AP National News

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The future of a lawsuit accusing Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant of assaulting a teenager during a pickup basketball game hinges on whether Morant will be allowed to say that he was acting in self-defense and can receive immunity under Tennessee law. A judge on Wednesday

By ELAINE GANLEY and LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris. He was 94. Kundera’s most famous work, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’’ opens wrenchingly with Soviet tanks rolling through Prague, the Czech capital that

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A police official says officers have killed at least six people during new protests in Kenya against the rising cost of living. A health worker says more than 50 schoolchildren in the capital were tear-gassed. The opposition leader behind the demonstrations vows they will continue until

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — This year’s Emmy for best drama nominees have been revealed. They are “Succession,” “The White Lotus,” “The Last of Us,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Crown,” “Yellowjackets,” “House of the Dragon” and “Andor.” The nominees for best comedy series are: “Abbott Elementary,” “Barry,” “The Bear,” Jury Duty,” “Ted

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Across baseball, players are embracing practices like barefoot walking and breathing sessions to keep their minds as healthy as their bodies for the long haul of a pressure-packed baseball season. Arizona’s Christian Walker takes his shoes off and strolls through the grass before every game,

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka reached the semifinals at Wimbledon for the second straight time with a one-year break in between because she was banned from the tournament in 2022. Sabalenka is from Belarus and had to sit out last year’s competition along with other players from her

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s parliament has backed in a cliffhanger vote a major plan to protect nature and fight climate change. The European Parliament supported the European Commission plan in a razor-thin 324-312 vote with 12 abstentions on Wednesday.  The bill is a key part of the EU’s

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Is non-English language music the future of the music business? Perhaps. The global music industry surpassed 1 trillion streams at the fastest pace, ever, in a calendar year, Luminate’s 2023 Midyear Report has found. The number was reached in three months, a full month faster

HIGHLAND, Ill. (AP) — A Greyhound passenger bus crashed into three tractor-trailers parked along a highway exit to a rest area early Wednesday in southern Illinois, killing three people and injuring 14 others, some seriously, state police said. The bus was traveling westbound along Interstate 70 in Madison County around 1:55 a.m. when it crashed

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prosecutors have rested their sexual assault case against Kevin Spacey in a London courtroom after four men testified against the two-time Oscar winner. Prosecutors read jurors statements Wednesday that Spacey gave investigators denying that he aggressively groped three men and performed a nonconsensual sex act on a

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. says the conflict in Sudan has driven around 3.1 million people from their homes. They include more than 700,000 who fled to neighboring countries. The U.N. said Wednesday that more than 72% of those displaced were from the capital Khartoum and around 9% from West

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting of the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is illuminated in his documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” a joint project between The Associated Press and PBS “Frontline.” The film premiered earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival in Park City,

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A spokesman for the Afghan Taliban say they’ve suspended all the activities of Swedish organizations in the country in response to the recent burning of Islam’s holy book in Stockholm. The announcement has left a Swedish non-governmental aid organization wondering about the future of its programs providing

By STEVE McMORRAN AP Sports Writer WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It’s cricket but with a relatively new spin. George Bernard Shaw asserted “the English are not very spiritual people so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.” Cricket has flourished in England and some of its former colonies but never to

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street inched higher early Wednesday ahead of an update on U.S. inflation that could play into the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision this month. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.3% before the bell, with every sector pointing higher following the strongest day of trading

HIGHLAND, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State Police say three people were killed and 14 others were injured in a southern Illinois crash involving a Greyhound bus and multiple commercial vehicles. State police say an initial investigation indicates that a Greyhound passenger bus and three commercial vehicles were involved in the crash about 1:55 a.m. along

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights body overwhelmingly approved a measure calling on countries to do more to prevent religious hatred in the wake of Quran burnings in Europe over objections of Western countries who fear tougher steps by governments could trample freedom of expression. Applause broke out in the cavernous chamber of

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A top official in Hong Kong says the city will immediately ban the import of aquatic products from 10 prefectures in Japan if it discharges treated radioactive wastewater into the sea. Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan said Wednesday that errors in the wastewater treating

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — One person has been killed as some Kenyans angered by the rising cost of living are back on the streets Wednesday in the latest of a series of protests. Some demonstrators in the capital, Nairobi, burned tires and dismantled part of an entrance to a recently built expressway. In the town