Month: June 2024

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — YouTube is changing its policies about firearm videos in an effort to keep potentially dangerous content from reaching underage users. The video sharing platform owned by Google said Wednesday it will prohibit any videos demonstrating how to remove firearm safety devices. In addition, videos showing homemade guns,

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff will kick off with a first-round game on Dec. 20 and conclude with the title game one month later in Atlanta. The CFP announced its entire schedule on Wednesday. The four first-round games will be on Dec. 20 and 21.

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury has ended a second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the trial of seven Minnesotans accused of exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to steal more than $40 million meant to feed children. Attention has focused on the case after someone tried

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press Joro spiders — invasive, brightly colored, orb-weaving arachnids that have been spreading in the U.S. for the past several years — have captured the public’s interest and horror once again. But spider experts say the jury’s still out on the impact the spider will have, when it will reach different

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice has made an initial court appearance in New Hampshire, where he is charged with voter suppression and impersonating a candidate ahead of the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Steven Kramer, who also faces a

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Thousands of people including police officers from throughout the Northeast have gathered for the funeral of a Connecticut state trooper killed by a hit-and-run driver last week. Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier was remembered Wednesday in Hartford as a dedicated public servant and loving husband and

By KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The reality/competition series “The Traitors” has announced a lineup of reality television all-stars, actors and even a British aristocrat for the cast of its upcoming third season. A slew of stars from the “Real Housewives,” “Survivor,” the “Bachelor” franchises, including Chrishell Stause, Tom Sandoval, Sam Asghari

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press VER-SUR MER, France (AP) — Along with the generals and the paratroopers, the pilots and the infantrymen, spare a thought for the young Irish woman who may have played the most important role of all in making the D-Day landings a success. Maureen Sweeney was a postal clerk at Blacksod

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have issued criminal referrals against President Joe Biden’s son and brother, accusing them of making false statements to Congress as part of an impeachment inquiry. The Republican chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary and Ways & Means committees sent a letter to the Justice Department

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — Joe Biden’s campaign is signaling new plans to incorporate Donald Trump’s recent felony conviction as a core element of the Democratic president’s reelection message. Five months before Election Day, there are key voices — some within Biden’s campaign headquarters — who believe that Trump’s

By SYLVIE CORBET and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PEGASUS BRIDGE, France (AP) — In World War II, millions of women rolled up their sleeves and worked in defense-industry factories, freeing up and equipping men for combat. They had their own icon in “Rosie the Riveter,” a woman in a polka-dotted bandanna flexing a muscular arm.

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ice Spice’s long-awaited debut album, “Y2K,” is almost here. The Grammy-nominated Bronx rapper, celebrated for her sweet, lackadaisical flow, will drop her first full-length album on July 26. It is produced by her longtime creative collaborator RIOTUSA. In support of “Y2K,” Ice Spice will also

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A judge has dismissed felony animal cruelty charges brought against a Pennsylvania state trooper who hit a loose horse with a patrol vehicle multiple times and pinned it to the pavement. The ruling came Tuesday after Chester County District Attorney Chris de Barrena-Sarobe notified the judge that Cpl. Michael Perillo’s

By JAMES JORDAN and HARRIET MORRIS Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin is warning that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets elsewhere in the world in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to launch attacks on Russian territory. Putin also reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to use nuclear

By ARSENE EVARISTE and MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister has pledged more support to Burkina Faso in fighting militant groups as he presses his whirlwind tour of West Africa in an attempt to fill a vacuum left by the region’s traditional Western partners. Sergey Lavrov told reporters on

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin says Virginia will abandon California’s stringent vehicle emissions rules aimed at reducing carbon pollution at the end of the year when that state’s current regulations expire. Youngkin made the announcement Wednesday citing an opinion from Attorney General Jason Miyares that

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The arrest of an executive at The Epoch Times in a money-laundering scheme this week has drawn attention to a media outlet that has lived largely in the shadows since its founding in 2000 and a transformation during the Trump administration. Federal prosecutors in New

BERLIN (AP) — The death toll from floods across a large part of southern Germany has risen to six as police recovered the body of a woman missing since the weekend from a canal in Bavaria. The 79-year-old failed to return home after being seen on a bicycle in Jettingen-Scheppach, near the city of Augsburg,

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has condemned the public flogging of more than 60 people, including more than a dozen women, by the Taliban in northern Sari Pul province. Taliban’s supreme court in a statement confirmed the flogging of 63 people accused of crimes including sodomy, theft and immoral relations.

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s birth rate fell to a new low for the eighth straight year in 2023, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday. A government official described the situation as critical and urged authorities to do everything they can to reverse the trend. The data underscores Japan’s

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government has lost a no-confidence vote. The result is non-binding and Vaughan Gething says he won’t resign, but will continue “to serve and lead my country.” It comes less than three months after Gething made history as the first Black leader of

By TERRY CHEA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Police arrested 13 people at Stanford University after pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the school president and provost’s offices early Wednesday, causing what officials described as “extensive” vandalism inside and outside the building. The takeover began around dawn on the last day of spring

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine has used U.S weapons to attack inside Russia in recent days. That’s according to a U.S. senator and a Western official familiar with the matter. The weapons were used under recently approved guidance from President Joe Biden allowing American arms to be used to strike inside

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul halted a plan to charge most motorists $15 to enter the core of Manhattan, upending the nation’s first “congestion pricing” system on Wednesday just weeks before it was set to launch. The announcement dealt a stunning blow to