Month: December 2023

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s King Charles III has caused some raised eyebrows by wearing a tie adorned with a pattern of Greek flags to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. He chose the neckwear after a diplomatic spat between the U.K. government and Greece over the Parthenon Marbles. The king’s late father, Prince Philip, was

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Parents of school shooting victims in Tennessee can seek a court order to keep the writings of the shooter from ever being released to the public. The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the parents, the Covenant School and Covenant Presbyterian Church all have a

By SARA MELINI Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Three magistrates of Guatemala’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal have left the country, hours after the country’s Congress opened them up to prosecution by stripping them of their immunity. It’s part of the continuing effort to interfere with the results of the presidential election. Guatemala’s immigration agency confirmed

BEVERLY HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A University of Michigan graduate is suing the state over the loss of his revered “G0BLUE” car license plate. Joseph Hardig III says the plate has been on family vehicles for years. But he was told it was assigned to another car owner when he recently tried to renew it

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is slowing steadily, but it’s too early to declare victory or to discuss when the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates, Chair Jerome Powell said. Powell noted that consumer prices, excluding volatile food and energy costs, rose at just a 2.5% annual rate in the

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police are looking for an inmate who escaped from a Philadelphia jail by walking away from a work detail. It was the fourth breakout from a city lockup this year. Thirty-four-year-old Gino Hagenkotter was serving time on theft and burglary charges. Authorities say he was working in the orchard on the grounds

By DAVID KOENIG and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The family of a North Carolina teenager is suing American Airlines, saying that a flight attendant taped an iPhone to an airplane toilet to record her using the restroom during a September flight. Lawyers for the 14-year-old and her parents say that American “knew

NEW YORK (AP) — Climate protesters caused a pair of interruptions totaling 22 minutes during the opening night of a revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” at the Metropolitan Opera. Christian Gerhaher, making his Met Opera debut, was singing Wolfram’s second-act aria on Thursday night in which he says “before me a miraculous spring appears” when people

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has attacked several Israeli army posts along the border. And two Lebanese citizens were killed when Israel shelled a village in southern Lebanon. Friday’s attacks were the first by Hezbollah along the Lebanon-Israel border since the start of a truce last week between

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Detroit-area businessman Sandy Pensler announced in a campaign video Friday that he will run for U.S. Senate in Michigan. It will be Pensler’s second GOP bid for a Senate seat in Michigan. He previously lost the Republican primary for that seat by over 9 percentage points

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State agriculture officials have confirmed a new case of cattle anthrax in southwest North Dakota, bringing the number of cases in the state to 25 this year. The case in Grant County is the first reported in the state since August. The disease is caused by bacterial spores that can lie

By The Associated Press The following are excerpts from Supreme Court opinions by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who died Friday at age 93: From Florida v. Bostick in 1991, involving police searches on buses: “We have held that the Fourth Amendment permits police officers to approach individuals at random in airport lobbies and other public

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will head to Los Angeles next week for a big-dollar event that will be his first since strikes by writers and actors effectively ground his fundraising to a halt in the heart of the entertainment industry. The event next Friday is at the home

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s top court is hearing a petition by human rights activists seeking to halt the forceful deportation of Afghans who were born in Pakistan and those who would be at risk if they were returned to Afghanistan. The session started on Friday, a day after the country’s

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years ago, four young New Yorkers dragged their guitars, amps and drums to a loft on 23rd Street in New York, dreaming of becoming the biggest band in the world. This weekend, Kiss, with two different members currently in the fold, will say its goodbyes

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Gregorian Bivolaru was known by his followers as “Grieg” and their guide through tantra yoga toward enlightenment and a higher state of consciousness. But Bivolaru represents a far more sinister figure for European police which view him as a master manipulator accused of sexual abuse and exploitation.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says its minimum wage will rise by 20% in 2024, to the equivalent of about $14.25 per day. About one-third of Mexico’s registered workers report earning the minimum wage, which will amount to about $1.75 per hour starting Jan. 1. In pesos, the minimum will rise from about 207

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Matthew M. Williams will step down early in 2024 as creative director of Givenchy, the renowned Parisian heritage house owned by LVMH. The company made the announced Friday. Williams has been at the helm since June 2020 but is set to depart at the beginning of

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A former Associated Press correspondent who spent four decades covering the Cold War and the fall of communism has died at age 85. Roland Prinz was born in what was then Czechoslovakia as Nazi Germany’s troops began marching across central Europe. The continent’s geopolitical conflicts gripped him

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian government has named the renowned director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg to also lead Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. Valery Gergiev is replacing Vladimir Urin at the Bolshoi. Urin announced Thursday that he was stepping down after a decade but didn’t give a reason. Some Russian media said the departure

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday. She was 93. O’Connor died in Phoenix, of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness, the Supreme Court said

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — Dozens of young Israeli men and women who survived the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre at a rave party in southern Israel have been taking part in support sessions to help deal with their trauma at a retreat in Cyprus. Tomer Bassis and Eyal Sirota were among

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An attorney for former Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe says he is being held by Haitian authorities at a police station a day after the U.S. repatriated him to Haiti. Jean Joseph Louicher says Philippe has not been charged and no hearing has been held. Police