Month: November 2023

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Fiji’s leader says that after meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping, he hopes to collaborate with China on upgrading his nation’s shipyards and ports. Sitiveni Rabuka made the remarks to lawmakers in Parliament on Wednesday. Rabuka is generally seen as leaning less toward China than

By VICTOR CAIVANO Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military on Wednesday unveiled what it claimed was a Hamas military facility under Gaza’s largest hospital, showing what appeared to be a subterranean dormitory to a group of foreign journalists who were given a rare glimpse inside the besieged enclave. Dozens of

By COLLEEN LONG, SEUNG MIN KIM, SAM MAGDY and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Negotiations to free the hostages held by Hamas hardly ran smoothly. Hamas resisted as Israel laid waste to huge areas of Gaza. But talks proceeded, aided by intermediaries in Qatar, eventually leading to Wednesday’s agreement. A month and a

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Animal welfare advocates are suing to stop Wisconsin’s new wolf management plan. They say the state violated open meeting laws while drafting the proposal and accuse wildlife officials of disregarding pro-wolf comments. The Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance filed the action Wednesday in Dane County. The organization

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian scientists say Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades due to climate change. According to a new glacier inventory released Wednesday by a government agency, 175 glaciers became extinct between 2016 and 2020. In total, scientists say, the South American country has

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former Penthouse magazine model sued Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose on Wednesday, saying he raped her in a 1989 attack at a New York City hotel that left her with anxiety and depression and harmed her career. Sheila Kennedy, 61, filed the lawsuit in

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s National Guard officers have arrested the alleged security chief for the “Chapitos” wing of the Sinaloa drug cartel. The Public Safety Department’s arrest registry says Nestor Isidro Pérez Salas was detained Wednesday in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan. The department listed his alias as “El Nini.” The U.S. Drug

TEHACHAPI, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a California prison inmate has died after he was stabbed several times by two other prisoners. State prison officials say 38-year-old David Moreno was attacked Wednesday morning at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi. Authorities say he died on the way to a hospital less than an hour later.

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Utah Tech has suspended women’s basketball coach JD Gustin for two games following an investigation into allegations of misconduct by players. The Salt Lake Tribune reported parents of Utah Tech players hired a private investigator who submitted a report to the university in May alleging that Gustin bullied, physically intimidated

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state Supreme Court is refusing to approve rules for a new commission to discipline and remove state prosecutors. The Wednesday ruling means the commission can’t begin operating. Some Republicans in Georgia want the new commission to discipline or remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — He’s been called the Dutch Donald Trump. He’s been threatened with death countless times by Islamic extremists, convicted of insulting Moroccans and the British government once banned him from entering the country. Now Geert Wilders has won a landslide victory in a Dutch election and

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The FBI says a white gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself may have been motivated by racist extremism. The attack at the Walmart near Dayton just days before Thanksgiving injured four shoppers. Investigators say the victims were two Black women,

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii leaders want to make it easier for tourists from Japan to visit the U.S. state by creating a traveler pre-clearance program. Gov. Josh Green and other state officials proposed the idea during a recent visit to Tokyo. Hawaii News Now reported Tuesday that Green hopes allowing travelers from Japan to save

By BASSEM MROUE and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press The mastermind of the Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the worst Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed in generations is a secretive figure, feared on both sides of the battle lines. In Gaza, no figure looms larger in determining the future trajectory of the war than Yehya Sinwar. Obsessive, disciplined

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A jury has found a former senior intelligence official in Canada’s national police force guilty of breaching the country’s secrets law. Jurors declared Cameron Jay Ortis guilty of three counts of violating the Security of Information Act and one count of attempting to do so. Ortis had pleaded not guilty to

By DANIEL POLITI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina ’s President-elect Javier Milei has called for the wholesale reinvention of the government but he has precious little time. And with less than three weeks until his Dec. 10 inauguration, Milei has no executive experience and few allies in his bullpen.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Automaker Stellantis has announced a recall of more than 32,000 of its hybrid Jeep Wrangler SUVs because they pose a potential fire risk. During a review of customer information, Stellantis determined that eight of the hybrid Wranglers had caught fire while they were turned off and parked. Six of the

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Two people accused of operating a high-end brothel network with wealthy and prominent clients in Massachusetts and the Washington, D.C., suburbs will remain behind bars for now. Lawyers for Han Lee and Junmyung Lee agreed to a voluntary order of detention during a brief court

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota is defending itself from claims of political bias after an unofficial message cautioning airmen to not attend a conservative political rally began circulating on social media. At issue is the Dakota Patriot Rally, an event held Friday featuring a pro-Trump group known

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More children were apparently sickened by apple puree pouches recently recalled due to dangerous lead contamination, the Food and Drug Administration said. The agency has received 52 reports of elevated lead levels among children who reportedly consumed the products, which is up from 34 cases reported

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been quite a week for ChatGPT-maker OpenAI — and co-founder Sam Altman. Altman, who helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab back in 2015, was removed as CEO Friday in a sudden and mostly unexplained exit that stunned the industry. And while his chief executive title was swiftly reinstated

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press A Vermont religious school that withdrew its girls basketball team from a playoff game because a transgender student was playing on the opposing team is suing Vermont. The lawsuit comes after the state banned the Mid Vermont Christian School from competing in state tournaments, saying it violated policies on race,

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of judges has ruled that a Republican-drawn map for Tennessee’s Senate seats violates the state Constitution because lawmakers incorrectly numbered the legislative districts in left-leaning Nashville. The numbering matters because the four-year Senate terms are staggered, putting some districts on the

By BECKY BOHRER and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Three people are dead and three others remain missing after a landslide ripped through a remote Alaska fishing community this week. The landslide slammed into three homes in the southeast Alaska town of Wrangell on Monday night. The state Department of Public Safety

By JONATHAN MATTISE and REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of child sex charges who has been on the run for over a month after escaping custody in Tennessee has been captured in Florida. The FBI in Knoxville said on social media that 52-year-old Sean Williams was arrested