Month: August 2023

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan fruit grower who opposes same-sex marriage has won a key decision in a religious liberty lawsuit against East Lansing, Michigan. The city had barred Steve Tennes from its seasonal public market in 2017 after learning that he wasn’t allowing same-sex weddings at his orchard, 22 miles away. Now

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s climate chief will lead a broad center-left coalition of social democrats and greens going into the Dutch elections in November  But he’ll have to quit his job in the EU’s executive branch. Social Democrat Frans Timmermans  was the only candidate and won 91.8% of votes cast by party members

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un severely rebuked his premier and other senior officials over what he called their irresponsible response to recent flooding of farmlands along the country’s western coast, state media reported Tuesday. Summer floods in North Korea often cause serious damage to

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — While sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell again last month, the national median home sales price rose to $406,700, marking its first annual increase since January, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. Elevated mortgage rates and a stubbornly low home inventory have been

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried can’t adequately prepare for trial in six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers, necessary medications to help him concentrate, and a better diet than bread, water and peanut butter, his lawyers told a magistrate judge Tuesday. The lawyers made

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK. (AP) — Wander Franco has been placed on administrative leave indefinitely by Major League Baseball while authorities in the Dominican Republic investigate the Tampa Bay Rays’ All-Star shortstop for an alleged relationship with a minor. The 22-year-old will be paid and receive service time while on administrative

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — John Eastman, the conservative attorney who pushed a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, turned himself in to authorities Tuesday on charges in the Georgia case alleging an illegal plot to overturn the former president’s 2020 election loss. Eastman was booked at the Fulton County jail

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says a 64-year-old man spent three days stranded on an island in the Bahamas until being rescued. Aircrews had spotted flares being fired near a disabled sailboat. A crew from Air Station Miami dropped food, water and a radio to communicate with the man. A Coast Guard cutter

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Two unpopular friends, PJ and Josie,  are eager to lose their virginity to two beautiful cheerleaders in the wild new comedy “Bottoms,” which opens in theaters Friday. The only way they can figure out how to get close to said cheerleaders, however, is to form an all-female self-defense club

By JOHN HANNA and JIM SALTER Associated Press MARION, Kan. (AP) — Newly released video shows the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronting police officers as they searched her home in a raid that has drawn national scrutiny, at one point demanding: “Get out of my house!” Video released by the newspaper Monday

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister has responded to not being invited by Greece to a dinner for top officials from nine Balkan nations and the European Union by saying that in “such turbulent times” Europe’s unity is “larger than what divides us.” A day earlier, Greece’s prime minister

By DAVID BRUNAT and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s acting prime minister said it was “unacceptable” that the Spanish soccer federation president kissed a player on the lips without her consent, as pressure builds on Luis Rubiales to resign for tarnishing the team’s Women’s World Cup championship. Pedro Sánchez praised the

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda confirms that Russia has begun shifting some short-range nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus. Duda said Tuesday the move will change the security architecture of the region and the entire NATO military alliance. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans in March to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Some U.S. states are turning down all or most of their initial share of federal money to find and replace lead pipes. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law included $15 billion to help remove lead pipes that can deposit dangerous amounts of lead in tap water. The money

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Fire Department says a succession of power outages at a hospital prompted the evacuation of 28 patients in critical condition to other facilities. More than 200 other patients at Adventist Health White Memorial were moved to another building early Tuesday, and a baby boy was delivered by staff

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says former Obama administration attorney Ed Siskel is the new White House counsel. Siskel helped craft the Obama administration’s response to the congressional investigations into the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. Siskel takes over in September during a

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Dominican Republic has shut down much of the country as Tropical Storm Franklin takes aim at the island of Hispaniola that it shares with Haiti and threatens to unleash landslides and heavy floods. The storm was expected to make landfall

By TIFFANY STANLEY Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In 2015, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott attended the funerals of those slain by a racist gunman at Mother Emanuel AME Church. Scott would later tear up on the Senate floor recounting the faith of the fallen and their families. Haley would go on to write

By NDEYE SENE MBENGUE and ZANE IRWIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese authorities say 37 migrants who were rescued off the coast of Cape Verde have been brought back home. A boat carrying more than 100 people is believed to have set off from Senegal toward Spain’s Canary Islands on July 10. More

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A former government minister from the Central African Republic has denied involvement in crimes against humanity and war crimes for his alleged role in a deadly conflict in the impoverished nation. Maxime Jeoffroy Eli Mokom Gawaka issued the denial at a preliminary hearing Tuesday at the International Criminal Court. Prosecutors

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has been meeting with leaders of Balkan nations and the head of the European Commission on the sidelines of a meeting between European and Balkan leaders in the Greek capital, Athens. The leaders included Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, whose country has refused to join the international sanctions