Year: 2024

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An advisory council says California Gov. Gavin Newsom should slash by at least a third the cost of his $360 million plan to build a campus with classrooms in the notorious San Quentin State Prison. In a report released Friday, the group says the saved money

By BRIAN MELLEY and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A U.S. fugitive known as Nicholas Rossi, who is accused of faking his own death to avoid a rape charge in Utah has been extradited from Scotland. The Utah County prosecutor’s office said Friday that Rossi will stand trial in the county.

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Missouri Republican U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer will not seek reelection, though his departure in what is considered a safe Republican district is unlikely to impact the balance of power after the 2024 election. Luetkemeyer announced his decision Thursday. He is 71. Luetkemeyer represents Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District, a large geographic

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Flooding from heavy rains has swamped parts of England, France and the Netherlands, and officials say water levels are likely to continue rising for several days. Officials in England on Friday said more than 1,000 homes and businesses were flooded. They warned of more impacts in the

By KAREN MATTHEWS and DAVE COLLINS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal transit safety investigators will be reviewing all of New York City’s subway operations in response to a collision and derailment that caused minor injuries to more than 20 people, the chairperson of the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday. Chair Jennifer Homendy

ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — Over 100 firefighters battled a blaze Friday at a New Jersey industrial park that was home to the Singer Sewing Machine factory for more than a century. A passerby reported the fire around 5:30 a.m., Mayor J. Christian Bollwage said. No one was in the building and no injuries were reported,

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to move forward next week with holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress after the president’s son defied a congressional subpoena to appear for a private deposition last month. The Republicans who lead the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the Judiciary Committee announced

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered the conditional release of Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco while he is investigated for allegations he had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl and gave her mother a car and thousands of dollars in

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol against rioters on Jan. 6 has announced he is running for Congress in Maryland. Harry Dunn wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he will be running in a crowded Democratic primary to replace Rep. John

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cleared the way for Florida’s first-in-the-nation plan to import prescription drugs from Canada, a long-sought approach to accessing cheaper medications that follows decades of frustration with U.S. drug prices. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the plan into law in

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Top one-and-done NBA prospects are making a big impact in their college team’s AP Top 25 standing. Roughly 70% of the one-and-done lottery picks who saw college minutes dating to 2006 played for teams that cracked the top 10 of the poll. The list includes stars and eventual top

ROME (AP) — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oil fell last year from record highs in 2022. The agency said Friday that the FAO Food Price Index was 13.7% lower last year than the 2022 average, but its measures of sugar and rice prices

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is docking more than $2 million in payments to student loan servicers that failed to send billing statements on time after the end of a coronavirus pandemic payment freeze. The Education Department said Friday it is withholding payments from Nelnet and two other

LONDON (AP) — Actor-singer David Soul, a 1970s heartthrob who co-starred as the blond half of the crime-fighting duo “Starsky & Hutch” and topped the music charts with the ballad “Don’t Give Up on Us,” has died at the age of 80. His wife, Helen Snell, said Friday that “David Soul – beloved husband, father,

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The lawyer representing the woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves has filed a legal complaint with Spanish authorities after a video circulated on social media that reportedly reveals the identity of her client. Ester García, the lawyer of the alleged

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jo Koy remembers watching major award ceremonies like the Golden Globes with his mother on their living room sofa trying to guess the winners. It was a ritual that Koy cherished as a child. Since then, he’s grown as a comedian with various stand-up

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian officials say they have postponed for the second time the reintroduction of requirements to obtain tourist visas for citizens of the U.S., Australia and Canada. Former president Jair Bolsonaro scrapped the visa requirements in 2019 to support the tourism industry, but the three countries continued to demand visas from

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister says the United States and China must insist on peaceful coexistence and transcend their differences like they did when they established diplomatic relations 45 years ago this week. Foreign Minister Wang Yi also promised during an anniversary banquet on Friday that giant pandas would

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Commentators who joked on a Polish right-wing television station that migrants should be sent to Auschwitz or be tattooed or microchipped like dogs are facing widespread condemnation. Prosecutors are investigating the remarks, and some companies are pulling their advertising from the broadcaster. The comments were made

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s minister of digital affairs has suggested that President Andrzej Duda check the security of access to his social accounts after a bizarre tweet went out that was almost immediately removed. The tweet published Thursday on Duda’s private account said: “Tell him to ask his wife what ‘having balls’ means. She

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press DHAKA (AP) — In the months leading to Bangladesh’s national election on Sunday, thousands of opposition supporters and politicians have been arrested. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party claims 10 of their members have died in police custody and another 20,000 have been arrested on what they say are trumped-up