Month: September 2023

By ANDREW DALTON and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Public support for striking Hollywood actors and writers is broad, but not necessarily deep enough for most people to change their viewing habits, a new poll finds. A majority (55%) of U.S. adults sympathize with the writers and actors in the months-long dispute

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The odd device draws curious onlookers everywhere. From the outside, it resembles little more than a large black box on a tripod. Inside lies its magic: a hand-made wooden camera and darkroom in one. As a small crowd gathers around the box camera, images of beauty and

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Before Doja Cat released her stellar fourth full-length album, the take-no-prisoners “Scarlet,” she bit the hand that feeds. Sort of. On social media, she told her fans to “get a job.” Some left her side. It inspired conversation about celebrity and the fans that make

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A top European Union official says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed an urgent need to reform the “sclerotic and hobbled” global decision making at the United Nations. Charles Michel is the president of the European Council of EU leaders. He expressed support for calls to limit veto powers at the

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Labor unions say they will end disruptive strike actions at Chevron Corp.’s liquefied natural gas plants in Australia that provide more than 5% of global LNG supplies. Chevron Australia and the Offshore Alliance union partnership said Friday they had accepted an arbitrator’s recommendation to resolve a

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Biden administration has pledged over $200 million toward reintroducing salmon in the Upper Columbia River Basin in an agreement with tribes that includes a stay on litigation for 20 years. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and Spokane Tribe of Indians signed the deal with

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s Day 4 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York. Here are the highlights of what happened Thursday at the U.N. and what to keep an eye on today, Friday. The Security Council met to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh on an emergency

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered unspecified steps to further develop relations with Russia after his recent visit to the country as his foreign rivals warn that any cooperation on military weapons would be dangerous and bring consequences. Experts speculated North Korea and Russia

By DIANE JEANTET and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Indigenous people celebrated Thursday after Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled to enshrine their land rights, removing the imminent threat those protections could be rolled back. The justices had been evaluating a lawsuit brought by Santa Catarina state, backed by farmers, seeking to block

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the Canadian Parliament on Friday as he continues his efforts to shore up support from Western allies for Ukraine’s war against the Russian invasion. Zelenskyy arrived at Ottawa’s airport late Thursday after meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and lawmakers in

By MUHAMMAD HATTA and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press PALEMBANG, Indonesia (AP) — A court in Indonesia has convicted a woman of inciting religious hatred and sentenced her to two years in prison for saying a Muslim prayer and then eating pork in a TikTok video. Eating pork is considered forbidden in Islam. Judges at Palembang

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Thousands have marched across Nigeria over the mysterious death of an Afrobeat star whose body has been exhumed for an autopsy as authorities investigate the cause of his demise. Lagos police said the body of Ilerioluwa Aloba, better known as MohBad, was exhumed Thursday in response

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is denying a report claiming he consulted with top military leaders on staging a coup to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from assuming the presidency last January. Three members of Bolsonaro’s legal team said in a statement posted on social media channels Thursday that the

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two teenagers have made initial appearances in adult court in Las Vegas where prosecutors say they’ll face murder and other charges in the video-recording crash of an allegedly stolen car into a bicyclist — killing the man. A judge on Thursday scheduled the teens — ages

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has struck down part of a state law that would have allowed some circuit court judges to be appointed rather than elected in the capital city of Jackson and the surrounding county, which are both majority-Black. Critics said the law was

FORESTHILL, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 19-year-old was rescued after a filming stunt went wrong and left him dangling by a rope from California’s tallest bridge. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responding Monday to the Foresthill Bridge determined the teen and his 17-year-old friend had been filming him swinging from the steel

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s interim police superintendent says a White Sox game last month where two women were wounded by gunfire should have been stopped or delayed. Interim Supt. Fred Waller tells the Chicago Sun-Times that the Aug. 25 game against the Oakland A’s was allowed to continue without interruption because of “miscommunication” on the

BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the nation’s most influential Black leaders say many of the threats to democratic institutions in the U.S. appear to be aimed squarely at their community, including efforts to make voting more difficult, censor lessons around race and weaken social safeguards such as affirmative action. They