AP National News

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Early estimates suggest the flu vaccine performed well in a U.S. winter flu season that has already dissipated. Flu vaccines were more than 40% effective in preventing adults from getting sick enough from the flu that they would have to go to a doctor’s office,

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals panel has ruled that West Virginia transgender athletes can compete in female school sports while an appeal is heard on a state law banning their participation. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling Wednesday. It reinstates a preliminary injunction sought

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he hopes that former security chief Genaro García Luna will turn state’s evidence in the U.S. and perhaps implicate former Mexican presidents. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday he hoped Garcia Luna will make a deal with prosecutors to reduce his sentence, in exchange for testifying about

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday sentenced the man convicted of gunning down Nipsey Hussle to 60 years to life in prison after hearing testaments to the immense cost of the killing of the hip-hop star and neighborhood leader, and of the lifetime of mental

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a man with killing a Catholic bishop in a crime that stunned Los Angeles religious and immigrant communities. Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, 69, was fatally shot Saturday in the bedroom of his home in Hacienda Heights, an unincorporated community about 20 miles east

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO’s chief says the military alliance has seen “some signs” that China may be planning to support Russia in its war in Ukraine, and strongly urged Beijing to desist from what would be a violation of international law. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also told The

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are mixed on Wednesday, a day after falling to their worst loss since December, as Wall Street prepares for interest rates to stay higher for longer. The S&P 500 dipped 0.2% after drifting between small gains and losses through the day. The Dow Jones

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho could bring back firing squads as a method of execution under legislation introduced by a panel of lawmakers Wednesday. The state eliminated its never-used firing squad option in 2009, but has been unable to secure the drugs needed for lethal injection executions. Only Mississippi, Utah,

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The person who killed five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs last year had half a dozen high capacity magazines and tried to blame someone else for the shooting when police arrived at the scene, officers testified Wednesday at the start of a

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The prosecutor in the first-degree murder case against an Arizona rancher suspected of killing a Mexican man on his land last month has alleged the rancher that day opened fire on a group of about eight unarmed people outside his home. The chief deputy attorney for Santa

LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — Human bones found inside a submerged car near the Georgia-Alabama state line in 2021 have been matched to a college student who had been missing for 47 years, according to a Georgia sheriff. Kyle Clinkscales, 22, of LaGrange, vanished in January 1976 after leaving the Georgia club where he worked as

By AMANCAI BIRABEN and JIM SALTER Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A brutal winter storm knocked out power in California, closed interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming and prompted more than 1,200 flight cancellations Wednesday — and the worst won’t be over for several days. Few places were untouched by the wild weather, some

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s governor has signed a bill setting Nov. 14 each year as a day to remember the worst sports disaster in U.S. history. Seventy-five people were killed in a plane crash carrying Marshall University’s football team back from a game at East Carolina on Nov. 14, 1970. Gov. Jim Justice

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next season, matching pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in the strike-shortened 1980-81 season. The Met will have six new productions and 12 revivals, down from seven new stagings and 16 revivals this

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged higher on Wall Street Wednesday, a day after falling to their worst loss since December on worries about higher interest rates. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% after drifting earlier between small gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 77 points,

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court has ordered Azerbaijan to “take all steps at its disposal” to allow free movement of traffic along the only road between Armenia and the ethnic Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan. The legally binding 13-2 ruling issued by the International Court

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro couldn’t resume regular life after the Carnival festivities came to a close until “the count” of scores from the parade competition was complete and a victor proclaimed. The Carnival parade is billed as the world’s biggest party, yet scarcely anyone outside Brazil

LONDON (AP) — Several British supermarket chains have limited the amount of some fresh fruits and vegetables that customers can buy amid shortages blamed on bad weather in Spain and Morocco. Tesco, the U.K.’s largest grocery chain, said Wednesday that it would temporarily limit customers to buying three items each of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.

By AAMER MADHANI Associated WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin made a “big mistake” by suspending his country’s participation in the the last remaining U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control treaty. The U.S. president was in Poland to reassure eastern flank NATO allies that the U.S. will remain by

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these “monsters.” While the new James Webb Space Telescope has spotted even