Month: October 2023

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan government critic María Corina Machado has been declared the winner of an opposition-organized primary to choose a presidential candidate in polling last weekend that has been denounced by the socialist government as illegitimate. The voting Sunday organized by the National Primary Commission drew more

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and KEN SWEET Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried got a test run at testifying at his New York criminal trial when a judge sent jurors home but let him demonstrate portions of his testimony before deciding what jurors will hear. Bankman-Fried will provide his version Friday of how his

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman has been indicted on murder charges in the deaths of at least four men in the capital city of Columbus, the Ohio Attorney General said Wednesday, though investigators believe there are more victims. Rebecca Auborn, a 33-year-old from Columbus, is accused

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has expelled a prominent Palestinian activist from his home in a West Bank city at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after he hosted a foreign journalist and a prominent Israeli activist. Critics accused the military of using the cover of war to expel a gadfly

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count for triggering a fire alarm as lawmakers scrambled to pass a funding bill before a government shutdown deadline in September. Under an agreement with prosecutors, Bowman will pay a $1,000 fine and serve three months of

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An inquiry has opened into an apartment building fire that killed at least 76 people in South Africa in August and laid bare the deep problems of poverty and neglect in parts of Africa’s richest city. The nighttime blaze swept through a five-story building

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are grappling with ways to use their combined leverage to ensure that more aid reaches Palestinians in need in Gaza. At a summit Thursday, they also worked on helping EU citizens in peril, including some held hostage by Hamas. EU nations have long been

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago father has been convicted of attempting to kill three people to avenge the slaying of his 9-year-old son who was lured with the promise of a juice box from a playground and into an alley by rival gang members in 2015 and shot. The Chicago Tribune reports that a jury

CLINTON, N.C. (AP) — A sheriff in southeast North Carolina says five people have been found fatally shot at a home. News outlets report that Sampson County Sheriff Jimmy Thornton says deputies were called early Thursday to the home off the Garland Highway outside Clinton for a report of a homicide. Thornton says they found

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek army specialists have destroyed an unexploded World War II bomb discovered during work on a massive urban development project at a coastal area south of Athens. Authorities said the 500-pound bomb was destroyed without a detonation. Traffic in the area was halted for more than two hours and several nearby

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister says the authority would not interfere with an International Criminal Court investigation into Hamas’ surprise Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel. Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad al-Maliki says it also will support the court’s overall probe of actions in the

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s top court has cleared a scholar of charges that she defamed Korean sexual slavery victims during the Japanese colonial rule in her contentious book published in 2013. Thursday’s ruling in the criminal case of Park Yu-ha isn’t the end of her long-running legal

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania and with two of the quartet now dead, artificial intelligence has enabled the release next week of what is promised to be the last “new” Beatles song. The track, called “Now And Then,” will be available Thursday, Nov.

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose last week but remains historically low as the labor market continues to show strength amid high interest rates and inflation. Jobless claim applications rose by 10,000 to 210,000 for the week ending Oct. 21, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The previous week’s

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press Norwegian police have launched an investigation into allegations by the three Ingebrigtsen brothers that their father was violent and abusive when they were growing up. Gjert Ingebrigtsen had been their track coach at the Olympics and other events. The three brothers wrote in a newspaper op-ed last week that

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A nonprofit organization in Afghanistan says the Taliban have freed an activist who campaigned for the education of girls. The group Pen Path said Matiullah Wesa was arrested seven months ago and spent 215 days in prison. The group gave no further details Thursday about Wesa’s release or his condition. The

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A famous priest-artist who was thrown out of the Jesuits after being accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse of women has been accepted into a diocese in his native Slovenia. The diocese for the Slovenian city of Koper confirmed the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik was accepted

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — As authorities around the world scramble to draw up guardrails for artificial intelligence, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warns against moving too fast on regulating the rapidly developing technology before it’s fully understood. Sunak warned about acting too quickly even as he outlined a host of

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government has vowed to explore “all legal options” after a Qatari court handed death sentences to eight Indian employees of a Qatari company on spying charges. According to Indian media reports, the eight men are retired Indian navy officers who worked for the consulting

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has hiked interest rates again in efforts to curb inflation, pressing ahead with more conventional economic policies recently embraced by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The bank raised its policy rate by 5 percentage points to 35% on Thursday after inflation hit 61.53% last month. It was the bank’s

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s Supreme Court has refused to void the election of President Bola Tinubu and dismissed the challenges brought by two losing candidates. The petitions had argued that February vote was flawed and that Tinubu was not qualified to seek or hold the presidency. The court held