CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple squarely shifted its focus toward artificial intelligence with the unveiling of its hotly anticipated iPhone 16 along with a slew of new features coming with the next update to the device’s operating system. While the new phone lineup headlined Monday’s showcase, the tech giant also shared updates to its smartwatch
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former employees of the company that owned an experimental submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic are scheduled to testify before a Coast Guard investigatory board. The Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic in June 2023, killing all five people on board and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Investigators say the 14-year-old who is accused of killing four people in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia started school two weeks late. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Friday that Colt Gray was then absent for nine more days before the Sept. 4 shooting. Gray was first
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has given the go-ahead to next month’s launch to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Monday’s decision came after after reviewing the spacecraft’s ability to withstand the intense radiation there. Questions about the reliability of the transistors on the Europa Clipper spacecraft arose earlier this year after similar problems
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, “The Lion King” and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93. His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The highest courts in two states have ruled differently on efforts by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be removed from their presidential ballots. A divided North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed late Monday that he should be omitted from that state’s ballots. But earlier in the day, the Michigan Supreme
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — With ballot deadlines approaching, Nebraska and Missouri courts are weighing whether amendments on abortion will go before voters. The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in lawsuits seeking to keep one or both of the state’s competing abortion initiatives off the ballot. One measure would enshrine abortion rights in
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is trying to reassure supporters that her opposition coalition still has a chance of gaining control of the presidency despite the departure into exile of their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia. Machado’s group maintains that it has evidence that González won the July 28 presidential election
Continue ReadingBEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) — A neighbor of an Oregon nurse who was found dead just days after her wedding has been arraigned on charges of second-degree murder, kidnapping and abuse of a corpse. Beaverton police said they arrested 27-year-old Bryce Schubert in the death of 32-year-old Melissa Jubane. Police conducted a welfare check at Jubane’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jailed ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein underwent emergency heart surgery at a New York City hospital on Monday. Weinstein’s representatives said the 72-year-old was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan from the Rikers Island jail complex late Sunday “due to severe medical conditions.” News of Weinstein’s hospitalization was first reported
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police have arrested several top leaders from former imprisoned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s opposition party, a day after some people clashed with the police a mile from a protest calling for his release. Among the detainees, accused of inciting violence, was the president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, Gohar
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — As a movie, “Nightbitch” captures some of the truest and rawest but seldom Instagrammed things about early motherhood. For its star Amy Adams and its writer-director Marielle Heller, “Nightbitch” is about as close to the bone as it gets. Adams plays a woman credited only as “Mother.” Raising a
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Department of Justice has sued Maine for what it described as unnecessarily segregating children with behavioral health disabilities in hospitals, residential facilities and a state-operated juvenile detention facility. Investigators say the actions violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court’s 1999 Olmstead ruling, which aimed to ensure that people with disabilities
Continue ReadingBUCKEYE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in the Phoenix suburb of Buckeye are investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl who was left in a vehicle for more than two hours in triple-digit heat. They say the girl’s family had returned home from an outing at a park around 2:30 p.m. Sunday and nobody realized she
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen’s wife and E Street bandmate, says she has been dealing with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. In a documentary about the band that premiered Sunday, the 71-year-old Scialfa said she was diagnosed in 2018 with the disease. The guitarist said the condition
Continue ReadingTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Election officials in Tunisia have doubled down on their decision to deny accreditation to certain election observer groups. Those groups say the move shows that the October election in the North African country won’t be free and fair. The watchdog group I-Watch said Monday the country’s election authority had accused them
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people who prosecutors say were motivated by white supremacist ideology have been charged with using the messaging app Telegram to encourage acts of violence against minorities, government officials and critical infrastructure in the United States. The defendants, identified as Dallas Erin Humber and Matthew Robert Allison, face 15 federal
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A high-tech boat outfitted with sonar and cameras is trying to try to solve the mystery of a 1968 plane crash that killed three people in Michigan’s Lake Superior. Seat cushions and pieces of stray metal have washed ashore over decades in the Upper Peninsula. But the wreckage of the plane, and the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Police in Guinea-Bissau have seized 2.6 tons of cocaine from a plane that arrived from Venezuela in the West African country’s capital, Bissau, over the weekend. Judicial police said Monday that agents confiscated 78 bales of drugs that were smuggled in on a Gulfstream IV aircraft during a raid
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — Former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been sentenced in a Toronto courtroom to 11 years in prison for sexually assaulting four women. The judge Monday called the 83-year-old a “sexual predator.” Justice Robert Goldstein said Nygard showed no empathy for his victims. The judge said an aggravating factor was the fact
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