Month: November 2023

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza’s Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a dayslong stalemate in Israel’s war against the Hamas militant group. Shifa is Gaza’s largest and best-equipped hospital. Israel, without providing visual evidence, claims the facility also is used by Hamas for military purposes. It says Hamas has built

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a Michigan school shooter will have separate trials for their alleged roles in the deaths of four students. A judge signed off on the request Monday. James Crumbley and Jennifer Crumbley had presented a united defense for two years. But their lawyers asked for separate trials after new

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Monday to push off a Republican effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ending for now a threat against the Cabinet secretary that has been brewing ever since Republicans took the House majority in January. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a hard-right Republican from

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jury deliberations are under way in the trial of a suspected serial killer accused in the deaths of six people in Delaware and Pennsylvania in 2021. A Delaware jury began deliberations Monday after closing arguments in the trial of 41-year-old Keith Gibson of Philadelphia. Gibson is charged

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Authorities have identified a 5-year-old girl whose body was found encased in concrete and dumped in rural Georgia woods nearly 35 years ago. Authorities told reporters Monday that the slain girl’s mother and her boyfriend at the time have been indicted on murder charges. The girl

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The College Football Playoff is on the verge of expanding, in the process of searching for its next set of media partners for what is expected to be a multibillion-dollar deal and possibly evolving into an organizing body in college sports. All that will happen while breaking

By MEAD GRUVER and BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One of the highest ranking leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has died. M. Russell Ballard was 95. Ballard was acting president of a top governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the church’s second-highest leadership

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press A New Jersey man accused of spraying police officers with a chemical irritant in the January 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol has made an initial court appearance. Gregory Yetman appeared in federal court in Trenton on Monday to face charges stemming from the riot. He was ordered held without

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Each time Dr. Emad Shehada’s phone rings, the suburban Detroit pulmonologist worries that it could be more bad news about loved ones in Gaza. He said that so far, 20 cousins and other relatives have been killed since the start of Israel’s campaign against Hamas following the militant group’s deadly

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal judge and former President Donald Trump ‘s oldest sister, has died at age 86 at her home in New York. Until her retirement in 2019, Barry was a senior judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Western countries are calling on Russia to end domestic repression of dissident voices and to end its war in Ukraine, as Russia came under a regular review at the U.N.’s top human rights body. A delegation from Moscow defended Russia’s right to ensure law and order by

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s ruling party appears to have dodged the possible large-scale desertions of disappointed hopeful candidates in the run-up to the country’s 2024 elections. Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced on Monday that he would not leave President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party. Ebrard had wanted the party’s nomination for

RUSTON, La. (AP) — A knife attack at Louisiana Tech University in the north Louisiana city of Ruston left four women injured. Three of them were seriously hurt and were hospitalized in Shreveport. Two were in critical condition. The university said a 23-year-old student was captured within minutes of the attack. Ruston Police Chief Steve

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Paul Pelosi recounted publicly for the first time Monday what happened the night he was attacked by a man in the San Francisco home he shares with former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, recalling how shocking it was to see a man standing at his

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A 19-year-old Michigan man accused of wanting to inspire violence against Jewish people has pleaded guilty to making threats over social media. Seann Pietila has been in custody since June. The FBI says he used Instagram to spread neo-Nazi ideology, discuss plans to kill people and compliment mass shooters. In

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Exxon Mobil is drilling for lithium in Arkansas and expects to begin production of the critical material for electric vehicles by 2027. Exxon on Monday announced the project and said by 2030 it expects to produce enough lithium to supply the manufacturing needs of more

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer Hyundai has joined Honda and Toyota in raising factory worker wages after the United Auto Workers union reached new contract agreements with Detroit automakers. Hyundai said Monday that it will raise factory worker pay 25% by 2028. That matches the general wage increase won by the UAW during that

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former mayor says that a powerful and feared gang leader in Haiti who was once a math and physics teacher was killed in a neighborhood within a sprawling seaside slum that he controlled for years. Former mayor Esaïe Beauchard told Radio Galaxie FM Monday that

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a Chicago firefighter has died from injuries he suffered when he fell through a light shaft at a burning building. Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt says 39-year-old Andrew Price died Monday after being injured while battling a fire at a four-story building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood that began about 6

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The reports from Russian state news agencies that Moscow’s troops were relocating from the Dnieper River in Ukraine appeared to be a major development Monday — for about 10 minutes until the usually authoritative media withdrew the news. The next hours saw a flurry of claims

WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressional delegations from Nebraska and Iowa have thrown their support behind legislation that would return land to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska that the federal government took decades ago but never developed. The legislation would return the land the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took by eminent domain in 1970 for