Month: November 2023

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois will funnel an additional $160 million to help get migrants on their feet in Chicago. This includes $65 million to help launch “winterized” temporary shelter to prevent people from sleeping outdoors as winter arrives. Nearly all of the 24,000 new

By WILL WEISSERT, CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — National Democrats this year have insisted the party is united and ready to rally around President Joe Biden heading into next year’s election. But a protest outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters signals growing tension within the coalition. Clashing with police Wednesday

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Serena Williams and Ruby Bridges will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame next year. The Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, announced the latest honorees on Thursday. The tennis great and civil rights icon will join eight other previously announced women who will be inducted

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — The U.S. Army says four family members were found dead inside a home at Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia. A statement from the Army post southwest of Savannah said the bodies of a soldier, her husband and their two children were discovered Wednesday after members of the soldier’s unit requested

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer Major League Baseball has canceled plans to play regular-season games in Paris in 2025 after failing to find a promoter, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. The people spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday following an owners’ meeting because the decision was not announced publicly.

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Dolly Parton’s Dollywood in Tennessee temporarily suspended entry into the amusement park as wildfire crews on Thursday battled nearby flames. Park officials say they paused entry to allow fire crews enough room to assess the growing blaze in Sevier County. Guests were eventually allowed reentry within 30 minutes. According to

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on federal civil rights charges Thursday in the trial of a former Louisville police officer charged in the police raid that killed Breonna Taylor, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial. Brett Hankison was charged with using excessive force

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks locations walked off the job Thursday in what organizers said was the largest strike yet in the 2-year-old effort to unionize the company’s stores. The Workers United union chose Starbucks’ annual Red Cup Day to stage the walkout

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The judge that presided over Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial has agreed to step aside as the former lawyer convicted of killing his wife and younger son seeks a new trial because of alleged jury tampering. The South Carolina Supreme Court, however, on Thursday refused defense lawyers’

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Georgia to draw Black majorities in one additional congressional district, two additional state Senate districts, and five additional state House districts. White Democrats could be in peril in some cases as Republicans seek to comply with the court order and preserve as

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands of Bulgarian soccer supporters have taken to the streets of the capital, Sofia, in protest over the management of the national soccer union, a demonstration that eventually turned violent. The European soccer qualifier between Bulgaria and Hungary fell victim to a bitter dispute between the management of the Bulgarian Football

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Thursday convicted a woman of murder in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search for the killer. Kaitlin Armstrong, 35, faces a penalty of up to

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Competition is growing in Michigan’s Congressional race as Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee announces he will be retiring next year after the end of his sixth term. Democrats will be forced to defend yet another open House seat in the battleground state as a result. Democratic

By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has entrusted its field hockey program to a 23-year-old former star player in Erin Matson. She has led the Tar Heels close to another national championship. UNC is the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and hosts this weekend’s semifinals

By RALPH D. RUSSO and LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writers ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh will accept a three-game suspension from the Big Ten and conference will end its investigation into a sign-stealing scheme as part of an agreement to resolve the school’s lawsuit against the league. Harbaugh was suspended last

WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian man has been found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder for deliberately using his pickup to kill four members of a Muslim family two years ago. The jury on Thursday also convicted 22-year-old Nathaniel Veltman on one count of attempted murder for injuring a fifth family member in

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s university system is being sued over its effort to silence a chapter of a pro-Palestinian student group. The American Civil Liberties Union says in the suit filed Thursday that the state is is violating the First Amendment rights of the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Legislature wrapped up its formal session for the year without a deal on a $2.8 billion spending bill that included hundreds of millions of dollars to address the state’s emergency shelters that are buckling under a crush of migrant and homeless families. Both the House and Senate bills would steer

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Grand Prix is an absolute spectacle of neon extravagance and Max Verstappen has absolutely no interest in the excess and opulence weaved into Formula One’s first visit to Sin City in 41 years. The reigning three-time Formula One champion called Saturday

CHICAGO (AP) — Fire officials say a Chicago commuter train has collided with rail equipment, injuring nearly 40 people, some of them critically. The Chicago Fire Department says a Chicago Transit Authority train crashed into snow-removal equipment Thursday morning. Fire officials say the train collided with the slower-moving rail equipment near a station on the

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press A Russian soldier recently returned from fighting in Ukraine went to teach schoolchildren about Russia’s military campaign there before later beating up his neighbors, Russian news outlet Ostorozhno Novosti reported on its Telegram channel. It is the latest report of a fighter from Ukraine returning to commit acts of violence