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By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills and a state representative who immigrated from Somalia are looking to create a new government office that would tap recent immigrants to try to solve a workforce shortage in the state. Mills and Rep. Deqa Dhalac of South Portland unveiled a bill
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Después de volar cientos de miles de kilómetros a través del espacio y luchar contra un problema de propulsor que arruinó sus planes, el módulo de aterrizaje lunar Peregrine probablemente haya encontrado su final. Se esperaba que la nave espacial concluyera su viaje truncado de 10 días alrededor de las
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — In a story published January 18, 2024, about the new film “Origin,” The Associated Press erroneously reported the first name of actor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
Continue ReadingDENVER (AP) — One of three teens charged with starting a house fire in suburban Denver that killed five people — apparently out of revenge for a stolen cellphone that was mistakenly traced to the residence — pleaded guilty Friday to one count of second-degree murder. Gavin Seymour, 19, pleaded guilty for his role in
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVIN Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is expected to endorse former President Trump ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire GOP primary, a blow to his fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley. A person familiar with Scott’s plans confirmed Friday to The Associated Press that Scott
Continue ReadingTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama five-star freshman quarterback Julian Sayin has entered the transfer portal, the program’s latest player to look elsewhere after Kalen DeBoer replaced the retired Nick Saban as coach. Sayin had signed with the Crimson Tide this past December. He’s the 26th player and second signee to leave Alabama since Saban announced
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — Matt Carpenter is returning to the St. Louis Cardinals, agreeing Friday to a one-year contract with his team from 2011-21. Carpenter agreed to a deal for the $740,000 major league minimum, which will be offset against his guaranteed $5.5 million salary as part of a $12 million, two-year contract he signed
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, CNN President Joe Biden signed into law a short-term funding extension on Friday, the White House announced, averting a partial government shutdown after lawmakers raced the clock to pass the bill ahead of a key Friday deadline. In a rare event, lawmakers had been confronting not one but two government shutdown deadlines on
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — Ford will shut down one of two production shifts in April at the Dearborn, Michigan, factory that builds the F-150 Lightning electric pickup. The move is part of “matching F-150 Lightning production to customer demand,” the company said Friday. General Motors recently made a similar announcement
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A group of sixteen Latino elected officials from across California will tour the Salton Sea to witness the polluted, shrinking body of water and be in the presence of arsenic-infested waters. Some elected officials have never seen the Salton Sea or smelled of hydrogen sulfide, which smells like rotten eggs. The environment and conditions have
Continue ReadingBy FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan hopes that it made the world’s first “pinpoint landing” on the moon when its spacecraft touched down on the lunar surface. But Japanese space officials say that more time is needed to make a final determination. Whatever the result on how accurate the landing was Japan’s
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man was sentenced Friday to two concurrent life sentences, plus 30 years, for blowing up his ex-girlfriend’s spa business with a package bomb in 2018, killing her and seriously injuring two others. Friday’s hearing concluded a case against Stephen Beal, 64, that was
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Stahl Click here for updates on this story PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pennsylvania (KYW) — The world of virtual reality is now being used to help patients in physical therapy. Emily Dorsheimer was badly burned in a house fire in Coatesville in April. She says learning to move again was a little more interesting and
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As a bout of bitter and deadly cold sweeps the U.S., millions of Americans are being told to dress in layers if they must go outside. In places that rarely experience bone-chilling temperatures, that advice can be confounding. What does it mean
Continue ReadingHATBORO, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia man is accused of stabbing to death a neighbor with whom he had feuded after an argument about the accused man’s loud snoring that could be heard through a wall connecting their homes. Authorities said Friday that 55-year-old Christopher Casey killed neighbor Robert Wallace after Wallace removed a
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un auxiliar de vuelo de American Airlines enfrenta cargos federales de pornografía infantil, acusado de intentar filmar en secreto a una niña de 14 años en el baño de un avión y de tener videos de otras niñas usando los baños a bordo de los aviones en los que trabajaba,
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say American fighter jets struck Iranian-backed Houthi rebel sites for the sixth time Friday, taking out anti-ship missile launchers that were prepared to fire. The officials says the strikes were carried out by F/A-18 aircraft off the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier. And
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump is using his social media platform to mock Nikki Haley. In a post on his Truth Social account Friday, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, as “Nimbra.” Haley, the former South Carolina governor, was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, as
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government says it will challenge an auction of artifacts belonging to the country’s anti-apartheid stalwart Nelson Mandela. Friday’s announcement comes ahead of the auction of 75 artifacts belonging to Mandela, the country’s first democratically elected president who spent 27 years in jail for fighting
Continue ReadingBy Mike Sullivan Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — With sky high rent in Boston, some people are resorting to living on boats all year long. They are part of what is called a liveaboard community. There are a few in the city, including several in Charlestown. This way of life
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