Month: April 2024

CLEVELAND (AP) — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said she believes transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Staley was asked at the news conference the day before her unbeaten Gamecocks faced Iowa for the national championship for her opinion on the issue. Iowa coach Lisa Bluder was later asked the same

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GABRIELA MOLINA Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian authorities took the extraordinarily unusual step of breaking into a foreign embassy to arrest a former vice president facing corruption charges. The move earned the administration of President Daniel Noboa swift condemnation from fellow leaders as well as diplomats. Police on

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer WAXAHACHIE, Texas (AP) — The last time a total solar eclipse passed through this Texas town, horses and buggies filled the streets and cotton fetched 9 cents a pound. Nearly 150 years later, one thing hasn’t changed: the threat of clouds blocking the view. Overcast skies are forecast for

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Eleven people were injured when a bus carrying University of South Carolina students blew a tire and hit a concrete barrier in Mississippi. State troopers say the driver and a student were critically injured and taken by helicopter to hospitals after the crash Friday. Nine other students were taken

ISFAHAN, Iran (AP) — A top military commander Saturday renewed Iran’s promise to retaliate after an airstrike earlier this week widely blamed on Israel destroyed Iran’s consulate in Syria, killing 12 people, including two elite Iranian generals. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s joint chief of staff, told mourners gathered for the funeral of Gen. Mohammad Reza

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Power restoration efforts in Maine and New Hampshire have entered yet another day as more than 100,000 homes and businesses remain in the dark several days after a powerful spring storm. Maine’s largest electric utility warned on Saturday that service will not be restored for some customers until Monday or Tuesday

LONDON (AP) — The world’s oldest man says the secret to his long life is luck, moderation — and fish and chips every Friday. Englishman John Alfred Tinniswood, 111, has been confirmed as the new holder of the title by Guinness World Records. It follows the death of the Venezuelan record-holder, Juan Vicente Pérez, this

By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Recruitment letters have overwhelmed one long shoe box, along with a backpack. ZaKiyah Johnson will eventually get around to reading them, though it could be a while before the highly prized recruit responds to those piquing her interest. The junior wing ranked as a

Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned of threats posed by right-wing populists Saturday as he addressed a gathering of center-left European parties ahead of the European Parliament elections. Scholz arrived in Romania’s capital Bucharest for a conference of the Party of European Socialists, whose bloc in the European Parliament,

CONWAY, Arkansas (AP) — Police in central Arkansas say they shot a man after he fired at officers from inside a business at a shopping mall. The man was taken to a hospital and later died there. Conway police say officers responded to a report about a man who had driven a vehicle into a

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A rising challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has mobilized tens of thousands of supporters and outlined a plan to unite the country and bring an end to the populist leader’s 14-year hold on power. At the center of the Saturday demonstration, the latest in

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The ground rumbled Friday beneath New York City, home to famous skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center. Though buildings that can reach above 100 stories might seem especially vulnerable to earthquakes, engineering experts say skyscrapers are built with enough flexibility to

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A judge has permanently ordered an Orlando city commissioner to stop interacting with a 96-year-old constituent that she is legally accused of defrauding. Circuit Judge Heather Higbee ordered the injunction in a civil case against Regina Hill on Friday. Hill was indicted last month on charges of elderly exploitation, identity fraud

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press BUGESERA, Rwanda (AP) — In a community of genocide perpetrators and survivors outside the Rwandan capital of Kigali, more than half of 382 residents are women. Their collaboration on projects such as basket weaving has united many of them in a government-run reconciliation village, one of nine

LONDON (AP) — A Virgin Atlantic jet collided with another plane while it was being towed at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, aviation authorities said. There were no reports of injuries. Virgin said its Boeing 787-9 had completed a flight and had no passengers aboard when its wingtip clipped a stationary British Airways jet while being

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A roadside bomb has detonated in southwestern Syria, killing at least seven children, state media and a war monitor reported. It remains unclear who planted the bomb Saturday in the northern countryside of conflict-stricken Daraa province. Daraa stradles between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied

By SAMY MAGDY and SAM METZ Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Israel’s military said Saturday it had recovered the body of a 47-year-old farmer who was held hostage in Gaza, while negotiators prepared for another round of talks Sunday on brokering a cease-fire and securing the release of the remaining hostages, six months into the

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — A gunfight at a suburban Miami bar has left two people dead and seven injured. Investigators say a fight broke out around 3:30 a.m. Saturday at a bar in Doral, Florida. Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta says that when a security guard at Martini Bar intervened, an unnamed man took out

By PETER DEJONG Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg is among dozens of people who have been detained by police in The Hague as they removed protesters who were partially blocking a road in the Dutch city. Thunberg was seen in a bus used by police to take detained demonstrators

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani police officer says a search is underway after armed gunmen ambushed and opened fire on a police vehicle, killing two people and injuring another two. The assault took place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban militant group. Police said Saturday that the

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Fans are celebrating 50 years since ABBA won a major battle with “Waterloo.” A half-century ago on Saturday, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song. At London’s Waterloo station a choir belted out a rendition for commuters. In the

By ALI SWENSON and MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform X who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three states this

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A second British lawmaker has acknowledged receiving explicit messages on his phone in what police are investigating as a malicious phishing attempt against politicians, their staff and journalists. Conservative legislator Luke Evans said he had been a victim of “cyber flashing and malicious communications” a month ago,

MOSCOW (AP) — Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to evacuate, local authorities said. The dam broke in the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region, less than 12.4 miles north of the border on Friday