Month: October 2023

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer YORK, Pa. (AP) — Federal Reserve officials typically gather many of their insights and observations about the economy from some of the top Ph.D. economists in Washington. On a visit Monday to York, Pennsylvania, Chair Jerome Powell got an earful from a group with a decidedly different perspective: Small-business

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense department authorities say the remains of an Ohio sailor killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, have been identified. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Monday that Navy Seaman 2nd Class Stanley C. Galaszewski, 29, of Steubenville, Ohio, was one of 104 crewmen on the battleship USS California killed during

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival program, Bing. His comments came Monday in a landmark antitrust trial against Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Nadella told a packed

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — LeBron James says his 18-year-old son is progressing in his rehabilitation from cardiac arrest in hopes of playing for the University of Southern California this season. Bronny James went into cardiac arrest during a workout at the Galen Center in late July. LeBron James

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Stewart, who famously played a “Star Trek” captain, has boldly gone where no one has gone before — into his past. The actor spent much of the pandemic at his computer writing his memoir, and the result is out this fall, “Making It So,”

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former major league pitcher Trevor Bauer and a woman who accused him of beating and sexually assaulting her in 2021 have settled their legal dispute, Bauer’s attorneys said Monday. “Both of their respective claims have been withdrawn with prejudice, effective today,” attorneys Jon Fetterolf and

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Alok is one of the biggest DJs on the planet, but at just 32 years old, he’s learned that fortune and fame don’t equal happiness. At 24, he says he had financial success but felt “a huge emptiness.” The Brazilian electronic dance music star, who

The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has confirmed he will run in the presidential elections scheduled for December, entering the race as the clear favorite. Egypt will hold a presidential election over three days on December 10-12, with a runoff on Jan. 8-10 if no candidate secures more than

The Associated Press Health insurance provider The Cigna Group will pay more than $172 million over claims it gave the federal government inaccurate Medicare Advantage diagnoses codes in order to inflate reimbursement. The Justice Department says the case centered around allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by submitting and not withdrawing “inaccurate

By JACK DURA and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state senator from North Dakota, his wife and their two young children died when the small plane they were traveling in crashed soon after a refueling stop in Utah, a Senate leader said Monday. Doug Larsen’s death was confirmed Monday in an

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Don Gaetz says he plans to run again for the Florida Senate, which he led as president from 2012 to 2014. He is the father of Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, who’s lately been the chief antagonist of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over spending legislation. The 75-year-old Don Gaetz announced Monday

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Two bars accused of overserving a woman who authorities say drunkenly hit a golf cart carrying a newlywed couple away from their reception, killing the bride, have reached a tentative settlement with the groom, who was seriously injured. Two bars agreed to pay “certain sums” to Aric Hutchinson that were

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The office of Montana’s Republican attorney general is appealing a landmark climate change ruling in which a judge said state agencies aren’t doing enough to protect 16 young plaintiffs from harm caused by global warming. The Attorney General’s Office on Friday said it is going

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The story of a Black man beaten to death in Indianapolis in a racist 1845 lynching is now part of the city’s cultural trail in the form of a historical marker. The marker describing John Tucker’s lynching was unveiled Saturday by state and local leaders and members of the Indiana Remembrance Coalition.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Federal authorities have revealed a reason for the unusual secrecy surrounding a Pennsylvania man’s guilty plea and prison sentence for attacking police during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. In a court filing on Monday, Justice Department prosecutors say Samuel Lazar supplied the government with information as part

BROKEN BOW, Okla. (AP) — A woman riding a lawnmower next to an Oklahoma airport runway was killed when she was struck by the wing of an airplane. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 27-year-old Samantha Hayes died Friday at Broken Bow Municipal Airport, about 185 miles southeast of Oklahoma City. The pilot of the single

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Rockets have told Kevin Porter Jr. that he cannot be with the team in any capacity in the wake of his domestic violence arrest last month. Porter was arrested after an alleged attack on his former WNBA player girlfriend Kysre Gondrezick in a New

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to enact emergency rules to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with large ships. The groups filed their petition with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Sept. 28 in an effort