Month: May 2024

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo has criticized the Council of Europe’s decision against holding a vote on its membership, saying it deprived its people and especially its ethnic minorities of democratic tools offered by the continent’s top human rights body. Kosovo’s membership was not on the agenda

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s prime minister has joined tens of thousands of people on march through the country’s capital to mark the Day of Family Purity. The event on Friday celebrated so-called traditional family values in Georgia where animosity toward sexual minorities is strong. The march was initiated by the Georgian Orthodox Church in

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer If you’re looking for a little bit of that “Top Gun: Maverick” spectacle and thrill at the movie theater this summer, you’re in luck. A groundbreaking new documentary, “The Blue Angels,” is flying onto IMAX screens for one week, through May 22. Using IMAX-certified cameras mounted on a helicopter,

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The two planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized this week are good news for CNN and ABC News. But the arrangement virtually guarantees they will be among the least-watched general election debates ever. The two campaigns organized them

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate who is weeks away from execution is in a hospital after suffering what a Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman described as a “medical emergency.” David Hosier is scheduled to be put to death June 11 for killing a Jefferson City couple, Angela and

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate and five other people have been killed in a shooting at a campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern Mexico state of Chiapas. State prosecutors said one of those killed was a young girl, and that two other people were wounded. The mass shooting took place late Thursday in

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s first-in-the-nation plan to levy a hefty toll on drivers entering Manhattan was the focus of a legal battle that played out in federal court. A Manhattan judge heard arguments Friday in lawsuits brought by groups of New Yorkers seeking to halt the $15 “congestion

DETROIT (AP) — Tim Kuniskis, CEO of the Ram and Dodge brands and the unofficial voice of American muscle cars, is retiring after nearly 32 years with Stellantis. The announcement Friday comes as Stellantis struggles with U.S. sales as it begins the transition from internal combustion to electric vehicles. Through April, its sales were down

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A scenic fishing village in southwestern England was under instructions to boil its tap water for a third day on Friday after a parasite sickened more than 45 people in the latest example of Britain’s troubled water system. Around 16,000 homes and businesses in the Brixham area

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has banned four more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the 27-nation bloc for what it calls the spread of propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine and disinformation as the EU heads into elections in three weeks. The latest batch of broadcasters consists of Voice of Europe, RIA Novosti,

BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament has approved plans to relax strict restrictions on family names — clearing the way, among other things, for couples to take double-barreled surnames and pass them on to their children. The reform of Germany’s rigid rules is due to take effect at the beginning of May 2025 after it

LONDON (AP) — A Moroccan asylum-seeker who stabbed a British retiree to death in revenge for Israel’s war against Hamas has been sentenced to at least 45 years in prison. Ahmed Alid killed 70-year-old Terence Carney in a street in the English town of Hartlepool in October. Alid told police after his arrest that he’d

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — A man in Malawi has been convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after posting a TikTok video that shows an animated figure with Chakwera’s face superimposed on it doing some wacky dance moves. Sainani Nkhoma was found guilty by a court on Thursday. It said he had posted the video and

By DARREN SANDS Associated Press It was daunting when the Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley, at age 22, replaced a beloved pastor who had ministered to one of suburban Boston’s most famed Black churches for 24 years. It was more daunting — at times agonizing — to reach the decision six years later, in 2015, that

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The number of violent incidents reported in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia has fallen slightly after France imposed a state of emergency. An extra 1,000 officers have been deployed to boost the power of the security forces to quell unrest in the archipelago whose Indigenous population

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested Friday morning on his way to the PGA Championship, with stunning images showing him handcuffed as he was taken to jail for not following police orders during a pedestrian fatality investigation. In a span of four hours, the top-ranked

By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All of Donald Trump’s top opponents for the Republican presidential nomination dropped out of the race weeks ago but will be back together on Kentucky’s primary ballot. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others quit the race after Kentucky finalized its ballot, so