Month: January 2024

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had prostate cancer surgery and was later hospitalized in intensive care due to complications from that operation without President Joe Biden, Cabinet members or even his deputy knowing. That revelation has put an intense spotlight on what staff knew

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Lawyers for a man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years say he’s reached a $25 million combined settlement with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina. The settlement was announced Tuesday by attorneys for Ronnie Long and the city of Concord. It will end a wrongful

By DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers The extended grounding of some Boeing 737 Max jetliners is adding to pressure on Boeing and the subcontractor that made the fuselage and installed a panel that blew out leaving a gaping hole in an Alaska Airlines plane last week. Investigators know the sequence of events

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese military officers have resumed talks that were frozen after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in 2022. It’s a development U.S. officials have said is key to keeping the growing competition between the two great powers from turning into direct conflict. The agreement

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn’t be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works. But are AI chatbots like the widely commercialized products made by OpenAI

CAMBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — State police say no criminal charges will be filed in the death of a 3-year-old boy who fell into an underground cistern and was seriously injured in July while attending a day care program at a Vermont resort. The boy who was injured at Smugglers’ Notch Resort died days later at

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that a post sent from the agency’s account on the social platform X announcing the approval of a long-awaited bitcoin exchange-traded fund was “unauthorized,” and that the agency’s account was hacked. The price of bitcoin briefly spiked more

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis City Council committee has voted to recommend that police chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis be replaced, a year after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five officers generated intense criticism of her department and led to a federal investigation into how it fights crime.

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government says former U.K. opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will join its delegation for this week’s hearings at the United Nations’ top court as it accuses Israel of genocide against Palestinians in the war in Gaza. South Africa brought the case against

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO LAS VEGAS (AP) — Walmart has unveiled plans to dive further into the world of artificial intelligence — and drones — to improve its customers’ shopping experiences. In a Tuesday keynote at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, the nation’s largest retailer announced it will be expanding its

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Migrant families are leaving New York City’s shelter system under an eviction notice imposed by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration. The homeless families were limited to 60 days in city housing under an order Adams issued in October to relieve a shelter system overwhelmed by asylum-seekers crossing

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The family of a University of Arizona professor who was fatally shot on campus in the fall of 2022 has reached a multimillion-dollar agreement with the school, attorneys for the man’s wife and sons said Tuesday. A statement by the law firm representing Kathleen Meixner, wife of professor Thomas Meixner, and

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say a shooting at a small-town Minnesota hotel has killed an employee and two possible guests. Cloquet police Chief Derek Randall spoke about the shooting at a news conference Tuesday. He says police found a 22-year-old clerk with a gunshot wound on Monday inside

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A National Rifle Association lawyer has acknowledged in court that some former executives and outside vendors may have ripped off the influential gun rights group with lavish spending and self-dealing. But, in an opening statement Tuesday at a New York civil trial scrutinizing the organization’s

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily halted enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps. U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley’s order Tuesday comes in a lawsuit filed by NetChoice, a trade group representing

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Guam police say a man suspected of fatally shooting a South Korean tourist during a robbery in the U.S. territory last week has died and his alleged getaway driver is in custody. KUAM-TV reports that police say the first suspect was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a parked car

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge has upheld as constitutional provisions of Ohio’s sweeping new election law. In a ruling Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Donald Nugent rejected a Democratic law firm’s challenge to strict new photo ID requirements, drop box restrictions and tightened deadlines related to absentee and

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The swearing-in of South Carolina’s sixth woman to the state Senate means the state no longer has the lowest percentage of women in its upper chamber in the United States. Columbia Democrat Tamekia Isaac Devine took office Tuesday as the General Assembly’s 2024 session began. She

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A father-daughter pair of Florida lawyers may face disciplinary action for speaking out against a judge’s ruling in a civil rights case. It all started when attorney Jerry Girley represented a Black doctor who said he was the victim of racial discrimination when he was fired

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is seizing on his party’s frustration with the recent surge of illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border to churn up fears around voter fraud. Ahead of Iowa’s caucuses next week, the former Republican president has repeatedly suggested that Democrats are planning to sign

By DAVID BAUDER and DENNIS WASZAK Jr. Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers denied he implied comic Jimmy Kimmel was a pedophile and condemned those who do, but he stopped short of apologizing for his role in escalating their burgeoning feud. Rodgers returned to ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show”