Month: November 2023

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Southern California dropped out of The Associated Press college football poll Sunday for the first time under coach Lincoln Riley and No. 15 Oklahoma State vaulted into the rankings for the first time this year. The top nine teams in the Top 25 held their spots, led

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received more reports of illness linked to lead-tainted pouches of apple cinnamon fruit puree marketed for children. At least seven illnesses in five states have been reported. Schnucks Markets and Weis Market, announced recalls of their cinnamon applesauce products because they may

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Luis Diaz lifted his jersey to reveal a T-shirt with the words “Libertad Para Papa” (“Freedom for Papa”) after scoring a late equalizer in his first appearance for Liverpool since his parents were kidnapped in his native Colombia. Diaz bundled home a goal in the fifth minute of stoppage

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Four civilians, three of them children, were killed by an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon Sunday evening, a local civil defense official and Lebanese state-run media said. Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, that one Israeli was also

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include country superstar Chris Stapleton’s fifth studio album, Michael Fassbender playing a hitman in David Fincher’s “The Killer” and Tim Allen putting on his Santa suit for season two of “The Santa Clauses.” “The Buccaneers” is Apple TV+’s eight-episode series answer to “Bridgerton,” featuring attractive young

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds plans to endorse Ron DeSantis for president, giving the Florida governor’s 2024 campaign a boost as he struggles to show progress against Donald Trump in the Republican primary, two people familiar with the matter said Sunday. DeSantis has pinned his chances

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Universal and Blumhouse’s video game adaptation “Five Nights at Freddy’s” topped the North American box office in its second weekend according to studio estimates Sunday, while “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” placed second. The weekend had plenty of high-profile films opening or expanding, including Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” and Meg

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia set a course record to win the New York City Marathon men’s race on Sunday while Hellen Obiri of Kenya pulled away in the final 400 meters to take the women’s title. Tola finished in 2 hours, 4 minutes and 58

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has testified in court as a football owner, casino builder and airline buyer. He once bragged in a legal deposition that he saved “millions of lives” by deterring nuclear war as president. Another time, he fretted about the dangers of

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Post has named veteran media executive Will Lewis to serve as its new CEO and publisher. Lewis is joining the newspaper at a moment when one of the American news industry’s most storied outlets is struggling against the economic headwinds facing U.S. media companies. News of Lewis’s appointment was announced

PARIS (AP) — French power network operator Enedis says one of its technicians was killed as it battles to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes in the wake of major storms. The 46-year-old man killed Saturday was working in a rapid-reaction force deployed in the Brittany region of northwest France that was battered

By CALVIN WOODWARD and ALI SWENSON Associated Press FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Over the past three years, local school board elections have become the place where America’s deep political divisions are on full display. In Tuesday’s races in Virginia, far-right candidates are looking to take over a number of school boards or expand their slim

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is honoring the medical team that helped save his life by launching a scholarship program for Cincinnati youths. Hamlin’s charitable foundation, Chasing M’s, will be awarding $1,000 scholarships to 10 individuals from the area’s under-served communities for each of

By LORI HINNANT and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Families of hostages seized during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack fear the world’s focus on them is fading, as is the impetus to free some 240 people held. Many are now traveling outside Israel to countries they hope can help. Paris, Atlanta, London, Chicago,

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. The latest artificial intelligence craze has sparked another wave of investments in the quest to build a humanoid, but most of the current prototypes are clumsy and impractical. They tend to

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Climate change is increasing billion-dollar disasters, many of them from intensifying hurricanes. Some housing developers are building homes with an eye toward making them more resilient to such extreme weather, and friendlier to the environment at the same time. Buildings are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions through the construction

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says he plans to bow out and hand over power to his deputy Lawrence Wong next year before the 2025 general election. The 71-year-old Lee initially intended to retire before turning 70. But it was shelved because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lee is the eldest son

AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s long history of voter suppression has created widespread voter fatigue among Black residents in a state where they account for nearly 40% of the population. But this year’s elections have given reason for renewed optimism. The governor’s race appears competitive and is attracting national attention. Tuesday’s

By CALVIN WOODWARD and ALI SWENSON Associated Press FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Over the past three years, local school board elections have become the place where America’s deep political divisions are on full display. In Tuesday’s races in Virginia, far-right candidates are looking to take over a number of school boards or expand their slim

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The relationship between President Joe Biden and new House Speaker Mike Johnson will be one of the most important in Washington over the next year. The two are just trying to get to know each other at this point, but already there’s been clear disagreement, especially

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has testified in court as a football owner, casino builder and airline buyer. He once bragged in a legal deposition that he saved “millions of lives” by deterring nuclear war as president. Another time, he fretted about the dangers of

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Aid groups say Afghans fleeing a deportation drive in Pakistan lack shelter, food, and warmth once they cross the border. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have left Pakistan in recent weeks as authorities pursue foreigners they say are in the country illegally, going door-to-door to check migrants’ documentation. Pakistan set Oct.31 as

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military has reported a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads from a new nuclear submarine. The report comes as tensions are soaring between Russia and the West over the fighting in Ukraine. Adding to those tensions, President Vladimir Putin last week signed a

SINGAPORE (AP) — Prince William has arrived in Singapore for the annual Earthshot Prize awards, the first to be held in Asia, to support environmental innovators with solutions to battle climate change and save the planet. Upon his arrival, dozens of people waving British flags welcomed him on Sunday at an airport building with loud

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his frenetic Mideast diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his latest bid to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip and begin to

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A radio anchor has been fatally shot by a man inside his southern Philippine station in a brazen attack that was witnessed by people watching the program live on Facebook. Police say the gunman gained entry into the home-based radio station of provincial news broadcaster Juan

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Seeking to generate excitement around a largely lackluster economy, Chinese Premier Li Qiang is pledging to continue deepening reforms, expand free trade zones and relax market access for foreign investment. Li made the remarks Sunday when delivering a keynote speech at the opening of the 6th China International Import Expo in

BERLIN (AP) — German police advised travelers on Sunday not to use Hamburg airport due to a developing hostage situation. The airport in the northern part of the city has been closed to passengers and flights canceled since Saturday night when an armed man broke through an airport gate with his vehicle and fired twice

By The Associated Press The Russian military said a Ukrainian missile strike on a shipyard in annexed Crimea had damaged a Russian ship. The Russian Defense Ministry said late Saturday that Ukrainian forces fired 15 cruise missiles at the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch, a city in the east of the Crimean Peninsula. Air defenses shot

BY STEPHEN McGRATH and AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovans are casting ballots in nationwide local elections amid claims by Moldovan authorities that Russia has been conducting “hybrid warfare” to undermine the vote in the European Union candidate country. While local elections in Moldova, a country of about 2.5 million people situated

By ANDREW WILKS ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s main opposition party has voted for fresh leadership, five months after a devastating election defeat that saw President Recep Tayyip Erdogan extend his two-decade rule. Ozgur Ozel replaced Kemal Kilicdaroglu after delegates of the Republican People’s Party, or the CHP, elected him as new leader. The results in

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Tense negotiations at the final meeting on a climate-related loss and damages fund — an international fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet — ended Saturday in Abu Dhabi, with participants agreeing that the World Bank would temporarily oversee the fund for

By HANNA ARHIROVA and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Nervous ahead of their first jiu-jitsu championship, the war veterans gathered in a group to share jokes and help each other tie the belts of their kimonos. Many of them had suffered severe battlefield injuries requiring amputations. Now they were assembled to perform

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A report from the U.N. drugs agency says Afghan farmers lost more than $1 billion of cash income from opium sales after the Taliban banned poppy cultivation. Afghanistan was the world’s biggest opium producer and a major source for heroin in Europe and Asia when the Taliban seized power in August 2021.

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli warplanes struck a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, killing at least 33 people and wounding dozens, health officials said. The strike came as Israel said it would press on with its offensive to crush the territory’s Hamas

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A decade later, his property is now dotted with thousands of what he and others hope is a promising new crop

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican police say gunmen on motorcycles fatally shot five men on the outskirts of the city of Puebla in an apparent dispute over stolen fuel. The Puebla police department says the five victims appeared to have been guarding two gas tanker trucks Saturday when the attack occurred. The department says the

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Victims of government-backed Native American boarding schools are expected to share their experiences Sunday as U.S. officials make a final stop in Montana on their yearlong tour to confront the institutions that regularly abused students to assimilate them into white society. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Taking a page from the “throw-the-bums-out” script in politics, Mainers will vote on whether to rid themselves of the state’s two biggest private electric utilities. The referendum on the November ballot is unprecedented. It would forcibly dismantle Central Maine Power and Versant Power and create a

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press U.S. regulators say they will review the use of a chemical found in almost every tire after a petition from West Coast Native American tribes that want it banned because it kills salmon as they return from the ocean to their natal streams to spawn. The Yurok tribe in California

By LISSETTE ROMERO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of people have turned out to see Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade. Costumed dancers, drummers and floats took a festsive turn down the city’s Paseo de la Reforma boulevard Saturday all the way to the historic colonial main square. There were marching bands