Month: October 2023

HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Police in Holyoke, Massachusetts, say multiple people were reportedly shot Wednesday afternoon in the downtown area of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Holyoke Police Detective Beben told WWLP that multiple individuals had been shot and that officers were investigating. The public is being asked to avoid the intersection of Sargeant and Maple streets. Police

By GARY FIELDS The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press and theGrio have come together for a candid conversation about issues facing Black Americans ahead of the 2024 election and amid high levels of polarization. The panel discussion, titled “Race and Democracy: The Facts and The Fury,” addresses topics ranging from targeted racial

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued 12 people who abandoned a large cargo ship that ran aground near the U.S. Virgin Islands. The agency is investigating whether the incident that occurred early Wednesday caused any contamination. Officials say the vessel was carrying some 13,000 gallons of fuel

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Daniel Cameron has expressed sympathy for a woman who discussed the trauma of being raped by her stepfather in a campaign ad. But Cameron said he supports Kentucky’s abortion ban that requires similar victims of rape and incest to carry their pregnancies to term. Cameron’s

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Google on Wednesday unveiled a next-generation Pixel smartphones lineup that will be infused with more with more artificial intelligence tools capable of writing captions about photos that can be altered by the technology, too. The injection of more artificial intelligence, or AI, into Google’s products marks another step in

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has long turned to Iranian-made drones to attack Ukraine. Now Ukrainian forces will be using bullets seized from Iran against Russia troops. A Navy ship seized the 1.1 million rounds off of a vessel that was being used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to arm

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A Texas politician who accidentally shot his grandson during a wedding he was officiating in Nebraska could be charged with a felony. Officials say Ecto County Commissioner Michael Gardner intended to shoot a homemade blank round into the air to signal the start of the wedding on Saturday. But

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer It’s the end of an era for a once-critical pandemic document: The ubiquitous white COVID-19 vaccination cards are being phased out. Now that COVID-19 vaccines are not being distributed by the federal government, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stopped printing new cards. The federal government

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A cellphone video of the 2020 fatal arrest of Manny Ellis shows the Black man on the ground with his hands in the air in surrender as police officers held his neck and shot him with a Taser, according to a certified video analyst called to

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and ALICIA FERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is leading a U.S. delegation to Mexico on Wednesday to discuss shared security issues, including trafficking of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, arms trafficking and soaring migration. The latest round of the High-Level Security Dialogue brings together Blinken,

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The stunning removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker left the House effectively paralyzed Wednesday as Republicans struggled to bring order to their fractured majority and begin the difficult — and potentially prolonged — process of uniting around a new leader. The House opened briefly

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the top two leaders of state police will be retiring. The departures of public safety Commissioner James Rovella and Col. Stavros Mellekas come in the middle of multiple investigations into whether state troopers submitted bogus data on thousands of traffic stops

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — The most prestigious and secretive prize in science ran headfirst into the digital era Wednesday when Swedish media got an emailed press release revealing the winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry and the news prematurely went public. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said it was

THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — A man has been arrested on forgery and fraud charges after authorities say he cast a ballot in Florida for his deceased father in the 2020 election. Robert Rivernider was charged last week with felony forgery of a public record and fraud in connection with casting a vote. Rivernider says

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City is challenging a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to anyone who asks for it, as the city’s shelter system strains under a large influx of international migrants who have arrived over the past year. The city filed a

CHICAGO (AP) — The mother of a 19-year-old Chicago woman who was found dead in 2017 in a freezer at a suburban hotel where she had attended a party has reached a settlement in her lawsuit over her daughter’s death. The Chicago Tribune reports court records show a settlement was reached in August but has

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican president of the Wisconsin Senate is calling on the Assembly to vote to impeach the state’s nonpartisan top elections official. Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe is continuing to lead the elections agency while Democrats fight in court against a Senate vote

By RAF CASERT and RENATA BRITO Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — European leaders will gather at a summit in Spain in an attempt to fix their increasingly turbulent continent where war and political instability are starting to unhinge nations and institutions. Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Aleksander Lukashenko of Belarus were not invited. But just

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic say the bodies of six newborns have been found discarded at the entrance of a cemetery in the capital, Santo Domingo. Medical examiner Dr. Angi Vicioso said Wednesday the newborns still had hospital tags around their feet and wrists and there were no signs

By ERIK VERDUZCO and SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press A $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot will again be up for grabs Wednesday night after an 11-week stretch without a big winner, but no matter how large the prize grows the odds stay the same — and they’re terrible. It’s those odds of 1 in 292.2 million that

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Armless archer Matt Stutzman is reshaping thinking about people with disabilities one arrow at a time. Before he won a silver medal at the Paralympic Games in 2012, prospective employers wouldn’t hire him because he has no arms. Now the American is targeting his fourth Paralympics in

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2023 class of fellows who are often known as recipients of the “genius grant.” The 20 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend however they want. Marlies Carruth directs the MacArthur Fellows program.

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says a Taliban guard opened fire at civilians at a border crossing with Afghanistan, killing two people, including a 12-year-old boy. Another child was wounded in the shooting on Wednesday at the Chaman border crossing in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province. The military said in a

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2023 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant.” The 20 new MacArthur fellows include a scientist who studies the airborne transmission of diseases and a master hula dancer and cultural preservationist. The sitting U.S. poet

By The Associated Press Three decades ago, the world held its breath as tanks blasted the Russian parliament building in central Moscow while the Kremlin moved to flush out rebellious lawmakers in a crisis that shaped the country’s post-Soviet history. While Russia narrowly avoided what many feared could be a civil war, the violent clashes

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration says it is working to fix an error that caused an unknown number of eligible Virginians to be removed from the voter rolls. VPM News reported that state election officials are collaborating with Virginia State Police to identify voters whose registration was “canceled in error” and are

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC host Ali Velshi is drawing upon the personal past for an upcoming book about democracy. St. Martin’s Press announced Wednesday that “Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy” will be published May 7, 2024. Velshi will look back to the early 20th century and

WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — An animal trainer featured in the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” has received a suspended two-year sentence after being convicted of wildlife trafficking in Virginia, the state attorney general’s office announced. Bhagavan “Doc” Antle also was banned from owning and dealing in exotic wild animals in the state for five years,

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study finds that far more people are in harm’s way as they move into high flood zones around the world. And that’s adding to an increase in watery disasters from climate change. The study published in Wednesday’s journal Nature looked at the world’s settlements since 1985 using

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — A unique 2030 World Cup is set to be played in Europe and Africa with the surprising addition of South America. The deal will allow FIFA to open the men’s soccer tournament with a 100th birthday party in Uruguay. The Spain-Portugal bid that grew to add

By Christina Larson AP Science Writer The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibians that scientists have studied are threatened with extinction, meaning they are either vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered. No other group of animals is in greater danger. Habitat