By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has executed an inmate for the shooting death of a man during a 1993 robbery. Officials say 49-year-old Casey McWhorter was executed Thursday by lethal injection at a southwest Alabama prison. McWhorter was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the death of
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fire that erupted in storage yards beneath a Los Angeles freeway has renewed attention on the city’s inability to protect the thousands of homeless residents living in such perilous locations. Sixteen homeless people escaped the fire. Officials are working to figure out the fire’s source
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A fire in a coal company building in a northern Chinese city has killed 26 people and injured at least 38. State media say rescue personnel have evacuated dozens of people from the building. State broadcaster CCTV reported the building belongs to Yongju Coal Company and is in Lvliang city in northern
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The first lesbian leader of the California Senate is thinking about trying to make history again — with a run for the governor’s office. Toni Atkins is stepping down as state Senate president pro tempore early next year. She told The Associated Press in a recent
Continue ReadingBy PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press SALERNO, Italy (AP) — Less than 24 hours after setting foot on the pier of a southern Italian port, 60 people who’d survived a perilous boat journey from Libya were served with expulsion orders. Some came from Bangladesh, others from Syria and Egypt. They’d been at sea for 10 hours
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nurturing economic ties this week with Asia. But he’s not signing any trade deals at a regional summit in San Francisco. This fact — no trade deals — reveals a lot about the status of U.S. politics, the evolving global economy and the
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — United Auto Workers union members have voted to approve a new contract with General Motors, making the company the first Detroit automaker to get a ratified deal that could end a contentious and lengthy labor dispute. A vote-tracking spreadsheet on the union’s website shows that with
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday made America’s case to national leaders and CEOs attending the Asia-Pacific summit that the United States is committed to high standards in trade and to partnerships that will benefit economies across the Pacific. “We’re not going anywhere,” he
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A St. Louis judge will hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s abortion ban on the grounds that lawmakers who passed the measure imposed their own religious beliefs on others who don’t share them.
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lawyers for a group of religious leaders who support abortion rights said during a hearing that Missouri lawmakers intended to “impose their religious beliefs on everyone” in the state when they passed a restrictive abortion ban. But attorneys for the state countered Thursday that just because
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A new report says progress against childhood cancers has stalled in recent years for Black and Hispanic youth. Thursday’s report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at cancer death rates for children and teens over two decades. The rates for white, Hispanic and Black children
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Infants born to mothers who used marijuana during pregnancy were twice as likely to be underweight and nearly twice as likely to be premature than infants who were not exposed to cannabis, a new study found. Cannabis-exposed infants were 2.5 times as likely to be admitted to a neonatal
Continue ReadingTOKYO (AP) — Police in Japan say they have arrested a driver after a vehicle crashed into a temporary barricade near the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo, injuring one police officer. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said they arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of obstructing official duties. The man was unemployed and a member of a
Continue ReadingBy BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Rescuers in northern India supplied food and medicine to 40 construction workers on Thursday as officials started drilling through the rubble to reach the men who have been trapped since a portion of the tunnel they were working on collapsed over the weekend. Rescuers planned to
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported that its exports increased by 1.6% in October from a year earlier, as auto and ship shipments increased. Government data released Thursday showed that exports to the rest of Asia fell, while exports to the U.S. and Europe surged. Japanese imports fell 12.5%,
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By Sam Fossum, Morgan Rimmer and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Law enforcement clashed with protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war outside of the Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee Wednesday night, the latest eruption of tensions across the country over the Israel-Hamas war. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A 6-year-old Texas boy who was allegedly beaten by his neighbor with a baseball bat in his home has died after two months in a hospital, according to a GoFundMe post from the child’s father. Jeremy Diaz was hospitalized September 11 after suffering skull fractures and
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It happened, therefore it was a success. President Joe Biden’s summit with China’s President Xi Jinping south of San Francisco Wednesday may have closed a trap door under the world’s most critical diplomatic relationship, which has plunged to its most acrimonious level in 50 years. But with expectations set
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Tencent rushed to build up “one of the largest inventories of AI chips in China” before US export restrictions took hold, an executive said Wednesday. Martin Lau, president of the Chinese tech giant, told analysts on an earnings call that it had purchased components from Nvidia (NVDA)
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Raids on storage facilities in New York City turned up a huge haul of counterfeit handbags, shoes and other luxury merchandise that could have been worth more than $1 billion if the knockoffs had been real, federal authorities announced. Roughly 219,000 items were seized from Manhattan storage facilities in recent enforcement
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