Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose killing highlighted calls to end an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women in North America has been sentenced to life imprisonment. A federal judge on Monday announced the sentence for Tre C. James in the shooting death of Jamie Yazzie after her
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of families from southern Lebanon packed cars and minivans with suitcases, mattresses, blankets and carpets and jammed the highway heading north toward Beirut on Monday to flee the deadliest Israeli bombardment since 2006. Some 100,000 people living near the border had already been displaced since October, when the Lebanese
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Southern California football star Reggie Bush says he is suing his school, the NCAA and the Pac-12 in a bid to recoup money made on his name, image and likeness during his career with the Trojans two decades ago. In a brief news release from Bush’s attorneys
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Federal law enforcement officials in Connecticut have announced criminal indictments against seven people in a case they’re calling one of the largest counterfeit pill busts ever in New England. Authorities revealed the indictments Monday, saying they seized several hundred thousand pills containing methamphetamine, a powerful opioid and other illicit drugs. Officials allege Kelldon
Continue ReadingAP Airlines Writer Boeing is making what it calls a “best and final offer” to striking union machinists. The proposed contract put out on Monday includes bigger raises and larger bonuses than the offer that union members overwhelmingly rejected this month. About 33,000 Boeing workers began their strike over pay and pensions more than a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Donald Trump has confirmed he’ll be the sole featured speaker at this year’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York. The former president said in a Truth Social post on Monday that he would speak at the dinner next month, 2 1/2 weeks before the election. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign said Saturday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NICE, France (AP) — Tensions have been rising in the French Pacific territory New Caledonia after four months of deadly unrest. On Tuesday, loyalists to Paris will mark the anniversary of the French takeover. The pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and white settler communities have been at odds over the territory’s future. The Kanaks
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Boyd Interactive has purchased Resorts Digital, the online gambling arm of Atlantic City’s Resorts casino for an undisclosed amount. The transaction was finalized on Sept. 1 and confirmed by the parties on Monday. Resorts Digital has outperformed the physical Resorts casino for years; it has taken in five
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s state-run media says a senior army general has been tapped as the new spy chief. The powerful Inter-Service Intelligence, though officially reports to the prime minister, takes its directive from the military which has ruled Pakistan for over three decades. Lt. Gen. Asim Malik was appointed days ahead of
Continue ReadingWHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambers was remembered for his public service as mourners looked for answers to unravel a mystery still shaking their tiny Appalachian town — why their popular sheriff is behind bars and charged with murder. The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s Democratic Senate candidate improperly claimed property tax credits for two homes, something her campaign says she was unaware of and plans to repay. Angela Alsobrooks, who is the county executive of Prince George’s County, claimed homestead and senior property tax credits for a home in Washington, D.C., and
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty to providing fentanyl-laced heroin that killed a prominent New York City transgender activist Cecilia Gentili earlier this year. Prosecutors say Michael Kuilan pleaded guilty a charge of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl in Brooklyn federal court Monday. Antonio Venti entered a
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is suing ExxonMobil for allegedly deceiving the public for half a century by promising that recycling would address the global plastics pollution crisis. His office filed a lawsuit Monday. It’s separate from a complaint filed by nonprofit environmental organizations. ExxonMobil is one of the world’s largest producers of plastics. The
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Many years into their marriage, Stephen and Evie Colbert suddenly became co-workers. And that is why, in a roundabout way, we have their first cookbook. During the pandemic, Evie helped keep her husband’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on the air at CBS while the couple hunkered
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A soccer pitch in London collapsed and parts of the United Kingdom are submerged by flash floods after some areas saw a month’s worth of rainfall in 24 hours. Roads were closed, some train lines in London were suspended and dozens of people reported their houses being submerged as parts of central
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz saxophone player and composer Benny Golson has died at age 95. Golson’s longtime agent says Golson died Saturday at his home in Manhattan after a short illness. Golson worked over his seven-decade musical career with Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, John Coltrane and other jazz luminaries. He built much
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday said “a woman can do anything a man can do … including being president of the United States,” as he welcomed the 2023 National Women’s Soccer League champions Gotham FC, the first time in the league’s 11-year history that a team has received an invite.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ROME (AP) — The trial into the brutal killing of a 22-year-old woman has started in Italy. The case shocked the country and fueled debate over the cultural roots of surging gender-based violence. Authorities say Giulia Cecchettin’s 22-year-old ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta has confessed to fatally stabbing her in Fosso near Venice on Nov.
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fans of Broadway, circle this date: This season’s Tony Awards will take place on June 8 at its familiar home of Radio City Music Hall. Producers of the show announced the date and location Monday. For the last few years, the telecast has bounced around the city —
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Forecasters have issued hurricane watches for parts of Cuba and Mexico as a cluster of storms located south of the Cayman Islands could strengthen in upcoming days as it moves north toward the U.S. The National Hurricane Center says the disturbance may become Hurricane Helene on Wednesday
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