Month: December 2022

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Taylor Swift was up. Elon Musk was in, out, in and maybe out again. Tom Cruise was back. BTS stepped aside, and so did Serena Williams, and Tom Brady too — oops, scratch that. But the slap? The slap was everywhere — that moment Will Smith smacked Chris Rock

By ERIC TUCKER, MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a high-profile prisoner exchange, as the U.S. released notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout but failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan, who has been jailed for nearly four years. The

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A judge on Thursday unsealed documents from a dropped 2021 bomb threat case against the Colorado Springs gay bar shooting suspect who allegedly said they planned to become “the next mass killer.” Judge Robin Chittum said the public interest in the case outweighed the privacy

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania government panel has approved the addition of extensive definitions of sex, religious creed and race to nondiscrimination regulations. The proposal approved Thursday is a change some Republican lawmakers see as an overreach on a subject they think should not be addressed without legislation. It

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping is meeting with Saudi Arabia’s king and crown prince while on a visit to the kingdom. The visit on Thursday hopes to solidify ties with a region crucial to China’s energy supplies as sanctions intensify on Russia over its war

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Native American tribe in Northern California is racing toward a Friday deadline to conclude its search for human remains and cultural artifacts on what was once a tribal village site but will soon be home to a shared-use path and parking area. Ancestors

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform says the Washington Commanders created a “toxic work culture” for more than two decades and downplayed sexual misconduct by men at the top levels of the organization. That’s according to a report published Thursday. The report also says team owner Dan Snyder was involved

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces have killed four Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank. Later, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian youth near Ramallah city and wounded three others, the ministry said The Israeli military said it was carrying out an arrest raid in the

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has called for a review of the state’s investments to determine if it has stakes in Chinese companies. The Republican governor, who is seen as a potential contender for her party’s nomination to run for president in two years, has