Month: November 2023

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer The executive director of an Israeli media watchdog organization says it was simply “raising questions” by publicly wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel — and sent some of the first images of its aftermath to a watching world — had been tipped

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli troops have pushed into Gaza City along a key coastal road on the Mediterranean Sea as part of their war on Hamas, according to satellite images from earlier this week analyzed on Thursday by The Associated Press. Monday’s images from Planet Labs PBC

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two men have been arrested in Indiana and Illinois in connection with the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021. According to court documents, 53-year-old Troy Allen Koen of Indiana is accused of assaulting law enforcement officers with a flagpole that featured “Trump 2020” and

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A former United States senator from Arizona has said she was molested while jogging along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Martha McSally described the Wednesday morning attack in a video she posted online. “A man came up behind me and he engulfed me in a bear hug and

By PAUL J. WEBER and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The white Honda Civic sped down Highway 57, a rural two-lane corridor that reaches the U.S.-Mexico border, after a Texas sheriff’s deputy tried pulling over the car and gave chase when it didn’t stop. High-speed pursuits of migrants and suspected smugglers have

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Lawyers for Virginia’s largest school system say that allegations by a 7th grader who said she was repeatedly raped at her school more than a decade ago are a total fabrication. The onetime student, who is now 24, stands by her claims. The allegations first

The Associated Press HELMETTA, N.J. (AP) — After two days of searching for a suspect in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol who fled as federal agents approached his home, the FBI offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the New Jersey man. The FBI says it and other

WARREN, Pa. (AP) — A homicide suspect who escaped from a northwestern Pennsylvania prison and was on the run for more than a week before a pet dog led to his recapture in July has pleaded guilty for kidnapping a Pennsylvania couple and his escape. 34-year-old Michael Burham pleaded guilty on Thursday for kidnapping an

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95. Borman died Tuesday in Billings, Montana, according to NASA. Borman also led troubled Eastern Airlines in the 1970s

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats. With the Israel-Hamas war in its second month and more than

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A project to build a first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor power plant was terminated Wednesday, another blow to the Biden administration’s clean energy agenda following cancellations last week of two major offshore wind projects. Oregon-based NuScale Power has the only small modular nuclear reactor

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday upheld the Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska’s remote North Slope, a decision that environmental groups swiftly vowed to fight. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason rejected requests by a grassroots Iñupiat group and environmentalists to

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York state comptroller Alan Hevesi has died. He was 83. The longtime elected official from New York City resigned as comptroller amid one scandal and later served prison time for another involving influence-peddling. A release from his family said he passed away peacefully Thursday surrounded by his children and

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man who has spent 25 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit has been exonerated and ordered released by a judge after prosecutors agreed he had been wrongly convicted. Miguel Solorio was arrested in 1998 for a fatal drive-by shooting in Whittier,

By DANIEL POLITI and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — As thousands of Taylor Swift fans eagerly lined up Thursday for the superstar’s first-ever concert in Argentina, they saw themselves surrounded by posters urging them to not vote in favor of right-wing populist Javier Milei in next week’s presidential election. “A Swiftie

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury awarded more than $1.2 million to Robert De Niro’s former personal assistant Thursday, finding one of his companies responsible for subjecting her to a toxic work environment. While the jury found De Niro was not personally liable for the abuse, it said his company,

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — LeBron James’ path from basketball prodigy to NBA scoring champion is being memorialized where it began. LeBron James’ Home Court, a museum dedicated to James and his many milestones, will open in Akron on Nov. 25. A multimedia exhibit, the museum will include a re-creation of the apartment where he and

DETROIT (AP) — Longtime Chicago White Sox announcer Jason Benetti is moving to Detroit where he will become the TV play-by-play voice of the Tigers. Detroit announced Benetti’s hiring Thursday. Benetti had been part of the White Sox booth since 2016 and took over as lead announcer when Ken “Hawk” Harrelson retired in 2019. Benetti

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A women’s prison in Mexico plagued by food poisoning and poor medical care has now been hit by a wave of eight suicides in the last 4 1/2 months. The federal prisons bureau confirmed the suicides Thursday, and said it was taking steps to improve the situation. The office says it

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Three former New Mexico State basketball players were charged with multiple sex crimes Thursday related to a series of alleged assaults of teammates that led to the disbandment of the team in the middle of last season. A New Mexico grand jury indicted former Aggies Deshawndre Washington, Kim Aiken

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi football coach Lane Kiffin and the school have filed a motion seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a Rebels player alleging racial and sexual discrimination and negligence. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Oxford contends that DeSanto Rollins, a defensive tackle from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was kicked off

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore was convicted on Thursday of charges that she lied about the finances of a side business to improperly access retirement funds during the COVID-19 pandemic, using the money to buy two Florida homes. A federal jury convicted