Year: 2024

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A bodyless head that washed ashore in South Florida has been identified as that of a 19-year-old swimmer who went missing in Miami Beach after he tried to rescue his younger sister from a rip current. Victor Enrique Castaneda Jr. was reported missing near a jetty on Nov. 9. Authorities

Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An outbreak of E. coli has infected dozens of people who ate bagged organic carrots, and one person died from the infection. Altogether, 39 people were infected and 15 were hospitalized in 18 states after eating organic whole and baby carrots sold by Grimmway Farms, the federal Centers for

AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of Quincy Jones was not sure they wanted to attend the Governors Awards. Their father died two weeks before he could accept his second honorary Oscar, alongside Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, filmmaker Richard Curtis and casting director Juliet Taylor. But the Jones

Associated Press Reg Murphy, a renowned journalist whose newsgathering career included stints as an editor and top executive at newspapers in Atlanta, San Francisco and Baltimore — and who found himself the subject of national headlines when he survived a politically motivated kidnapping — has died at age 90. Murphy, who lived on St. Simons

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has no plan to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he said support for Ukraine was the U.K.’s top priority at this week’s G20 summit. Starmer was speaking Sunday with on his way to the meeting in Brazil when he said he wouldn’t speak

AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Library of Congress has notified lawmakers of a “cyber breach” of its IT system by an adversary. That’s according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. The library said that an adversary has accessed email communications between some congressional offices and library staff during the period from

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands of protesters have gathered in Slovakia’s capital on the 35th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that brought an end to decades of communist rule in Czechoslovakia to oppose the policies of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico. The protest united the opposition behind it, including the liberal Progressive Slovakia, pro-business Freedom

AP College Football Writer Oregon remained the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday after its close call at Wisconsin, Notre Dame and Alabama each jumped up two spots and Georgia returned to the top 10. LSU is unranked for the first time in two years. The unbeaten

Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. said Sunday that any pushback from the Washington establishment around his father’s unconventional choices for Cabinet proves they are just the kind of disruptors that voters are demanding. The younger Trump insisted the team now around the president-elect knows how to build out an administration,

Associated Press MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, easing limitations on the longer range weapons as Russia deploys thousands of North Korean troops to reinforce its war, according to a U.S. official and three other people familiar with the matter. The decision

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Opposition protesters in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia have refused to cede control of key government buildings seized during rallies on Friday during which at least 14 people were injured in clashes with police. Regional leader Aslan Bzhania signaled Sunday that he was prepared to hold early elections. Meanwhile, one opposition