Month: May 2023

By ZEKE MILLER, JOSH BOAK and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Sunday that he and President Joe Biden will meet on Monday in person to discuss raising the nation’s debt limit. McCarthy, R-Calif., and Biden spoke by phone as the president was flying back from a trip to

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Fans angry at being blocked from entering a Salvadoran soccer league match knocked down an entrance gate to the stadium, leading to a crush that left at least 12 people dead and dozens injured, officials and witnesses said Sunday. The stampede took place late

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Exit polls in Greece’s parliamentary elections show Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservative party is in the lead but is unlikely to win enough seats in parliament to form a government outright. If confirmed by official results, Mitsotakis will have to seek coalition partners

CINCINNATI (AP) — A new trial has been ordered for a man who spent more than a decade and a half on Ohio’s death row in the 2006 death of the 3-year-old son of his former live-in girlfriend. Fifty-four-year-old Lamont Hunter was convicted of aggravated murder, child endangering and rape in the death of Trustin

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Though protests over pension reforms have roiled France in recent months, demonstrations have been kept largely at bay at one of the country’s glitziest events, the Cannes Film Festival. On Sunday, dozens of protesters gathered in Cannes to oppose the raising of the reforms pushed

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Stepping up a feud with Washington over technology and security, China’s government on Sunday told users of computer equipment deemed sensitive to stop buying products from the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, Micron Technology Inc. Micron products have unspecified “serious network security risks” that pose hazards to

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The 10th installment of the “Fast and Furious” franchise was off to the races this weekend, knocking “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” out of first place and easily claiming the No. 1 spot at the box office. “Fast X” earned $67.5 million in ticket sales from 4,046 North

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A stampede by fans at a quarterfinals soccer match in the Salvadoran league has left 12 people dead and injured dozens more, officials said early Sunday. The crush happened when soccer fans pushed through one of the gates during Saturday’s game between Alianza and

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday that Republicans in the U.S. House must move off their “extreme positions” on the now-stalled talks over raising America’s debt limit and that there would be no agreement to avert a catastrophic default only on their terms. In

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police are investigating after apparently related shootings left two people dead and two injured. Police said in a news release that officers responded around 9 p.m. Saturday after getting calls about shootings at two locations minutes apart. Investigators are working to establish a motive and find those responsible. Police

HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia and Latvia are jointly planning to acquire German air defense systems for the protection of the airspace of the two NATO nations in what would be the biggest defense cooperation deal between the Baltic neighbors that border Russia, the Estonian and Latvian defense ministers said on Sunday.  According to the provisional

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of South Korea and Germany have pledged more cooperation in building stable supply chains and addressing the challenges posed by nuclear-armed North Korea. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met in Seoul on Sunday after flying in from

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — It was well into the process of making “Killers of the Flower Moon” that Martin Scorsese realized it wasn’t a detective story. Scorsese, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and screenwriter Eric Roth had many potential avenues in adapting David Grann’s expansive nonfiction history, “Killers of the Flower

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Richard Evans makes his way through rows of his students in his third grade classroom, stooping to pick up an errant pencil and answering questions above the din of chairs sliding on hardwood floors. The desks, once spread apart to fight COVID-19, are back together.

ROME (AP) — Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, is erupting, spewing ash on Catania, eastern Sicily’s largest city, and forcing suspension of flights at that city’s airport. Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, which monitors Etna, said Sunday that cloud cover on a rainy day was impeding a view of what often is