Month: April 2024

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said it would pause the implementation of its new climate disclosure rule while it defended the regulation in court. Wall Street’s top regulator voted in March on the final rule, which requires some public companies in the U.S. to

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A Dominican judge denied a request by Wander Franco to suspend required monthly meetings with authorities investigating allegations the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl. The judge also rejected a petition to return a $33,000 deposit Franco paid

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal job safety officials are beginning their investigation into the collapse of a crane in downtown Fort Lauderdale that killed a worker. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday began trying to determine what caused Thursday afternoon’s collapse that crushed two cars on a busy bridge that crosses the

INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) — Skiing power couple Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have announced they’re engaged to be married. Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion who has won a record 97 World Cup races, holds her ring up to the camera in one of several photos they posted on their social media accounts. The 31-year-old

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as his special envoy for Myanmar. The post has been vacant for 10 months as the country’s conflict escalated into the worst violence since the military takeover in 2021. Bishop will replace Noeleen Heyzer, a former U.N. undersecretary-general for

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Three long-retired Philadelphia police detectives must stand trial, accused of lying under oath at the 2016 retrial of a man the jury exonerated in a 1991 rape and murder. Experts in innocence cases say it’s unusual for police or prosecutors to face criminal charges over misconduct that

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press A new Hulu limited-series called “We Were the Lucky Ones” follows a Jewish family in Poland during World War II who get separated and spend years trying to reunite. It’s based on a book by Georgia Hunter, who wrote about her own family history. The show’s main cast is all

NEW YORK (AP) — A majority of workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are calling for a vote to join the United Auto Workers union, which is on a drive to sign up non-union plants across the country. According to the UAW, the Mercedes workers have filed a petition with the National Labor

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man found guilty but mentally ill in the killing an Indianapolis police officer has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting his then-girlfriend but to time served for killing the officer. The city’s police chief calls the sentence “deeply” disappointing. Thirty-one-year-old Elliahs Dorsey was found guilty but mentally ill

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is advancing a bipartisan bill to allow people convicted of felonies to apply to vote again without getting gun rights restored. The bipartisan effort to untangle the two rights has cleared early hurdles but several remain. The bill faces some GOP skepticism in the session’s

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Karen Nickel has been dealing with lupus and other illnesses for years, illnesses she blames on childhood exposure to a suburban St. Louis creek where Cold War-era nuclear waste was dumped decades ago. It’s time, she said Friday, for the federal government to start making amends. “People have died and

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a woman who was injured during a chaotic protest of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in 2016. Sophia Wilansky alleged officers “attacked her with less-lethal and explosive munitions” and nearly severed her hand. She

MINNETONKA, Minn. (AP) — Family members described an American tourist who was killed in Africa when a bull elephant charged the truck she was riding in as an adventurer. They identified her as 79-year-old Gail Mattson, of Minnetonka, Minnesota. A safari company says she was with other tourists on a game drive in a Zambian

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The English indie-pop band Glass Animals, who made a splash with the song “Heat Waves” a few years ago, returns this summer with an album exploring love. A few furious weeks of writing by frontman, songwriter and producer Dave Bayley ended up with the band’s

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian police say that underpaid and exploited Chinese laborers working for an unauthorized subcontractor made handbags and accessories for the Giorgio Armani fashion house. They say there was a series of supply chain abuses that the in-house production company failed to properly monitor. The Giorgio Armani fashion

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The authoritarian president of Belarus says his country will suspend participation in the troubled Conventional Forces in Europe treaty that once was a key security doctrine for the continent. President Alexander Lukashenko has introduced a bill calling for the suspension to the parliament, which is fully under his control. The treaty,

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will announce a significant new plan next week to cancel federal student loan debt for new categories of borrowers. It comes nearly a year after the Supreme Court ended his administration’s first attempt to relieve debt for millions who attended college. Biden will

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In times of triple-digit inflation, Argentines are used to seeing prices for household goods skyrocket, but even they are shocked by the cost of this season’s must-have item: mosquito repellent. Shops across Buenos Aires saw their supply plummet this year as dengue fever cases surged,

By KEN MILLER Associated Press The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says foul play is suspected in the disappearance of two Kansas women whose vehicle was found abandoned in Oklahoma. OSBI spokesperson Hunter McKee said Friday that evidence found in the vehicle in Texas County indicates 27-year-old Veronica Butler and 39-year-old Jilian Kelley of Hugoton,

Associated Press BOGOTÁ (AP) — Colombia suffered a series of attacks Thursday night and Friday morning, marking the first major assault against its military since a mafia group born from the now-defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced it was scaling up operations earlier this week. The army said the attacks in the war-torn

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro’s top court has overturned a decision to hand over a South Korean mogul known as “the cryptocurrency king” to his native country. The move marks yet another twist in a months-long legal saga in the case of Do Kwon, the Terraform Labs founder arrested in

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mortgage rates are expected to come down later this year, but any benefit to homebuyers could be muted by developments in the market for financial instruments tied to mortgages. Over the last couple of years, uncertainty about inflation and the trajectory of mortgage rates led

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Zach Edey of Purdue is The Associated Press Player of the Year in men’s college basketbal. He is the first back-to-back winner since Ralph Sampson at Virginia in the 1980s. Edey is a 7-foot-4 center who led his team to its first Final Four

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces. Friday’s NOAA calculations show carbon dioxide, the most important and abundant of the human-caused greenhouse gases, rose in 2023 by the third

By JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur province for the first time in months following two successful cross-border operations but the population still faces widespread starvation unless more help arrives. The yearlong war between military and paramilitary forces in Sudan is causing

MARSHALL, Mich. (AP) — Wildlife officials say an animal a Michigan hunter thought was a big coyote when he shot it in January has been determined to be a gray wolf. That’s the first time the species has been found in southern Michigan in more than a century. Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources says the

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday defended a new $20 billion federal “green bank” program. EPA Administrator Michael Regan said it will finance projects to combat climate change, including in disadvantaged communities most affected by pollution. Regan said the money could fund things like

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bronny James will enter the NBA draft after one season at Southern California that was shortened by his recovery from cardiac arrest. The 19-year-old son of LeBron James announced Friday on his Instagram account that he also plans to retain his college eligibility and will

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Attorneys for a condemned Missouri man say the state’s execution protocol allows for “surgery without anesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the lethal drug doesn’t work. Brian Dorsey is scheduled for execution Tuesday for killing his cousin and her husband

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has launched a new currency to replace its previous one that in recent months has been battered by depreciation, and in some instances rejection by the population. Authorities hope the new measure will halt a currency crisis underlining the country’s yearslong economic troubles. Reserve Bank

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two Muslim women who were forced to remove their head coverings to be photographed after they were arrested. The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2018 by Jamilla Clark and Arwa Aziz,

MONCURE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane experiencing engine problems struck two vehicles as it landed on a highway near a North Carolina airport, but no injuries were reported. The Federal Aviation Administration says the single-engine Lancair 360 with only the pilot on board landed on a highway near Raleigh Executive Jetport at

BERLIN (AP) — Police say an incendiary device has been thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany but caused only minor damage. No one was injured. The incident in the city of Oldenburg happened early Friday afternoon. The fire was discovered quickly and didn’t spread, and the fire service didn’t need to

NEW YORK (AP) — An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said as residents felt rumbling across the Eastern Seaboard. The agency reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey. The Fire Department of New York said there were

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has received a medal from the pro-Russian leader of Bosnia’s Serbs, who has been sanctioned by the U.S. and Britain because of his separatist policies. Orban visited the Bosnian Serb administrative headquarters of Banja Luka on Friday as part of a visit to Bosnia. He

BALTIMORE (AP) — A tentative timeline has been released for how soon authorities can reopen crucial shipping channels in Baltimore. Commercial-vessel traffic has been blocked since last week’s bridge collapse. Engineers expect to restore navigation in and out of the Port of Baltimore by the end of April. A permanent navigation channel could be open

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson is pumping more money into heart care with a roughly $13 billion deal for Shockwave Medical, which specializes in technology that helps open clogged arteries. The health care giant said Friday that it will spend $335 in cash for each share of Shockwave. The deal has

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s is buying its restaurants in Israel from a longtime franchisee, hoping to reset sales that have slumped due to boycotts in the region. The Chicago-based burger giant said Friday it will buy Alonyal Limited, which owns and operates 225 restaurants in Israel. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. McDonald’s says

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte arrived at the public prosecutors’ office Friday to testify after authorities said the president possesses jewelry including Rolex watches and received cash transfers totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. The prosecutors’ office estimated that her jewelry may be worth

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese defense officials are meeting for the first time in nearly two years to discuss unsafe and aggressive ship and aircraft incidents between the two militaries in the Pacific region. The gathering in Hawaii restarts a dialogue that Beijing abruptly ended in a dispute

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It has been 21 years since Sean Paul’s dancehall anthem “Get Busy” topped the Billboard Hot 100 and introduced new audiences to his Jamaican genres. “It’s changed for me now,” Sean Paul told The Associated Press, reflecting on the song’s legacy. “Because when I say,

VIENNA (AP) — Experts say Austrian glaciers receded last year at a rapid pace and the Alpine country is likely to be largely ice-free in 40 to 45 years. The Austrian Alpine Club said Friday that, of the 93 glaciers its volunteers measured and observed, all but one receded in 2022-2023. It said in an

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s deputy foreign minister has handed a diplomatic note to Israel’s ambassador protesting the killing of a Polish aid worker in an attack earlier this week on a convoy of aid workers in Gaza. After the meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna told reporters in Warsaw

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — An international campaign to ban surrogacy has received a strong endorsement from the Vatican. A top official is calling for a broad-based alliance to stop the “commercialization of life” catering to wealthy would-be parents. A Vatican-affiliated university hosted a two-day conference promoting an international treaty to outlaw