Month: October 2023

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Those miracles of modern science, the Rolling Stones, celebrated the release of their first album of original music in 18 years with a Manhattan club gig on Thursday. Before a celebrity-strewn audience of invited guests that included Christie Brinkley, Elvis Costello and Trevor Noah at

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has welcomed European Union leaders to the White House. The meeting comes as he tries to assure the leaders that the United States can deliver on promises to send tens of billions of dollars’ worth of aid to wartime Ukraine and Israel. It also

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty to a felony on Friday just as jury selection was getting underway in his trial on charges accusing him of participating in efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election in Georgia. Chesebro, who was charged alongside Trump and 17

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is settling into a new role: defendant. The front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination spent two days this week in a Manhattan courtroom where a civil fraud trial is unfolding. Trump is accused of grossly inflating his net worth and

By JESSE BEDAYN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories. The families that

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the thing that was supposed to make Rep. Jim Jordan the 56th speaker of the House. An onslaught of pressure from the Republican Party base, allies predicted, would compel the GOP’s moderate and establishment members to support Jordan, a hero of the far-right, and help

By LEA SKENE, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Police are searching for a man suspected of fatally shooting a Maryland judge who had awarded custody of the suspect’s children to his wife on the day of the killing, authorities said Friday. The judge was shot in his driveway Thursday

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A pediatricians’ group is warning powdered drink mixes known as “toddler milks” are unregulated, unnecessary and nutritionally incomplete. The drinks are marketed for older babies and toddlers up to age 3. The American Academy of Pediatrics says the products often contain high amounts of added sugar and salt. A

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press KIBBUTZ NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — Nir Oz is one of more than 20 towns and villages in southern Israel that were ambushed in the sweeping assault by Hamas on Oct. 7. In many, the devastation left behind is shocking. But it is clear that Nir Oz, a kibbutz on

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Houston manager Dusty Baker and third baseman Alex Bregman really have no explanation for why the Astros have been so good in that other retractable-roof stadium in Texas. “I have no clue, to be honest with you,” Bregman said. “But I think the focus has

TOPPENISH, Wash. (AP) — Police say a 19-year-old man shot four people in central Washington state, killing three of them, and then killed himself. Toppenish Police Chief John Clary says a 13-year-old boy, an 18-year-old woman and a 21-year-old woman were shot and killed at a house in Toppenish around 5 a.m. Thursday. Clary says

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s national police say a former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 has been arrested. Joseph Badio once worked for the Ministry of Justice and at the government’s anti-corruption unit until he was fired for alleged ethics violations weeks

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The government of France has bestowed a further honor on Atlanta’s Andrew Young. French Ambassador Laurent Bili promoted Young to an officer in France’s Legion of Honor on Thursday in Atlanta. The 91-year-old Young is the former mayor of Atlanta, ambassador to the United Nations under President

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A second Texas audit in as many years of elections in Harris County, the third-most populous county in the U.S., called for improvements but does not suggest that race outcomes in 2022 were impacted by issues that Republicans have used to contest losses and take

By MARIA SHERMAN and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears’ highly anticipated memoir “The Woman in Me” will be released Tuesday, revealing the pop superstar’s personal take on events that have played out publicly in her decades as one of the most scrutinized figures in American life, along with private

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor says a suburban Chicago man has been charged with two hate crimes for allegedly verbally abusing and threatening to shoot two Muslim men. The DuPage County state’s attorney says 46-year-old Larry York of Lombard was denied pretrial release during a court hearing Thursday. Berlin says York confronted the victims

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — More than 15 minutes after the game, Ketel Marte stood at his clubhouse locker, gulping water while trying to finally catch his breath after delivering the Arizona Diamondbacks’ latest clutch postseason moment. “After my hit, I sprinted so hard,” Marte said, shaking his head. Marte capped

NIAMEY The junta in Niger says it has thwarted an escape attempt to by the West African nation’s outed president. In a communique read late Thursday, Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane said that deposed President Mohamed Bazoum had tried to escape detention overnight. The attempt comes nearly three months after the democratically elected leader was detained

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A police detective has testified that a woman whose body was found in the trunk of a car in Georgia had come from South Korea to start anew and ease her depression. Gwinnett County police homicide Det. Angela Carter said in court Thursday that Sehee Cho