Associated Press Electronic pagers that were status symbols in the 1990s are used for communication precisely because they are old school. The devices run on batteries and radio waves. That generally makes them impervious to dead zones without WiFi, basements without cell service, hackings and catastrophic network collapses such as those during the Sept. 11,
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Zachry Quinto is back on TV on Monday in a medical drama. But he’s not portraying any dour, by-the-rules doctor — he’s playing Dr. Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist, path-breaking researcher and author once called the “poet laureate of medicine.” NBC’s “Brilliant Minds” takes Sack’s personality — a
Continue ReadingAP National Political Writer FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A series of unnerving developments has crystalized the volatility coursing through the country in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign. A political system long lauded for its resilience and durability is being tested. Law enforcement, political leaders and voters are navigating unfamiliar terrain. The FBI is
Continue ReadingBLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Lions coach Dan Campbell is selling his suburban Detroit home to get more privacy. “There’s plenty of space, it’s on two acres, the home is beautiful,” Campbell told Crain’s Detroit Business. “It’s just that people figured out where we lived when we lost.” He didn’t elaborate, but Bloomfield Township police
Continue ReadingJetBlue Airways plans to open its first airport lounges as part of a plan to get more business from premium travelers. The airline said Thursday it will open lounges at New York’s JFK Airport and Boston’s Logan Airport late next year. JetBlue says the clubs will primarily be for top-level members of its frequent-flyer program
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio election officials have approved ballot language that will describe this fall’s Issue 1 as requiring gerrymandering when the proposal is intended to do the opposite. The Republican-controlled Ohio Ballot Board approved the language Wednesday in a 3-2 party-line vote, two days after the Republican-led state Supreme Court voted 4-3 to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state senator and former Republican gubernatorial candidate whose support for Donald Trump drew him to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is suing a Canadian university and nearly two dozen academics. The lawsuit filed in Oklahoma by Sen. Doug Mastriano centers on criticism of him and his
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The remotely triggered explosions that hit pagers and walkie-talkies carried by Hezbollah members this week made for an eerie and shocking spectacle. Analysts say Hezbollah will be able to regroup militarily and find communications workarounds, but the psychological effects will likely run deep. The blasts have been widely blamed on
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Decades into one of the most consistent careers in contemporary country music, and you’d think Keith Urban has this whole album thing worked out. But his 11th studio album, “High,” out Friday, was no walk in the park. He wrote and scrapped an entire album before this one.
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in August to the slowest annual pace in nearly a year even as mortgage rates eased and the supply of properties on the market kept rising. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that home sales fell 2.5% last month, from
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A candidate for president in Tunisia has been sentenced to 20 months in prison on election fraud charges that his attorney decried as politically motivated. Businessman Ayachi Zammel is among several presidential candidates in Tunisia to have faced prosecution and arrest in the months leading up to the North
Continue ReadingLANCASTER, Mass. (AP) — A spokesperson says two correctional officers were stabbed by inmates and three others were injured at a Massachusetts maximum security prison. The five officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster were taken to hospitals after the confrontation Wednesday night. Four have since been released and one is being treated for
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is stepping up her efforts to win over voters who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Democratic presidential nominee is enlisting prominent members of the faith to make the case in the battleground state of Arizona that Donald Trump doesn’t align
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Leaders of an “Uncommitted” movement, who helped garner hundreds of thousands of votes in Democratic primaries across the nation in protest of the Israel-Hamas war, won’t endorse Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid. The group’s leaders also warned in statement Thursday against voting for Donald Trump or a third-party
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A soccer player who once appeared for Arsenal in the Champions League has been charged in connection with trying to smuggle cannabis worth $800,000 through a British airport. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas currently plays for Scottish second-tier team Greenock Morton. The Press Association agency reported he was arrested at his home near Glasgow. The
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in four months last week. Jobless claims fell by 12,000 to 219,000 for the week of Sept. 14, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s below analyst forecasts of 230,000 new filings. The four-week average of claims, which evens out
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has heavily courted conservative evangelicals since his arrival on the political scene almost a decade ago. Now he is selling Trump-themed Bibles, touting the overturning of Roe v. Wade and imploring Christians to get out the vote for him. But a small and diverse coalition of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has received strong support from white evangelical Protestants in his presidential bids. About 8 in 10 white evangelical voters supported him in 2020, according to AP VoteCast. But a small, diverse coalition of evangelicals is looking to pull their fellow believers away from Trump’s fold and into Kamala
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish authorities have charged a 52-year-old woman associated with the Islamic State group with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria. It’s the first such case on trial in the Scandinavian country. Lina Laina Ishaq, who is a Swedish citizen, allegedly
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, who abdicated earlier this year, has been admitted to a hospital after falling in her home. Danish media said Thursday that she is doing fine. The 84-year-old queen was admitted late Wednesday to the Danish capital’s university hospital for observation after a fall at a castle north
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