Month: August 2023

By The Associated Press A Russian court has handed a writer an eight year prison sentence, finding him guilty of deliberately spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces. Dmitry Glukhovsky was found guilty of posting texts and videos on his social media channels that accused Russian servicemen of committing crimes in Ukraine and that Russian

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CBS’ latest game show, “Superfan,” premiering Wednesday, gathers one musical act and their fans each week into a studio and gradually whittles the contestants down to two, giving online voters the final say on who will be crowned the ultimate superfan.  “Superfan” has lured some

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said definitively that rival Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, an acknowledgment the Florida governor made after years of equivocating answers. “Of course he lost,” DeSantis said in an interview with NBC News posted Monday. “Joe Biden’s the president.” DeSantis

By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Business for scammers is booming. The most recent Federal Trade Commission data from 2022 shows that reported consumer losses to fraud totaled $8.8 billion. That’s a 30 percent increase from 2021. The biggest losses were to investment scams, including cryptocurrency schemes, which cost

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish officials say at least 12 people have been injured in an explosion at a port in the country’s northwest. The blast at a grain depot at the port of Derince on the northern shore of the Gulf of Izmit on Monday sent up plumes of thick smoke and dust. The governor

NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk says he may need to get surgery before a proposed “cage match” with Mark Zuckerberg. The two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to an in-person face-off in late June. It’s unclear if a physical fight will actually end up happening, but Musk and Zuckerberg have continued to fuel interest in

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE, TERESA DE MIGUEL and ANDRÉ PENNER Associated Press GUAJARA-MIRIM, Brazil (AP) — In late June, the Amazon city of Guajara-Mirim approved a law that designates the Komi Memem River “as a living entity and subject to rights.” The author of the initiative is the Indigenous leader and Councilman Francisco Oro Waram, from

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Two people have been fatally shot on a fifth day of violent protests in the South African city of Cape Town sparked by a dispute last week between minibus taxi drivers and authorities. Police say a person was killed and three others were wounded

CHICAGO (AP) — In a story published Aug. 7, 2023, and resent Aug. 8, 2023, about a Chicago girl who was shot and killed while riding a scooter, The Associated Press misspelled her first name. Her name is Serabi Medina. not Sarabi.

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A small group of asylum-seekers was moved Monday onto a barge moored in southern England as the U.K. government tries to cut the cost of sheltering people seeking protection in the country. Fifteen people were transferred to the Bibby Stockholm, a floating hostel that will ultimately house

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Stormy weather across northern Europe has killed at least one person and caused airport delays, suspended ferry services and a train’s partial derailment. Police in Sweden said no one was injured when two of the train’s passenger cars went off the tracks on Monday. They

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong government said Monday it was seeking to appeal against the court’s refusal to ban a popular protest song at its request, renewing worries over further erosion of freedom of expression in the city. The court’s decision on July 28 was a setback for Hong

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says a teenager who was shot by Israeli troops last week after throwing a firebomb in the occupied West Bank has died. The Palestinian’s death on Monday was the latest in a long string of violence incidents involving Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank in the last

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet The decision about whether to repair or replace appliances can be a lot more complicated than general rules of thumb imply. Getting more useful years out of your appliances can save money and keep your appliances out of landfills where they may harm the environment. On the other hand, repairs

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A bus carrying up to 50 people traveling from New York to Ohio crashed and hit another vehicle on a Pennsylvania interstate, killing three passengers, state police said. The wreck happened during heavy rain around 11:50 p.m. Sunday on Interstate 81 just north of Harrisburg, state police said. The bus drove

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan air force training aircraft has crashed, killing the pilot and flight engineer. An air force spokesperson says the Chinese-built PT-6 plane crashed during a training flight two minutes after taking off from the air force academy at China Bay base in the

By ASIM TANVEER Associated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say engineers have partially restored passenger rail service in southern Pakistan, a day after a passenger train derailed there, killing at least 30 people and injuring 90. Local authorities have handed over 27 bodies of the victims of Sunday’s crash to their families for burials

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Officials and activists say that rebel groups — including one with ties to the Islamic State group — killed at least 21 people in restive northeastern Congo over the weekend. The deputy delegate of the governor in the Central African nation’s Bwito township, said the victims

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toshiba has announced a 2 trillion yen, or $14 billion, tender offer in a move that would take it private, as the scandal-tarnished Japanese electronics and energy giant seeks to turn itself around. The tender offer led by a buyout fund of major Japanese banks and

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An international human rights group has denounced Tanzania’s government for detaining critics and urged it to respect freedom of expression and the right to protest. Human Rights Watch says 22 people have been detained since June for criticizing a government decision to have a foreign logistics

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s federal government says it has lost control of some districts and towns to militia fighters in the country’s Amhara region. Residents report heavy gunfire and military aircraft overhead in some areas on Monday. Ethiopia’s cabinet declared a six-month state of emergency last week. The federal

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Trucking company Yellow Corp. has declared bankruptcy after years of financial struggles and growing debt, marking a significant shift for the U.S. transportation industry and shippers nationwide. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which was filed Sunday, comes just three years after Yellow received $700 million in

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The class of 2023 has already endured COVID-19 lockdowns and university strikes. Now thousands of college students across Britain are unable to graduate or face indefinite delays in receiving their final marks because of the latest labor dispute to hit the U.K. Lecturers and academic staff at

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Officials say a multinational force is helping Cyprus fight a stubborn wildfire that has scorched miles of mountainous terrain in the summer heat. Israel, Lebanon, Greece and Jordan have sent helicopters and planes to douse the blaze about 17 km (11 miles) north of the coastal

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan say a roadside bomb has struck a vehicle carrying a local politician and his friends in the southwest of the country. The politician and six others were killed. A local police officer said Monday that the attack happened on Monday in Kech. The town is in Baluchistan province.