AP National News

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A  judge has decried New York City’s problems with electric and gas-powered bikes as he sentenced the electric scooter rider who crashed into “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes to one to three years in prison for his manslaughter conviction. Brian Boyd was led away in handcuffs

By CALEB JONES and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — The world’s largest volcano oozed rivers of glowing lava Wednesday, drawing thousands of awestruck viewers who jammed a Hawaiian highway that could soon be covered by the flow. Mauna Loa awoke from its 38-year slumber Sunday, causing volcanic ash and debris to

By SCOTT BAUER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos was scheduled to be interviewed Wednesday by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson told reporters that Vos would be the last witness before the panel completes its

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A top European Union official warned Elon Musk on Wednesday that Twitter needs to beef up measures to protect users from hate speech, misinformation and other harmful content to avoid violating new rules that threaten tech giants with big fines or even a ban in the

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — City Council members in Portland, Oregon, have voted to allocate $27 million of the city’s budget to build designated camping areas for homeless people. The money will help fund a measure passed earlier this month that banned street camping and approved the creation of

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Firefighters in the Brazilian state of Parana are looking for about 30 people thought to have been engulfed in a landslide that hit a coastal highway in the city of Guaratuba. State officials said in a statement Wednesday that two people have been found dead and six were rescued alive

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The lead contractors in charge of building a suicide prevention net on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge say it will cost more than double its original price because of deterioration on the bridge that was concealed and other problems. The allegations filed in state court

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano has temporarily knocked off power to the world’s premier station that measures heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but officials Wednesday say it won’t be a problem. There are hundreds of other carbon dioxide monitoring sites across the globe. The federal government

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Yale University is being accused of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring some to withdraw from the prestigious institution and then placing “unreasonable burdens” on those who seek to be reinstated. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Connecticut on behalf

By DANICA KIRKA and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Prince and Princess of Wales are making their first overseas trip since the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September. The trip that began Wednesday is an occasion for Prince William and his wife, Kate, to show the world as much about who

By HILAIRE ZON Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Four men charged in connection with a 2016 terror attack on a beach in Ivory Coast have appeared in court. A total of 18 defendants face murder and terrorism charges stemming from the attack on Grand-Bassam. Nineteen people were killed there on a Sunday afternoon

By AMY TAXIN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff’s deputy posed as a 17-year-old boy online and asked a teenage California girl for nude photos before he drove across the country and killed her mother and grandparents and set fire to their home. Police say 28-year-old Austin Lee Edwards

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Christine McVie, the British-born Fleetwood Mac vocalist, songwriter and keyboard player whose cool, soulful contralto helped define such classics as “You Make Loving Fun,” “Everywhere” and “Don’t Stop,” died Wednesday at age 79. Her death was announced on the band’s social media accounts. No cause

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba says it was not aggressive actions by officials that caused a boat of migrants and the Cuban Coast Guard to crash, but rather that the migrants’ boat made an abrupt turn, leading to the deaths of seven people including a two-year-old girl. the abrupt was not

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit brought by a former University of Connecticut women’s soccer player who lost her scholarship after giving the middle finger to a television camera. Three judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City ruled Wednesday that Noriana Radwan

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — A word — “Hope” — is stitched onto a throw pillow in the little hilltop farmhouse. Photographs of children and grandchildren speckle the walls. In the kitchen, an envelope is decorated with a hand-drawn heart. “Happy Birthday, My Love,” it reads. Out front, past a pair

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will push rates higher than previously expected and keep them there for an extended period, Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday, in remarks likely intended to underscore the Fed’s single-minded focus on combating stubborn inflation. Powell also signaled in a written speech to be

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber has killed a police officer and three civilians from the same family near Quetta, Pakistan, in an attack on workers involved in a polio inoculation drive. Officials said Wednesday that the bomber blew himself up, killed four others and injured

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The prominent Guatemalan investigative newspaper “El Periodico” has announced it is stopping its print edition, after the government arrested the paper’s president. José Rubén Zamora was arrested in July on a charge of money laundering. All of the paper’s reporters have been let go, and it is not clear how it

By AMY TAXIN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether a Virginia sheriff’s deputy posed as a 17-year-old boy online to groom and sexually extort a teenage girl in California before driving across country and killing her mother and grandparents and setting fire to their home. Police say 28-year-old