Month: May 2024

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No, Katy Perry and Rihanna didn’t attend the Met Gala this year. But that didn’t stop AI-generated images from tricking some fans into thinking the stars made appearances on the steps of fashion’s biggest night. Deepfake images depicting a handful of big names at the

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Officials say the crew of the Dali will shelter in place aboard the grounded container ship while demolition crews use explosives to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge. Officials said Tuesday that the controlled demolition is expected to take place

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer The WNBA plans to commit $50 million over the next two years to provide full-time charter flight service for its teams during the season, the league’s commissioner announced Tuesday in a move that addresses years of player safety concerns. Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a meeting with sports

By The Associated Press In one of the biggest beefs in recent hip-hop history, Drake and Kendrick Lamar are feuding — to the point that police were asked about their feud after a security guard was shot outside Drake’s Toronto mansion on Tuesday. But it wasn’t always this way. Over a decade ago, the pair

By JULIA FRANKEL and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An announcement by Hamas late Monday that it had accepted a cease-fire proposal sent people in the streets of Rafah into temporary jubilation, as Palestinian evacuees in the jam-packed town felt their first glimmer of hope the war could end. For families of Israeli

By JIM MORRIS Associated Press SURREY, British Columbia (AP) — Three Indian men charged with killing Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year have appeared in court in the case that set off a diplomatic spat after Canada’s prime minister said there were “credible allegations” of Indian involvement. Canadian authorities have said the investigation

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court has cleared the way for utilities to finish building a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River refuge. American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative are in the final stages of constructing a 102-mile transmission line linking Iowa’s Dubuque County and Wisconsin’s Dane County. About

TORONTO (AP) — The CFL has suspended Toronto Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly for at least nine regular-season games following its investigation into a lawsuit filed by a former strength-and-conditioning coach against both the player and club. T he league announced Tuesday that Kelly is also suspended for Toronto’s two preseason games for violating its gender-based

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has hosted Klaus Iohannis, the president of Romania, at the White House. The two leaders on Tuesday celebrated their joint cooperation on issues including international security, the economy and continued support for Ukraine. The meeting in the Oval Office was meant to mark Romania’s two decades

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman who fell to her death during a graduation ceremony at Ohio State University last weekend has been identified as a woman whose daughter was receiving her diploma. The Franklin County Coroner’s Office says the 53-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene on Sunday, just below the stands, which the

By SETH BORENSTEIN, SUMAN NAISHADHAM, SIBI ARASU and FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press In sweltering Brazil, flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in India, amid national elections, are fainting in heat that hit as high as 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heat

PRINCETON, Minn. (AP) — Two people have died in the explosion of a mobile home in Minnesota in a blast heard miles away. A sheriff’s deputy told the Minneapolis Star Tribune the explosion occurred in Princeton just after 4 a.m. Tuesday. Authorities identified the victims as 61-year-old Katherine A. Kreger and her 60-year-old husband, Royce

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Only four women conducted the Metropolitan Opera in its first 133 years ending in 2016, but now four women have taken the baton in a one-week span. Oksana Lyniv, Speranza Scappucci, Marin Alsop and Xian Zhang led orchestras during a landmark week in April. Lyniv led

By JULIA FRANKEL, MELANIE LIDMAN and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has launched an operation on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, and seized control of the Gaza side of the key Rafah border crossing with Egypt. The operation that began Tuesday followed a dramatic 24 hours in which hopes for a long-awaited cease-fire

By KELVIN CHAN and ALI SWENSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. Deceptive pictures, videos and audio are proliferating thanks to the rise and misuse of generative artificial intelligence tools. With AI deepfakes cropping up almost every day, depicting everyone from Taylor Swift

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have met for a second day at the Capitol as they try to figure out an off-ramp to her threat for a vote on the motion to remove him from office.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he is calling a special meeting of the secret services to discuss alleged Russian and Belarusian influence. The hastily organized meeting comes after a Polish judge who had access to sensitive state information defected to Belarus. Polish authorities are investigating the judge, Tomasz Szmydt, under

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of $75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid deadly rains. In the capital, Nairobi, a bulldozer ripped through iron-sheet walls as residents watched in despair. The government

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A tennis player was awarded $9 million in damages by a jury in federal court in Florida after accusing the U.S. Tennis Association of failing to protect her from a coach she said sexually abused her at one of its training centers when she was a teenager. The lawsuit, filed by