Month: April 2024

By AARON MORRISON and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden has virtually addressed the Rev. Al Sharpton’s racial justice conference, telling a sympathetic crowd “we’ve kept our promises” as he ramps up efforts to energize Black voters who will be vital to his reelection bid this fall. Addressing a crowd

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council tasked with choosing Haiti’s next prime minister and Cabinet has been formally established as gangs tighten their grip on the troubled Caribbean country. Friday’s announcement is expected to trigger the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. He promised to step

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in central Florida said they believe they’ve found the body of a South Florida woman who was taken in a carjacking. Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvias, 31, of Homestead, was attacked and kidnapped at gunpoint Thursday afternoon at an intersection northeast of Orlando, Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities say coastal waters off the wildfire-stricken town of Lahaina pose no significant risk to human health and it’s safe to surf and swim there. The state Department of Health announced the decision after reviewing water sampling test results collected by University of Hawaii researchers and

PITTSBURGH (AP) — U.S. Steel shareholders have overwhelmingly approved the firm’s sale to Nippon Steel of Japan for $14.1 billion in cash, voicing unequivocal support for a combination that has drawn opposition from the Biden administration on economic and national security grounds. More than 98% of the shares voted Friday at a special investor meeting

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is seeing two more recent instances of state government under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis limiting the powers of local government with newly-signed bills that deal with worker safety and police oversight. A bill signed Thursday bans local governments from requiring heat and water breaks for

By ELISE RYAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Maggie Rogers wrote and recorded her new album, “Don’t Forget Me,” over five days last winter. Rogers tells The Associated Press the songs came quickly and chronologically, as if she was writing “different scenes in a movie.” The album is lighter, more “relaxed,” than her 2022

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Prosecutors in Chile have said they plan to formally request that Venezuela extradite two of its citizens to stand trial for charges related to the abduction and killing of a Venezuelan dissident in Chile earlier this year, a case that has strained relations between the South American nations. Prosecutors ruled the

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The centerpiece sculpture at the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s west side will reopen to the public later this year after a string of suicides forced its closure in 2021. The Vessel is a towering, climbable structure shaped like a honeycomb. It will now feature steel

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new report by the Mexican government says the country is facing a dire shortage of fentanyl for medical use, even as Mexican cartels pump out tons of the illicit narcotic. The paradox was reported Friday in a study by Mexico’s National Commission on Mental Health and Addictions. The study did