Month: November 2023

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will protest a lack of transparency in China’s treatment of a detained Australian democracy blogger when meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing during a trade-focused state visit. Albanese saysd the detention of Yang Hengjun without conviction for almost

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer has announced that he won’t be running for reelection next year. He has represented a solidly Democratic district that includes north and southeast Portland since 1996. He has served in public office for five decades. The 75-year-old representative

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles gallery installation offers a unique art-meets-data look at the eviction crisis in the Venice Beach neighborhood. The exhibit is titled “Where Has All The (affordable) Housing Gone?” It gathers maps, photos, statistics, paintings, poems and the stories of people who have been evicted

By JIM SALTER and MARC LEVY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Most members of Congress have stood firmly behind Israel since the Hamas attack last month, but not Cori Bush. The Missouri Democrat called Israel’s response a “war crime” and an “ethnic cleansing campaign,” and was among the few House members who opposed a

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s photo voter identification law is getting implemented in local elections that wrap up next week. It was enacted nearly five years ago by the Republican-controlled legislature, but litigation blocked its use until a state Supreme Court ruling in April. Election officials say carrying

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced. He was 87. “We lost one of our country’s heroes on Oct. 31,” NASA Administrator Bill

By ALON BERNSTEIN and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press RAMLA, Israel (AP) — Hours after Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, the country’s new fortified, subterranean blood bank kicked into action. Staffers moved equipment into the underground bunker and started saving lives. The Marcus National Blood Services Center in Ramla, near Tel Aviv, had

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — On a sticky Texas morning, Kimberly Mata-Rubio is lacing up her running shoes ahead of two races she is running in Uvalde in tribute to her daughter Lexi, who was killed in the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting. First up is a charity run honoring Lexi’s

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — The 3-point shot of Dallas forward Grant Williams felt slightly off all morning in practice on the new, brightly painted Denver Nuggets court. Turns out, it wasn’t his shot at all. It was a wrongly measured 3-point line. The line’s curvature was painted too far back

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge says a former UCLA gynecologist who was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing student patients can be retried on charges involving four other women. The judge on Friday granted a prosecution request to retry Dr. James Heaps on nine charges after a jury deadlocked on the counts last fall.

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Connor Stalions, the low-level Michigan football staffer who is at the center of an NCAA investigation into impermissible scouting of opponents and sign stealing, has resigned. He had been suspended with pay two weeks ago. An AP source says Stalions failed to show up for a scheduled