Month: August 2023

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer DUBLIN (AP) — The Irish economy is getting a boost from the Notre Dame football game in Dublin. The Pittsburgh Steelers are benefitting, too. The NFL team has front-office representation in Dublin this weekend supporting American football initiatives and gathering intel on the Irish market now that it has

BERLIN (AP) — The deputy governor of the German state of Bavaria has rejected allegations that he was responsible for an antisemitic flyer as a high school student. Hubert Aiwanger said on Saturday that he didn’t write the flyer and considers its contents “disgusting and inhuman.” He said he knows who created it and that

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Forecasters are warning of possible flash flooding and landslides across the eastern Yucatan peninsula and western Cuba, and Florida braced for a possible hurricane by midweek, as a weather system off the coast of Mexico was expected to become a tropical storm by Sunday, the

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — An oral surgeon has been convicted of murdering his girlfriend who overdosed on anesthetic drugs that he administered at his Maryland home. Fifty-year-old James Ryan faces a maximum of 55 years in prison when he is sentenced at a date to be determined. Jurors who convicted Ryan on Friday heard testimony

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston police commissioner says two people have been arrested and multiple weapons recovered in a shooting that wounded at least seven people Saturday morning in a city neighborhood. Police say all seven were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. Police responded around 7:43 a.m. to multiple gunshots in a Dorchester neighborhood.

BEIRUT (AP) — Opposition activists say insurgents in northwest Syria have attacked a government position killing and wounding more than 30 troops. Saturday’s attack came days after Russian and Syrian warplanes carried out several airstrikes on the last major rebel stronghold in the northwest killing several insurgents. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an

By KAVISH HARJAI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the programs set up to ensure affordable internet for all is set to run out by the middle of 2024. The Affordable Connectivity Program’s primary allocation of $14.2 billion is projected to run out unless Congress takes steps to renew it. That could end

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, BERNARD CONDON and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat rows — those wires were bare, uninsulated metal that

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — A recent study showed that tests for sick newborns that look at their full genetic blueprints are nearly twice as good at finding genetic problems as narrower, more commonly used tests. According to the research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the broader

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British Museum says it has recovered some of the 2,000 items believed to have been stolen by an insider. Chairman of trustees George Osborne acknowledged Saturday that the thefts had damaged the museum’s reputation. He said the 264-year-old institution does not have records of everything in

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces struck a cafe in a key front-line area in northeastern Ukraine Saturday, killing two civilians and wounding a third, regional officials said. The shelling near the city of Kupiansk came as U.K. officials said that Russia may try to retake the area, which was

NASSER NASSER Associated Press JENIN, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian news agency has reported that a 20-year-old died of wounds a month after being shot during an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank. The WAFA news agency said Ezzedine Kanan, from the town of Jaba near Jenin, was shot in the head

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Fire department officials say two men have been arrested in different parts of Greece on suspicion of deliberately starting wildfires. One man was arrested on Saturday on the island of Evia for allegedly setting fire to dried grass. The fire department said he confessed to having