Month: October 2023

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi’s absence from Inter Miami’s lineup may be over. The team used social media on Friday to post “Nos vemos mañana” with a photo of the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner. Inter Miami plays host to Cincinnati on Saturday night. The translation of that

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — New clashes have broken out in northern Mali between military soldiers and separatist rebels. Both sides claimed late Friday to control the town of Anefis which is located south of the town of Kidal. The rebels who want to establish an independent state called Azawad claimed

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Simone Biles has won the individual all-around title at the world championships for the sixth time to become the most decorated gymnast in history. Ten years after she won her first in the same Belgian city as a 16-year-old, Biles scored 58.399 points across the

By KEN SWEET and LARRY NEUMEISTER The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried authorized the illegal use of FTX customers’ funds and assets to plug financial gaps at an affiliated hedge fund from the exchange’s earliest days, FTX’s co-founder Gary Wang told a New York jury on Friday, as prosecutors pressed their case

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man and his three adult sons were sentenced Friday for selling a toxic industrial bleach as a fake COVID-19 cure through their online church. Court records show that a federal judge in Miami sentenced 37-year-old Jonathan Grenon and 29-year-old Jordan Grenon to 12 years and seven months in prison on

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Police in the Dominican Republic say a caretaker at a cemetery in Santo Domingo wanted for questioning about the bodies of six newborns that were found discarded nearby has turned himself in. The man has been identified as Hilario Pascual. He has alleged in a video posted online that

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has ordered two Russian diplomats expelled from the United States in retaliation for the expulsion of two U.S. diplomats from Moscow last month. The State Department says it took the action in response to Russia declaring the two American diplomats persona non grata

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A man accused of shooting down a law enforcement drone being used at a business near his Florida home is facing up to 10 years in federal prison. Court records show that 52-year-old Wendell Doyle Goney pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Ocala to possessing a firearm as a convicted

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Friends and family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Sutton say he is hoping to have his public defender removed from his case. They believe Susanne Bales has not done enough to pursue Sutton’s claims of innocence. Supporters gathered outside the Tennessee State Capitol on Friday

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia soon will become the first state in the nation to offer medical marijuana products at independent pharmacies. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the Georgia Board of Pharmacy began accepting applications this week, and nearly 120 pharmacies have agreed to provide medication from Botanical Sciences, one of the state’s two licensed production

By TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union said Friday it will not expand its strikes against Detroit’s three automakers after General Motors made a breakthrough concession on unionizing electric vehicle battery plants. The announcement of the pause in adding factories to the strikes came minutes after GM agreed

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The families of two New Jersey firefighters who were killed battling a July blaze inside a cargo ship say a malfunctioning vehicle being used to load cargo caused the fire. Relatives of Newark firefighters Augusto Acabou and Wayne Brooks Jr. say upcoming litigation will blame the

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — On Friday, Darius Rucker released “Carolyn’s Boy,” an album in tribute to his late mom, who died in 1992 from a heart attack. That was two years before his band, Hootie and the Blowfish, released their debut record “Cracked Rear View.” It went No. 1

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria have identified a nurse as the “principal suspect” in the mysterious death of a Nigerian Afrobeat star which triggered dayslong protests demanding justice. The Lagos police chief told reporters on Friday that investigations into the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba who is better known

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Capitol building is one of the most open in the country, which made it easy for a man to walk inside with a loaded handgun this week in search of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The man was arrested for illegally openly carrying a weapon, but

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say Friday that they have issued an arrest warrant for a 19-year-old acquaintance in the death of a Philadelphia journalist. Authorities say 39-year-old Josh Kruger was shot and killed at his Philadelphia home early Monday. Police say Robert Edmond Davis killed Kruger, and video shows the suspect in the area before

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit, saying he owes them unspecified millions of dollars and can’t pay the millions more that he’ll owe in legal expenses going forward.

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Amazon launched the first test satellites for its planned internet service on Friday as a rival to SpaceX’s broadband network. United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket blasted off with the pair of test satellites, kicking off a program that aims to improve global internet

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New congressional boundaries approved by Democrats that divided up a politically conservative oil-producing region in New Mexico don’t violate the state constitution, a judge ruled in an order published Friday. Judge Fred Van Soelen wrote that the redistricting plan enacted by Democratic state lawmakers in

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s police say prisoners set their cells on fire in a jail in eastern Lebanon, leaving three inmates dead and 16 others injured. The police statement said the fire started in several cells Friday in the main prison in the eastern city of Zahle after an apparent escape attempt. It said 19

By TOUSSAINT N’GOTTA Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has removed the country’s prime minister and dissolved the government, according to a senior public official. The presidency’s secretary general Abdourahmane Cissé said in a statement Friday that Prime Minister Patrick Achi was removed alongside the members of the government

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday denied a request to stop the execution of a Texas inmate who had alleged in a lawsuit that the drugs he is to be injected with next week were exposed to extreme heat and smoke during a recent fire, making them