Month: December 2023

By MARIA VERZA and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States and Mexico have agreed to monitor foreign investments and regularly share information about the screening process. Announcement of the deal Thursday in Mexico City comes as more Chinese money is flowing into Mexico. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City residents regaining composure after the capital was rattled by a moderate  magnitude earthquake. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred Thursday at about 2:03 pm local time at a spot near Chiautla de Tapia, a rural village locate almost 125 miles (200 kilometers)  south of Mexico City. Acting

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Martin Scorsese will be honored with the prestigious David O. Selznick Achievement Award in February, the Producers Guild of America said Thursday. “Marty’s trailblazing career as a producer, marked by decades of bold, breakthrough projects, demands to be celebrated,” the PGA presidents said in a joint statement. In addition

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When the U.S. military took the extraordinary step of grounding its fleet of V-22 Ospreys this week, it wasn’t reacting just to the recent deadly crash of the aircraft off the coast of Japan. The aircraft has had a long list of problems in its short history.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Longtime former Philadelphia labor leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty and a codefendant have been convicted of using more than $650,000 in union funds for their personal use. It’s the second conviction that federal prosecutors have secured against the long-powerful figure since a sweeping 2019 indictment. Dougherty led Local 98 of the International

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An attorney for Jonathan Majors sought to cast doubt on his ex-girlfriend’s claim she suffered “excruciating” pain and injuries following an alleged assault by the actor last spring. For several hours on Thursday, the defense played video clips showing the accuser Grace Jabbari dancing and drinking

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America A second-term Democratic congresswoman is not going to seek reelection to the U.S. House as long as the North Carolina General Assembly’s new redistricting maps stay in place. U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning says that she will not file under “gerrymandered” lines that state election data suggests could net

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills edge rusher Von Miller declined to take questions at his locker a week after turning himself in to police in a Dallas suburb after allegedly assaulting the mother of his children, who is pregnant. Miller simply shook his head no and said

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying that incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change. Federal

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Moscow court has extended the pre-trial detention of three lawyers who once represented imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny. They were arrested in October on charges of participating in an extremist group, a case widely seen as a means to ramp up pressure on the politician.

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched missiles and hit three commercial ships in the Red Sea, it triggered an immediate question: Will the U.S. military strike back? The Houthis have sharply escalated their attacks. And U.S. Navy vessels have shot down an array of drones

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Kodak Black was arrested in South Florida on cocaine possession and other charges. Broward County jail records show Bill Kapri in custody on Thursday. That’s Kodak Black’s legal name. He was charged by Plantation police with cocaine possession and tampering with evidence. Kapri is no stranger to South Florida

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two former students are suing Sarah Lawrence College. They argue that the New York school failed to protect them from Lawrence “Larry” Ray as the ex-convict moved into his daughter’s housing on campus and began grooming her friends for abuse. The plaintiffs allege in their lawsuit

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United Nations says at least three of every four Africans can’t afford a healthy diet because of an “unprecedented food crisis.” A U.N. report released Thursday with the African Union Commission says rising hunger and malnutrition in the continent of 1.4 billion people is caused

By ANNIE MA and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ivy League presidents are facing backlash over their remarks to on-campus antisemitism. The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faced swift criticism for their responses earlier this week during a Congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses,

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” are among the 10 films that will receive an AFI Award in January, the American Film Institute said Thursday. The organization is recognizing a wide swath of the year’s best films, with blockbusters, an animated film, indies and movies released by both streamers and traditional

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Kentucky child is dead and a Missouri infant has brain damage from the same kind of bacteria that sparked powdered formula recalls and shortages last year. The Food and Drug Administration confirms that two cases of severe infections have been reported this year, both in

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A college student of Palestinian descent who was shot and seriously injured in Vermont last month has been released from the hospital. Hisham Awartani will undergo rehabilitation and is the last of the three students shot during their Thanksgiving break. Awartani is paralyzed from the chest down and left the University

By The Associated Press Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” will get a theatrical release in Japan after all. The Japanese distributor Bitters End said Thursday that it will play in the country’s theaters in 2024. In a statement, Bitters End wrote that the decision was made, “following months of thoughtful dialogue associated with the subject matter and

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican presidential primary debates have been scheduled in Iowa and New Hampshire in January, not long before each state’s GOP nominating contest. CNN said Thursday it will host a Jan. 10 debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. That’s five days before the state’s first-in-the-nation

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is facing a $68 billion budget deficit. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office said Thursday most of the deficit comes from lower than expected tax revenues this year. California delayed its tax filing deadline to November this year because a series of damaging storms. That forced

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge says an ex-Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a passenger flight can be released from jail pending trial. Joseph Emerson pleaded not guilty to reduced charges of reckless endangerment at his arraignment Thursday. He previously faced attempted murder

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is appealing a ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution as he runs out of time to delay or even derail an upcoming trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers have completed a special session with the House voting 98-71 Thursday to give final passage to a congressional map that preserves a 9-5 edge for Republicans. Lawyers for the state and those who successfully sued to overturn earlier GOP-drawn maps will argue in court on

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A deputy U.S. Marshal was charged in the United Kingdom on Thursday with entering an aircraft while drunk, after being arrested on allegations of misconduct aboard a flight from New York, London police said. Michael Brereton, 39, was arrested when he landed at Heathrow Airport. The flight

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels is The Associated Press college football player of the year. Daniels received 35 of the 51 first-place votes and 130 total points from AP Top 25 poll voters. Washington quarterback Michael Penix was second with 15 first-place votes and 97

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The stage musical “How to Dance in Ohio” opens on Broadway on Sunday, celebrating those on the autism spectrum and opening a window about autism’s highs and lows for the neurotypical. The musical is based on the Peabody Award-winning documentary of the same name. It

A woman sentenced to life in an Idaho prison for murdering her two youngest children and another woman has pleaded not guilty to charges in Arizona of conspiring to kill her estranged husband and her niece’s ex-husband. Lori Vallow Daybell, dressed in an orange jail uniform, stated her name and birthdate when a judge asked

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing catastrophic rains in East Africa have been made worse by human-induced climate change. An analysis by World Weather Attribution found that the magnitude of the rainfall had nearly doubled due to global warming. The researchers found the

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say its military government has been freeing soldiers and police who had been jailed for desertion and absence without leave as authorities seek to get them to return to active duty. A police officer and an army officer on Thursday confirmed independent media reports