Month: November 2023

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press Environmental activist Jill Stein is launching another long-shot Green Party bid for the presidency. The physician from Lexington, Massachusetts, says she’s running to offer people a choice outside of what she calls “the failed two-party system.” The rise of third-party and independent candidates has sparked concerns among Democratic and

ALBION, Mich. (AP) — A man who was accused of breaking into a home and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in southwestern Michigan is out of prison after 35 years. Authorities agree that Louis Wright was wrongly convicted. They’re convinced after DNA testing excluded him as the perpetrator. Wright’s convictions from 1988 have been set

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been increasingly isolated on foreign policy among his GOP colleagues, a growing number of whom have distanced themselves as a matter of course from U.S. involvement abroad — and particularly on Ukraine. Their sentiment has partially been

DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks are playing a home game in the NBA’s In-Season Tournament for the first time on Friday night. But they will do so on their regular court and not the special-edition tournament court. The NBA said “a manufacturing issue” kept the Mavericks from having a ready-for-tournament-play court delivered in time

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — He was a giant of 20th-century art, but that doesn’t mean Pablo Picasso needed a big canvas. Fourteen of his sketchbooks — some smaller than, say, a compact disc cover — are on display at Manhattan’s Pace Gallery as part of “Picasso: 14 Sketchbooks,” marking

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A community leader in central Mali says that suspected Islamic extremists are holding about 30 men hostage after an attack on several buses earlier this week. Bocar Guindo says that armed men initially kidnapped about 40 members of the ethnic Dogon community who had been traveling

MILAN (AP) — The new creative director of Moschino, Davide Renne, has died of a sudden illness at the age of 46.  The owner of the Milan-based fashion house Aeffe announced the death on Friday, just days after he took over his new role on Nov. 1.  Renne joined from Gucci, where he was head

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice this week said that states are going too far by trying to block people from helping others cross state lines for abortion. A ruling in Idaho and the federal government taking sides in an Alabama lawsuit are far from the final

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A man has been arrested in the alleged assault of former U.S. Sen. Martha McSally who says she was molested as she jogged along the Missouri River in Iowa. Council Bluffs police said in a statement that the 25-year-old suspect from Papillion, Nebraska, was spotted by officers in Omaha, Nebraska,

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Patrick Esume has been the face of NFL broadcasts in Germany for years and has played a big role in helping football to grow in a key international market. Esume says German fans grow up watching soccer so they need more explanations than a U.S.

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Niger fashion designer Alia Bare took center stage at the Joburg Fashion Week with a collection that she hopes will spread a positive image of her troubled country, suffering from instability and economic sanctions that followed a military coup earlier this year. Bare is one of several

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The futuristic B-21 Raider warplane has taken its first flight, moving it closer to becoming the nation’s next nuclear weapons stealth bomber. The Raider on Friday flew out of Palmdale, California, where it has been under testing and development by Northrop Grumman. The Air Force plans to

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A noted Belarusian dissident author says his father has been sentenced to two weeks in jail for reposting an article from an opposition website. Sasha Filipenko said on Facebook that his father was seized by police Thursday in a raid on his apartment and later “given 13 days for reposting some

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A $242 million overhaul will modernize the main terminal concourses and gate areas at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the project announced Thursday by the Metropolitan Airports Commission an Delta Airlines, the airport’s dominant carrier, is expected to be complete by late 2025. The plan calls for

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has ordered the former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to produce records related to her work advising the Republican Assembly speaker on whether to impeach a current justice. Former Chief Justice Patience Roggensack was one of three former Supreme Court justices

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Pressure is growing on Tesla in Sweden, where a trade union is demanding that the Texas-based automaker sign a collective bargaining agreement, which most employees in the Scandinavian country have. Tesla has no manufacturing plant in Sweden, but 130 members of the powerful metalworkers’ union IF Metall walked out on Oct. 27

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press The Jordan River is a winding, 200-plus-mile run to the east of Israel and the occupied West Bank. The sea is the glittering Mediterranean to its west. But a phrase about the space in-between, “from the river to the sea,” has become a battle cry with new power to roil

By MEG KINNARD and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is in South Carolina filing paperwork putting President Joe Biden on the 2024 presidential ballot of the state that will lead off the Democratic presidential primary. That’s thanks to a White House-led schedule overhaul meant to better empower Black

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The top U.S. military officer says he has conveyed to China his hopes to resume the stalled communication between the world’s two biggest militaries. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. CQ Brown Jr., said Friday in Tokyo that it is “hugely important” to “ensure

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida declined for now to postpone former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial but did push back several pre-trial deadlines in the case. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is at least a modest victory for special counsel Jack Smith’s team,

The Associated Press MONROE, N.J. (AP) — A suspect in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has surrendered to police in New Jersey. The FBI says Gregory Yetman surrendered to police in Monroe Township Friday morning without incident. Monroe is near Yetman’s home in Helmetta, a small town in central New Jersey about

By MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN, PETER PRENGAMAN and DOUG GLASS Associated Press Oil and gas companies have a large presence at international climate talks aimed at getting the world to sharply reduce emissions, which lead to climate change. The companies say they are part of the transition to green energy, and indeed have the capital and

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says melting glaciers pose “an unprecedented challenge for humanity.” He spoke on Friday as a three-day global summit on glaciers and poles wrapped up in Paris. Macron urged world leaders to work together on halting devastating effects of climate change despite wars in the Middle East and in

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Norwegian citizen originally from Iran has been charged with aggravated terrorism over a deadly shooting in June 2022 ahead of an LGBTQ festival in the nightlife district of the capital, Oslo. Two people were killed and nine seriously wounded in the shooting at three

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Fans have pushed the Fisher-Price Corn Popper into the National Toy Hall of Fame. It joins baseball cards, Cabbage Patch Kids and NERF foam toys in the class of 2023, announced Friday. The Fisher-Price push toy was voted in by fans as part of the Toy Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary

By FADLAN SYAM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Dozens of conservative Muslims are calling for the cancellation of Coldplay’s concert this month in Indonesia. They marched in Indonesia’s capital on Friday and said the British band’s support of the LGBTQ+ community will corrupt youth. Coldplay is renowned as a champion of

By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Wednesday in California for talks on trade, Taiwan and managing fraught U.S.-Chinese relations in the first engagement between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies in nearly a year, Biden administration officials said.

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that “far too many” Palestinians have died and suffered as Israel wages a relentless war against the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip. He urged Israel to minimize harm to civilians and maximize humanitarian assistance that

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania is pushing to buy 54 Abrams main battle tanks and related equipment from the United States in a deal worth at least a billion dollars. The defense ministry says the latest-model tanks would help its military meet regional security challenges. Romania, a NATO member since 2004, shares a long border

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has denied Republicans’ efforts to overturn election results in the nation’s third-most populous county. Harris County, where Houston is located, is a Democratic stronghold that’s been beset by GOP efforts to dictate how ballots are cast. A losing GOP candidate in a November

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president has backpedaled after siding with a top appeals court that defied a Constitutional Court ruling calling for the release of an imprisoned opposition lawmaker. Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday adopted a more neutral stance after voicing support for the appeals court and renewed his call for a new constitution