Month: November 2023

BOSTON (AP) — About 20 to 25 migrants are arriving daily at Boston’s Logan Airport, the head of the airport operator said Friday, with some seen camping out temporarily in baggage claim and elsewhere before trying to find a spot in the state’s overburdened shelter system. But Massport interim CEO Ed Freni told reporters that

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Six more Colorado law enforcement officers were charged Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man suffering a mental health crisis last year that became an example for critics of what’s wrong with how police handle such calls. The latest charges bring the total

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning. Its intimate anecdotes about love, sex, orgasms and masturbation, drawn from anonymous survey responses from about 3,000 women across the U.S., challenged male assumptions about heterosexual intercourse. And it made its author, Shere Hite, a deeply polarizing

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that North Dakota’s 2021 legislative redistricting plan violates the rights of two Native American tribes because it dilutes their voting strength. U.S. District Chief Judge Peter Welte issued a ruling Friday that said the redrawn legislative districts violated the Voting Rights

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — E-40 created his own lane with an unorthodox rap flow that’s worked for more than 30 years. There’s no slowing down for the 56-year-old hip-hop legend who’s release his new album “Rule of Thumb: Rule 1” on Friday. The new album — which features

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Ethics Committee has filed a resolution to force a vote on expelling Republican Rep. George Santos from Congress. The resolution was announced one day after the Ethics Committee issued a withering report detailing evidence that Santos of New York converted campaign donations

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a story published November 14, 2023, about the arrest of Donna Adelson in the murder of her son-in-law Daniel Markel, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Katie Magbanua and Sigfredo Garcia were once married. While they sometimes identified as married, they were never officially married. Also, Garcia was not

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say airstrikes by the ruling military in a western region have killed at least 11 civilians, including eight children. A leading opposition group and area residents say the Wednesday attack on Vuilu village, south of Matupi township in Chin state, also left four people

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — More than 25,000 people have marched peacefully through central Athens to mark the 50th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship ruling Greece in 1973. Violence broke out after the end of similar marches in two other Greek cities, where youths attacked police

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press As the temperature drops (in many places), the holiday TV calendar is heating up with a variety of festive options. Old favorites like “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “A Christmas Story” return while new family friendly films make their debut including “Dashing Through the Snow” on Disney+ and Melissa McCarthy’s

By EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least 130 people have died in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia following heavy rains that triggered what aid agencies describe as flooding seen only once every 100 years. Somalia has borne the brunt of the flash floods inundating the Horn of Africa region. The National Disaster

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press HENRICO, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Democrat whose legislative campaign was rocked by the disclosure that she had livestreamed sex acts with her husband lost this year’s race but isn’t giving up on politics. Susanna Gibson spoke with The Associated Press about her race, the videos and her plans. It

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a high-speed train and a regional train were involved in an accident in southern Germany that left several people slightly injured. They wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that there was a “lateral contact” between the high-speed ICE train and the regional service on Friday at Reichertshausen, between Ingolstadt and Munich.

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has opened civil rights investigations into seven schools and universities over allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The list includes three Ivy League institutions — Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania — along with Wellesley College

LIMINGTON, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police say a 62-year-old pilot suffered minor injuries when his plane crashed less than a mile after taking off from an airport. The yellow single-engine plane came to a rest nose-down in a thicket of woods Thursday afternoon about a mile from Limington-Harmon Airport in Limington. Medical personnel evaluated

By MOHAMED SHARUHAN Associated Press MALE, Maldives (AP) — Mohamed Muizzu has been sworn as the Maldives’ fifth democratically elected president and says he will ensure there is no foreign military presence in the archipelago. Muizzu, who is seen as pro-China, campaigned on a promise to evict Indian military personnel and balance trade, which he

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British author A.S. Byatt, who wove history, myth and a sharp eye for human foibles into books that included the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession,” has died at the age of 87. Byatt’s publisher, Chatto & Windus, said Friday that the author, whose full name was Antonia Byatt,

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria has been charged with procurement fraud. The court remanded Godwin Emefiele in prison until it rules on his bail application. Court documents presented on Friday in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, alleged that Emefiele used his position as the