Month: November 2023

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer All the chairs in the waiting room were filled by dozens of newly arrived migrants waiting to be seen by a Cook County health worker at a clinic in Chicago. Julio Figuera, 43, was among them. He didn’t want to talk much about traveling to Chicago from Venezuela, where

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — In a story published Nov. 2, 2023, about the Israel-Hamas war, The Associated Press reported an incorrect Palestinian injury toll, based on a statement from the Health Ministry in Gaza. At the time, it was more than 23,000, not over 32,000. The ministry later confirmed to the AP that

PHOENIX (AP) — There was no pool party for the Texas Rangers after winning the World Series. A raucous celebration after the franchise’s first championship remained on dry land as about a dozen security officers guarded the pool behind the right-center wall at Chase Field. “Are they going over there?” pitcher Nathan Eovaldi said during

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Football enthusiast Gina Benjamin is not just training for victory in the upcoming Gay Games in Hong Kong, but she’s also on a mission to help push for legal reform for same-sex marriage. After moving to Hong Kong from Britain in 2016, Benjamin, 33, met her

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Putin isn’t quite the man he used to be — more than a decade has passed since the Russian president engaged in public stunts to boast of his vigor by hugging a polar bear or riding a horse barechested in the mountains. The war in

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A divided Alabama Supreme Court has said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas. The method never been used carry out a death sentence. The all-Republican court issued a 6-2 decision on Wednesday. It authorized an execution warrant for Kenneth Eugene Smith. The exact

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea after Japanese officials said the two earlier releases ended smoothly. The discharge of a planned 7,800 tons of treated water began Thursday and will last through Nov.

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in Ohio will be decided in what is expected to be a preview of abortion battles across the country in 2024. Abortion rights groups hope to continue a winning streak in statewide votes on the

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine is the latest state to consider closing an election law loophole to stop foreign government spending on referendums. The ballot measure comes after a Canadian government-owned utility spent $22 million in 2021 on a Maine referendum aimed at stopping a hydropower transmission project. Federal election

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Thursday that states have the authority to block former President Donald Trump from the ballot, with some suggesting that Congress is best positioned to decide whether his role in the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack should prevent

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — This was the summer Deneffy Sánchez was supposed to learn algebra, biology and the other ninth grade classes he failed last year because he was too depressed and overwhelmed. But advancing to 10th grade had to take a back seat for now. He had

AGUANGA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are making progress against a Southern California wildfire but authorities say thousands of homes still remain threatened. The Highland Fire in rural Riverside County began Monday and was pushed by gusty Santa Ana winds. But they eased on Wednesday and fire crews now have the blaze 20% contained. Thousands of

By MATTHEW LEE, COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says that 74 more U.S. citizens have left the Gaza Strip He announced the development as he dispatched his top diplomat to the Mideast for talks with Israeli and Jordanian officials as the nearly four-week old Israel-Hamas war rages

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer Walt Disney Co. said it will acquire a 33% stake in Hulu from Comcast for approximately $8.6 billion, a deal that will give Disney full control of the streaming service. Hulu began in 2007 as a website backed by entertainment conglomerates who hoped to create a bulwark against the

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The host of a weekend family lunch at her Australian country home was charged Thursday with murdering her ex-husband’s parents and aunt with poisonous mushrooms and attempting to murder a fourth guest, police said. Police arrested Erin Patterson, 49, at her home in the Victoria state

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — European privacy officials have widened a ban on Meta’s “behavioral advertising” practices to most of Europe. The Wednesday decision sets up a broader conflict between the continent’s privacy-conscious institutions and an American technology giant. Behavioral advertising is used by Meta’s Facebook and Instagram. It involves