Month: June 2023

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Lloyd Webber’s absence from New York City’s stages will be at most 14 months, with “Cats” returning in June 2024 at the World Trade Center’s new Perelman Performing Arts Center. The $500 million building, the next-to-last element of the World Trade Center redevelopment to open

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The head count of every U.S. resident in 2020 helped guide the distribution of $2.8 trillion in annual federal spending, underscoring the importance of participating in the once-a-decade census. That’s according to a new report released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. There were 353 federal assistance programs that used

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks turned lower on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve suggested that it may raise interest rates two more times this year, even though it kept rates steady on Wednesday. Treasury yields rose sharply. The S&P 500 was down 0.7% after being modestly higher before

By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Just last week, former Vice President Mike Pence said he hoped federal prosecutors would not bring charges against former President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, a day after Trump was arraigned on dozens of felony counts related to classified documents, Pence described the allegations

HAHNVILLE, La. (AP) — A 28-year-old woman who enrolled at a Louisiana high school and posed as a 17-year-old student has been arrested along with her mother. The St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office said Martha Jessenia Gutierrez Serrano and her mother, 46-year-old Marta Elizabeth Serrano Alvarado, both of Boutte, were arrested Tuesday on one count

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer NFL Vice President Troy Vincent and his wife Tommi are helping launch a domestic abuse study at Niagara University that will focus on male student-athletes. The year-long study is part of Vincent’s vision to uncover fresh data and find new ways to approach an issue that particularly affects college

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura is leaving after seven years as the highest profile woman working in world soccer. FIFA says Samoura will stay in the job she has held since 2016 through this year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand and leave at the end of the year. The

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says Sudan’s conflict has displaced more than 2 million people as the tally of civilians killed in the fighting climbed to at least 959 people. Sudan has plunged into chaos since mid-April when monthslong tensions between the military and its rival, the paramilitary

By MARC LEVY Associated Press Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday that crews will work 24 hours a day in Philadelphia to reopen a collapsed section of an important East Coast highway, but he wouldn’t estimate how long it will take to get traffic flowing through an artery that is critical to commerce. Investigators continued to

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Venturing back into the nation’s culture wars, the Republican-controlled House is taking up legislation that GOP lawmakers say would protect gas stoves from overzealous government regulators. A bill approved Tuesday would prohibit use of federal funds to regulate gas stoves as a hazardous product, while a separate

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his economic policies haven’t changed but his finance minister will have leeway to move away from an unconventional approach that many have blamed for a worsening cost-of-living crisis. Erdogan was reelected to a third term last month. He appointed an internationally respected banker who served in

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a murder charge in the death of a Detroit-area teenager whose remains have not been found despite an extraordinary search at a landfill. More than a dozen Detroit police officers wearing protective suits picked through tons of rotting summer trash last year. The search

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A plan to prevent Milwaukee from going bankrupt is up for approval in the Wisconsin Legislature. The measure has been struck between Republican lawmakers, leaders in the heavily Democratic city and Gov. Tony Evers. The plan is part of a larger deal reached with the Democratic