Month: October 2023

By RAVI NESSMAN and AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — More than two weeks after Hamas’ attack, many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, not just for failing to prevent the initial attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward. While the military is bombing Gaza and preparing a

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An acquaintance has been charged in the death of a Philadelphia journalist who went from sleeping on the street to working for the mayor to writing urgent columns on the city’s most pressing social issues. Nineteen-year-old Robert Edmond Davis faces murder, weapons counts and related charges in the death of 39-year-old Josh

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office says the state has arranged to send drones, weapons, and ammunition to Israel as it prepares for an incursion of Gaza in response to Hamas’ attack. Florida has sent cargo planes with healthcare supplies, drones, body armor, and helmets, DeSantis said

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge says he will take a fuller look at Donald Trump’s out-of-court comments and reconsider a $10,000 fine he imposed on the former president a day earlier at his civil fraud trial. The development con Thursday came after Trump’s lawyers urged Judge Arthur

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A strike has shut down all shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway, interrupting exports of grain and other goods from Canada and the United States via the Great Lakes to the rest the world. Around 360 workers with Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union, walked out early Sunday

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press UPPER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A giant smokestack that was part of the landscape for millions of tourists heading to beaches on the southern New Jersey shore came down Thursday. The 463-foot stack at the B.L. England power plant was imploded to make way for the site’s new use as

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman has been indicted on murder charges in the deaths of at least four men in the capital city of Columbus. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost says investigators believe there are more victims as of Wednesday, when the indictment was announced. Thirty-three-year-old

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has expelled a prominent Palestinian activist from his home in a West Bank city at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after he hosted a foreign journalist and a prominent Israeli activist. Critics accused the military of using the cover of war to expel a gadfly

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count for triggering a fire alarm as lawmakers scrambled to pass a funding bill before a government shutdown deadline in September. Under an agreement with prosecutors, Bowman will pay a $1,000 fine and serve three months of

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An inquiry has opened into an apartment building fire that killed at least 76 people in South Africa in August and laid bare the deep problems of poverty and neglect in parts of Africa’s richest city. The nighttime blaze swept through a five-story building

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are debating ways to best use their combined leverage to ensure that more aid reaches Palestinians in need in Gaza. At a summit Thursday, they also want to work together to help EU citizens in peril, including some held hostage by Hamas. EU nations

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago father has been convicted of attempting to kill three people to avenge the slaying of his 9-year-old son who was lured with the promise of a juice box from a playground and into an alley by rival gang members in 2015 and shot. The Chicago Tribune reports that a jury

CLINTON, N.C. (AP) — A sheriff in southeast North Carolina says five people have been found fatally shot at a home. News outlets report that Sampson County Sheriff Jimmy Thornton says deputies were called early Thursday to the home off the Garland Highway outside Clinton for a report of a homicide. Thornton says they found

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek army specialists have destroyed an unexploded World War II bomb discovered during work on a massive urban development project at a coastal area south of Athens. Authorities said the 500-pound bomb was destroyed without a detonation. Traffic in the area was halted for more than two hours and several nearby

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister says he fully supports an International Criminal Court investigation into alleged crimes in the Palestinian territories and by Palestinians who target Israelis. The court in The Hague investigates and prosecutes people for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. Palestinian

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top court has cleared a scholar of charges that she defamed Korean sexual slavery victims during the Japanese colonial rule in her contentious book published in 2013. Thursday’s ruling in the criminal case of Park Yu-ha isn’t the end of her long-running legal

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania and with two of the quartet now dead, artificial intelligence has enabled the release next week of what is promised to be the last “new” Beatles song. The track, called “Now And Then,” will be available Thursday, Nov.

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose last week but remains historically low as the labor market continues to show strength amid high interest rates and inflation. Jobless claim applications rose by 10,000 to 210,000 for the week ending Oct. 21, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The previous week’s

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A nonprofit organization in Afghanistan says the Taliban have freed an activist who campaigned for the education of girls. The group Pen Path said Matiullah Wesa was arrested seven months ago and spent 215 days in prison. The group gave no further details Thursday about Wesa’s release or his condition. The

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Officials say at least 16 people are dead after a man opened fire at a restaurant and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine. The shooting on Wednesday night sparked a massive search for a person of interest who is a trained firearms instructor. A police bulletin identified 40-year-old Robert Card as

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of women has been accepted into a diocese in his native Slovenia. The diocese for the Slovenian city of Koper confirmed the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik was accepted

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press Norwegian police have launched an investigation into allegations by the three Ingebrigtsen brothers that their father was violent and abusive when they were growing up. Gjert Ingebrigtsen had been their track coach at the Olympics and other events. The three brothers wrote in a newspaper op-ed last week that

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — As authorities around the world scramble to draw up guardrails for artificial intelligence, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warns against moving too fast on regulating the rapidly developing technology before it’s fully understood. Sunak warned about acting too quickly even as he outlined a host of

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the number of suicides among members of the military and their families dipped slightly in 2022, compared with the previous year. This decline comes as the Defense Department is trying to build prevention and treatment programs to address what’s been a steadily growing

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government has vowed to explore “all legal options” after a Qatari court handed death sentences to eight Indian employees of a Qatari company on spying charges. According to Indian media reports, the eight men are retired Indian navy officers who worked for the consulting

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has hiked interest rates again in efforts to curb inflation, pressing ahead with more conventional economic policies recently embraced by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The bank raised its policy rate by 5 percentage points to 35% on Thursday after inflation hit 61.53% last month. It was the bank’s

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s Supreme Court has refused to void the election of President Bola Tinubu and dismissed the challenges brought by two losing candidates. The petitions had argued that February vote was flawed and that Tinubu was not qualified to seek or hold the presidency. The court held

By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mike Johnson is the new speaker of the House, but the ally of Donald Trump inherits many of the same political problems that have tormented past GOP leaders, tested their grasp of the gavel and eventually chased them out

By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Roughly 1.8 million businesses in the U.S. are owned by someone with a disability, according to the American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. And while the path to entrepreneurship is rarely easy, business owners with disabilities often need to overcome additional challenges, like societal misconceptions, barriers to

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says he is calling the first session of the country’s newly elected parliament for Nov. 13. Duda’s announcement on Thursday launches a timetable that will lead to the formation of a new government. Duda says he will announce a candidate for prime minister later. He says there

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press Leaders from Brazil, Indonesia, Republic of Congo and other countries with the three largest tropical forest basins are meeting to form a coalition to protect tropical forests from deforestation and destruction. They’ll discuss how to finance the protection of their wildlife-rich regions and how best to work together. The countries

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to the United Kingdom next week for a summit on artificial intelligence. The trip will come a day after President Joe Biden is expected to unveil an executive order on the emerging AI technology. Harris will speak about the

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Russian-born Swedish businessman has been acquitted of collecting information for Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, for almost a decade. Sergey Skvortsov, 60, had been accused of “gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign power,” namely the United States. The Stockholm District Court said Thursday that Skvortsov had largely

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is ramping up political pressure on Serbia and Kosovo to normalize their relations. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Albin Kurti are set to meet on Thursday with the leaders of France, Germany and Italy, plus the two EU officials supervising a stuttering “dialogue” between them. Vucic and

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Military divers from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Lithuania have participated in an international training exercise in Budapest, Hungary, working in flooded underground mines, lakes and caves and in the rushing Danube River. The training is to prepare them for a variety of scenarios, including recovery operations

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say an American man has been charged with murder and other offenses for attacking two women from the U.S. near Neuschwanstein castle in Germany in June and pushing them into a ravine. One of the women was fatally injured. Prosecutors said Thursday that the indictment against the 31-year-old suspect was filed

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian authorities have charged seven people with helping launder hundreds of millions of dollars for a Chinese crime syndicate. Police said Thursday the arrests came after a 14-month investigation which involved multiple Australian agencies and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. They said it was the most complex money laundering investigation