Month: August 2024

Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s government says it is imposing a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles that matches U.S. tariffs and follows similar plans announced by the European Commission. The announcement comes after encouragement by U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday.

AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Ramón Jesurún had charges of battering a security guard at the Copa America final dropped more than a month after the Colombian soccer federation president and his son were arrested at the match where hundreds of fans forced their way into Hard Rock Stadium. Michael Band, an

Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Colombian airlines Avianca and Latam Colombia say they will operate most of their flights Tuesday and resume full schedules Wednesday, after warning earlier Monday that they would have to cancel dozens of flights due to shortages of jet fuel. The late announcements by the airlines capped off a

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s top Republican leaders have threatened to withhold tens of millions of dollars in state funding from left-leaning Memphis should leaders continue with plans to place three local gun control initiatives on the November ballot. Memphis’ city council already approved asking voters in November if they wanted to tweak

Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Federal appellate judges have overturned a Missouri law that banned police from enforcing some federal gun laws. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the law unconstitutional Monday. It forbade police from enforcing federal gun laws that don’t have an equivalent Missouri law. The U.S. Justice Department has

Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal agency has agreed to reexamine an environmental permit for Hyundai’s $7.6 billion electric vehicle plant in Georgia after conservationists complained that regulators failed to properly assess the factory’s impacts on the local water supply. The Army Corps of Engineers said in letters to the Ogeechee Riverkeeper environmental

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. (AP) — Authorities said Monday that they are investigating the death of a woman at the counterculture festival known as Burning Man, which is held annually in the northern Nevada desert. The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said emergency personnel responded to a call about a woman found unresponsive around noon Sunday

ROME (AP) — Prosecutors in Italy  are investigating the captain of a superyacht that sank during a storm off Sicily last week, killing seven people. Lawyer Aldo Mordiglia said James Cutfield, a 51-year old New Zealand national, is being investigated for possible manslaughter and culpable shipwreck. Mordiglia said Cutfield will be questioned again by prosecutors on Tuesday, without

Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man distraught that he was being forced to move from his late mother’s home shot and killed four of his family members before turning the gun on himself. Police in Nassau County say Joseph DeLucia, Jr. and his family had gathered shortly before noon on Sunday