Month: February 2024

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Children and grandchildren of former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan of Missouri recalled her wit, curiosity, kindness and hard work during a public memorial service on Saturday. Carnahan died Jan. 30 in hospice care in suburban St. Louis after a short illness. She was 90. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that hundreds

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has for the first time activated a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if called up, effective immediately. The measure amounts to a major, though tacit, admission that the army is struggling to contain the nationwide armed

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republicans gathered in a hotel ballroom this weekend aiming to unite ahead of the 2024 election and defeat three-term incumbent Democrat U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. Yet before the party even got underway it was crashed by conservative U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale, who jumped into the

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Law officers in eastern Tennessee are continuing their search for a man accused of fatally shooting one sheriff’s deputy and injuring another during a traffic stop. The Blount County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday increased the reward to $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of 42-year-old Kenneth DeHart. Authorities have issued

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — The controversial leader of South Africa’s third largest political party has promised to create jobs for millions of the country’s unemployed and turn around its economy as he seeks to attract more voters ahead of a much anticipated election. Economic Freedom Fighters party founder Julius

By ANA IONOVA RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — In the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, dozens of dogs have taken part in a costumed procession as Carnival celebrations kick off. In a beachside neighborhood, pups of all sizes and breeds paraded alongside their owners in costumes ranging from mermaids and superheroes to butterflies

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — The pilot and lone passenger escaped injury when a small airplane made a crash landing Saturday on a residential street in a suburban neighborhood on the west edge of Phoenix, Goodyear police said. The single engine plane experienced mechanical problems shortly after takeoff Saturday morning from nearby Glendale Airport, police said.

By ARIEL SCHALIT Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, alleging that Hamas militants used the space as an electrical supply room. The unveiling of the tunnels marked the latest chapter in

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has moved its legal corporate home from Delaware to Nevada after a Delaware judge struck down Musk’s $55.8 billion pay package as CEO of Tesla. Neuralink, which has its physical headquarters in Fremont, California, became a Nevada company on Thursday, according to state

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, MEG KINNARD and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — With two weeks to go before the South Carolina Republican primary, Nikki Haley is trying to challenge Donald Trump on her home turf while the former president tries to quash his last major rival’s narrow path to the nomination. Trump

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say that two officers have been killed when a speedboat suspected of belonging to drug smugglers smashed into their patrol craft. The Civil Guard says the incident occurred late on Friday when the patrol craft was tasked with identifying speedboats spotted in the southern port of Barbate. Video footage showed

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of antifascist activists have gathered in Hungary’s capital to oppose an annual commemoration held by far-right groups. The event Saturday underscored diplomatic tensions between Budapest and Rome over the detention of an Italian citizen in a Hungarian jail. The activists marched through central Budapest alongside

By The Associated Press Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas on Sunday is shaping up to be quite a doozy. The Kansas City Chiefs will try to become back-to-back champion when they face the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium. The 49ers haven’t won a Super Bowl since 1995 but have been among the NFL’s

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s conservative president resigned Saturday amid public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case, a decision that unleashed an unprecedented political scandal for the long-serving nationalist government. Katalin Novák, 46, announced in a televised

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Cher, Lenny Kravitz, the late Sinéad O’Connor and heavy metal’s so-called Prince of Darkness are some the 2024 nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a wide musical net that also includes the pop-soul of Sade

LATTINGTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The wife and daughter of John Gotti Jr., the namesake son of notorious New York mob boss John “Dapper Don” Gotti, are facing assault charges stemming from a fistfight with a woman at a high school basketball game on Long Island. Kimberly Gotti, 55, and her daughter Gianna Gotti, 25, are

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s government says it has satellite imagery evidence from friendly western allies showing Venezuelan military movements near the South American country’s eastern border with Guyana. Officials claim the administration of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is breaching a peace agreement signed in the Caribbean in December to

By ADAM BEAM, CHINEDU ASADU and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a California helicopter crash that killed the CEO of one of Nigeria’s largest banks. Access Bank CEO Herbert Wigwe died along with his wife and son on Friday evening when a helicopter they were riding in went down

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A strong performance in financial markets, particularly an outsize gain for the stock market in 2021, helped entrench existing trends of wealth inequality during the pandemic, new data released this week show. According to a report from the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the real net

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Sébastien Haller could lead Ivory Coast to the Africa Cup of Nations title one year after returning from cancer treatment. Haller fired the host nation into Sunday’s final against three-time champion Nigeria with the only goal in a 1-0 win over Congo in the

By BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz were seeing double when they met in Washington, D.C., and went on social media to share their mirror image with the world. The Delaware Democrat and the leader of Germany’s coalition government share a striking resemblance, right down to

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Any parent who’s ever called one of their children by the other’s name — or even the family pet’s name — likely could empathize when President Joe Biden mixed up the names of French leaders Macron and Mitterrand. The human brain has trouble pulling names out

By SARA CLINE Associated Press A pilot and co-pilot were identified as the two killed in a fiery plane crash on a Florida highway, law enforcement officials said Saturday afternoon. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office identified Edward Daniel Murphy, a 50-year-old pilot and co-pilot Ian Frederick Hofmann, 65, as the deceased. The three survivors were

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The enduring image of the 2022 World Cup was Lionel Messi holding aloft soccer’s biggest prize in Qatar’s spectacular Lusail Stadium. Messi had realized his ultimate ambition by leading Argentina to glory in perhaps the most thrilling final in the tournament’s history. The drama was