in the detention

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News appeared to express regret Wednesday for showing an onscreen message that called President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” who had his political rival arrested. On the day he was arraigned on federal charges for hoarding classified documents, former President Donald Trump illustrated his

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — Organizers estimate 4,000 people turned out for the first-ever Pride festival in a small Michigan city to enjoy the celebration’s drag show, dance party and vendor-filled streets. The massive turnout over the weekend in Grand Haven, with a population of 11,000 people, was a shock

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, would be placed in nearly every school or sports and recreation venue in Ohio under a proposal that cleared the Republican-dominated Ohio House with overwhelming bipartisan support. The legislation was sparked by the sudden cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan tribunal has convicted newspaper founder and editor José Rubén Zamora and sentenced him to six years in prison in a money laundering case, concluding a trial press freedom groups decried as a political persecution aimed at silencing a critical voice. The administration of

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — American novelist Barbara Kingsolver has won the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction for a second time with “Demon Copperhead.” Inspired by Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield,” the novel is a coming-of-age story set in an Appalachia scarred by poverty and opioid addiction. Kingsolver was awarded the $38,000 prize

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer Henri Richard’s family says the late Hockey Hall of Famer has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE is a degenerative brain disease linked to concussions. Henri’s son, Denis, says he wants people to understand that the disease doesn’t just affect football players. Richard retired in 1975 after a

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue, his wife and three other people have been indicted in the theft and sale of human body parts, federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced Wednesday. Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, stole dissected portions of cadavers that were donated to the school

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two firms have been tasked with investigating the partial collapse of a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, that left three dead, many injured and dozens displaced. Davenport officials say Wednesday they’ve hired White Birch Group, LLC, and SOCOTEC Engineering to complete a cause and

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament has appointed an opposition lawmaker to the powerful committee that appoints the country’s judges. Wednesday’s vote exposed divisions within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition and raised questions about his control over his political allies. The vote appeared to temporarily avert a crisis that had

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre says she saw her right arm “get blown open in two places” by a gunman and cried “Mommy” after her 97-year-old mother was shot and killed next to her. Andrea Wedner testified Wednesday at the federal trial of gunman Robert Bowers. Wedner was expected to

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors want Elizabeth Holmes to pay $250 each month to victims of her failed blood testing startup after she leaves prison, but her attorneys are pushing back citing “limited financial resources” available to the disgraced founder of Theranos. The U.S. filed a motion last week

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Jurors in federal court have awarded $25.6 million to a former Starbucks regional manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the high-profile arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia location in 2018. Shannon Phillips won $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles is facing another scandal as it tries to manage a homeless crisis and other urban ills. The City Council president says he will file a motion to suspend a councilman charged with embezzlement, perjury and other crimes, the latest turmoil

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A popular Hong Kong protest song was no longer available on several major music streaming sites as well as social media platforms. The development Wednesday came after the government sought an injunction to ban the tune. The song “Glory to Hong Kong” rose to popularity during

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Regulated sports betting and horse racing should begin across North Carolina in the first half of next year after Gov. Roy Cooper signed legislation that greatly expands gambling within the state’s borders into law. The Democratic governor held a bill-signing ceremony Wednesday at Spectrum Center, home to the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Lloyd Webber’s absence from New York City’s stages will be at most 14 months, with “Cats” returning in June 2024 at the World Trade Center’s new Perelman Performing Arts Center. The $500 million building, the next-to-last element of the World Trade Center redevelopment to open

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer NFL Vice President Troy Vincent and his wife Tommi are helping launch a domestic abuse study at Niagara University that will focus on male student-athletes. The year-long study is part of Vincent’s vision to uncover fresh data and find new ways to approach an issue that particularly affects college

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura is leaving after seven years as the highest profile woman working in world soccer. FIFA says Samoura will stay in the job she has held since 2016 through this year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand and leave at the end of the year. The

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says Sudan’s conflict has displaced more than 2 million people as the tally of civilians killed in the fighting climbed to at least 959 people. Sudan has plunged into chaos since mid-April when monthslong tensions between the military and its rival, the paramilitary

By MARC LEVY Associated Press Pennsylvania will truck in 2,000 tons of lightweight glass nuggets to help quickly rebuild a collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia and crews will work 24 hours a day until they can reopen the critical commercial artery, officials said Wednesday. Instead of rebuilding the overpass right away, crews will

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a murder charge in the death of a Detroit-area teenager whose remains have not been found despite an extraordinary search at a landfill. More than a dozen Detroit police officers wearing protective suits picked through tons of rotting summer trash last year. The search

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Canada’s finance minister says it is suspending activity with a Chinese-founded development bank while it investigates complaints by a Canadian who resigned from the lender, saying it is dominated by “Communist Party hacks” and his country shouldn’t be a member. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank confirmed