Month: May 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The summer performance lineup at the amphitheater on Manhattan’s Little Island park will open June 6 with Twyla Tharp’s “How Long Blues.” It’s the choreographer’s first full-length work in a decade. Little Island is built atop the Hudson River on a series of tulip-shaped concrete columns. Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri panel found that fentanyl deaths among Missouri babies, toddlers and teens spiked as child welfare officials struggled to adequately investigate the cases. Forty-three youth died — 20 of them under the age of 4 — in 2022 alone from the infamously powerful drug. That reflected an overall doubling

By SAM MEDNICK and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The head of the United Nations World Food Program says northern Gaza has entered “full-blown famine” after nearly seven months of war between Israel and Hamas. But a formal famine declaration faces the complications of politics and of confirming how many people

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group battling Myanmar’s army in the country’s west claims it took hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post. The Arakan Army is the well-armed military wing of the Rakhine ethnic minority movement and it has been attacking army

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has recognized the United States Military Academy with the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy for besting other service academies in football. Army beat both the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy during last year’s season. The West Point, New York-based college posted an overall win-loss record of 6-6, including

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s attorney general says city officials in Savannah overstepped their authority when they outlawed keeping guns in unlocked cars. Savannah’s mayor and city council adopted a new ordinance in April that requires people to lock vehicles with guns stashed inside. Violators face fines of up  to

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press A new fashion competition show on E! called “OMG Fashun,” challenges contestants to repurpose materials to create looks so unique that model and “it girl” Julia Fox would wear them. Fox is a co-host and judge on the show alongside Law Roach, who is best known for styling his close

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Yogurt sold in U.S. grocery store may soon have new labels that say the popular food might help reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently said it’s OK for producers of yogurt to make that claim even though it’s based on limited

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s defense ministry says the country has carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq. The ministry says warplanes struck suspected positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region and reportedly killed 16 militants, including some commanders. There is no immediate

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Milwaukee’s election leader has been ousted by the mayor in a surprise move that comes just six months before Wisconsin’s largest city will be in the spotlight in the presidential swing state. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced Monday that he would be replacing Milwaukee Election Commission

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Hospital operator Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy protection early Monday morning, but pledged to maintain the eight hospitals it operates in Massachusetts. In a press release, company officials said Steward took the step as a necessary measure to allow the company to continue to provide needed

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors have ended an investigation into skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders spent time during World War II because the advanced decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death. The remains were found Feb. 24

By ALEXA ST. JOHN, SEAN MURPHY and JIM SALTER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tornadoes touched down Monday evening in rural Oklahoma and large hail pelted parts of Kansas as an outbreak of dangerous storms brought the possibility of strong twisters staying on the ground for many miles. Forecasters have issued a rare high-risk

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday urgently warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against launching an offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah as the divide between the two leaders continues to grow along with the mounting Palestinian death toll. The call between Biden

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is running for re-election, squelching speculation that he might retire at a difficult moment for Democrats The 82-year-old liberal icon from Vermont announced Monday that he’s seeking his fourth term in the U.S. Senate. He says in a video announcement that American democracy is in

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NBC Sports has been without a permanent analyst in the 18th tower all year. That’s not going to change for the U.S. Open. The network says Dan Hicks will be calling the even-numbered holes with Brandel Chamblee. Mike Tirico will do the odd-numbered holes with Brad Faxon. Four other

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life Alzheimer’s disease — in people who inherit two copies of a worrisome gene. Scientists have long known a gene called APOE4 is one of many things that can increase people’s risk for Alzheimer’s, including

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Authorities say two workers are dead and 53 are trapped under rubble after a multi-story apartment building under construction collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa. Another 20 construction workers had been pulled from the mangled wreckage of the building and were being

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Authorities say a man who tried to shoot a pastor during a service at a Pennsylvania church because “God told him to do it” was thwarted when his gun didn’t fire and he was tackled by a congregant. State police say the chaos at the Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in

By RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI and VANESSA GERA Associated Press OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — U.S. university presidents have joined Holocaust survivors and thousands of Israelis for a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz. The March of the Living honors the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and celebrates the state of Israel. This year

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Growing up in the streets of east Baltimore surrounded by poverty and gun violence, two kids named Antonio became fast friends. Both called “Tone,” they were similarly charismatic and ambitious, with a shared dream of leaving behind the struggles that defined their childhoods. One has. The other

ROME (AP) — Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI are on strike to protest budget streamlining and what they say is an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media. The 24-hour RAI strike Monday is the latest protest by Italian journalists against what they say are threats to freedom of the press and expression in

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of activists in Bangladesh backed by the ruling party’s student wing have demonstrated in the nation’s capital and elsewhere to demand an end to the Gaza-Israel war and the establishment of an independent Palestine state. The activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League marched through Dhaka University campus on Monday chanting