Month: October 2024

Associated Press Since going on strike last month, Boeing factory workers repeated one theme from their picket lines: They want their pensions back. Boeing froze its traditional pension plan when union members narrowly agreed to the move in exchange for keeping production of the company’s airline planes in the Seattle area. Like other large employers,

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York says a recent Supreme Court decision does not alter its conclusion that New York can enforce laws banning firearms in sensitive locations. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan wrote Thursday that it had reviewed its December 2023 decision in

ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago, authorities announced Thursday. According to a timeline provided by the Kane County Coroner’s Office, the property owner found the skull while

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s police raided the Buenos Aires hotel where ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne stayed before dying last week after falling from a third-floor balcony, a government official said Thursday. A police special investigations unit went to the Casa Sur hotel Wednesday night on orders from the public prosecutors’ office. Officers

AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials said Thursday that there’s no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after investigating a mysterious infection in Missouri. The illness reported last month was different from the 30 other bird flu infections in people in the U.S. so far this year. Those cases have been

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The unions representing more than 7,000 CVS workers in Southern California have reached a tentative agreement on a contract. This came after workers went on strike at seven stores in the Los Angeles area over the weekend demanding better pay, staffing, and more affordable healthcare. The previous contract expired

NEW YORK (AP) — A pilot program testing AI-powered weapons scanners inside some New York City subway stations this summer did not detect any passengers with firearms — but falsely alerted more than 100 times. That is according to newly released police data. Through nearly 3,000 searches, the scanners turned up more than 118 false

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty in a shooting that wounded one person inside an Indiana shopping mall last year has been sentenced to one year of home detention. A magistrate sentenced 28-year-old Quentin A. Lewis of Fort Wayne on Wednesday to three years with two years suspended. The remaining year

Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s former Prime Minister Hama Amadou has died in a hospital in the country’s capital, Niamey. He had been suffering from medical problems for years. The death was confirmed by a former deputy and close friend of Amadou on Thursday. He was 74. Amadou was prime minister on two

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An elections board is deadlocked about whether a Democratic member of Congress from Ohio resides in her Akron district. Thursday’s tie vote along party lines by the Summit County Board of Elections means the state’s Republican secretary of state will have to break the tie. U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes described the

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A nurse who worked at an Alabama jail is the sixth person to agree to plead guilty in connection with the death of a 33-year-old mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held naked in a concrete cell. Court records show that Daniel Wyers agreed to plead guilty to a

Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — For the first time under President Joe Biden, a federal permit for a new lithium-boron mine has been approved for a Nevada project essential to his clean energy agenda, despite conservationists’ vows to sue over the plan they insist will drive an endangered wildflower to extinction. Ioneer Ltd.’s mine

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal investigators say the operator of a Chicago commuter train that crashed almost a year ago had alcohol in his system. The Chicago Transit Authority train crashed into a snow plow on Nov. 16, injuring nearly 40 people. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a National Transportation Safety Board report states a hospital

AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the upcoming “See Her Be Her” documentary, sports photographer Jean Fruth and her team chronicle seven standout female baseball players doing more than just playing the game in their corners of the world spanning the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Japan, South Korea, Cuba and Uganda. The

Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Online sports betting is bringing in new revenue for New Jersey, but it is also creating concerns over gambling addiction and whether it harms the finances of Atlantic City’s casinos, which depend on in-person gamblers. That was the testimony of gambling industry and problem gambling treatment workers to state

Associated Press ACAMBARO, Mexico (AP) — A car bomb left outside a police station in western Mexico has wounded three people. Prosecutors in the violence-wracked state of Guanajuato said Thursday that the three were wounded in the town of Acambaro. They said another explosion occurred in the nearby town of Jerecuaro, but nobody was wounded.

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors recommended Thursday Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents in the family’s Beverly Hills home, providing the brothers with a chance at freedom after 34 years behind bars. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced during a Thursday news conference that

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida is suing to force the Justice Department to stop blocking the state’s investigation into the second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed the lawsuit Wednesday against Attorney General Merrick Garland after federal officials told Florida to temporarily halt its own investigation while

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Republican official in Georgia is appealing a judge’s order that she and other election leaders in the state’s most populous county must vote to certify results by the deadline set in law. Julie Adams of the Fulton County election board filed her notice of appeal Wednesday. Certification has become

BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — AC Milan’s weekend match at Bologna in Italy’s top soccer league has been postponed. Bologna officials made the announcement following extensive flooding in the central Italian city. The Serie A match had been scheduled for Saturday. Bologna is the capital of the Emilia-Romagna region that has been hard hit by torrential

Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will significantly reduce the number of new immigrants in the country after acknowledging his government failed to get the balance right coming out of the pandemic. Trudeau’s Liberal government had targeted bringing in 500,000 new permanent residents in both 2025 and 2026. Trudeau now

Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats trying to win control of the House on Election Day might have their best chance of flipping a seat in central New York. That’s where a moderate Democrat is facing off against a first-term Republican incumbent in a district former President Donald Trump lost by double digits. The

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The undead, Medieval-themed suburban restaurants, the mall. Druidism, decapitated chickens, rebirth. Church, sheep slaughter, science fiction. These are a few, not all, of the topics touched upon on the Pixies’ 10th studio album, “The Night the Zombies Came.” It’s a 13-track kaleidoscopic collection of songs that veer from

Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will lead his Liberal Party into the next election, dismissing a request by some party members to not run for a fourth term. Trudeau met with his Liberal members of Parliament for three hours Wednesday, where he learned that more than 20 signed a

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Two former Penn State football players facing felony rape charges are free on bond while they await their next hearing. Kaveion Keys and Jameial Lyons, both 19, are accused of raping a 17-year-old Penn State student at their on-campus apartment in early July. According to the criminal complaint, a second

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia secretary of state’s office said it acted quickly earlier this month to thwart an attempt to flood the state’s absentee voter portal in an apparent attempt to crash the site. The attack was limited to that part of the state’s website, which voters use to request an absentee

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American cryptocurrency executive held in Nigeria for the past eight months has been released after authorities there announced that they were ending his money laundering trial on health and diplomatic grounds. Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of financial crime compliance, was freed on humanitarian parole and was returning to the

AP Health Writer From Boar’s Head deli meat and waffles to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, this year’s illness outbreaks — some deadly — and food recalls may have Americans wondering whether there are new risks in the U.S. food supply. But experts say it’s business as usual when it comes to the complicated task of keeping

Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Beyoncé is expected to appear Friday in her hometown of Houston at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to three people familiar with the matter. Harris’ presidential campaign has taken on Beyonce’s 2016 track “Freedom” as its anthem, and the singer’s planned appearance brings a high-level of star

Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs on Thursday opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter, forcing it to land in Port-au-Prince in the latest attack in Haiti’s capital as violence surges once again. No one was injured as several rounds of gunfire hit the helicopter that was carrying three crew members and 15 passengers,

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo’s President announced a national commission will be set up next year to draft a new constitution for the central African country, raising concern among the opposition over possible altering of the presidential term limit. Felix Tshisekedi was reelected in December with results questioned by the opposition. Congo’s current

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic has signed a treaty over its relations with the Vatican, becoming one of the last European Union countries to do so. The lower chamber of Parliament rejected the treaty in 2003, saying the Catholic Church would receive preferential treatment over other churches and that it would be disadvantageous for

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan man has been released from prison after 22 years after Detroit-area prosecutors acknowledged that his murder conviction was tainted by the key testimony of a rogue police officer. The officer turned out to be a serial bank robber. Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy says no one knew the

AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Most people have accumulated a pile of data — selfies, emails, videos and more — on their social media and digital accounts over their lifetimes. What happens to it when we die? It’s wise to draft a will spelling out who inherits your physical assets after you’re gone, but

Associated Press Desserts and sweets are a traditional part of the South Asian holiday Diwali. For some, it marks the start of the Hindu New Year, and cooking blogger Hetal Vasavada says everyone wants to start the year with something sweet. The hope is that the rest of year will be sweet, too. In her