Month: October 2023

PARIS (AP) — French police have detained nine people and are searching for other suspects after a violent attack on buses carrying the Lyon soccer team and fans. The attack Sunday left Lyon coach Fabio Grosso with a head injury and forced the postponement of the team’s game at Marseille. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — A flow of recent data from the U.S. government has made one thing strikingly clear: A surge in consumer spending is fueling strong growth, demonstrating a resilience that has confounded economists, Federal Reserve officials and even the sour sentiments that Americans themselves have

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a lawmaker with the far-right Alternative for Germany party who was recently elected to the state legislature in Bavaria has been arrested. Prosecutors in the city of Wuerzburg said that Daniel Halemba was arrested in a neighboring region of southern Germany on Monday. They said he is under investigation on

By JOSH BOAK and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is signing a sweeping executive order to guide the development of artificial intelligence. Monday’s order will require industry to develop safety and security standards, introduce new consumer protections and give federal agencies an extensive to-do list to oversee the rapidly progressing

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say several construction workers have fallen from scaffolding at a building site in Hamburg and five have died. The fire service in Germany’s second-biggest city said that the accident happened on Monday in the HafenCity district. HafenCity is a former port area on the Elbe river that is being redeveloped with

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s leaders are expected to search for ways to mend the country’s fractured property market, create jobs for millions of unemployed youths and spur faster growth in a meeting that reportedly began Monday in Beijing. The National Financial Work Conference, usually held twice a decade, is

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Four former student leaders from the University of Hong Kong have been sentenced to two years in prison for inciting people to wound others through their praise of a man who stabbed a police officer before killing himself in 2021. The three are being held responsible

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and LEE KEATH Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops and armor pushed deeper into the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, reaching built-up areas as the U.N. and medical staff warned that airstrikes are hitting closer to hospitals, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter

NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities say a former Jehovah’s Witness has been detained on suspicion of setting off an explosive device that killed three people and wounded 50 others at a denomination gathering in southern India. Hundreds of Witnesses were at a prayer session Sunday in Kerala state when the explosion took place. The suspect

By BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press Cornell University administrators have dispatched campus police to a Jewish center after threatening statements against Jewish students appeared on a discussion board. Cornell President Martha E. Pollack says there were a series of “horrendous, antisemitic messages” on Sunday threatening violence against the university’s Jewish community on a website

By DENNIS PASSA AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Lloyd Owers has been given a coaching job in the Marshall Islands on football’s frontier. All he needs now is a national team. The small nation of five islands and about 60,000 people situated in the western Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia has been

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower on Monday ahead of a Federal Reserve decision this week on interest rates. U.S. futures gained while oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel. as concerns over an escalation of the Israel-Hamas war added to uncertainty over supplies. The Israeli

DAVID SHARP LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Residents of Lewiston return to work and school Monday, the morning after coming together to mourn those lost in Maine’s worst mass shooting. They gathered Sunday evening, hugging one another, singing a rousing edition of “Amazing Grace,” and seeking guidance out of these dark days from religious leaders who

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says the United States is fueling geopolitical tensions to uphold its “hegemony,” and he warns of the risk of confrontation between major countries. He made the comment Monday in Beijing at the Xiangshan Forum, which is China’s biggest annual event centered on

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and DIDI TANG Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A major influx of Chinese migration to the United States on a relatively new and perilous route through Panama’s Darién Gap jungle has become increasingly popular thanks to social media. Chinese people were the fourth-highest nationality, after Venezuelans, Ecuadorians and Haitians, crossing the

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and DIDI TANG Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The monthly number of Chinese migrants crossing through Panama’s Darién Gap jungle has risen this year as more people from the world’s most populous country look to immigrate to the U.S. The number has risen from 913 in January to 2,588 in September.

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American woman and her son is scheduled to appear in court following his indictment by an Illinois grand jury. Joseph Czuba, 71, is expected to enter a plea at an arraignment Monday on eight

By EMILY TATE SULLIVAN of EdSurge AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — After reading a book about the five senses to a semicircle of rapt 4-year-olds, Abi Hawker tells the children in her afternoon preschool class that she has a surprise for them. She drags a small popcorn maker onto the carpet and asks them to

By COREY WILLIAMS and AISHA I. JEFFERSON Associated Press WAYNE, Mich. (AP) — Britney Johnson is among the thousands of Ford Motor Co. workers who went on strike to force the automaker to improve pay for all. But she carried more than a picket sign outside Ford’s Wayne Assembly plant west of Detroit. Johnson carried

By HELEN WIEFFERING and GRACE EKPU Associated Press OKITIPUPA, NIGERIA (AP) — Until early last year, a rusting oil ship named the Trinity Spirit floated off the coast of Nigeria, pulling crude oil from the ocean floor. Then, last February, it exploded, collapsing into the ocean along with 40,000 barrels of oil. Five workers were

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — Democrat Brandon Presley is trying to block Republican Gov. Tate Reeves from winning a second term in Mississippi. But Presley faces a narrow path in the deeply conservative state in the Nov. 7 election. Mississippi’s last Democratic governor lost a race for a second term

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Court arguments are beginning in the effort to bar former President Donald Trump from running for his old job again. The first set of arguments start in Colorado Monday. A judge has scheduled a weeklong hearing on whether the U.S. Constitution’s clause barring someone who “engaged in

By HELEN WIEFFERING and GRACE EKPU Associated Press OKITIPUPA, Nigeria (AP) — It was the dead of night when the ship caught fire, Patrick Aganyebi remembers, but the flames made it seem as bright as day. The explosion that night woke him and knocked him to the floor. He tucked his phone and his ID

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a studio album from Jason Aldean and a posthumous release from Jimmy Buffett, a new Hulu series inspired from Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel “Black Cake” and Annette Bening portrays a real-life hero who swam the treacherous passage from Cuba to Key West in 2013. Naturalist Sir

By KANIS LEUNG HONG KONG Associated Press (AP) — A Hong Kong court has dismissed a gun charge against a Washington state senator arrested after he carried a gun into the Chinese territory. Republican Jeff Wilson had called the incident an “honest mistake.” Prosecutors noted he declared the gun himself in an open manner when

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has adjourned a winding up hearing for property developer China Evergrande Group’s until Dec. 4. Evergrande has been in crisis since it defaulted on its debt obligations two years ago. It has over $300 billion in liabilities. For over a year, Evergrande has been working on a

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A deal has been reached to end a week-long strike that had shut down a major shipping artery in the Great Lakes, halting the flow of grain and other goods from the U.S. and Canada. The agreement was announced Sunday. Around 360 workers in Ontario and Quebec with Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington has reimposed a narrow gag order barring him from making public comments targeting prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan had temporarily lifted the gag order as

By MARK KENNEDY AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The theatrical world has lost a giant. Robert Brustein was a critic and playwright who founded two of the leading regional theaters in the country. He died Sunday at the age of 96. Brustein was known as a passionate and provocative theater advocate who pushed

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Kirk Cousins, Matthew Stafford, Kenny Pickett and Tyrod Taylor were the latest quarterbacks to go down with injuries. Cousins’ injury is likely the worst of the bunch. Minnesota Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell said the team fears the four-time Pro Bowl QB hurt his Achilles tendon. If the tendon

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the sixth year in a row to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife says commercial crabbing will be delayed until at least Dec. 1. The

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Hundreds of people on Sunday stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field to protest the landing of an airliner coming from Tel Aviv, Russian news agencies and social media reported. Authorities closed the airport in Makhachkala, capital of the predominantly Muslim region, and police

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Lyon coach Fabio Grosso has suffered a head injury as the team bus came under attack from fans throwing projectiles before the French league soccer game against Marseille. The Lyon bus was hit on the way to Stade Velodrome on Sunday, shattering some windows. Grosso was injured by falling shards of

By JILL COLVIN and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mike Pence has a resume most White House hopefuls would dream of. He was a vice president, governor and congressman. Normally, someone with such credentials would be well positioned to win their party’s presidential nomination. But not today. Pence’s decision to end

By TOM KRISHER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union has widened its strike against General Motors, the lone holdout among the three Detroit automakers, after reaching a tentative contract agreement with Jeep maker Stellantis. The escalated walkout began Saturday evening at a Spring Hill, Tennessee plant, GM’s largest

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has met with Nigerian President Bola Tinubu as part of a West Africa tour as the European country looks to diversify its trade partners and expand economic partnerships in the energy-rich region. In his third trip to Africa since he took office

By DAVID A. LIEB and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Most voters in Mississippi will have no choice this year when it comes to who represents them in the state House and Senate. That’s because the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats running for the Legislature face no major-party opposition in

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Oklahoma dropped four spots to No. 10 after being upset by Kansas, the top five teams held their places and the Jayhawks and rival Kansas State both entered The Associated Press college football poll. Georgia is No. 1 for the 20th straight week, receiving 48 of 63

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court is upholding a 65-year prison term for a central Ohio woman who plead guilty to stealing jewelry and other valuables from elderly residents at nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The high court ruled last week that a trial court properly imposed consecutive sentences on former nurse’s

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A former high-profile Myanmar army officer who had served as information minister and presidential spokesperson in a previous military-backed government has been arrested and charged with spreading false or inflammatory news. The military’s information office said 64-year old Ye Htut, a retired lieutenant colonel, was arrested for