Month: May 2023

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Critics of Georgia’s voting machines say they are unconstitutional and should be scrapped in favor of hand-marked paper ballots. State election officials dismiss their concerns as unfounded and argue that the state’s voting system is safe and secure. The arguments are at the center of a long-running

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Wayne visited the World Series champion Houston Astros Tuesday night before their game against the San Francisco Giants. The Louisiana-born rapper was in town for a show later Tuesday, but stopped by the ballpark to hang with the Astros before taking the

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London police said a controlled explosion was carried out as a precaution outside Buckingham Palace late Tuesday after a man was arrested there on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon. The Metropolitan Police said officers arrested the man after he approached the palace gates and threw items

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America The beach community where officials say a DUI driver killed a bride on her wedding night is rallying around the victim’s family. Lisa Miller says people have bought her family food and offered oceanside condos since her daughter Samantha Miller, 34, died Friday in Folly Beach, South Carolina.

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The first Hollywood strike in 15 years began Tuesday as the economic pressures of the streaming era prompted unionized TV and film writers to picket for better pay outside major studios, a work stoppage that is leading most late-night shows to air reruns. The labor

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Prison officials have moved a former drug dealer convicted of killing a 16-year-old Texas girl off federal death row to serve a life sentence in another prison amid criticism he should have been moved years ago after a judge deemed him intellectually disabled and vacated

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Howard University is turning to an experienced scholar of the African diaspora to serve as its new university president. Ben Vinson III, currently the provost at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, will officially take over as president from the retiring Wayne Frederick on Sept. 1. Vinson

By CARLA BRIDI and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Argentine President Alberto Fernández and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, vowed Tuesday to keep working to come up with a mechanism that would allow them to avoid using the U.S. dollar in trade between the neighboring nations. Argentina’s economy is

By KEN RITTER and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada Republican who led a movement of candidates who promoted Donald Trump’s lies of a stolen 2020 election says he will run for the U.S. Senate next year against Democratic incumbent Jacky Rosen in the swing state. Jim Marchant’s entrance in

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman testified Tuesday that Donald Trump molested her with what seemed like “40 zillion hands” on an airline flight in the late 1970s — years before writer E. Jean Carroll says the former president sexually assaulted her at a Manhattan department

By CARLA BRIDI and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Justice Ministry has ordered Google to stop conducting what it calls a propaganda campaign against Brazilian legislation aimed at curbing misinformation, or face about $200,000 per hour in fines. The company on Tuesday took down an article that the ministry had labeled

By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press A black bear gave a West Virginia principal quite the wake-up call when it emerged — growling and roaring — from a dumpster outside an elementary school. Zela Elementary School principal James Marsh was surprised to discover the bear had somehow managed to get inside the dumpster over the weekend