Month: September 2023

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Police in Rwanda say a suspected serial killer has been arrested after the discovery of the bodies of more than 10 people in a pit dug in his compound. Neighbors told The Associated Press on Thursday that the suspect spoke very little. The spokesperson for the

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man who was attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a man-made hamster wheel is facing federal charges after it took the U.S. Coast Guard five days to bring him ashore. According to a criminal complaint filed in Miami the Coast Guard spotted 51-year-old Reza Baluchi Aug. 26 off the

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury has begun weighing contempt of Congress charges against Trump White House official Peter Navarro over his failure to cooperate with a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Prosecutors argue Navarro chose allegiance to former President Donald Trump over obeying a subpoena

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The MacArthur Foundation is leading a group of donors who have pledge $500 million to help the struggling local news industry. They hope to provide seed money for news outlets that can make up for those that have closed or been hollowed out over the

BALTIMORE (AP) — Former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon is again running for office after her previous mayoral tenure ended in a criminal conviction. She announced her candidacy Thursday in an op-ed published in The Baltimore Sun. Dixon resigned from office in 2010 after a jury convicted her of embezzling donated gift cards that were intended

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is attending a charity event Thursday night in London, though he isn’t expected to meet with King Charles III or Prince William as Britain prepares to mark the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death. Harry’s relationship with his family has been strained since he

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, ROBERT BUMSTED and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first day of school is providing challenges for major U.S. cities that are struggling with the influx of tens of thousands of migrants. In New York City alone, public schools have opened classrooms to nearly 20,000 children arriving with

By EDNA TARIGAN and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s president has issued a stark warning after wrapping up a summit of Southeast Asian countries that was joined by China, the United States and Russia. President Joko Widodo said on Thursday that our world “we will be destroyed” unless conflicts are resolved.

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor who has brought charges accusing former President Donald Trump and others of illegally trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state is asking the judge in the case to take steps to protect jurors. The preemptory step by Fulton County

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Railroad shippers with plants that are only served by one railroad may soon be able to get a bid from another railroad if their current service is bad enough under a new rule that was proposed Thursday to help boost competition. The U.S. Surface Transportation

LONDON (AP) — Five retired British police officers have admitted sending offensive and racist social media messages about the Duchess of Sussex and others. The men were arrested after a BBC investigation last year sparked an internal police inquiry. The charges say the messages posted in a closed WhatsApp group referred to Meghan and husband

Associated Press President Joe Biden will nominate a former Obama administration official to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, which has been without a permanent leader for a year and a half. The White House said Thursday that Biden will nominate Michael Whitaker, who is currently the chief operating officer of a Hyundai affiliate that is

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston has sentenced a wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100 million insider trading scheme that relied on stolen company earnings information hacked through U.S. computer networks. U.S. District

By ED DAVEY Associated Press The head of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has asked the country’s top three oilfield services companies to explain why they continued doing business in Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, and demanded that they commit to “cease all investments” in Russia’s fossil fuel infrastructure. Sen. Bob Menendez, a

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The governor of Poland’s central bank says its large interest rate cut is justified despite high inflation because prices are stabilizing and the era of high inflation is ending. Adam Glapinski spoke a day after the bank announced that it was cutting interest rates by 75 basis points, a much larger

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin, who was one of Europe’s youngest leaders and a strong voice in supporting Ukraine, says she’s quitting Finnish politics and will join a London-based non-profit organization. Marin, who was 37 years old when she took office in 2019, led a five-party center-left governing coalition until

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A murderer who made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard last week remains on the lam. But some schools closed due to the extensive manhunt planned to reopen Thursday, along with a popular tourist attraction that was shuttered when the escapee was spotted on its property. Danelo

NEW YORK (AP) — Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among this year’s winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of poetry’s most lucrative prizes. Hahn, a faculty member of Queens College in New York City whose books include “The Unbearable Heart” and “Earshot,” won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister says China’s blanket ban on Japanese seafood in reaction to the release of treated radioactive water from a tsunami-ravaged nuclear power plant contrasts starkly with broad understanding shown by many other members of the international community. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan’s

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Ta’Kiya Young planned to move her growing family into a place of her own, and was just steps away from achieving that goal. She will now never have that chance. The 21-year-old pregnant Black woman was fatally shot by police in a supermarket parking lot near Columbus, Ohio, on Aug.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s main opposition leader has accused the conservative government of hypocrisy for allegedly admitting large numbers of foreign workers despite its anti-migrant rhetoric and a new border wall. Donald Tusk, a former prime minister, says the government’s actions were in stark contrast with its official policy declarations. Tusk, leader of the

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A police officer has died and another has been injured in a car crash in Connecticut’s capital city. Police said one person was in custody after the accident involving a police cruiser and another car just west of downtown Hartford. Officials have not said why the person was detained, what caused

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Norwegian man using a metal detector has found nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls on a southern island in what was described as the gold find of the century in Norway. The gold pendants date to around A.D. 500. The pendants and gold pearls were part of a

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium midfielder Yannick Carrasco says he does not share the criticism of Saudi Arabia’s poor human rights record. Carrasco has followed many stars from Europe’s top leagues who have headed to the lucrative Saudi league in recent months by joining Al Shabab from Atletico Madrid. Others

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A top government official says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan supports his new economic team’s plan to increase interest rates to lower the country’s soaring inflation. Erdogan has long opposed raising interest rates, but appointed a new economic team after winning reelection in May. That signaled more traditional policies, including rate

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she will return to the island nation to press for his release. The planned trip comes while he and hundreds of other inmates in the country are on a major hunger strike. Maryam

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A World Bank eport says online gig work is growing globally and is creating an important source of employment for women and young people in poorer countries where jobs are scarce. The report estimates there are as many as 435 million online gig workers globally. It says

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week fell to the lowest level in seven months, another sign that the labor market remains largely unaffected by higher interest rates. U.S. applications for jobless claims fell by 13,000 to 216,000 for the week ending Sept. 2, the Labor

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has denied allegations in a British television program that Islamic State-inspired extremists were used to carry out suicide bomb attacks in 2019 to create insecurity in the country and help him win election later that year. He says the

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say two Syrian men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of membership in extremist groups, and one of them is suspected of involvement in a 2013 attack in eastern Syria in which more than 60 Shiite fighters and civilians were killed. The suspects were arrested on Wednesday. One of them

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lainey Wilson leads the 2023 Country Music Association Awards nominations for a second year in a row. Louisiana native Lainey Wilson broke out in 2022, earning nods in six categories. Once the nominations for this year’s show were announced Thursday, she emerged with nine nominations,

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Google will soon require that political ads using artificial intelligence be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered. Starting in November, just under a year before Election Day, Google said in an update to its political content policy that disclosure of AI to

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Grammy Museum says it is launching the “Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit”, celebrating 50 years of the music and culture’s global impact. The museum announced Thursday the exhibit will open on Oct. 7. The 5,000 square foot exhibition will include artifacts such as Tupac

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister is warning that Syrian refugees could become a threat to the small Mediterranean nation’s delicate demographic and sectarian balance. Over a thousand Syrian refugees each week are fleeing to Lebanon from their country’s worsening economic and financial conditions. A conflict that broke out

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Film director Agnieszka Holland is demanding an apology from Poland’s justice minister after he compared her latest film to Nazi propaganda. Holland’s feature film, “Green Border,” explores the migration crisis at the Poland-Belarus border through the intertwining lives of a Polish humanitarian activist, a young Polish

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pets provide joy and companionship, but costs can add up quickly, especially if you’re a first-time owner and don’t know what to expect. Many prospective dog or cat owners only focus on the positive aspects of bringing a furry friend into their lives. And there are