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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two advocacy groups on Wednesday asked a judge to unseal court records and preserve public access to hearings in the class action lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Prisons over the sexual abuse of incarcerated women at a now-shuttered California prison. The bureau announced suddenly on April 15 that it would
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — People purporting to be pro-Palestinian activists have hurled red paint at the homes of Jewish officials with the Brooklyn Museum and also splashed paint across the front of diplomatic buildings for Germany and the Palestinian Authority. The paint attacks early Wednesday have prompted a police investigation
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a boat-borne bomb attack against a commercial ship in the Red Sea on Wednesday, authorities said, the latest escalation despite a U.S.-led campaign trying to protect the vital waterway. The use of a boat loaded with
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who was driving while impaired when he fatally struck two state troopers last year on Nevada’s busiest freeway has been sentenced to prison. Jemarcus Williams received the maximum sentence Tuesday of 16 to 40 years for two counts of DUI resulting in death, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. He
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine riot police have blasted protesters with water cannons to disperse crowds outside of Congress, escalating tensions before lawmakers were expected to vote on state overhaul and tax bills proposed by President Javier Milei. Libertarian Milei’s political opponents, powerful trade unions and thousands of demonstrators converged around the Congress in
Continue ReadingBy JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the University of Miami was chosen Wednesday to become the next chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, where the retiring incumbent leaves a campus roiled by protests over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Dr. Julio Frenk, a Mexico City-born global
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE and BRIAN WITTE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities anticipate that commercial shipping traffic through the Port of Baltimore will soon return to normal levels after its main channel fully reopened earlier this week. The reopening followed a roughly $160 million cleanup after the massive bridge collapsed into the channel in March.
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have likely launched a boat-borne bomb attack against a commercial ship in the Red Sea, further escalating their campaign despite a U.S.-led campaign trying to protect the vital waterway. In a warning to shippers, the British military’s
Continue ReadingDIXON, Ill. (AP) — Multiple people have been reported shot in northern Illinois in what authorities are calling a “mass casualty incident.” A post on the Winnebago Boone & Ogle County Fire/Ems Incidents Facebook page on Wednesday said ambulances and two medical helicopters were called to the scene in the Lost Lake community near Dixon.
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A near-total abortion ban was defeated in South Carolina with the help of the only three Republican women in the Senate, and now they’re losing their election bids. Voters in this week’s primary handed losses to Sens. Penry Gustafson and Sandy Senn, while Katrina Shealy has
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Sony Pictures Entertainment is getting into the exhibition business. The studio behind recent films like “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” and “The Garfield Movie” has acquired the distinctive theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the companies said Wednesday. Included in the deal is the genre film festival Fantastic Fest. Sony
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fire swept through a building that housed foreign workers in Kuwait early Wednesday, killing at least 40 Indian nationals and injuring more than 50, India’s external affairs ministry said. Local officials said the blaze appeared to be linked to code violations. Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousuf Al-Sabah confirmed
Continue ReadingWAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Noah and Kristen Dweck have seen a number of black bears around their home in Vermont but this was a first: a bear relaxing on their hammock. Noah Dweck took iPhone video of two young bears in their yard in Waitsfield on Tuesday with one sitting on the swinging hammock before
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has kept a lower court’s ruling banning the use of mobile voting sites in the upcoming presidential election in place for now, a win for Republicans. However, in a victory for Democrats, the court also ensured late Tuesday that municipalities across the
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have launched new deadly attacks on Ukraine, killing at least nine people a day before a high-profile meeting where leaders of countries that are some of Ukraine’s biggest backers are to discuss how to slow Moscow’s offensive. Ukrainian authorities say that along with the
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are climbing Wednesday following a surprisingly encouraging update on inflation. The Federal Reserve also gave reassurance that it still sees a cut to interest rates, something Wall Street deeply desires, as likely this year. The S&P 500 was 1% higher in afternoon trading
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press A Republican incumbent on a commission that has a hand in overseeing elections in Nevada’s major swing county has fended off a far-right challenge and secured her party’s nomination in a race that could have had implications for national elections. Heading into Nevada’s primary on Tuesday, the incumbent, Clara Andriola,
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer It started bad, got a little worse before it got a little better, and then finished as widely expected for the United States, losing to India in cricket at the Twenty20 World Cup. The Americans entered Wednesday’s match on a huge high after beating cricket powerhouse Pakistan in their
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials said Wednesday that inflation has fallen further toward their target level in recent months but signaled that they expect to cut their benchmark interest rate just once this year. The policymakers’ forecast for one rate cut was down from their previous projection of
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Thousands of athletes in major and obscure sports are vying for medals in the Russian city of Kazan at the BRICS Games, an international competition shadowed by politics amid Russia’s exclusion from major sports events. The games opened Wednesday, which Russia observes as its independence day,
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