Month: May 2023

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Army sergeant plans to appeal his 25-year prison sentence for fatally shooting an armed man during a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas, and will cooperate with efforts by the state’s Republican governor to issue a pardon, his attorney said Wednesday. Daniel Perry, 36,

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing growing pressure to show progress in their investigations, House Republicans on Wednesday detailed what they say are concerning new findings about President Joe Biden’s family and their finances. The smoking gun, according to the GOP, is recently obtained financial records connected to the president’s son Hunter

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving his sports car drunk at speeds up to 156 mph on a city street before causing a fiery crash that killed a woman and her dog. “Guilty,” said the former first-round NFL draft pick, 24,

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer When Martin Scorsese premieres his latest film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20th, it will return Scorsese to a festival where he remains a key part of its fabled history. Scorsese premiered his masterpiece of urban alienation, “Taxi Driver,” in Cannes in

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer For two decades, scientists have been comparing every person’s genetic blueprint they study to a template that relies mostly on just one man. But now, scientists are building a much more diverse set of reference genomes called a pangenome that combines genetic material from 47 people from various places

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Vermont’s Republican governor has signed abortion and gender affirming shield bills into law that include protecting access to a medication widely used in abortions even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration withdraws its approval of the pill, mifepristone. The legislation protects providers from discipline for providing legally protected reproductive

Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of fans have joined Rita Lee Jones’ family at her wake in Sao Paulo to mourn the death of Brazil’s “Queen of Rock”. In spite of the rain, fans started lining up at 5 a.m. local time outside Sao Paulo’s planetarium in the Ibirapuera park – a place close

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Almost everyone knows the backstory of the iPhone, a breakthrough that continues to reshape culture 16 years after late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the device to the world. But what’s unforgotten is the must-have gadget that came before Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007. It was the BlackBerry,

By VIRGINIA MAYO and MARK CARLSON Associated Press YPRES, Belgium (AP) — A World War I soldier has finally found his resting place after he went missing at the height of the carnage in 1917 and his remains were found four years ago. The brutality during the 1914-1918 war was such that hundreds of thousands

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH Associated Press When my mother died suddenly 30 years ago, I was 13. I’d spend the next 20 years attempting to understand what it means not to have a mother. And I did this basically alone. Mostly, this was because my mother’s parents, who raised me, were old-fashioned folks who lived