Month: March 2024

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish official has rejected allegations by a human rights group that Turkey bears responsibility for some of the abuses and possible war crimes carried out mostly against Kurdish residents in northern in Syria. Human Rights Watch said in a 74-page report released Thursday that the

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday signed a short-term spending measure that keeps one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22 — officially staving off a partial government shutdown that would have started on Saturday. The measure gives lawmakers some more time to draft and pass

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will hold a state funeral for Brian Mulroney, the prime minister who in the 1980s solidified trade ties with the U.S. and spoke out against South Africa’s apartheid and whose death drew tributes Friday from world leaders. Mulroney died Thursda y

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Fanatics founder Michael Rubin says his company is being unfairly blamed for new Major League Baseball uniforms that have see-through pants and other fit and design problems. “This is a little bit of a difficult position,” he said on Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics

DETROIT (AP) — The family of a 70-year-old man who died after a Detroit police officer punched him in the face, causing him to fall to the ground, is suing the former officer and the city of Detroit. The Detroit News reports the federal lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of Daryl Vance’s family names former

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Yogurt sold in the U.S. can make claims that the food may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes based on limited evidence. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has agreed that eating at least 2 cups of yogurt a week might reduce the risk of the disease. The

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has scored a tactical victory in his battles with British tabloids. Government ministers on Friday said he could use confidential documents that show payments by the publisher of the Daily Mail to private investigators who allegedly snooped on him and several celebrities. The Duke of

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman pleaded guilty Friday to trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, agreeing to a deal with prosecutors that calls for him to testify in the corruption case against the powerful Democrat and his wife. Jose Uribe, of Clifton, New Jersey, entered the

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana University’s board of trustees has abandoned a plan that would have split the university from the Kinsey Institute, which is widely recognized for decades of research on sex and gender. Indiana lawmakers forbade state appropriations from funding the center last year. While the Kinsey Institute has

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A federal appeals court in Washington has ordered a new sentence for a retired Air Force officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol dressed in combat gear, in a ruling issued Friday that could impact dozens of other cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. While a panel of

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone in a few states. A CVS Health spokesperson says the company will start filling prescriptions for the medication in Rhode Island and neighboring Massachusetts “in the weeks ahead.” Walgreens will begin dispensing the medication within

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Authorities charged a Kansas City-area man who killed a court employee trying to serve an eviction notice and a police officer who responded. Larry Acree, of Independence, Missouri, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree assault in the wounding of another officer who responded, and

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days, U.S. health officials announced Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its longstanding guidance, saying that people can return to work or regular activities if their symptoms

By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Singer Marian Anderson is getting new recognition 30 years after her death. The pioneering Black contralto’s name will now replace Verizon’s on the Philadelphia Orchestra hall, a key cultural institution in the city she was born in in 1897. Anderson repeatedly experienced racism throughout her storied career, which

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is pushing back against a new set of subpoenas quietly sent out by House Republicans related the Hunter Biden criminal investigation in another brewing faceoff in the impeachment inquiry. In the letter obtained Friday by The Associated Press, the department says it has already

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The Duke men’s basketball program is in its second year of honoring patients of the nearby children’s hospital. That has come through the Scheyer Family Kid Captain Program launched last year. Marcelle Scheyer is the wife of Blue Devils coach Jon Scheyer. She said the

By MARK STEVENSON and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press IRAPUATO, Mexico (AP) — Tens of thousands of people packed a stadium in a violence-torn Mexico state while even more did so in Mexico City’s central square as the country’s leading presidential candidates officially kicked off their campaigns. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, President Andrés Manuel

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has pleaded guilty to the 2021 killing of a Yale University graduate student found shot outside his car in Connecticut. Qinxuan Pan faces 35 years in prison following his guilty plea Thursday in a New Haven, Connecticut, court. The 32-year-old will

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Zigman’s ”Émigré,” an oratorio portraying Jews who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, was given its U.S. premiere by the New York Philharmonic on Thursday. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai music director Long Yu, ”Émigré” was given its world premiere

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The success of the African American Film Critics Association didn’t happen overnight. It took time over 20 years of showing its worth in Hollywood while creating a platform to highlight the work from the industry’s best Black actors and filmmakers from Oprah Winfrey, Ava

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The man who launched New Jersey to years of national leadership in internet gambling and sports betting is retiring. David Rebuck stepped down Friday as director of the state Division of Gaming Enforcement, the state’s top gambling regulator. He led the team that wrote rules

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A judge in Montana rejected abortion restrictions, the attorney general in Missouri is accusing Planned Parenthood of illegally transporting minors for abortions and new data shows how the way abortions they’re provided continues to shift in a nation where some states have bans and others are protecting access. More than

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A national police spokesman says Haitian police were overwhelmed by a series of coordinated violent attacks by gang members across the capital in which four officers were killed. The attacks Thursday in Port-au-Prince were led by gunmen who opened fire on targets including Haiti’s international airport