Month: September 2023

By DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — A 13-year-old girl from China has won a gold medal in stakeboarding at the Asian Games. Cui Chenxi says she’s now looking forward to next year’s Paris Olympics. The gold medal was one of many for the host nation on Day 4 of the two-week event.

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s city government says Christian Thielemann has been chosen as the new general music director of the city’s Staatsoper, months after Daniel Barenboim ended his three-decade reign. The state culture minister announced Wednesday that the 64-year-old German conductor will take the job at the Staatsoper, or State Opera, next year. Thielemann previously

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Only 3 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries shop around during open enrollment, according to a 2022 analysis, and only 1 in 10 Medicare Advantage enrollees voluntarily switch plans. But a 2020 analysis of Medicare Advantage plan choices found that more than half of beneficiaries overspent by more than $1,000 due to

LONDON (AP) — British police say that a 15-year-old girl has been stabbed to death while on her way to school and a 17-year-old male suspect has been arrested in connection with her death. The Metropolitan Police said that officers were at the scene at around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday around two minutes after receiving reports

RHENEN, Netherlands (AP) — Giant panda Fan Xing began a long journey home on Wednesday — to a country she has never visited. The 3-year-old was given a ceremonial send off Wednesday from Ouwehands Zoo in the Netherlands, where she was born, for the first leg of her journey to China, where she will join

By MATTHEW LEE, KIM TONG-HYUNG and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has secured the release of a U.S. soldier who sprinted across a heavily fortified border into North Korea more than two months ago, and he is on his way back to America, officials announced Wednesday. U.S. ally Sweden and

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Europe is missing a lot of its Ryder Cup stalwarts at Marco Simone because of their defections to join LIV Golf. Rory McIlroy says they will be missing the Ryder Cup more than Team Europe will be missing them. That includes Lee Westwood, missing

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Are high gas prices burning a hole in your wallet? Then maybe it’s a good time to consider a hybrid vehicle. Hybrids gain improved fuel efficiency thanks to specialized powertrains that combine a gas engine with at least one electric motor that’s powered by a battery pack that does not need

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Floyd Keith has waited half a century for a Black coach with Deion Sanders’ swagger and success to shake up college football. The fanfare and hoopla surrounding the Colorado program since Sanders’ arrival has been well documented, but Keith, who for more than a decade was executive director of

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain has given the go-ahead for a major oil and gas project in the North Sea, ignoring warnings from scientists and the United Nations that countries must stop developing new fossil fuel resources if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change. The North

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The French troops who are being forced out of Niger were seen as a key line of defense in efforts led by the West, particularly the U.S. and France, to fight against jihadi violence in Africa’s hard-hit Sahel region. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is pushing

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran claimed on Wednesday that it successfully launched an imaging satellite into space, a move that could further ratchet up tensions with Western nations that fear its space technology could be used to develop nuclear weapons. Iran’s Communication Minister Isa Zarepour said the Noor-3 satellite had been put in

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a shell of a rocket launcher has apparently accidentally exploded at a home in a remote village in southern Pakistan, killing eight people, including women and children. At least two people were also wounded. Investigators believe that family members took the unexploded shell home after finding it at a

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has banned a far-right, racist group known for its indoctrination of children. Authorities also raided dozens of homes of the group’s members in 12 states early on Wednesday morning. The German interior ministry said in a statement that it banned the Artgemeinschaft group, including all its sub-organizations. It described

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press Investigators are trying to solve a mystery about the origin of last month’s deadly Maui wildfire: How did a small, wind-whipped fire sparked by downed power lines and declared extinguished flare up again hours later into a devastating inferno that killed at least 97 people?