Month: February 2024

By KWIYEON HA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press OLNEY, England (AP) — For centuries, women in one English town have run a pancake race to mark the day before the start of Lent. They sprint through the streets trying not to drop their pancakes as they trace the path taken by a harried housewife in

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No, Jon Stewart really wasn’t sitting at his desk at Comedy Central for the last nine years, waiting for someone to turn the lights back on. Yet it almost felt that way during Stewart’s return to “The Daily Show” Monday night. His signature moves —

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The family of a Palestinian-American woman arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank says they still haven’t had contact with her, more than a week after she was seized from her home in an overnight raid. Relatives of Samaher Esmail say they are getting increasingly

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press An official says a fake Certificate of Votes was submitted to the U.S. Senate following Michigan’s 2020 presidential election. Dan Schwager served in 2020-2021 as general counsel to the secretary of the Senate. He testified Tuesday during a preliminary hearing for six people facing forgery and other charges for allegedly

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who managed two forestry projects in Guatemala for a New Hampshire-based investment company has pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing $10 million from the business. Roberto Montano, of Guatemala, pleaded guilty Monday in Concord to wire fraud under an agreement with prosecutors that calls for a five-year prison

By STEVE PEOPLES and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is calling for a shakeup at the highest levels of the Republican National Committee. And party leaders are taking it very seriously. To be clear, this is not normal. Trump has yet to secure the GOP’s presidential nomination and just

By NINIEK KARMINI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A former general linked to past human rights abuses has claimed victory in Indonesia’s presidential election. The result would raise questions about the commitment to democratic values in the sprawling island nation that is the world’s third-largest democracy. Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto presented

PARIS (AP) — Scaffolding that shrouded the top of Notre Dame cathedral following a devastating fire in April 2019 is being removed, marking a milestone in its reconstruction. As the shell at the summit has been taken down in recent days, it has revealed the cathedral’s new spire for the first time, adorned with a

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A 45-year-old man was arrested in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in Kansas, police announced Tuesday. Ricky Alderete was taken into custody earlier this month in a

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods in a red shirt on Sunday has become as recognizable as a Masters champion in a green jacket. Only it’s no longer about a Sunday red shirt for Woods. It’s about a brand. Five weeks ago, Woods and Nike announced their relationship was

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A stalled marijuana law in the U.S. Virgin Islands has received a big push after an advisory board approved a list of proposed rules and regulations that would govern the recreational use of cannabis in the territory. The board’s vote on Tuesday represented a

By ED WHITE Associated Press An attorney for former Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald wants to move up the trial date in a dispute over his firing. Dan Webb says Fitzgerald can’t get another major job until he puts a hazing scandal behind him. Webb says the scandal has “decimated” Fitzgerald’s career. Fitzgerald was initially

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge says restrictions on after-hour drop boxes may make it inconvenient to return ballots outside business hours, but they don’t keep Floridians from voting. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued his decision on Thursday. He previously had ruled that restrictions in Florida’s 2021 election law would have suppressed

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — In a Feb. 6 story about a lawsuit filed by Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn over a police raid on the Kansas newspaper, The Associated Press erroneously reported the amount in damages being sought in a separate lawsuit filed by former reporter Deb Gruver. Gruver is seeking more than $75,000

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local officials say two boats have collided on the Congo River in western Congo, but they give conflicting accounts on deaths. The chief of the Maluku municipality says no one died in Monday’s collision east of Congo’s capital. Another local official at first said dozens were

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer. A new study looking at Hudson Bay polar bears tries to figure out if they can keep up their roly-poly figure, which is what’s needed. Tuesday’s

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Three separate unions representing flight attendants at major U.S. airlines picketed and held rallies at 30 airports Tuesday as they push for new contracts and higher wages. The flight attendants are increasingly frustrated that pilots won huge pay raises last year while they continue to work for wages that,

PARIS (AP) — The United Nations’ cultural agency says Ukraine will need nearly $9 billion over the next decade to rebuild its cultural sites and tourism industry following Russia’s invasion and war. UNESCO released new statistics on Tuesday on the impact of the war that started two years ago this month. The agency estimates that

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new prime minister says he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used the powerful Pegasus spyware illegally and targeted a “very long” list of hacking victims. Donald Tusk made the announcement during a news briefing alongside President Andrzej Duda, a political

Associated Press A nasty storm with 60 mph winds raked parts of the Northeast on Tuesday creating dangerous conditions on the road and snarling airports. More than 1,200 flights were cancelled before noon, mostly along the East Coast, but that is likely to spread west as the day goes on. Airlines can’t control the weather,

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Frans Hals is the latest 17th century Dutch master to feature in a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. A show opening on Wednesday highlights Hals’ loose brush strokes that made him a forerunner of the impressionist movement. And it shows many of his subjects smiling,

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has offered some concessions to farming unionists who are threatening to block roads around the country amid protests over high production costs. But it’s unclear whether the representatives of farming associations who met with Mitsotakis in Athens on Tuesday were appeased. They say decisions will be

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The weeks after Kaniya Harris found out she was pregnant were among the hardest in her life. Final exams were fast approaching for the college junior. Her doctors told her she had an ovarian cyst, and the risk of ectopic pregnancy was high. The wait times for

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Before there was John and Yoko — and after — there was just Yoko Ono. The Japanese-American artist became a global celebrity through her marriage to John Lennon, her partner for more than a decade until his murder in 1980, as well as her collaborator on peace-protest

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled Legislature has passed legislative maps that were proposed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The move Tuesday was designed to prevent the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court from implementing maps that might be even worse for Republicans. Republicans conceded defeat, while Democrats said they were afraid

SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — Retired St. Louis Cardinals All-Star pitcher Adam Wainwright has joined the MLB Network as an on-air analyst. Wainwright will make his debut on opening day, March 28. He will work the Cardinals’ game against San Francisco at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 20. Wainwright went 200-128 with a 3.53