Month: February 2024

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate has voted to lay the foundation to attract nuclear energy projects to a state where coal has fueled the economy for generations. Republican Sen. Danny Carroll says Kentucky should embrace a cross-section of sources — including coal, natural gas and

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members have demanded that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the sixth grade and women’s right to work and move freely. A statement Monday

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban by creating limited exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest was introduced Monday in the GOP-dominated House, as lawmakers wrangle with an issue at the forefront of last year’s campaign for governor. Republican state Rep. Ken Fleming

By JILL COLVIN and DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Emergency crews responded Monday after a letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to the Florida home of Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of former President and GOP front-runner Donald Trump. A person familiar with the matter said that results on the

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Mohegan tribe says it will end its management of Atlantic City’s Resorts casino at the end of this year. The move will conclude a management agreement the tribe’s gambling arm Mohegan Gaming Advisors made with Resorts in  2012 six months after the casino’s co-owner,

A 23-year-old man convicted of fatally shooting two teenagers at a Southern California movie theater during a 2021 showing of “The Forever Purge” has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Joseph Jimenez was found guilty in December of two counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors said he shot 18-year-old Rylee Goodrich

REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — A case of old hockey cards possibly containing the game’s Great One has fetched more than $3.7 million after it was discovered in a Regina home. Heritage Auctions says the winning bidder bought the case of 16 sealed boxes of O-Pee-Chee’s 1979 hockey card collection, amounting to more than 10,000 cards.

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats in the New York Legislature are rejecting a congressional map drawn by the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission. The votes on Monday set the stage for the party to craft lines that help Democrats in battleground House races that could determine control of Congress. The Democratic-dominated

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say Family Dollar Stores has pleaded guilty to holding food, drugs, cosmetics and other items under “insanitary” conditions at a now-closed, rodent-infested distribution center in West Memphis, Arkansas. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Monday that Family Dollar faced one misdemeanor count of causing

By MARK THIESSEN and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A shooting at a home has left multiple people dead and others injured in a small Inupiat whaling village on Alaska’s remote northwest coast. The North Slope Borough issued a statement saying there were “incidents” Sunday in the village of Point Hope

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Organizers of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have asked police not to march at their annual parade this weekend due to the alleged murder of a couple by a police officer. New South Wales Police Force Commissioner Karen Webb responded on Tuesday by urging

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The government of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has condemned a threat by the governor of the oil-rich province of Chubut to cut off energy supplies to the rest of the country amid a dispute over funding reductions. The squabble between Argentina’s central government with the local provinces started late

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Andy Kim says in a federal lawsuit that New Jersey’s primary ballot design unconstitutionally favors candidates who have the support of political party leaders and should be scrapped. The representative, who’s locked in a primary contest for U.S. Senate against the state’s first lady Tammy Murphy, filed the lawsuit

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley was confronted in a New York courtroom Monday about a seamy episode from his past: his 1980 arrest after authorities said they found drugs and a naked 16-year-old girl suffering from an overdose at the Eagles co-founder’s Los Angeles home. Henley was testifying at

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine is set to go tuition-free after receiving a $1 billion donation from former professor Ruth Gottesman. Gottesman announced the gift to students and faculty at the school Monday. The news brought some in the audience to tears and others to their feet, cheering.

SEATTLE (AP) — Police say a 26-year-old man has been killed in a shooting on a light rail train in Seattle. The Seattle Police Department says police responded around 11:30 p.m. Sunday to a report of a  man shot on the light rail train downtown. Police say officers located the man at the University Street

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal case asked a judge Monday to impose a gag order on the former president ahead of next month’s trial, citing what they called his “long history of making public and inflammatory remarks” about people involved in his

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer The U.S. government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to recover nearly $1 billion of costs related to the 2020 wildfires in southern Oregon and northern California. The potential lawsuits were disclosed in an annual report filed Monday by PacifiCorp’s parent company, Berkshire

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Body camera footage released by Houston police on Monday showed off-duty officers with weapons drawn as they confronted a woman who opened fire at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch earlier this month before she was gunned down. Houston police released footage from two of its

By INDIA GRANT Associated Press ON THE MALINCHE VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) — On the flanks of a central Mexico volcano, the country’s female mountaineers have chosen a new “Queen of the Mountains,” complete with crown, ice axe and red cape. The tradition that dates to the 1950s came this year at a somber moment for

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal judges are hearing arguments over whether Mississippi’s legislative maps are diluting the power of Black voters. Lawmakers adjusted the 122 state House districts and 52 Senate districts in 2022 to reflect population changes shown by the Census. The NAACP and several Black residents are

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The political consultant behind robocalls that mimicked President Joe Biden’s voice says he was trying to send a wake-up call about the potential malign uses of artificial intelligence, not influence last month’s New Hampshire primary. Steve Kramer said Monday that he may be portrayed as a

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California Edison will pay $80 million to settle claims on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service connected to a massive wildfire that destroyed more than a thousand homes and other structures in 2017. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says the utility agreed to the settlement on Friday without admitting wrongdoing or

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A member of the jury that convicted a South Carolina man of a hate crime based on gender identity has opened up about the historic case. Jurors last Friday found Daqua Ritter guilty in the fatal shooting of Dime Doe, a transgender woman whom

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Nearly 400 medical professionals in West Virginia have signed onto a letter condemning a bill advancing in the state House of Delegates that would bar transgender youth at risk for suicide from accessing medical interventions like hormone therapy. Advanced to the full chamber by a House

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Duke coach Jon Scheyer wants the Atlantic Coast Conference to implement measures to prevent court-storming after star big man Kyle Filipowski was hobbled following a collision with a fan during a weekend loss at Wake Forest. Scheyer said Monday that Filipowski was “a little bit sore” following the incident,

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Legislation that would end tax benefits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy is on its way to Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who hasn’t said whether he supports it. The Richmond-based women’s group was established after the Civil War and helped erect many of the

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Married people in West Virginia could be charged with certain acts of sexual abuse against their spouses for the first time under a bill passed by the state Senate. The bill pushed by former prosecuting attorney Republican Sen. Ryan Weld would remove marriage as a defense

TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) — The mother of a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy who vanished nearly a week ago and a man her son was staying have been formally charged with child neglect in connection with the boy’s disappearance. Elijah Vue was last seen on Feb. 20 at a residence in Two Rivers, where prosecutors say

By JEFF AMY and SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Students at two Georgia colleges are grappling with the killing of a nursing student killed in a violent act that Republicans including former President Donald Trump and Gov. Brian Kemp blamed on the immigration policies of President Joe Biden. The killing of 22-year-old

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A U.S.-owned cruise ship with more than 3,000 passengers and crew onboard was finally allowed to dock in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius on Monday having been quarantined offshore over fears of an outbreak of the cholera disease onboard. The Mauritius government cleared

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police say at least seven people have been shot at a crowded soccer match in the Cayman Islands and were hospitalized with serious injuries. Police say the shooting they believe could be gang-related occurred late Sunday in West Bay. It is located in the

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall says an explosive device was detonated outside his office over the weekend. Marshall issued a brief statement Monday confirming one one was injured. He said the device was detonated early Saturday outside the office in downtown Montgomery. He asked anyone with information to contact the Alabama

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has ruled that laws allowing early voting and permanent absentee status violate the state’s constitution and are invalid. A Superior Court judge late Friday denied a motion by Delaware’s election commissioner to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a state elections inspector and the

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Government and aviation-industry experts say Boeing has made some strides toward improving its safety culture, but employees could still be subject to retaliation for reporting issues. That’s one of the findings in a report presented Monday to the Federal Aviation Administration. The experts say that when it comes to

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal review about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization for complictions from prostate cancer surgery blames privacy restrictions and staff hesitancy for the Pentagon’s failure last month to quickly notify the president and other senior leaders. The review, which was done by Austin’s

LONDON (AP) — A proof copy of the first Harry Potter novel that was bought for pennies in a second-hand bookshop almost 30 years ago has sold at auction for 11,000 pounds, or $13,900. British auctioneers Hanson’s said Monday that the first-edition copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” which states “uncorrected proof copy”

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press As a powerful winter storm dumped deep snow in parts of the West on Monday, much of the central United States was unseasonably warm. In Wisconsin, where temperatures this time of year are generally freezing, people were playing golf. In neighboring Iowa, people walked their dogs in temperatures warm enough

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is sending the nation’s top health official to meet with patients and doctors in Alabama to discuss a controversial court ruling that upended in vitro fertilization treatment in the state. The ruling by the Republican-controlled Alabama Supreme Court has unexpectedly propelled the issue of

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say an Alabama judge remains hospitalized after a weekend shooting at his home, and his son has been arrested in connection with the shooting. Montgomery County Sheriff Derrick Cunningham told news outlets that Johnny Hardwick, the presiding judge of the 15th Judicial Circuit in that county, underwent surgery after Saturday’s

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — According to a report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog seen by The Associated Press, Iran has further increased its total stockpile of uranium and continues to bar several of the most experienced inspectors from monitoring its nuclear program. Monday’s IAEA report estimated that as of Feb.

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The U.S. government has reiterated its support to help restore peace and calm to Haiti and says it will provide money, equipment and logistical support to a multinational force whose deployment remains uncertain. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who is in Guyana

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has set a trial date for Alec Baldwin on an involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from a deadly shooting on the set of the movie “Rust.” Jury selection is scheduled to begin July 9, with the trial starting the following day. The proceedings are expected to last

By ELISE MORTON Vadim Krasikov’s name has come up in recent weeks in relation to prisoner swaps involving now deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Krasikov is serving a life sentence in Germany for the 2019 killing in Berlin of Zelimkhan “Tornike” Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old Georgian citizen of

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Almost 50 years after the novel “Shogun” became a massive hit, the James Clavell fictional saga makes its way to FX. Set in Japan in 1600, it’s rooted in the real history of the period, a dangerous time when several warlords jockeyed for ultimate power

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister announced his government’s resignation on Monday, seen as the first step in a reform process demanded by the United States as part of its latest ambitious plans to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it will do little to address the PA’s longstanding lack of legitimacy

LONDON (AP) — Financier and philanthropist Jacob Rothschild, of the renowned Rothschild banking dynasty, has died at 87, his family said Monday. Rothschild began his career in the family bank, NM Rothschild & Sons, in 1963, before breaking away to start businesses and charitable organizations. His family paid tribute to him in a statement. “Our