Month: November 2023

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The man who fatally shot five coworkers in April at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, questioned in newly released journal entries whether he would be able to get a gun despite his mental health struggles. And later, after acquiring one, he wrote that it took 45

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who worked as a stand-in at “The Cosby Show” in the 1980s said in a lawsuit Tuesday that Bill Cosby drugged and sexually abused her after offering to mentor her in her acting career. It is the latest in a string of lawsuits filed

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The websites of two government ministries in Bahrain briefly became inaccessible Tuesday night after a cyberattack took them down, purportedly over the island kingdom’s stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. A statement posted online by a self-described group calling itself Al-Toufan, or “The Flood”

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lionel Messi led his Argentina lineup off the field because of a brawl between rival fans in Brazil, delaying the start of their South American World Cup qualifier by 27 minutes Tuesday at the Maracana Stadium. Messi’s squad returned from the locker room after

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press A report by Human Rights Watch says the Chinese government has expanded its campaign of closing mosques to regions other than Xinjiang, where for years it has been blamed for persecuting Muslim minorities. The report says authorities have closed mosques in the northern Ningxia region as well as Gansu province,

By Summer Ballentine Associated Press A herd of followers are tracking a moose on the loose in southern Minnesota, hoping the majestic animal’s journey ends safely after it was spotted Tuesday 140 miles (225 km) northwest of Minneapolis. Fans have been tracking the young male moose for weeks and posting updates on a Facebook page

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A state appeals court has ruled that California can share personal information of gun owners with researchers to study gun violence. The ruling on Friday reverses a decision by a judge last year. In 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law to allow the state to

Formula One’s return to Las Vegas drew the largest audience for the series since June, despite starting in the middle of the night for viewers on the East Coast, according to ESPN. The race, which began at 1 a.m. Eastern, attracted 1.3 million viewers, one of its largest audiences for the series this season, ESPN

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — The wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor has been convicted of a scheme to stuff the ballot box in her husband’s unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020. The Sioux City Journal reports jurors deliberated six hours before finding Kim Taylor guilty on Tuesday

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The governor of Mexico’s northern state of Sonora has acknowledged that a secrecy-shrouded train project was an army undertaking that has not yet submitted any environmental impact statement, even though it is already being built. The rail link to the border city of Nogales threatens to

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have issued a subpoena to a federal prosecutor involved in the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan is calling on the assistant U.S. attorney for Delaware, Lesley Wolf, to appear before the committee by Dec. 7 to respond to allegations

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York massage therapist who joined the mob of Trump supporters attacking the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to three months in jail. Frank Rocco Giustino’s sentencing caps a case in which he skipped court hearings, profanely insulted a prosecutor and berated the judge. Giustino failed

By PETER SMITH and MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press The founder of a far-right, unofficial Catholic media group has resigned for an unspecified violation of the organization’s morality clause, the group said in a statement Tuesday. Michael Voris stepped down as president of St. Michael’s Media and Church Militant, a Michigan-based enterprise established to address what

PINNACLE, N.C. (AP) — Heavy rain and lower temperatures have helped slow down wildfires in North Carolina, including blazes that had prompted evacuations of homes and campgrounds. But an official from the U.S. Forest Service says the reprieve for crews on Tuesday may only last through the Thanksgiving weekend, since rain isn’t expected again for

BY KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Lawyers for the first inmate scheduled to be put to death using nitrogen gas said Monday that Alabama is seeking to make him the “test case” for an experimental execution method. Attorneys for Kenneth Eugene Smith filed an amended lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the proposed

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Unlike Google, Facebook and countless other tech giants, the company behind ChatGPT was not created to be a business. Rather, its creators set it up as a nonprofit, hoping it wouldn’t be beholden to commercial interests — like Google and Facebook. While OpenAI later transitioned

LONDON (AP) — British police say the bodies of four teenage boys who had been missing since they left for a weekend camping trip have been found inside their overturned car. Police in Wales said the vehicle was found partially submerged in water and the deaths appeared to be the result of an accident. A

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A federal judge has ruled that the Kansas Highway Patrol must stop using a tactic known as the “Kansas Two-Step” to detain out-of-state drivers long enough to find a reason to search their vehicles for illegal drugs. The judge granted a permanent injunction Monday after ruling in July that the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four out of five people in Mexico who got influenza shots so far this year turned down the government’s recommendation they get Russian or Cuban COVID-19 boosters at the same time. A health official said the high refusal rate was because people were reluctant to get two vaccines. But some people

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Officials say cybercriminals hacked into the Kansas court system, stole sensitive data and threatened to post it on the dark web in a ransomware attack that has hobbled access to records for more than five weeks. The disclosure Tuesday that a “sophisticated foreign cyberattack” is to