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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The media industry is crumbling, and late-night comedy on television has less than half of the audience than it had a decade ago. So what better time to start an online news site devoted to the topic? LateNighter publisher Jed Rosenzweig is looking to buck

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French court has ruled that filmmaker Roman Polanski did not defame a British actor who accused him of raping her as a teenager. The case stems from a 2019 interview with Paris Match magazine where Polanski called Charlotte Lewis a liar following her accusations. The court’s

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan say a missile fired by a drone struck a house in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban along the Afghan border before dawn Tuesday, killing at least four villagers, including children. They say it is not clear who fired the missile and officers are investigating.

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — An attack on a prison convoy in northwestern France has left two prison officers dead and three others seriously injured. An inmate escaped. A search is underway. Authorities worked to secure the area and apprehend the assailants. The interior minister says several hundred police officers and gendarmes

NEW YORK (AP) — A transcript of discussions between Judge Juan M. Merchan and lawyers shows prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told the judge it’s “highly likely” the defense will be able to start calling witnesses on Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial. But Trump lawyer Todd Blanche says he expects the defense’s cross-examination

By FADI TAWIL and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press ARSAL, Lebanon (AP) — More than 300 Syrians refugees are heading back home from northeastern Lebanon to an uncertain future in Syria as anti-refugee sentiment is surging in crisis-hit Lebanon. In the northeastern town of Arsal, Syrian refugees piled their belongings onto the back of trucks and

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, has welcomed Denmark’s King Frederik and his Australian-born wife, Queen Mary, on their second official visit abroad after the Danish monarch’s mother abdicated this year. The 87-year-old Harald returned to work last month following two surgeries to implant pacemakers. Harald has said he

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — European carmaker Stellantis says it will begin selling electric vehicles from its Chinese partner Leapmotor in nine European countries later this year. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares said Tuesday that sales will begin in September in European countries including Belgium, France, Italy and Germany, and later in

By NAPAT KONGSAWAD Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A young Thai activist who went on a hunger strike after being jailed for advocating reform of the country’s monarchy system has died in a prison hospital. Netiporn Sanesangkhom was a member of an activist group known for bold and aggressive campaigns demanding reform of the monarchy

By DAVID SHARP and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press ORONO, Maine (AP) — Researchers around the world are racing to create large wind turbines and floating platforms as upcoming lease auctions bring offshore wind closer to reality. Floating turbines are the only way for some countries and U.S. states to capture a massive amount of offshore

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long. Recommendations first made by major departments and police associations culminated in a 1995 federal

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations have officially endorsed a major overhaul of the bloc’s failed asylum system. Tuesday’s move wraps up years of work and comes just as campaigning for next month’s Europe-wide elections gathers pace. Migration could be an important issue. The New Pact on Migration and Asylum

PARIS (AP) — A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country’s Nazi occupation in World War II has been defaced with painted blood-red hands. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo decried the vandalism as “unspeakable.” She said the memorial was defaced overnight Monday to Tuesday. The attack

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long. Recommendations first made by major departments and police associations culminated in a 1995 federal

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo’s self-driving vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration posted documents detailing the probe on its website early Tuesday after getting 22 reports of Waymo vehicles either

BERLIN (AP) — The Bayreuth Festival in Germany has announced it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its director for another five years. Wagner, who turns 46 on May 21 and is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, became co-head of the festival in September 2008, along with her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier. Katharina then took over as

BERLIN (AP) — An Austrian court has ruled that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, raped her thousands of times and fathered seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison. The decision on Monday follows a legal back-and-forth on Josef Fritzl’s future. The state court

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Huge throngs of protesters blocked streets in the capital of Georgia and milled angrily outside the parliament building after lawmakers on Tuesday approved a “foreign influence” bill that critics call  a Russian-style threat to free speech and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. The

By JOSH BOAK, FATIMA HUSSEIN, PAUL WISEMAN and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced plans to slap new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment — an election year move that’s likely to increase friction between the world’s two largest economies. The tariffs

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and ALEX TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Diego Maradona’s heirs will file a lawsuit to try to stop the auction of a trophy he was awarded after the 1986 World Cup won by Argentina, their lawyer told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The Golden Ball trophy rewarding the best player of

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A top migration monitoring group says conflicts and natural disasters left nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, a new record. Violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East together drove two-thirds of the new movement. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center report found the

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — One evening in November 2020, a year into his military service, Peacemaker Azuegbulam’s lifelong dream of being a soldier came to an abrupt end. He was among a group of Nigerian soldiers deployed in the country’s grinding counteroffensive against Islamic extremists in northeastern Borno state when

By The Associated Press Russian authorities have arrested a second senior Defense Ministry official on bribery charges days after President Vladimir Putin replaced the defense minister in a Cabinet shake-up. Russia’s top law enforcement body said Tuesday the chief of the ministry’s main personnel directorate, Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov, was arrested and placed in custody

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mine authorities in southern Poland say that two miners are dead and one is missing while 12 others were hurt following a cave-in at the Myslowice-Wesola coal mine. A company official said the cave-in happened early Tuesday in an underground area where 15 miners were working. Eleven were immediately brought to

BEIJING (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, in the latest show of unity between the two authoritarian allies against the U.S.-led Western liberal global order. Putin will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his visit starting on Thurday, the

By RAJESH KUMAR SINGH and BISWAJEET BANERJEEE Associated Press VARANASI, India (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has filed his nomination to run for a third term in the country’s general election in the northern city of Varanasi, which is his constituency. Modi hopes to retain his seat in the holy Hindu city, from

By PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press HALLE, Germany (AP) — A court in Germany has ruled that one of the best-known figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party knowingly used a Nazi slogan in a speech and ordered him to pay a fine. The verdict in Björn Höcke’s trial comes months

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mostly higher on Wednesday after a rally on Wall Street that took the Nasdaq composite index to a record high. A report Tuesday showed that prices remain stubbornly high at the wholesale level in the United States, before many price changes are passed

By The Associated Press More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in Rafah and northern Gaza, the United Nations says. Israelis celebrated their Independence Day on Tuesday with barbecues in parks across the country, although the normally raucous parties were smaller and quieter this year

SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick (AP) — Canadian billionaire Arthur L. Irving has died at 93 after a life spent growing the oil business his father founded. Irving was one of Canada’s richest citizens and the second-born son of Canadian industrialist K.C. Irving. The company said he died Monday surrounded by his family. Forbes Magazine listed