Month: December 2024

AP National Writer Four members of Congress unveiled a bipartisan bill Friday that would spark changes at the U.S. Center for SafeSport, placing a time limit on resolving cases that can sometimes take years and improving communication between the center and abuse survivors. The Safer Sports for Athletes Act looks to address some of the

DENVER, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania couple who divorced nearly 50 years ago is planning to remarry. Fay Gable and Robert Wenrich first met because he was her older brothers’ best friend, and she says he told them that he was going to marry her someday. They were wed in November 1951 and had four

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is running to become the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. The New York lawmaker threw her hat in the ring in a letter to colleagues on Friday.  At 35, Ocasio-Cortez would by far be the youngest to serve in the prominent post. It’s the latest

AP Health Reporter The U.S. government on Friday ordered testing of the nation’s milk supply for bird flu to better monitor the spread of the virus in dairy cows. Raw or unpasteurized milk from dairy farms and processors nationwide must be tested on request starting Dec. 16, the Agriculture Department said. Testing will begin in

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The picture of who will be in charge of executing President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration and border policies has come into sharper focus after he announced his picks to head Customs and Border Protection and also the agency tasked with deporting immigrants in the country illegally. Trump said late Thursday

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge sentenced a man to 22 years in federal prison for kidnapping a woman from Michael Bloomberg’s Colorado ranch during what prosecutors said was a failed attempt to kill the media mogul. Joseph Lee Beecher, 51, had faced up to life in prison after his August conviction by a jury

Religion News Service HARDWICK, Mass. (RNS) — As fall shifts into winter in Hardwick, Massachusetts, temperatures are unseasonably high for November, and a 34-acre community built by a homesteading couple nearly four decades ago stands remarkably quiet. “I’m finding it’s okay for me to say, well maybe this will not thrive,” Suzanne Shanley, co-founder of

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to settle a years-long legal dispute over whether Palestinian authorities can be sued in U.S. courts by Americans killed or wounded in terrorism attacks in the Middle East. The federal appeals court in New York has repeatedly ruled in favor of the  Palestine Liberation Organization

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say six people died after a pickup truck traveling the wrong way on a Mississippi highway collided with a car. Police say the crash happened before dawn Friday on Interstate 55 in Jackson. They say the Chevy Silverado pickup was heading south in the northbound lane when it collided with

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s top police official has denied reports that officers serving in the United Nations-backed multinational peacekeeping mission in Haiti have gone unpaid for three months. The police inspector general, Douglas Kanja, on Thursday said officers in Haiti had been paid “up to the end of October.” He was reacting

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities have identified the Florida-bound Greyhound bus passenger who was shot and killed by Atlanta police. Thirty-nine-year-old Robert McVay was from Maryland. The shooting happened after 1:00 a.m. Thursday on the Interstate 75 south of downtown Atlanta. Police were initially responding to a call reporting that someone on the bus was stabbed.

AP Science Writer A surprising study of temperature-related deaths in Mexico upends conventional thinking about what age group is hit hardest by heat. Friday’s study shows that at higher temperatures and humidity, heat kills far more young people under 35 than those older than 50. For decades, health and weather experts have warned that the