Month: June 2023

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s interior minister says three police officers were injured during the arrest of an alleged organizer of Serb protests in the country’s north, including one in which 30 NATO-led peacekeepers were injured. Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla said one of the heads of Civil Protection, an organization operating in Serb-majority areas of

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A group led by Canadian businessman Michael Andlauer has reached an agreement to buy the NHL’s Ottawa Senators. The team announced Andlauer and his group will purchase 90% of the club from the Melnyk family. The deal is reportedly worth nearly $1 billion. Anna and Olivia Melnyk, daughters of late former

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report. Bowie, who won three medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, was found dead last month. She was 32. The report from the office of the medical examiner in Orlando, Florida, said Bowie was

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Beirut Bar Association says a British court has ordered a London-based company that delivered the ammonium nitrates that exploded in 2020 in the Beirut port to pay compensation to some victims’ families. Monday’s verdict in Britain came four months after the court ruled that the London-registered

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers wants the Biden administration to punish South Africa for its alleged support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They said in a letter published Tuesday in The New York Times that they want to relocate an important trade meeting

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Donald Trump makes his first appearance in a Miami federal court on Tuesday facing 37 counts related to the mishandling and retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump surrendered to federal authorities ahead of a hearing scheduled for 3 p.m. He was to appear alongside his valet Walt

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press The government can keep enforcing “Obamacare” requirements that say health insurance plans must cover preventative care, amid a legal battle over the mandates. The preventative care requirements include HIV prevention, some types of cancer screenings and other illnesses. An agreement approved Tuesday by federal appellate judges means the coverage mandates

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it. The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jewish families

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The powerful lower house of Japan’s parliament has passed a bill to promote awareness of LGBTQ+ issues amid protests by activists that last-minute revisions by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s conservative party favored opponents of sexual equality instead of guaranteeing equal rights. The passage followed only a few

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky school district has agreed to make “institutional changes” to settle a federal investigation into complaints of widespread harassment of Black and multiracial students, the U.S. Justice Department announced. The investigation of the Madison County school district, launched in October 2021, uncovered numerous cases of

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump is expected to become the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as the city of Miami prepared for possible protests by crowds that officials said could number in the tens of thousands. Security was tight outside the

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The first national tour of Broadway’s “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical” makes its California debut this week for the first time, arriving as a poignant, posthumous celebration following the rock music icon’s death last month. Co-writer Katori Hall says she hopes “we’ll always be

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks climbed Tuesday after a cooler reading on inflation cemented Wall Street’s bets for the Federal Reserve to hold off on hiking interest rates this week. The S&P 500 was 0.6% higher in early trading, ticking further into heights it hasn’t touched since April 2022.

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s ruling party has retained leadership of the country’s parliament with the election of its consensus candidates as Senate president and speaker of the House of Representatives. Godswill Akpabio was elected Senate president and Tajudeen Abbas became House speaker on Tuesday before members of parliament who

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An independent German commission is recommending the restitution of a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank to the heirs of a Jewish family that the artwork originally belonged to. The advisory commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result