Month: October 2023

By COLLEEN LONG, AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced massive setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on Tuesday, as Jordan called off the president’s planned summit with Arab leaders after a

MIAMI (AP) — Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, died from old age and multiple chronic illnesses, according to a report released Tuesday by the Miami Seaquarium. Lolita — also known as Tokitae, or Toki — died Aug. 18 at the age of 57. Her carcass was transported to the

BOSTON (AP) — A police officer who shot a man who gunned down two Black people moments earlier in the Boston suburb of Winthrop in 2021 used reasonable force to defend himself and others and won’t face criminal charges. Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said Tuesday that 28-year-old Nathan Allen shot and killed David Green,

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Norma has formed off Mexico’s western Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tuesday that Norma may grow into a hurricane and head toward the resort of Los Cabos, on the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Norma may reach Los Cabos by the weekend. On Tuesday,

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two Alaska Wildlife Troopers wound up playing the role of rescuers last week while boating to Ketchikan in southeast Alaska’s famed Inside Passage. The troopers spotted two deer struggling against the current while trying to swim from one island to another. The troopers cut their boat’s

By RUSS BYNUM and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Leonard Cure was trying to make up for lost time in the three years since his release from prison after Florida officials concluded he had been wrongfully convicted of armed robbery. Now authorities in Georgia are investigating a traffic stop Monday that ended

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An attorney for the mother of an Alabama teen who disappeared in Aruba said that a possible plea deal with a suspect in an extortion case is contingent upon his disclosing details about her death. Joran van der Sloot, long considered the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, is scheduled

By JONATHAN MATTISE and MARIA SHERMAN Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Maren Morris has filed for divorce from her husband Ryan Hurd, citing the prominent country music couple’s “irreconcilable differences” after five years of marriage. Morris filed the divorce complaint in Nashville circuit court on Oct. 2, writing that the couple have been separated

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Jim Jordan is facing strong opposition to his speakership bid after more than a dozen Republicans voted against him on the first ballot. Twenty GOP lawmakers voted for a candidate other than Jordan, leaving him well short of winning the gavel. It’s second time this Congress

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jurors on Tuesday delivered split verdicts in a case that stemmed from the search for a 3-year-old boy who went missing from Georgia and was found dead hundreds of miles away at a squalid compound in northern New Mexico.

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana coroner says authorities have identified an Indianapolis man as the ninth presumed victim of a long-deceased suspect in a string of killings in the 1980s and 1990s. Hamilton County Coroner Jeff Jellison said Tuesday that a bone recovered in 1996 on Herbert Baumeister’s Indianapolis-area property

By ARON HELLER Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former Associated Press videojournalist Yaniv Zohar was killed in his home along with his wife and two daughters during Hamas’ bloody cross-border rampage on Oct. 7. His funeral was Tuesday, and an estimated 1,000 people attended. Zohar worked for the AP Israel office for 15

By The Associated Press Britney Spears wrote that she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake more than 20 years ago. That’s according to a peek inside her hotly anticipated memoir published Tuesday in People magazine. She wrote in an excerpt from “The Woman In Me” that she wouldn’t have got the abortion but “Justin

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jurors have convicted four members of an extended family in New Mexico on federal kidnapping charges. Two of the defendants were also convicted on related terrorism charges. The case stems from the search for a 3-year-old boy by agents who raided the family’s squalid encampment

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — An email exchange made public this week shows that a prison guard had warned convicted murderer Danilo Cavalcante was planning to escape a month before the act was carried out. Cavalcante escaped from the Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania on Aug. 31. He eluded a massive manhunt for two weeks

By JIM SALTER and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The estimated future cost to clean up 19 sites contaminated by nuclear waste from the Cold War era has risen by nearly $1 billion in the past seven years. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A prosecutor says a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a 21-year-old man during a traffic stop won’t be criminally charged. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy told news outlets on Tuesday that the deputy clearly ordered Jarveon Hudspeth not to reenter his vehicle, but he did so and started to

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Republican candidate for governor of Michigan has been sentenced to two months behind bars for joining a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper on Tuesday also ordered 42-year-old Ryan Kelley to pay a $5,000 fine for his misdemeanor conviction stemming

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas police officer was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison for stealing nearly $165,000 in a trio of casino heists starting almost two years ago. Caleb Rogers also was found guilty at trial of using a loaded police department-issued weapon during one

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Another federal lawsuit has been filed challenging provisions in a new North Carolina elections law that critics contend will discourage young adults from voting through a popular method. The complaint filed Tuesday marks the third such lawsuit against portions of a voting bill that became

By LAURIE KELLMAN, DANICA KIRKA, JOCELYN NOVECK AND LORI HINNANT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The families of Israel’s dead are holding funerals and mourning in the wake of Hamas’ deadly rampage. The loved ones of people thought to have been taken hostage are demanding the captives’ release. But nearly two weeks after the worst

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press The mayor of Connecticut’s largest city has denied under oath ever discussing absentee ballots with the campaign volunteer resembling a woman on surveillance video stuffing papers into a drop box multiple times ahead of the mayoral primary. Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim also testified Tuesday that he did not talk to

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Senate have voted to fire eight appointees nominated to state boards by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The votes carry the effect of firing Evers’ picks, which include a majority of the state Natural Resources Board, a Democratic elections commissioner

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A draft congressional report on Brazil’s Jan. 8 riots has accused ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of being the insurrection’s mastermind. It also recommends that he be criminally charged with attempting to stage a coup. The report released Tuesday by Sen. Eliziane Gama follows months of hearings

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Special prosecutors said Tuesday they are seeking to recharge actor Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in a 2021 fatal shooting on a movie set in New Mexico. New Mexico-based prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis said they’ll present evidence grand jury within the next two

MILAN (AP) — Stellantis has said it will be canceling its participation in next year’s CES technology show in Las Vegas due to the “mounting” costs of the ongoing auto workers strike in North America. The Europe-based maker of Jeep and Ram says its focus is on measures “to mitigate financial impacts and preserve capital,”

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A wildlife official in Uganda says two foreign tourists and their Ugandan guide have been killed in an attack by unknown assailants near a national park. Bashir Hangi, spokesman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, said late Tuesday that the attackers set on fire the vehicle in which the group was traveling

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS plans to invite a select group of taxpayers across 13 states to try out the agency’s pilot electronic free file tax return system, beginning this January. Facing intense blowback from private tax preparation companies that have made billions from charging people to use their software

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two brothers and another man are facing federal charges after a kidnapping that took some bizarre twists. Federal officials say Tuesday the suspects kidnapped a man Oct. 13 outside outside his apartment in Plantation, Florida, but realized they had mistaken him for his coworker. Authorities say they tried to waterboard

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of the Universities of Wisconsin has decided to close two more branch campuses due to declining enrollment. Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced Tuesday that he has decided to shutter UW-Milwaukee’s Washington County campus and UW-Oshkosh’s Fond du Lac campus. He says in-person

By ANTHONY IZAGURRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been using artificial intelligence to make robocalls that contort his own voice into several languages he doesn’t actually speak, posing new ethical questions about the government’s use of the rapidly evolving technology. The mayor told reporters about the robocalls

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press The main north-south highway in Colorado is expected to remain closed several more days as work crews clear debris after a weekend train derailment. The derailment caused a bridge collapse that killed a truck driver and left coal piled across Interstate 25 north of Pueblo. A nine-mile stretch of the

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press DEIR al-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Even the “safe zones” of Gaza aren’t safe for Palestinians. Intense Israeli strikes Tuesday destroyed homes, hit a U.N. school sheltering the displaced and killed dozens of people in south and central Gaza. “The situation is very, very difficult with artillery

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press The war between Israel and Hamas is raising fears about rising hostility across the United States. Experts say crimes against U.S. Jewish communities tend to escalate when conflict erupts in the Middle East. But anti-Muslim crimes also can spike, particularly when Americans are taken hostage or killed. In Illinois, a

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The Oscars are enlisting a group of live television veterans to oversee its 96th show in March. Raj Kapoor will serve as executive producer and showrunner, Katy Mullan will executive produce and Hamish Hamilton will return to direct for the first time in nearly a decade, the film academy

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A white former detective in Missouri who shot and killed a Black man in 2019 has lost an appeal of his conviction. An appeals court on Tuesday ordered the ex-officer placed under arrest. Eric J. DeValkenaere was found guilty in 2021 of second-degree manslaughter and armed criminal action in the

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into possible civil rights violations by the police department in New Jersey’s capital city. Federal authorities said Tuesday that the investigation in Trenton will focus on allegations that officers have used excessive force, stopped motorists and pedestrians without justification, and illegally searched homes

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hamas and Israel have both been accused of breaking international law during their latest conflict. The rules of armed conflict are governed by a set of internationally recognized laws and resolutions, including the Geneva Conventions. They forbid the deliberate targeting of civilians and set out how prisoners

PARIS (AP) — A trial has opened in Paris of 19 people suspected of playing critical roles in a smuggling operation that went awry and sent 39 Vietnamese migrants to their deaths four years ago when they were locked inside a stifling hot truck. The truck was headed from Belgium to Britain and was found