Month: January 2024

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court won’t reconsider former “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse’s request to dismiss an indictment that accuses him of leading a cult, taking underage wives and sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls. The state high court’s decision on Tuesday means prosecutors in

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A Justice Department report details a myriad of failures by law enforcement who responded to the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, when children waited desperately for over an hour before police stormed a classroom to take the gunman down. The federal review, which was

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has approved legislation that is intended to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers as Chancellor Olaf Scholz seeks to defuse migration as a political problem. The legislation approved Thursday foresees increasing the maximum length of pre-deportation custody from 10 days to 28 and specifically facilitating the deportation of people who are

NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 320 journalists around the world were imprisoned because of their work toward the end of 2023. That’s from the Committee to Protect Journalists, which on Thursday issued its annual census as of Dec. 1, 2023. The committee has been doing this since 1992, and last year had the second-highest

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in Kenya say a donkey cart carrying a suspected improvised bomb has blown up at a checkpoint on the Kenya-Somalia border, killing one Kenyan police officer and critically wounding four others. A police report says the cart pulled by two donkeys and ridden by one

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is expected to extend current spending and keep the federal government open with votes in the Senate and House on Thursday, avoiding a shutdown and punting a final budget package until early March. The stopgap bill comes after a bipartisan spending deal

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New research bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases in the U.S. Wastewater testing does a good job at detecting mpox infections. That’s according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday. It found that over the course of

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s leading soccer club Basaksehir says it’s parted ways with Israeli player Eden Karzev following a disciplinary probe of his social media post calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza by the Hamas militant group. Thursday’s announcement comes days after another Israeli player, Sagiv Jehezkel, was briefly detained in

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to visit four African countries as the Biden administration tries to keep its eyes on all corners of the world while being consumed by crises in Ukraine, the Mideast and the Red Sea. The State Department says Blinken will

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia has decided to set up temporary facilities for handling migrant arrivals at the border with Croatia, citing a surge in crossings. Authorities will put up a fence, two accommodation containers, tents and sanitary facilities at the former border crossing in Obrezje. The government said on Thursday that the facilities will

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury has convicted six alleged gang members in the 2020 fatal shooting of Chicago rapper FBG Duck. Jurors deliberated over three days before announcing Wednesday that they had convicted the six defendants of murder in the aid of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder. FBG Duck, whose real name was

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that U.S. military strikes against Iranian-back Houthi rebels in Yemen will continue, but he acknowledged that the American and British bombardment has yet to stop shipping attacks by the militants on vessels in the Red Sea. Biden said the U.S. would continue

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Issey Miyake’s fall-winter collection has transformed the runway in Paris’ Palais de Tokyo into a visual feast, fusing art and fashion at Paris Fashion Week. Ronan Bouroullec’s vibrant drawings were sparingly used on Miyake’s pleats, creating an impactful display on Thursday. The collection, a dance of

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gang members have raided a key community in Haiti’s capital that is home to numerous police officers and has been under siege for four days in an ongoing attack. Residents are fearful that the violence could spread throughout Port-au-Prince. The pop of automatic weapons echoed throughout

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A prominent human rights group in Belarus is calling on the United Nations’ special rapporteur for human rights in the country to pressure officials to give adequate medical treatment to an imprisoned opposition leader suffering from severe cancer. The appeal by the Viasna group said Ryhor Kostusiou is being denied proper

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Bitter cold weather is causing a rash of spills in the oil fields of North Dakota as well as a slowdown in production. North Dakota has seen multiple days of freezing weather with windchills as low as minus 70 degrees. Regulators say that strains both workers and equipment, which can result

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly majority leader says a GOP attempt to impeach Wisconsin’s nonpartisan top elections official is nothing more than “a big show for the cameras” and will be ignored. Several Republican lawmakers, including the state Senate president, have called for Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s Karim Wade, who is the son of a former president, has renounced his French nationality paving the way for him to run in next month’s presidential election. Wade says on social media that France’s interior minister has confirmed his renunciation. Wade’s dual French and Senegalese

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Franz Welser-Möst is back on the Cleveland Orchestra’s podium, concentrating again on music instead of his health. On track to surpass George Szell as Cleveland’s longest-tenured music director, the 63-year-old Austrian returned to his orchestra at Cleveland’s Severance Music Center last week and leads it in

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks’ game at the Golden State Warriors scheduled for Friday night has been postponed following the death of Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojević, the NBA announced Thursday. The date for the rescheduled game will be announced later. Milojević, a mentor to two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and a former

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing parties have assailed a resurgent far-right opposition party over a report that extremists recently met to discuss the deportation of millions of immigrants, including some with German citizenship, which has led to a string of protests in recent days. Media outlet Correctiv last week reported on the alleged far-right meeting

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will launch next week its biggest wargames in decades with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in months-long military exercises. “Steadfast Defender 24” is aimed at showing Russia that the alliance is determined to defend all of its territory. The exercises come as Russia’s war on Ukraine bogs down. In

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. hit a United Arab Emirates shipping firm and its 18 vessels with sanctions after it transported Russian crude oil above the $60 per barrel price cap. U.S. firms and people can no longer conduct business with the firm. The U.S., EU, countries in the Group

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The writer who accused former President Donald Trump of sexually attacking her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s has resumed her testimony in a New York courtroom. E. Jean Carroll’s second day on the witness stand came Thursday in Manhattan

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are highlighting the battle over abortion rights. Harris will visit Wisconsin on Monday, which would’ve been the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Harris and Biden will hold a joint campaign event with first lady Jill Biden and second

MORONI, Comoros By NAZIR NAZI Associated Press (AP) — People have barricaded streets and burned tires as violent protests continue for a second day in the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros. The unrest comes after President Azali Assoumani was declared the winner of an election denounced by opposition parties as fraudulent. The riots began

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Tens of thousands of public sector workers have walked off the job across Northern Ireland. They are striking to protest political deadlock that has left them without pay increases, and the region without a functioning government. Schools were closed, hospitals offered a skeleton service and authorities warned people not to

BERLIN (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger was stopped for hours by customs at Munich Airport after entering Germany with a luxury watch that was potentially to be auctioned at a charity event. The former movie star and California governor was stopped for a routine check after arriving Wednesday, customs spokesperson Thomas Meister said. Schwarzenegger was able

AMSTERDAM (AP) — England soccer international Jordan Henderson has arrived in Amsterdam amid reports he is about to sign a deal with struggling Dutch powerhouse Ajax to end his troubled six-month spell in the Saudi Pro League. Henderson was pictured in the Dutch city by British broadcaster Sky Sports. The broadcaster says he met with

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police say that a suspect has been arrested in the brutal killing of an American art dealer who was the co-owner of a prominent gallery in Manhattan. The 75-year-old Brent Sikkema was found dead on Monday with 18 stab wounds in his Rio de Janeiro apartment. Rio state police

BRUSSELS (AP) — European lawmakers have adopted a resolution calling for a permanent cease-fire in Israel’s war against Hamas, on the condition that the Palestinian militant group in Gaza be dismantled and that all hostages it holds be released. The conflict has divided EU countries and political groups at the legislative assembly, and reaching a

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire official in western India says a boat has capsized in a lake and drowned 15 students and one teacher. Jitu Parmar, a fire officer in the city of Vadodara, says 11 students were rescued and a search is on for one missing person. The accident occurred in Harani Lake

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Thousands of cinema lovers, Hollywood celebrities, industry executives and filmmakers from around the world have arrived in a very snowy Park City, Utah, for 10 days of movie watching. The 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, the world’s premier showcase for independent film,

By COLLEEN LONG, GISELA SALOMON AND STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A major sticking point in congressional negotiations over border security and Ukraine aid is the question of whether the Biden administration should continue to have the power to let in migrants who would otherwise be turned away from the United States. Republicans

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested U.S. rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine on charges of domestic violence. He is expected to appear in court on Thursday. The rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernández, was arrested Wednesday in the capital of Santo Domingo and is being held in jail. No