Month: April 2023

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday plans to welcome to the White House the three Tennessee lawmakers who faced expulsion for participating in gun control protests at their statehouse. The episode has turned the lawmakers, known as the “Tennessee three,” into Democratic heroes. Vice President Kamala Harris already

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Banks are paying up for savers’ deposits in a much bigger way than they have in a long time. After a decade of low interest rates, the Federal Reserve has unleashed a rapid series of rate hikes to combat inflation. a move that has also

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — U2 is familiar with rocking out in major sporting arenas and stadiums, but the legendary band will soon hit the stage to create a new immersive concert experience inside a high-tech, globe-shaped venue in Las Vegas. Live Nation and Sphere Entertainment announced Monday the

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Hundreds of migrants have arrived over a 24-hour period on a tiny Italian island. The Italian news agency ANSA said a fishing boat off Lampedusa aided a distressed migrant boat that contained 34 people and one body. Survivors reportedly told rescuers that some 20 fellow passengers were

By KIA BREAUX Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — On April 13, the nightmare that I’d worried about ever since we moved into our neighborhood came true. That was the day that I learned 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot after mistakenly ringing a doorbell at the wrong house while trying to pick up his

By The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer who mistook her gun for a Taser and killed Daunte Wright in 2021, was released from prison early Monday. The Minnesota Department of Corrections said Potter was set free around 4 a.m., the unannounced timing chosen “out of an abundance of caution.”

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer NAPLES, Italy (AP) — It’s a celebration more than three decades in the making and Napoli fans are not waiting for it to become official before coloring their city in the team’s blue colors. Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi says in an Associated Press interview that when the team clinches

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian pro-government say Israel has shelled targets in southern Syria, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Reports from the pro-government Al-Watan newspaper and Sham FM radio say Israeli forces targeted the town of Talat Qars al-Nafl in Quneitra province early on Monday and that the artillery caused “material damage.” The reports didn’t mention

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A yacht carrying three Russians and two Egyptians has reportedly gone missing days ago off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea. Its owner alleged on Monday that armed pirates took the vessel. The reported disappearance of the 30 Minutes yacht, registered in

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal jury is set to hear closing arguments in the seditious conspiracy trial of Proud Boys extremist group leaders charged with plotting to use force to keep then-President Donald Trump in power. Starting Monday, prosecutors and defense lawyers will make their final appeals

By ELLEN DENNIS, The Seattle Times EVERETT, Wa. (AP) — Terrica Purvis squinted through goggles as her hands carefully guided a pipette full of indigo-tinted fluid into clear glass test tubes. It was the last chemistry lab of the winter quarter at Everett Community College. Purvis was working through the steps of what chemistry professor

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Sweden-based watchdog says global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of $2.24 trillion. There was a sharp rise of 13% in Europe, chiefly due to Russian and Ukrainian expenditure. In a report released Monday, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said military expenditure

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A sheriff’s office in Texas says nine teenagers were shot at a prom after-party attended by hundreds. Deputies in Jasper County said they responded just after midnight to shots fired at a home where the party was held and found nine victims with gunshot wounds that

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Hundreds of migrants have arrived over a 24-hour period on a tiny Italian island. Dozens of the passengers  sat Monday morning near Lampedusa’s port awaiting transfer to a shelter or eventually to Sicily or the mainland. The Italian news agency ANSA said a fishing boat off Lampedusa

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The body of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain’s fascist Falange movement, will be exhumed from a Madrid mausoleum and transferred to a city cemetery. The fascist political leader was executed by Spanish Republicans in November 1936, after Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising