Month: May 2023

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for Prince Harry argued in a London court Tuesday that he should be allowed to challenge a government decision that denied him the right to pay for police protection when he visits the U.K. The case is one of six the Duke of Sussex has

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s crowded Republican primary campaign for governor comes to a close Tuesday, wrapping up a bitter competition between two rivals with ties to former President Donald Trump who dominated the race. Only one of 12 contenders will remain standing to challenge the red-leaning state’s popular Democratic

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Laurel Parmet’s directorial debut “The Starling Girl” puts the viewer in the modest shoes of a 17-year-old girl named Jem. She’s grown up in a Christian fundamentalist community in Kentucky and has internalized its teachings, feeling deep shame for drawing attention to herself and her body, even accidentally. But

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry says South Korea midfielder Son Jun-ho has been detained in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning on suspicion of accepting a bribe. Spokesperson Wang Wenbin saysa Son was placed in custody “recently” and was under investigation. Wang says the South Korean consulate in the provincial capital of Shenyang has

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A former suburban St. Louis police officer is accused of handcuffing a man so the officer’s brother could beat him. St. Louis County prosecutors on Monday charged James Sims with first-degree kidnapping, felony third-degree assault and misdemeanor assault. Sims previously worked for the North County Police Cooperative, which handles policing services

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention “will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful” AI systems. “As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live. We

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An advocacy group that served as a safe space for the LGBTQ community in Beijing has been shut down as part of a government pressure campaign against gay rights groups. The Beijing LGBT Center’s shuttering Monday is a critical blow for the community that used to

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Swedish singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest with her power ballad “Tattoo,” has returned to Sweden, saying she was proud to have won the contest twice and became the second person in Eurovision history to win a second time. Loreen said Tuesday upon arrival in Stockholm that she was “so

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers picked up their spending modestly in April from March, buoyed by a solid job market and easing inflationary pressures. A bump up in demand for new cars also helped results, according to the Commerce Department report issued Tuesday. Retail sales increased 0.4% in April

BEIJING (AP) — China’s military says it is prepared to “resolutely smash any form of Taiwan independence” as the U.S. prepares to accelerate the sale of defensive weapons to the self-governing island democracy. Defense Ministry spokesperson Col. Tan Kefei says a recent increase in exchanges between the U.S. and Taiwanese militaries is an “extremely wrong

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Amnesty International says executions worldwide increased by 53% in 2022 from a year earlier, with a significant rise in Iran and Saudi Arabia. In an annual report, Amnesty says 70% of the executions in the Middle East and North Africa were carried out in Iran, where

MILAN (AP) — The discovery of two skeletons buried beneath a collapsed wall in the Pompeii archaeological site point to deaths by powerful earthquakes that accompanied the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the first century, experts said Tuesday, in addition to the victims of volcanic ash and gas. The two skeletons believed to be

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Writer Salman Rushdie has made a public speech, nine months after being stabbed and seriously injured onstage, warning that freedom of expression in the West is under its most severe threat in his lifetime. Rushdie delivered a video message to the British Book Awards, where he was