Month: October 2023

MADRID (AP) — Two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas and two of her teammates on Spain’s women’s national team have appeared before a judge as witnesses in the investigation of former soccer federation president Luis Rubiales for kissing a player on the lips. Putellas, Irene Paredes and Misa Rodríguez all answered questions from the judge

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An estimated $1.04 billion Powerball jackpot will be up for grabs Monday night, tempting players to spend a couple dollars on a longshot chance at instant riches. The prize is the world’s ninth-largest lottery prize behind earlier drawings of Powerball and Mega Millions, the other nearly nationwide lottery game. The

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety investigators have expanded a probe into Ford Motor Co. engine failures to include nearly 709,000 vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also says in documents posted Monday that it upgraded the investigation to an engineering analysis, a step closer to a recall. The investigation now covers Ford’s F-150

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A documentary chronicling Beyoncé‘s just-concluded 39-city Renaissance World Tour will premiere in North American theaters Dec. 1, AMC Theaters announced Monday. The film adds a second pop star blockbuster to a fall slate of movies that’s been slightly thinned out by the ongoing screen actors’

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s top military officials say the army has reduced its troop presence near the border with Kosovo by nearly half, following follows reports from the U.S. and other governments of a mass military buildup. Over a week ago, a shootout in the area left four people

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases. The proposed CDC guideline was released Monday, and officials will move to finalize it after

PORTLAND Police say a car crashed through a fence at Maine’s busiest airport and caused a disruption while officials did a security sweep. No flights were delayed after the episode Sunday morning at Portland International Jetport. The vehicle was discovered abandoned and caused the airport to be shut down for about 45 minutes for a

BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria (AP) — Work has started on turning the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station. The project is meant to make it unattractive as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator. The decision on the future of the building in

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A new museum exhibition in Paris focuses on the last months of Dutch master Vincent van Gogh before he shot himself in 1890. The unprecedented show is extraordinary and extraordinarily painful because this final period of the artist’s life was also one of his most productive. Van

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says there is sufficient rice in the market despite recent panic-buying of locally produced rice that led to empty shelves in supermarkets and grocery stores nationwide. Agriculture and Food Security Minister Mohamad Sabu said the government will increase distribution to rural areas to address a supply issue sparked

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For a while, Sam Bankman-Fried tried to convince politicians and the public that he was the next J.P. Morgan. Now, he has to convince a jury that he wasn’t, in reality, the next Bernie Madoff. The trial of Bankman-Fried, the founder of failed cryptocurrency brokerage

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The new head of the U.N.’s migration agency says the private sector is “desperate” for their countries to take in migrants to mop up labor shortages, especially in the West. It’s part of an effort to steer a narrative away from reticence and suspicion about migrants in

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Assisted living. Nursing home. Skilled nursing. There are lots of names for facilities that provide care to those who can no longer live safely at home, but these terms aren’t synonymous with one another. If you’re researching the right place for yourself or a loved one, make sure you understand

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Typhoon Koinu, traveling westward from the Pacific, is strengthening as it moves toward Taiwan. Meteorologists on the island said Monday that the storm is expanding in size and is expected to make landfall in Taiwan by Thursday morning. The typhoon was moving northwest with sustained winds of 89 mph and gusts

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A political group linked to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is launching an ad campaign backing the Republican’s efforts to make it harder for people to file lawsuits and win big legal judgments. The group is called Hardworking Georgians. It said Monday that limits would cut insurance costs

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Christian religious leaders in Iraq are calling for an international investigation into a deadly wedding fire that killed more than 100 people last week. They slammed the Iraqi government’s probe that had blamed the blaze on negligence and lack of precautionary measures. Iraq released

By ALFIAN KARTONO Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Police and rebels say that five Papuan independence fighters were killed in a clash between security forces and a rebel group in Indonesia’s restive Papua region. A joint military and police force killed five of the Papuan fighters from the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year Monday in an effort to inoculate 44 million children under the age of 5.  Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul-Haq-Kakar launched the five-day vaccination campaign in the capital, Islamabad. He urged parents in a televised address to cooperate with the 350,000  health workers

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press The last bus carrying ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh has left the region, completing a weeklong grueling exodus in which more than 80% of its residents have fled after Azerbaijan reclaimed the area in a lightning military operation. Nagorno-Karabakh’s human rights ombudsman said Monday that the bus that drove into Armenia

MADRID (AP) — King Felipe VI has begun a new round of talks with Spanish political party leaders with a view to choosing the person in the best position to gather enough support in Parliament to form a government. All signs indicate that king will call on acting Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to try

By MUHAMMAD HATTA and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press PALEMBANG, Indonesia (AP) — More than 300 forest and peatland fires on Indonesia’s Sumatra island are causing hazy skies across the region, prompting government officials to ask people to work from home. The head of the South Sumatra Disaster Management Agency said Monday that the military, police

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish government official says five people who were missing and feared dead in a nightclub fire in the city of Murcia have been located, leaving the death toll at 13. A further 24 people were injured. It was the deadliest nightclub fire in Spain since 43 people were killed in Zaragoza

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese entertainment company that has acknowledged its founder sexually assaulted hundreds of boys over the span of five decades has taken a new name: Smile-Up. It’s vowing to focus on victims’ compensation. Johnny & Associates will eventually fold, but it said on Monday that its performers

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption group says Cyprus needs to hold those at the highest echelons of executive power and law enforcement more accountable to counter an overwhelming public perception of widespread corruption. The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) said in a report released Monday that Cyprus

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Some of Europe’s top diplomats gathered Monday in Kyiv in a display of support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion as signs emerge of political strain in Europe and the United States about the war. The foreign ministers from the European Union’s 27 member countries converged

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief is announcing a hike in the national minimum wage. Jeremy Hunt will tell the Conservative Party’s annual conference that the hourly rate for workers 23 or older will rise in April from 10.42 pounds, or $12.70, to at least 11 pounds, about $13.40.

By DAVID KEYTON and MIKE CORDER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Six days of Nobel Prize announcements are beginning with the unveiling of the winner of the medicine award. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine being awarded Monday was won last year by Swedish scientist Svante Paabo. He was honored for discoveries in human

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasts say Tropical Storm Philippe is threatening to unleash heavy rains and flash floods in the Leeward Islands. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said early Monday that Philippe was centered about 130 miles east-northeast of Guadeloupe and about 160 miles east-southeast of Barbuda. Top sustained winds were at 50 mph

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Emirati president-designate of the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate talks has called on oil and gas companies to be “central to the solution” to fighting climate change, even as the industry boosts its production to enjoy rising energy prices. The call on

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Five conservative cardinals are challenging Pope Francis to affirm Catholic teaching on homosexuality and female ordination. They’ve asked him to respond ahead of a big Vatican meeting where such hot-button issues are up for debate. The cardinals on Monday published five questions they submitted to Francis,

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Early voting has begun in New Zealand for the nation’s Oct. 14 general election, with conservative contender Christopher Luxon casting his ballot. Early voting also began on Monday in some parts of Australia in a referendum on the Indigenous people’s “Voice” in Parliament. The measure

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has inaugurated Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, which begins its commercial operations on Monday, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative that will drastically cut the travel time between two key cities. The $7.3 billion project

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Late-night talk shows are returning after a five-month absence brought on by the Hollywood writers strike, while actors will begin talks that could end their own long work walk-off. CBS’s “ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” ABC’s “ Jimmy Kimmel Live! ” and NBC’s

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher in thin trading Monday with many markets closed for holidays. Markets in China are closed for a weeklong holiday. Markets in South Korea also were closed. Oil prices gained and U.S. futures were higher as the threat of a U.S. federal

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials say a huge fire has broken out in a police headquarters in northeastern Egypt, injuring at least 14 people. They say the blaze ripped through the multistory police headquarters on Monday in the Suez Canal province of Ismailia. The injured were taken to hospitals. The

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press SAN MIGUEL DE LOS JAGÜEYEZ, Mexico (AP) — In the middle of a military base outside Mexico City, an army colonel runs what he calls a kindergarten for dogs. Puppies that one day will become rescue dogs, or sniffer dogs for drugs or explosives, get their basic training here,

By COLLIN BINKLEY, JOCELYN GECKER and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New polling finds that America’s college campuses are seen as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes free speech. Polling from the University of Chicago and the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 47% of adult Americans

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia into housing and medical care is starting in San Francisco and six other California counties. But as petitions roll in Monday, it’s not clear who the program might help nor how effective it

By NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A few years ago, Pope Francis told the head of the main Vatican-backed Catholic women’s organization to be “brave” in pushing for change for women in the Catholic Church. Maria Lia Zervino took his advice and in 2021 wrote Francis a letter, then

By BRUCE SCHREINER and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s name isn’t on the ballot in 2023. But you wouldn’t know it from campaigns that Republican candidates for governor are running in Kentucky and Mississippi. The Republican nominees — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and first-term Mississippi Gov. Tate

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The justices are taking the bench at the Supreme Court for the first time since late June. Their new term is beginning Monday with ethics concerns swirling around the court. The only case being argued Monday concerns the meaning of the word “and” in a federal law

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — Former elite fencer Kirsten Hawkes feels let down by the U.S. Center for SafeSport after filing a complaint to the agency formed in 2017 to combat sexual misconduct in Olympic sports. Since then, more than 1,900 people have been placed on its disciplinary database — a

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s harshest critics plans to make good on his threat to remove the California Republican from his leadership post. Rep. Matt Gaetz says he will use a procedural tool — called a motion to vacate — to try and strip McCarthy of

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — Former elite fencer Kirsten Hawkes feels let down by the U.S. Center for SafeSport after filing a complaint to the agency formed six years ago to combat sexual misconduct in Olympic sports. Since then, more than 1,900 people have been placed on its disciplinary database —