Month: June 2023

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Now that the PGA Tour and European tour have a deal with the Saudis, one step is deciding how players can return from LIV Golf if they so choose. That’s part of the framework agreement that was signed last month. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the agreement.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said Monday the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.” The investigator, Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, said at a news

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalans have sent two presidential candidates from opposite sides of the political spectrum to an Aug. 20 runoff, giving hope to many disenchanted voters that change may be possible. With 98% of the votes counted from Sunday’s election, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Leftist candidate Olivia Chow has become the mayor of Canada’s largest city. Chow is Toronto’s new mayor after more than a decade of conservative rule. She is the first woman of color to lead Canada’s most populous city.  John Tory stepped as mayor after acknowledging he had

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The United States has seen five cases of malaria spread by mosquitos in the last two months — the first time there’s been local spread in 20 years. There were four cases detected in Florida and one in Texas, according to a health alert issued

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peg Yorkin, who donated $10 million to the feminist foundation she co-founded and pushed to bring the most common method of abortion to the United States, has died. Yorkin died Sunday night after a long illness, her daughter Nicole Yorkin said. Peg Yorkin was 96. Yorkin was chair of the Feminist

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Authorities announced late Monday that they had arrested a 41-year-old man in the weekend killing of a Massachusetts couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, along with another family member, in the small city outside Boston. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said police took Christopher Ferguson, of Newton,

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s former lieutenant governor and longtime civic leader Richard Ravitch has died at the age of 89. Ravitch was best known for steering New York through the fiscal crisis of the 1970s and helping to stabilize the MTA in the early 1980s. He remained an

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors say they are seeking the death penalty against a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death late last year. Bryan Kohberger, 28, is charged with four counts of murder in connection with the deaths at a rental house near the Moscow,

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York will move forward with its first-in-the-nation plan to charge drivers extra in tolls to enter the core of New York City, part of an effort to reduce congestion, improve air quality, and raise funds for the city’s public transit system. The program is expected to begin in

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico says it has arrested the former head of a federal anti-kidnapping unit in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Gualberto Ramírez was head of the anti-kidnapping unit for the attorney general’s office when the students went missing. The interior department said he faces charges of disappearance, torture

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Work is underway to clean up rail cars carrying hazardous materials that fell into the Yellowstone River in southern Montana after a bridge collapsed over the weekend, officials said Monday. Montana Rail Link is developing a cleanup plan and is working with its unions and BNSF Railway to reroute freight trains

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The conservative Republican attorney general of Kansas says a new Kansas law requires the state to reverse any previous gender changes in its records for trans people’s birth certificates and driver’s licenses while also preventing such changes going forward. Attorney General Kris Kobach also said