AP-National

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Protests have shut down major cities in Haiti as demonstrators clash with police and demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Banks, schools and government agencies closed in Haiti’s northern and southern regions on Monday while protesters blocked main routes with blazing tires and paralyzed public transportation, according to local

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gap has tapped American fashion designer Zac Posen as the chain’s creative director. The hire announced Monday is among the first big personnel moves under the San Francisco-based chain’s new CEO. Richard Dickson took Gap’s helm in August and is aiming to turn around years

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a Texas mother and her 1-year-old son died after a fire engulfed their Houston home, but not before she was able to rescue her two other children. The fire department says the blaze started before 5 a.m. on Saturday at a home in north Houston. Authorities say Giovanna Cabrera got

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishermen who harvest one of the most valuable marine species in the country won’t get the chance to catch any more next year than they did last. That’s because regulators say they are keeping tight restrictions on fishing for baby eel. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries

By JIMMY GOLEN and RALPH D. RUSSO AP Sports Writers A National Labor Relations Board regional official ruled on Monday that Dartmouth basketball players are employees of the school, clearing the way for an election that would create the first-ever labor union for NCAA athletes. All 15 members of the Dartmouth men’s basketball team signed

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published February 5, 2024, about a Senate bill on border security and Ukraine aid, The Associated Press erroneously reported the retired rank of Sen. Joni Ernst in the Iowa Army National Guard. She was a lieutenant colonel, not a lieutenant general.

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press A franchisee of fast food giant McDonald’s has agreed to pay a teenage girl $4.4 million to settle her lawsuit over having been sexually assaulted by a Pittsburgh-area restaurant manager who was a registered sex offender. The victim’s lawyers announced on Monday the deal between the girl, who was 14

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A provision of border security legislation that would give the U.S, a new authority to block migrants from entering the country has become a central line of attack from many Republicans who are opposing the legislation. Some now claim it actually would encourage more border crossings.

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press The U.S. Biathlon board of directors will hire an auditor to review “athlete wellness practices and team culture” after the Associated Press reported that a female team member had been sexually harassed and abused while racing on the elite World Cup circuit. A U.S. Center for SafeSport investigation found that

Associated Press Camila Lange, who is 7-months-pregnant, on Monday sat with her husband and dog in what used to be their home in Vina del Mar, Chile. Hundreds of homes in the central coastal area of the South American nation have been destroyed in fires that have killed at least 112 people. Weather and climate

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The brother of a man suspected in four arsons involving Jewish institutions in the Boston area in 2019 has been ordered held in custody. Thirty-seven-year-old Alexander Giannakakis appeared in federal court Monday following his extradition from Sweden to face charges alleging he obstructed the investigation. He worked

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The federal wire fraud and money laundering trial against William “Sam” McCann was delayed Monday after court officials learned that the former Illinois state senator was hospitalized over the weekend. McCann faces seven counts of wire fraud and single counts of money laundering and tax

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6. Studies have shown that the strongest tropical storms are getting more intense because of climate change. So

By CLAUDIA LAUER and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press The Justice Department proposed changes Monday to rules governing state-run programs that provide financial assistance to violent crime victims in order to address racial disparities and curb the number of subjective denials of compensation. The proposal from the Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime, a major

SENATOBIA, Miss. (AP) — A 10-year-old Black child who urinated near his mother’s car outside a Mississippi office building will no longer be required to serve probation and write a book report about Kobe Bryant, an attorney for the child’s family said Monday. Tate County Youth Court Judge Rusty Harlow set the three-month probation and

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For Americans who lacked savings prior to the pandemic, financial stress is rising. A combination of inflation, increased interest rates, and the end of pandemic-tied relief, such as the moratorium on student loan payments, has led to record credit card debt, experts say, with rising and

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia doctor who was sentenced to 40 years in prison after prescribing more than half a million doses of highly addictive opioids in two years has been granted a new trial by a federal appeals court that found the instructions given to jurors

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An average of 16.9 million viewers tuned in to watch Taylor Swift make history at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, the largest audience for the telecast in four years. Ratings were up 34% on Sunday across CBS, Paramount+ and other digital platforms from last year,

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — CVS Health says it has reached a deal to sell its retail drugstores in Puerto Rico to Caribe Pharmacy Holdings. CVS Health said in an email to The Associated Press on Monday that the deal involving 22 of its pharmacies would be completed in April and that the buyer

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police took into custody more than 100 people protesting the Pennsylvania state government’s investments in Israel on Monday, shutting down a demonstration on the steps of the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg. A spokesperson for the Department of General Services, which includes the Pennsylvania Capitol Police, said