Month: September 2023

DETROIT (AP) — The family foundation of NBA team owner Dan Gilbert is putting nearly $375 million toward health care and research in Detroit. Gilbert is supporting a new 72-bed rehabilitation center for stroke patients and a research institute that will focus on a genetic disease that afflicted his son. Gilbert is the owner of

NEW YORK (AP) — The Boss is taking an unexpected breather and canceling his September shows, citing doctors’ orders. Bruce Springsteen announced on his website Wednesday that he was postponing shows for the remainder of the month while he is treated for symptoms of “peptic ulcer disease.” The disease causes ulcers to form in the

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty to vandalizing power substations in Washington state in attacks that left thousands without power on Christmas Day. Jeremy Crahan, of Puyallup, admitted Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma that he and Matthew Greenwood conspired to cut electrical power in order to break into ATM machines

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Greek shipper has pleaded guilty to a charge over it smuggling sanctioned Iranian crude oil and agreed to pay a $2.4 million fine, U.S. federal court papers seen Thursday by The Associated Press show. Empire Navigation agreed to be put on corporate probation

By AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has refused to approve conditions that lawyers for the defendants in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had sought in a possible plea bargain in the case. That’s according to a White House National Security Council official. The official was not authorized

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has launched a rocket with an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe. The HII-A rocket’s liftoff from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan was shown on live video by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The rocket is also carrying a small lunar

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man sentenced to death for a 1998 murder is now free, two years after the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the conviction. The Oregon Innocence Project on Wednesday accused the state of committing a “heinous injustice” in its handling of the case. The Marion County

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have passed legislation requiring judges to consider whether a parent affirms their child’s gender identity in custody and visitation proceedings. The legislation is one of several bills lawmakers want to see signed into law offering more protections for LGBTQ+ children. The state

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The great films of the 1970s have long loomed in the imagination of filmmakers raised during one of the most fertile periods of American movies. But Alexander Payne wanted to take it a step further. Payne’s latest film, “The Holdovers,” isn’t just set in 1970,

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — A grizzly bear that fatally mauled a woman on a forest trail west of Yellowstone National Park in July and also attacked a person in Idaho three years ago was killed after it broke into a house near West Yellowstone over the weekend, Montana wildlife officials said Wednesday. Early Saturday,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to make a rare public appearance at the White House since losing her 2016 bid for the presidency, attending an arts event next week with first lady Jill Biden. The White House announced that Clinton is scheduled to appear Tuesday to help honor the

DEWITT, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say an upstate New York sheriff’s deputy shot to death two teenagers who were in a vehicle that he thought was about to run him over. An Onondaga County sheriff’s deputy responding to a report of suspicious activity in the Syracuse suburb of Dewitt fired three shots into one of

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas attorney and blogger is suing to get State Police to release records regarding Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ travel and security. Matthew Campbell filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the State Police of illegally withholding the public records he’s requested. Campbell runs the Blue

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Nick Bosa’s lengthy contract holdout ended four days before the start of the season for the San Francisco 49ers when he agreed to a contract extension that will make him the NFL’s richest defensive player ever. Coach Kyle Shanahan said the two sides

SEATTLE (AP) — The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the name of a 48-year-old man who was found dead after a house fire in Seattle over the weekend in which the bodies of a woman and two children were also found. Salvatore Ragusa died from smoke inhalation, and his death was ruled a

By JACK DURA and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press South Dakota regulators have denied a construction permit to a carbon dioxide pipeline project. Navigator CO2 Ventures wants to build a 1,300-mile pipeline network. It would carry planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from more than 20 industrial plants to be buried over a mile underground in Illinois. The

By PAOLA FLORES and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The governor of Bolivia’s most populous and richest region has been allowed to briefly leave his high-security prison cell for medical tests, highlighting how the politician widely considered the country’s opposition leader has been governing from behind bars for more than eight

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Investigators say police officers in South Carolina fatally shot a man after he broke into his ex-wife’s home, killed her, drove her car through her garage door and fired at police during a chase. Authorities say one deputy was wounded in the shootings in Lexington, but is expected to survive. Deputies

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix is already the hottest large city in America and is now poised to set yet another heat record. Confirmed heat-associated deaths in the metro area are also on track for their own record. The National Weather Service says that this weekend Phoenix is expected to break

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has announced it is sending depleted uranium anti-tank rounds to Ukraine, following Britain’s lead in sending the controversial munitions to help Kyiv push through Russian lines in its grueling counteroffensive. The 120 mm rounds will be used to arm the Abrams tanks the U.S. plans

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julio Urías was placed on administrative leave indefinitely by Major League Baseball on Wednesday, three days after the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher was arrested on suspicion of corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant. The leave was imposed under baseball’s joint domestic violence, sexual assault

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell declared again that he plans to finish his term as leader despite freezing up twice at news conferences over the summer, brushing off questions about his health as he sought to reassure colleagues he’s still up to the job. At a

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Felony convictions have been vacated for four Navy officers in sprawling scandal due to prosecutorial misconduct. U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino on Wednesday called the misconduct “outrageous” and agreed to allow the four men to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $100 fine each. The four officers were convicted

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The George Washington University community in the nation’s capital has been told to shelter in place after a homicide suspect escaped custody at the university’s hospital. Police announced on the X social platform that 31-year-old Christopher Haynes had “escaped custody” at the hospital just after 3:30 p.m.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal authorities say a man wanted in connection with an ambush that killed nine American citizens in northern Mexico nearly four years ago has been arrested in New Mexico. The U.S. Marshals Service says 24-year-old Ivan Gustavo Hernandez-Cabral was taken into custody Monday in Albuquerque. They say Hernandez-Cabral is being held

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An information technology director at Mar-a-Lago struck a cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors last summer in their investigation of Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at the former president’s Florida property, according to the worker’s ex-lawyer. Stanley Woodward, a former attorney for the IT manager, made the

By The Associated Press Families perched atop houses pleading for help to escape the deadly flooding after a cyclone hammered southern Brazil in the world’s latest extreme weather disaster. Authorities said Wednesday at least 31 people died and at least 1,600 were left homeless. Flooding also battered Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, fed by fierce rainstorms

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer Thirty-six states and the District of Colombia have reached an agreement in principle with Google to settle a lawsuit filed in 2021 over the tech giant’s alleged monopolistic control of app distribution for the software that runs most of the world’s cellphones. The agreement, cited in a court filing

By JILL COLVIN and ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is casting the 2024 election as a fight for the future of conservatism and the GOP. In a speech Wednesday, he called on Republicans to reject the “siren song of populism” he said is championed by former