Month: April 2023

By ARNIE STAPLETON and LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writers Some say the NFL is hypocritical for suspending players for gambling after the league has embraced legalized wagering as a major source of revenue in recent years. Others see it as necessary for the league to maintain public confidence that its games are on the up

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A stage play about the making of the blockbuster movie “Jaws” will soon take a huge bite out of Broadway. “The Shark is Broken” — co-written and starring the son of one of the film’s stars, the late Robert Shaw — will land on The

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer PIACAGUERA INDIGENOUS LAND, Brazil (AP) — As a bonfire lit by children finished burning, the winners at the first Indigenous Games of Peruibe calmly welcomed their wooden medals around their necks with little fanfare otherwise. The spectators, though, screamed and howled around the village’s arena as defeated competitors applauded

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press Ron Caetano is packed and ready to go. His family photos and valuables are in the trailer and he’s put food in carry totes. He moved the rabbits and chickens and their automatic feeders to higher ground. He and his family and dogs could get out in less than an

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has formally announced he’s seeking reelection. But he’s also still the president, with roughly 20 months left in his term regardless of whether he wins a second one on Election Day 2024. Top Democrats have remained solidly unified behind the president, despite his low

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Traveling while pregnant can be tough. Activities like adventure sports, scuba diving and going to high-altitude locations are off limits, for one thing. But if you’re dealing with fatigue, nausea, aches and other common symptoms, you may barely want to get out of bed, let alone go bungee jumping (don’t

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police in Japan are investigating a suspicious object found in a paper bag inside a commercial building connected to the Hiroshima train station. Authorities temporarily suspended the high-speed train service and evacuated customers and employees as the Japanese city steps up security ahead of the Group of

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of dog farmers in South Korea are rallying to criticize the country’s first lady over her reported comments supporting a possible ban on dog meat consumption. Eating dog is a centuries-old Korean practice. But there have been growing calls for outlawing it in South

BEIJING (AP) — The family of a veteran Chinese journalist says he faces espionage charges after being detained while meeting with a Japanese diplomat in a restaurant. Dong Yuyu, deputy head of the editorial department at Guangming Daily, often wrote liberal-leaning articles and regularly met with foreign journalists and diplomats to help understand global trends.

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia has convicted a former police officer of publicly spreading false information about the country’s military for criticizing the war in Ukraine to his friends. The ex-office, Semiel Vedel, was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison under a law the Kremlin has

By TOM KRISHER AP Business Writer DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and South Korea’s Samsung SDI plan to invest more than $3 billion in building a new electric vehicle battery cell plant in the United States, the companies said Tuesday. They did not announce the intended location of the new factory, which is expected to

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s government is under pressure over the rights of people with disabilities as he hosts the country’s first national conference on the issue since the COVID-19 pandemic. The looming deadlines in 2024 of the Olympic Games and Paralympics in Paris are also fueling campaigners’

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say a Russian missile has hit a museum building in the north of the country, killing one of its workers and wounding 10 other people, part of a relentless barrage that comes as Ukraine is gathering its forces for a planned counteroffensive. The Russian military used S-300 air defense

By OHAD ZWIGENBERG and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is marking its Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of militant attacks amid some of the nation’s deepest political divisions in history. The country came to a standstill and heads bowed Tuesday while a two-minute siren blared for the 24,213 soldiers killed