AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — BMW is lowering sales and earnings targets for the 2024 fiscal year, in a move the luxury German car maker said was partially triggered by hefty expenses of addressing a braking system recall that impacts more than 1.5 million vehicles worldwide. A spokesperson for BMW Group says the
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tyreek Hill’s teammates and coaches used words like “triggering” and a “shame” to describe body camera footage showing a police officer yanking the Miami Dolphins receiver out of his sports car and forcing him face-first onto the ground during a traffic stop. The incident outside the Dolphins’
Continue ReadingAP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan said All-Pro running back Christian McCaffrey could have played in the 49ers’ opener if it had been a playoff game but the team held him out to make sure his Achilles tendinitis didn’t become a more serious issue. The decision to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declined to say if he remains confident in the city’s police commissioner, days after federal agents seized the cellphones of the head of the police department and at least four other high-ranking mayoral deputies. Speaking at length Tuesday for the first since
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Two transgender girls can try out for and play on girls school sports teams while the teens challenge a New Hampshire ban, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The families of Parker Tirrell, 15, and Iris Turmelle, 14, sued in August seeking to overturn the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act
Continue ReadingALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The two opposition candidates who ran in Algeria’s election are challenging the result and calling into question President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s landslide victory. Islamist Abdellali Hassani Cherif and socialist Youcef Aouchiche on Tuesday filed appeals with Algeria’s Constitutional Court while harshly rebuking election officials and disputing the vote count. The challenge followed
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first U.S. troops to deploy after the 9/11 attacks are suffering from radiation exposure that the government has yet to officially recognize 23 years later. And it’s a final group that comedian Jon Stewart can’t leave behind. Troops sent to a former Soviet base in Uzbekistan found clumps of
Continue ReadingAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s long list of National Book Awards for young people’s literature has a poetic touch. Five of the 10 nominees announced Tuesday by the National Book Foundation are novels written in verse, including Olivia A. Coles’ “Ariel Crashing a Train” and Shifa Saltagi Safadi’s “Kareem Between,” a
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Deshaun Watson is again under a spotlight away from the field. The NFL said Tuesday it is investigating the latest civil lawsuit filed against the Cleveland Browns quarterback for an alleged sexual assault that took place in 2020 while he played for Houston. On Monday, a woman in Texas
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Google lost its last bid to overturn a European Union antitrust penalty, after the bloc’s top court ruled against it Tuesday in a case that came with a whopping fine and helped jumpstart an era of intensifying scrutiny for Big Tech companies. The European Union’s top court rejected Google’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police have arrested a 14-year-old suspect following a shooting that critically injured a teenage boy at a high school in Nebraska’s largest city. Families rushed Tuesday to Omaha Northwest High School after the shooting was reported by the school resource officer during lunch. Omaha Police Deputy Chief Sherie
Continue ReadingAP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Attanasio, a baseball agent since before the start of free agency whose clients ranged from Bobby Valentine to Ichiro Suzuki, has died. He was 84. Attanasio died Aug. 30 at his home in San Diego following a long illness, according to his son Michael. Attanasio’s first client
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Supreme Court of Maryland is considering the constitutionality of a 2023 law that ended the state’s statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits following a report that exposed widespread wrongdoing within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The state’s highest court heard oral arguments in the case Tuesday. Most
Continue ReadingBy Mohammed Tawfeeq, Irene Nasser and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — Israel has launched multiple strikes on southern Lebanon over the last day, including one which killed a senior Hezbollah commander. Mohammed Qassem Al-Shaer, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, was killed in a strike on the village of Qaraoun in the western Beqaa
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A fire destroyed two homes and left two people injured in Desert Hot Springs Tuesday morning. The fire was reported at around 5:35 a.m. on the 66800 block of Estrella Avenue, east of Mesquite Avenue. CAL FIRE officials said the fire started at a single-story home and spread to the house next door. Two people
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned a man close to the leadership of Mexico’s hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation cartel and known as “the tank.” It says he leads the cartel’s fuel theft arm, supplying it with tens of millions of dollars a year by selling stolen gasoline through a network of seemingly
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A lawsuit arguing that county election board members in Georgia have the discretion to not certify election results has been dismissed on a technicality. But the judge noted it could be refiled. Fulton County election board member Julie Adams filed a lawsuit in May asking a judge to declare that
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — A six-month House GOP government funding plan cleared a key hurdle on Tuesday, but remains at risk of failing as Speaker Mike Johnson attempts to navigate a shutdown fight with his narrow majority. The House voted 209-206 to approve a rule to govern debate for the funding
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill was pulled from his sports car by Miami-Dade County police officers outside Hard Rock Stadium during a traffic stop before the team’s game on Sunday, triggering a national debate on whether the treatment was justified. Hill, 30, was pushed onto the
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A 31-year-old San Francisco man has been arrested for allegedly stealing and recklessly driving a ride-booking vehicle in Palm Springs. According to the Palm Springs Police Department, a customer used a ride-hailing service for “what they believed to be an intoxicated person” at approximately 4:17 p.m. Monday in downtown Palm Springs. The suspect, later identified
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