Month: September 2023

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Another Powerball drawing Saturday night, another chance at a jackpot that is inching toward $1 billion. The estimated $925 million prize is the world’s ninth-largest lottery jackpot, behind earlier Powerball and Mega Millions prizes that all topped $1 billion. The prize has grown so large because there have been 30

LONDON (AP) — A bus carrying dozens of schoolchildren overturned on a highway near the English city of Liverpool on Friday, killing the driver and a 14-year-old girl, police said. The bus was transporting students from Calday Grange Grammar School and West Kirby Grammar School on the Wirral Peninsula, across the River Mersey from Liverpool.

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ahead of Dustin Lynch’s sixth studio album, “Killed the Cowboy,” the 38-year-old country star sensed some inner conflict. He had achieved many of his goals; he spent the last decade securing country radio hits and ranking in a cumulative billions of streams. The question became,

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Student loan payments start up again for most borrowers in October, but more than 800,000 people who have been paying for years are having their loans forgiven. A total of $39 billion is being forgiven under a one-time adjustment granted by the Biden administration. It’s for

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Flashes of intrigue greeted guests at Loewe’s meticulously designed space for Paris Fashion Week. Bright, other-worldly lighting brightened a dove-gray runway where gold modernist sculptures by American artist Lynda Benglis were scattered as if dropped by a fashion divinity. The set mostly was a blank canvas

By AHMAD SEIR and ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A hospital official says that a medical student accused of killing three people in shootings at an apartment and a hospital in the Dutch city of Rotterdam had been told to undergo a psychological evaluation to establish whether he was mentally fit to

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is climbing following some encouraging signals on inflation, but it’s still likely to close September with its worst month of the year so far. The S&P 500 was 0.7% higher shortly after the open of trading on Friday. It’s on track for its first three-day winning streak of the

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway says it will start barring Russian-registered passenger cars from entering the Scandinavian country starting next week. That mirrors sanctions already imposed by the European Union against Moscow over its war on Ukraine. Norway is a member of NATO but not of the EU. It has a 198-kilometer-long border in the

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution. The justices will review laws enacted by Republican-dominated legislatures and signed by Republican governors in Florida and Texas. While the details vary,