Month: February 2023

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The clock is ticking for New Hampshire to stop the involuntary holding of psychiatric patients in emergency rooms after a federal judge declared the practice unconstitutional. The judge ruled Thursday that the state is violating the rights of hospitals by seizing their property. She gave the

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — They dreamt up universes of hotdog fingers, googly-eyed rocks and “Raccaccoonie.” But Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, in this world or another, never imagined the kind of runaway success “Everything Everywhere All at Once” would have on the Oscar trail. For the past year, since

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog have found uranium particles enriched up to 83.7% in Iran’s underground Fordo nuclear site. That’s according to a report seen Tuesday by The Associated Press. The confidential quarterly report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency distributed to member states

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drones that the Kremlin said were launched by Ukraine flew deep inside Russian territory, including one that got within 100 kilometers (60 miles) of Moscow, signaling breaches in Russian defenses as President Vladimir Putin ordered stepped-up protection at the border. Officials said the drones caused no

MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Struggling low-cost airline Viva Air has suspended its operations in Colombia and Peru. That has left thousands of passengers stranded in airports with little support. The airline, owned by the same group that owns Ryanair, said in a statement late Monday that it grounded its flights after

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Break out those suspenders and dancing shoes, M.M. Keeravaani’s joyously energetic anthem “ Naatu Naatu ” will be performed at the Oscars, the show’s producers said Tuesday. With music by Keeravaani and lyrics by Chandrabose, “Naatu Naatu” is one of the most memorable sequences from the Telegu-language action epic

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Carnegie Hall will reach its pre-pandemic level of 170 concerts during a 2023-24 season that includes a focus on the fall of the Weimar Republic. The season will open Oct. 4 with the Riccardo Muti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Leonidas

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico is closing the U.S. territory’s only zoo following years of suspected negligence, a lack of resources and deaths of animals that were highlighted by activists. The Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo in the western coastal town of Mayaguez has remained closed since

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia officials investigating reports of a powder in the air and on some vehicles in the mid-Atlantic have determined the source: pollen. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection said in a statement Monday that final results from the dust samples collected Friday in the state’s Eastern Panhandle indicated the

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man charged in the deaths of three law enforcement officers during an ambush in a small Appalachian town has been found dead in his jail cell. Lance Storz, 50, was found dead of an apparent suicide Tuesday morning at the Pike County Detention Center,