Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are asking a Manhattan judge to consolidate the two sex crime cases that disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein faces in New York into a single trial. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office argue in new court filings that the cases have significant overlap. Weinstein’s lawyers in their own
Continue ReadingBAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — The wife of a pilot who suffered a medical emergency took over flying and managed to safely land the plane in California, authorities said. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that real estate broker Eliot Alper was flying a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air 90 with his wife, Yvonne Kinane-Wells, from Henderson, Nevada,
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer Major League Baseball spring training facilities on Florida’s west coast appear to have been mostly spared major damage during Hurricane Milton. Unlike two years ago when Hurricane Ian caused extensive damage that shut down the Tampa Bay Rays’ spring home in Port Charlotte, no teams have reported Milton causing serious issues that
Continue ReadingAP Media Writer The advertisement on “The View” this week, preceded by a warning from ABC, was shocking: condemning celebrities for supposedly promoting abortion rights and showing images of dead fetuses. It’s a manifestation of a wider anti-abortion campaign that makes use of a federal law that forbids broadcasters from turning it down. The campaign
Continue ReadingAP Airlines Writer Boeing plans to lay off about 10% of its workers in the coming months, about 17,000 people, as it continues to lose money and tries to deal with a strike that is crippling production of the company’s best-selling airline planes. New CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff in a memo Friday that the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who sued his ex-wife’s friends for helping her obtain an abortion informed the court that the two sides reached a settlement, forgoing the need for a trial that would have tested his argument that their actions amounted to assisting in a wrongful death. Attorneys
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Residents in states hit by Hurricane Helene who had coverage through the federal flood insurance program but let it lapse before the storm hit may be able to renew it and still be covered from the impact. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said late Thursday that certain policyholders in seven
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state’s largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies. The lawsuit, filed last year, accuses the companies’ carbon emissions of being a cause of the region’s deadly heat-dome event in 2021. It also accuses
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California state Senate passed a measure Friday to prevent gas prices from spiking in a state where it is notoriously expensive to fill up at the pump. The proposal, backed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, would give energy regulators the authority to require that refiners keep
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Friday announced new sanctions on Iran’s energy sector in response to its October 1 attack on Israel, firing roughly 180 missiles into the country. Iran said the barrage was retaliation for a series of devastating blows Israel has landed in recent weeks against the Iran-backed militant group
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The concern has been there all along, but now it’s being talked about openly: Are some men reluctant to vote for Democrat Kamala Harris because she’s a woman? The vice president rarely references her gender on the campaign trail, but her key supporters are starting to make more direct appeals
Continue ReadingBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A woman from China has pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. A Border Patrol agent’s affidavit states that Wan Yee Ng was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she
Continue ReadingMOAB, Utah (AP) — A hiker has died in a fall on a popular trail at Arches National Park in Utah. Park officials say the 68-year-old man from Paramus, New Jersey, fell Tuesday morning. Resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful. The fall happened near an overlook on Devils Garden Trail. That’s a popular trail in the park
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A Massachusetts pharmacist has been sentenced in Michigan to 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison for his role in a 2012 national meningitis outbreak that killed dozens of people. Neither Glenn Chin nor relatives of the Michigan victims made statements at his sentencing Friday in Howell, northwest of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. humanitarian officials say aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months and warn that critical lifelines in the territory’s north have been cut off. A U.N. spokesman delivered the grim news Friday, saying the main crossings into the north have been closed and no food or
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer U.S. women’s water polo star Maddie Musselman Woepse is mourning the loss of her husband, Pat, who died Thursday night from a rare form of lung cancer. He was 31. Pat Woepse was diagnosed with NUT carcinoma in September 2023. Woepse, a former water polo player himself, set a goal of going
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — An apparent road rage shooting during rush hour traffic in Los Angeles killed one person and injured another, authorities said Friday. The shooting, which was reported Thursday just after 4 p.m., closed down the northbound lanes of the Interstate 5 freeway running through northeast Los Angeles for several hours. The California
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The president of Guyana has announced several perks ahead of next year’s general elections, including free college tuition and a one-time cash payment of nearly $1,000 for every household in the oil-rich South American country. Irfaan Ali also promised to cut power bills by half and increase minimum monthly
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is again refusing to acknowledge that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election over former President Donald Trump. The New York Times reported Friday that Vance evaded the question five times during a podcast interview set to be released on Saturday. The Ohio senator repeated
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court says an Iowa teen who pleaded guilty to beating his high school Spanish teacher to death with a baseball bat must serve 35 years in prison before the possibility of parole. Willard Miller was 16 when he and another teen killed Nohema Graber, a 66-year-old teacher
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