Month: October 2023

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The upcoming $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot is the world’s fifth-largest lottery prize due to higher interest rates, long odds, fewer ticket sales per drawing, and luck. A combination of all those factors means the jackpot could eventually top the record lottery prize of over $2

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R&B icon Maxwell says he’s preparing a future album that will include teenage songs before his professional music career began, as well as songs he loved that weren’t included on early albums. But before that project drops, his long-awaited “blacksummers’NIGHT” album will arrive, marking his

MEXICO CITY (AP) — At least 16 migrants from Venezuela and Haiti died early Friday in a bus crash in southern Mexico, authorities said. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute originally reported 18 dead, but later lowered that figure. Prosecutors in the southern state of Oaxaca later said there had been an overcount due to some of

By RIO YAMAT and JOHN ANTCZAK LAS VEGAS (AP) — The man charged with murder in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur knew the gravity of his arrest last week near his home on the outskirts of Las Vegas, according to police body camera footage released Friday. “So what they got you for, man?” an

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians have marched in anger at a funeral procession for a 19-year-old killed by Israeli security forces after Jewish settlers rampaged through a flashpoint West Bank town the night before. The youth’s death came as tensions have escalated during the Jewish holiday season. It marked

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial will roll ahead next week after the former president lost a bid Friday to halt the proceedings while he fights a pretrial ruling that could strip him of Trump Tower and other marquee properties. An appeals court judge rebuffed Trump’s

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s Supreme Court has declined to hear special appeals from the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her convictions in six corruption cases where she was found guilty of abusing her authority and accepting bribes. The 78-year-old Suu Kyi, who was arrested when the army

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says the army has rescued more than 100 migrants after their boat faced technical problems in the Mediterranean off the coast of the northern city of Tripoli. The agency says the boat called for help after it ran into difficulties Friday afternoon in Lebanese territorial waters. For

BERLIN (AP) — German news agency dpa is reporting that prosecutors have said that testimony from witnesses hasn’t revealed any indication so far that a co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was assaulted at an election rally. Tino Chrupalla was given medical treatment and then taken to a hospital shortly before he was due to

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — When Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon Dr. Joseph Sakran was notified about a shooting with multiple victims on the campus of Morgan State University earlier this week, he relied on a unique combination of training and personal experience. Sakran decided to work in medicine after becoming a victim

By ELISE RYAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In just four songs on his latest EP, “Live For Me,” Omar Apollo processes death, grief, acceptance and the lack of it — big, traumatic emotions — through intimate, lush sounds. The EP, out Friday, follows Apollo’s 2022 debut album “Ivory” and a 2023 Grammy Nomination

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI and BRIAN INGANGA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of Muslims in Kenya’s capital have rallied outside the Supreme Court to protest its decision last month to reaffirm the LGBTQ community’s right of association. The protesters say the verdict has condoned immorality. They are demanding the resignation of three of the

PARIS (AP) — French investigative judges have filed preliminary charges against former President Nicolas Sarkozy. The preliminary charges were filed on Friday. They concern his alleged involvement in an attempt to mislead magistrates in order to clear him in a case regarding the suspected illegal financing from Libya of his 2007 presidential campaign. Sarkozy has

By KATE BRUMBACK and R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia state troopers who shot and killed an environmental activist at the site of a planned police and firefighter training center near Atlanta will not be charged, a prosecutor announced Friday, saying he found that their use of deadly force was “objectively reasonable.” Opponents

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A man who bred dogs for fighting for decades, selling them worldwide and exhibiting “extraordinary cruelty,” has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Antonio Casillas Montero owned Stone City Kennels in Puerto Rico and had been accused of conspiring to violate the Animal Welfare Act. He pleaded guilty

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four months in prison after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books deemed to be “seditious publications.” Kurt Leung was sentenced on Friday after he admitted to importing 18 children’s books featuring wolves and sheep. The 38-year-old clerk was arrested in March after

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former Spanish King Juan Carlos I has won his London court battle with an ex-lover who sought $153 million in damages for allegedly being harassed and spied after their breakup. Danish socialite and businessperson Corinna Larsen said the former monarch caused her “great mental pain” by orchestrating

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Authorities say a woman has been charged with attempted murder and other crimes after she fired several gunshots inside a Connecticut police station. Police say Suzanne Laprise fired several shots into the lobby of the Bristol Police Department Thursday night. The gunshots didn’t penetrate a bulletproof window and no one

LONDON (AP) — Shares in the troubled British lender Metro Bank have bounced back by a third on reports that it has been sounding out bigger rivals to buy a chunk of its assets. Sky News reported Friday that advisers to the bank have contacted Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Group among others. That helped