Month: May 2024

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A mixed-breed dog has won the Westminster Kennel Club dog show’s agility prize for the first time. A border collie-papillion mix, aptly named Nimble, outran and outmaneuvered 50 other finalists to seize the trophy on Saturday. The show is U.S. dogdom’s most elite door. The agility

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III unveiled his first completed portrait since the coronation, a vivid image in reds depicting the monarch in the uniform of the Welsh Guards. The unveiling of the portrait by Jonathan Yeo took place at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. The king is shown with his

By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A judge in Delaware has denied a request by Hunter Biden’s lawyers to delay his federal gun trial set for next month. The judge Tuesday rejected Hunter Biden’s request to delay the trial until September, which his lawyers said was necessary to give

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions. The change was championed by the Republican-controlled Statehouse despite concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases. Lee, a Republican, quietly signed off on the legislation

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Kathleen Hana’s bands, Bikini Kill, the Julie Ruin and Le Tigre, have long been celebrated for their candor, and their songs which chastised abusers and celebrated women. Now the punk pioneer and force of the third-wave feminist riot grrrl movement has released a memoir, “Rebel Girl: My Life as

DETROIT (AP) — Federal auto safety regulators are warning people not to stick decals on their steering wheels because they can be hurled at drivers if the air bags inflate in a crash. The warning from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration comes after another driver was severely hurt by a flying emblem during a

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The one remaining wrongful death lawsuit filed after 10 people were killed during a deadly crowd crush at the 2021 Astroworld music festival has been set for trial in civil court in September, a judge said Tuesday. State District Judge Kristen Hawkins scheduled jury selection to

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Melinda French Gates is already one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the United States and is now poised to put another $12.5 billion toward intractable problems like closing the gender pay gap and increasing women’s political participation, her grantees hope. The additional

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — The first star to arrive on the red carpet at the 77th Cannes Film Festival came on four legs. Messi, the dog from the film “Anatomy of a Fall,” walked up and down the Cannes carpet on Tuesday ahead of the opening ceremony. Lines of

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history’s most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s Independence Day is normally a raucous affair, celebrated with day parties and barbecues in parks, but this year, celebrations — from Monday evening through Tuesday — were muted. In the shadow of the war in Gaza and immediately after the country marked an emotional

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie weapons armorer is appealing her conviction for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” according to court documents released Tuesday. A defense attorney filed the shortly worded appeal notice as Hannah Gutierrez-Reed serves an 18-month

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that officials brag is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster. But the plane didn’t fly over eastern Ohio until four days after the disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment there last year. A whistleblower

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the central bank is unlikely to raise its key interest rate in response to signs of stubborn inflation and underscored his view that price increases would soon start to cool again. Yet Powell, during a panel discussion in

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new FBI report shows the rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported. The report released Tuesday also shows that the number of officers assaulted and injured by guns is climbing too. Agencies reported 466 assaults involving guns, which

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Georgia county illegally discriminated against a sheriff’s deputy by failing to pay for her gender-affirming surgery. In its ruling Monday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it was tasked with determining whether a health insurance provider can be

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press OCALA, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Highway Patrol has arrested the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a farmworker bus early Tuesday, killing eight, on charges of driving under the influence-manslaughter. Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, faces eight counts of DUI-Manslaughter, the FHP said in a

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is assailing the U.S. judicial system as the the highest-level Republican to attend court with Donald Trump for his hush money trial. The presence of the House leader at Trump’s felony trial in New York on Tuesday serves as a remarkable moment in modern American

NEW YORK (AP) — David Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who played lively solos on such hits as David Bowie’s “Young Americans” and James Taylor’s “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and enjoyed his own highly successful recording career as a performer of melodic, contemporary jazz, has died at age 78. A spokesperson

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive health clinic in the nation’s capital has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison. Thirty-year-old Lauren Handy declined to address the court before a U.S. district judge sentenced her on Tuesday to

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — The University of Amsterdam canceled classes Tuesday and shut buildings for two days after the latest pro-Palestinian demonstrations over the war in Gaza turned destructive. Protests continued to simmer at several European universities where students faced off with academic authorities on whether relations with Israel should

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After another ramming of a boat by an orca in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spanish authorities recommended small vessels stick to the coastline in that region to avoid often-scary interactions with killer whales during the summer. In the latest incident, two people aboard a 15-meter (50-foot)

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study finds that the broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years. When the temperatures spiked last year, numerous weather agencies said it was the hottest summer on record. But those records only go back to 1850 because they

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition that includes entrepreneur and philanthropist Daniel Lubetzky, actor Liev Schreiber, journalist Katie Couric, and director of the Muhammad Ali Center Lonnie Ali announced Tuesday that it would launch Builders, a nonprofit global initiative aimed at reducing polarization while encouraging people to work together

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Authorities say a security guard trainee at an Amazon warehouse in Ohio was fatally shot by police after he tried to shoot his supervisor and later shot an officer who was saved by his bulletproof vest. The initial shooting occurred around 4:40 p.m. Sunday at the warehouse in West Jefferson.