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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis, Rosario Dawson and other top movie and TV actors have joined picket lines alongside screenwriters. It happened Friday on the first full day of a walkout that has become Hollywood’s biggest labor fight in decades. A day after the dispute

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brittney Griner didn’t know what to expect when the WNBA season began and how she would respond after the trauma she experienced of being incarcerated in Russia that also forced her off the court for many months. Griner surprised herself. She played well enough to

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has set a trial date for two men charged with killing rapper Young Dolph in a daytime ambush at a bakery in Memphis, Tennessee. Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Lee Coffee said during a hearing Friday that Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith are scheduled

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man who was shocked at least twice with a Taser by a St. Louis police officer died within hours. It happened after police were called to a report that a man was was being violent toward emergency medical workers. Police say that when officers ordered the man to come toward

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer A little more than a week after contract talks between UPS and the union representing 340,000 of its workers broke down, UPS said it will begin training nonunion employees in the U.S. to step in should there be a strike, which the union has vowed to do if no

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president plowed ahead with attacks against the opposition front-runner for the 2024 presidential elections despite a ruling by electoral authorities that he had violated equity and neutrality rules. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has spent weeks using his morning press briefing to criticize Xóchitl Gálvez, a plain-talking senator and former

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — This was the moment. If Novak Djokovic was going to be stopped in the Wimbledon semifinals, if his much younger and harder-hitting opponent, Jannik Sinner, was going to turn things around Friday, the monumental comeback required would need to start immediately. Djokovic knew it. Sinner

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Wildlife officials say a black bear attacked a sheepherder in the mountains of southwestern Colorado this week. The 35-year-old man  was severely injured with bites on his head and wounds to an arm and hand. The bear suspected of attacking him was later killed. Tuesday’s bear attack

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — There’s no better way to escape the intense heatwave in Tunisia than to head inside and watch Wimbledon on TV when Ons Jabeur is playing. The 28-year-old Jabeur is the only Arab woman and only North African woman to participate in a Grand Slam tennis

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Lisa Marie Presley died after developing a small bowel obstruction, a severe complication of bariatric surgery years ago, according to an autopsy report released Thursday. Experts say these types of complications are a known but rare risk after having weight-loss surgery. Here’s what to know: WHAT HAPPENED TO LISA

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudekis and other top movie and TV actors joined picket lines alongside screenwriters Friday on the first full day of a walkout that has become Hollywood’s biggest labor fight in decades. Sudeikis was among the picketers outside NBC in New York.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Pianist André Watts, whose televised debut with the New York Philharmonic as a 16-year-old in 1963 launched an international career of more than a half-century, has died. He was 77. His manager said that Watts died Wednesday at his home in Bloomington, Indiana, of prostate cancer. Watts joined the faculty of

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Guatemalan government’s clumsy interference with its presidential election has turned a global spotlight on a country whose struggles with deep corruption previously received little international notice. President Alejandro Giammattei was deeply unpopular at home, but managed to consolidate his control of

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman has been arrested on federal narcotics charges for allegedly selling the drugs that led to the death of actor Robert De Niro’s 19-year-old grandson, a law enforcement official said Friday. Sofia Haley Marks, 20, was arrested Thursday by New York City police officers and

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some of the nation’s top movie stars could be on the picket lines Friday when striking screen actors protest alongside writers on the first full day of a walkout that has become Hollywood’s biggest labor fight in decades. The picketing comes a day after the

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press FUTABA, Japan (AP) — At Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, giant blue pipes have been constructed to bring in torrents of seawater to dilute radioactive water under a plan to discharge the treated but radioactive wastewater into the sea. Workers were making final preparations as Associated Press journalists received

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police investigations support claims by Israel’s Mossad spy service that an Iranian-backed hit squad planned to kill Israelis and other Jews in the east Mediterranean island nation. An intelligence official said on Friday that Cypriot police had tracked an Iranian national identified as Yusef Shahabazi

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $72 million for his reelection in the 10 weeks since he announced his 2024 candidacy. That word comes from his campaign on Friday. That’s all the money raised between April 25, when Biden made

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic closed in on a record-tying eighth title at Wimbledon and fifth in a row by repeatedly serving his way out of potential trouble to beat Jannik Sinner 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the semifinals on Friday. Djokovic saved all six break points he