Month: January 2024

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was interrupted three times by as many protesters during a campaign stop in Ames, Iowa, Thursday, including two who were forcibly removed by security. Speaking at his fourth event of the day just days before the leadoff Iowa caucuses, the Florida governor harshly criticized the protesters,

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When U.S. and U.K. warships and aircraft launched waves of missiles at Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen early Friday in Sanaa, it capped weeks of warnings to the group to cease their drone and missile attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The quarterback matchup between Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa and Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes isn’t the only major storyline going into their AFC wild card game. Another question is how many fans will pay to watch one of the NFL’s important games of the season being carried exclusively on a streaming

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A leading human rights group says people’s rights are being suppressed and threatened everywhere in the world, from wars to selective outrage about some abuses and silence about others. Human Rights Watch released its global report on 2023 on Thursday. It says the challenges of

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Black woman hired by a northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints the year after a 10-year-old Black student died by suicide says that she, too, experienced discrimination from district officials. Joscelin Thomas, a former coordinator in the Davis School District’s equal

TORONTO (AP) — Ed Broadbent, a social democracy stalwart who helped build up Canada’s leftist New Democratic Party, has died. He was 87. His death was announced Thursday by the Broadbent Institute, the Oattawa-based think tank he founded in 2011 to promote social and economic justice. The institute called Broadbent “a fierce champion for ordinary

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report finds the number of police officers who died on the job dropped again last year, including deaths from gunfire, traffic accidents and COVID-19. The report released Thursday by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund found 136 U.S. police officers died in the line

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fruit Stripe Gum, something of a childhood icon for many gum chewers over the past five decades, will soon head over the rainbow with its multicolored zebra mascot Yipes — seemingly for good. The manufacturer of Fruit Stripe Gum, the Chicago company Ferrara Candy Co., gave the magazine Food & Wine

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — State health officials have told residents in Mississippi’s capital to boil their tap water after traces of E. coli bacteria were found in the city’s supply. The manager of Jackson’s long-troubled water system disputed the test results while calling Thursday’s boil water order a

LAS VEGAS (AP) — From electric cars to transparent TVs to the latest accessibility tech and virtual assistants backed by artificial intelligence, there was a wide range of innovations on display at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this week. The best of it aimed to solve big real-world problems. Some of it aimed

DETROIT (AP) — The top U.S. telecommunications regulator is asking automakers how they plan to protect people from being stalked or harassed by partners who have access to vehicle location and other data. In a letter sent Thursday to nine large automakers, Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel asks for details about connected car systems

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said. The U.S. Air Force’s Mideast command

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley revived some of the debate-stage critiques she leveled against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as she campaigned in Iowa on Thursday, even as some of her supporters said they didn’t think her performance the night before had been her strongest. With just

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s government has inspected a huge copper mine shut down after the country’s Supreme Court ruled in November that the government’s concession with a Canadian mining company was unconstitutional. The deal had triggered widespread street protests. The administration of President Laurentino Cortizo has promised to carry out an orderly closure of

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — An Airbus plane operated by United Airlines cut short a flight after crews got a door-indicator warning, according to a spokesperson for the airport in Tampa, Florida. United said Thursday that the plane took off later “after the issue was addressed.” The incident involves a different kind of plane from the

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Investigators who entered a Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 abandoned bodies were found encountered stacks of partially covered human remains, bodily fluids several inches deep on the floor, and flies and maggots throughout the building, an FBI agent testified Thursday. Prosecutors also revealed

BY PHILIP MARCELO and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s hasty pre-storm evacuation of a massive tent shelter for migrants has become a flashpoint in the national debate over migrants entering the country’s southern border. The city moved about 2,000 people, including many children, from the makeshift shelter on a

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The highest court in Massachusetts has raised from 18 to 21 the minimum age at which a person can be sentenced to mandatory life without parole. Juvenile justice advocates are praising Thursday’s narrow ruling. Sheldon Mattis was convicted of a 2011 Boston killing committed when he was

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An appeal by former Michigan State head football coach Mel Tucker of findings in a sexual harassment case that led to his firing has been denied. An attorney hired by the East Lansing school as an equity review officer said in a decision dated Wednesday that Tucker failed to provide

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to end its two-year civil rights investigation of the city’s police department through an agreement in which it would take recommendations for changes from the federal agency but wouldn’t be subject to costly court supervision. The city made the

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has been convicted on federal hate crime charges after a jury found he attacked his Hispanic neighbor and shouted racial slurs at a Black driver in separate confrontations about a year apart. Marian Hudak was convicted on Thursday. Prosecutors say investigators found a Ku Klux Klan flag,