WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Defense Ministry says it has notified prosecutors of suspected offenses committed by members of a special commission that investigated the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed Poland’s then-president and 95 others. Commissioners alleged the crash was a Moscow-sponsored assassination. The notices of 41 potential offenses are the result of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed an agreement worth tens of billions of dollars with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that was one of the country’s worst-ever environmental disasters. Under the agreement, Samarco — a joint venture of Brazilian mining giant Vale
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies. Britain insists it will not pay to make amends for the historic wrong, but both King Charles III and Prime Minister Keir
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is seeking to protect his personal social media accounts from being sold in the upcoming auction of his Infowars media platform to pay more than $1 billion he owes relatives of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, claiming selling those accounts would violate his privacy and deny him a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “Black Insurrectionist,” the anonymous social media persona behind some of the most widely circulated conspiracy theories about Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz, can be traced to a white man from upstate New York. He has a history of drug abuse and a long list of
Continue ReadingQUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador has announced an increase in daily power cuts as the severe drought impacting the nation keeps lowering the levels of water for the key hydroelectric plants, the source of more than 70% of the country’s electricity. Acting Energy minister Inés Manzano said that the authorities are ordering an electricity service
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Khatia Buniatishvili has been one of the most well-known classical musicians for more than a decade. The French-Georgian pianist released her sixth album, “Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23” with The Academy of St. Martin In The Fields chamber orchestra on Friday. Buniatishvili is among the artists helping
Continue Reading“The Substance” and albums by Willie Nelson and Tyler, the Creator are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases. The political series “The Diplomat” starring Keri Russell and Rupert Sewell, drops its second season on Thursday and, just in time for Halloween, the long-awaited “Wizards of Waverly Place” sequel debuts its first two episodes
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has upheld her own decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie. In a ruling Thursday, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer rejected a request by prosecutors to reconsider her
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The San Jose State University women’s volleyball team finds itself at the center of a storm around transgender participation in sports as it makes a run toward a conference title. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and other politicians have weighed in. Late Thursday, the University of Nevada, Reno, became the fifth team to
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer A deadly outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states, federal health officials said Friday. A total of 22 people have now been hospitalized, and two have developed a dangerous kidney disease complication, the Centers for Disease Control and
Continue ReadingTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison for setting a house fire that killed his girlfriend and their two daughters. Thirty-three-year-old Kyle Tyler won’t be eligible for parole until he serves at least 25 years of his life sentence for the first-degree murder conviction. On top of that,
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper approved more than $600 million worth of funding on Friday to go toward disaster recovery from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. The bill Cooper signed to approve the spending was passed by the General Assembly on Thursday. It comes as the second iteration of disaster
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge in South Carolina has ruled it is too late for South Carolina to reopen voter registration for nearly 1,900 teens after the state Department of Motor Vehicles failed to notify election officials that they checked the box to register as they got their driver’s licenses. The teens
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered Virginia to restore more than 1,600 voter registrations that she said were illegally purged in the last two months in an effort to stop noncitizens from voting. U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles granted an injunction request brought against Virginia election officials by the
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, is not on the ballot this fall. But Donald Trump, the 45th president who’s running to be the 47th, keeps mentioning his name. Trump has routinely put himself on par with Lincoln. At least once he’s said he’s done more for Black
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — A 600-pound (272-kilogram) bronze statue of a Tuskegee airman has been found after it was stolen from a city park, Detroit police said Friday. The statue of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson was reported missing Wednesday evening from Rouge Park on Detroit’s far west side, police said. It appeared to have been sawed
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There are so many Hollywood stars either on New York theater stages or on the way that you might want to level up your stargazing game. Why not play some bingo? Sure, Robert Downey Jr., Daniel Dae Kim, Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes are currently on Broadway, and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s presidential election could come down to microscopic margins, so Kamala Harris is hunting for votes in even the most unlikely of places. One of her latest targets is Donald Trump ‘s demographic base — white people who didn’t attend college. “It’s tough turf,” said Dan Kanninen, the Harris
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Workers on strike have shut down power across the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and left its more than 370,000 inhabitants without electricity. A government statement said the workers raided the power plant’s control room on Friday, prompting police to rush to the scene to secure it. Unionized workers
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