Month: January 2023

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Remarkable as Damar Hamlin’s recovery has been, the Buffalo Bills safety still faces a lengthy rehabilitation some three weeks after going into cardiac arrest and needing to be resuscitated on the field during a game in Cincinnati, his marketing representative told The Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is unveiling a military plan Thursday for his nuclear-armed country through the rest of this decade. It’s meant to take into account the impact of the war in Ukraine and threats around the world. The plan is expected to include higher military spending in line with NATO expectations

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press GORAZDE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Residents of eastern Bosnia’s city of Gorazde do not need imaginations to understand the suffering of Ukraine’s people. Three decades ago, they endured more than three years of extreme hardship as Bosnian Serbs pummeled their city with rockets and artillery from the surrounding hills. The long

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Film production and firearms experts say movie sets probably changed permanently when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the remote New Mexico set of the Western “Rust” 14 months ago, leading to the announcement from prosecutors Thursday that Alec Baldwin and the film’s

By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press Wisps of fog hung over central Almaty, Kazakhstan, last month as President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev somberly unveiled a monument to those killed a year ago in the worst unrest in the Central Asian nation’s three decades of independence. Words on the stark concrete “Reverence” memorial speak of the need for unity

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana authorities say a man shot at police inside a Walmart before he was killed by officers. WFIE-TV says police in Evansville responded to a report of an active shooter at the store around 10 p.m. Thursday. Evansville Police Department Sgt. Anna Gray says police entered the building and were fired

By GARANCE BURKE and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — In more than 140 cities across the United States, ShotSpotter’s artificial intelligence algorithm and intricate network of microphones evaluate hundreds of thousands of sounds a year to determine if they are gunfire, generating data now being used in criminal cases nationwide. But a confidential

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced plans to downgrade the legal status of COVID-19 to the equivalent of seasonal influenza in the spring, a move that would further relax mask wearing and other preventive measures as the country seeks to return to normalcy. Kishida said Friday