Month: September 2023

By MEGAN JANETSKY & DEBORA REY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. In Mexico, marchers celebrated the recent decision by the country’s Supreme Court to decriminalize abortions at the federal level.

By TOM KRISHER DETROIT (AP) — Nearly 3.4 million Hyundai and Kia vehicles in the U.S. are under recall due to the risk of engine compartment fires. And it’s important for drivers to check if their car is one of them. According the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the anti-lock brake control module can

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with India’s foreign minister amid a simmering row between New Delhi and Ottawa over allegations of Indian government involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada. Blinken and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar met Thursday at the State Department as

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose case became emblematic of an international movement launched to draw attention to an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women has been convicted of first-degree murder in her death. Tre C. James, 31, was convicted Wednesday in U.S. District Court

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Countries in the Americas are reeling as the flow of migrants reaches historic levels, but international “funds simply aren’t there” for humanitarian needs, a United Nations official said. Ugochi Daniels, deputy director of operations for the International Organization for Migration, said a larger and coordinated regional

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Phillies fan and his emotional support animal, an alligator named WallyGator, were denied entrance to watch Philadelphia host Pittsburgh. Social media posts showed the gator on a leash with a harness with his name on it outside the stadium Wednesday. WallyGator is a working emotional support alligator owned by Joie Henney,

By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles have reached a deal with the state of Maryland that keeps the team at Camden Yards for at least 30 years. That’s according to an announcement after the third inning of Thursday night’s game against Boston. A message appeared on the scoreboard telling

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — An American soldier who sprinted into North Korea and was held there for two months before being returned to the U.S. is set to undergo medical testing and extensive questioning about his time in the isolated country before potentially facing charges under the military justice system. Pvt.

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican Senate Caucus is suspending a GOP state senator after an uproar over his plan to impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for indicting former President Donald Trump. The caucus announced Thursday that it was indefinitely suspending state Sen. Colton Moore of Trenton, who represents

NEW YORK (AP) — A driver who took an 18-wheel tractor-trailer inside a tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn despite height restriction warnings got wedged in. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says the truck driver entered the Hugh L. Carey tunnel going toward Brooklyn around 10 a.m. and made it a little more than halfway before getting

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s top elections official says the No Labels party can’t block candidates from using its ballot line to run for office, boosting opponents’ efforts to force the movement for a third-party presidential ticket to release more information about its anonymous donors. A senior official for Secretary

NEW YORK (AP) — The second Republican presidential debate this week attracted fewer viewers than the first debate in August, with an estimated 9.5 million tuning into Wednesday night’s event. The debate was the second in a row that the front-runner, former President Donald Trump, skipped to have the spotlight follow him instead of his

By THOMAS PEIPERT, COLLEEN SLEVIN, JESSE BEDAYN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The discovery of Suzanne Morphew’s remains more than three years after the Colorado woman went missing on Mother’s Day is raising new questions about what happened and whether her husband remains a suspect since murder charges brought against him were

By BROOKE SCHULTZ and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A senior adviser to Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro who abruptly resigned this week was accused earlier in the year of sexual harassment by a former coworker. The woman says Shapiro’s former legislative affairs secretary, Mike Vereb, subjected her to lewd and unwanted

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man who shot and wounded two people, including a sheriff’s deputy, along the South Carolina coast has been killed by officers. Law enforcement says Ernest Robert Burbage III shot a police dog searching for him on Johns Island on Thursday afternoon, then pointed the high-powered rifle at

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press A hostage situation in Nebraska has ended with the victim’s release and the armed suspect’s arrest. A woman was released from the western Nebraska home Wednesday afternoon after being held hostage for nearly 24 hours. Several hours later, police arrested a 37-year-old man who had crashed into the home’s garage

By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will not seek to get his Georgia election interference case transferred to federal court, his attorneys said in a filing Thursday, three weeks after a judge rejected a similar attempt by the former president’s White House chief of staff. The

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Locals are still suffering from a massive 2014 waste spill at a copper mine in the northern Mexican border state of Sonora, officials with the country’s environmental agency say. They are confirming that the spill was not solely caused by dramatic rainfall, as was initially reported,