By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo’s self-driving vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened the probe after getting 22 reports of Waymo vehicles either crashing or doing something that may have
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that American military aid on its way to Ukraine will make a “real difference” on the battlefield, as the top diplomat made an unannounced visit to reassure an ally facing a fierce new Russian offensive. In increasingly
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press ORONO, Maine (AP) — Researchers around the world are racing to create large wind turbines and floating platforms as upcoming lease auctions bring offshore wind closer to reality. Floating turbines are the only way for some countries and U.S. states to capture a massive amount of offshore
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long. Recommendations first made by major departments and police associations culminated in a 1995 federal
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long. Recommendations first made by major departments and police associations culminated in a 1995 federal
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that American military aid on its way to Ukraine will make a “real difference” on the battlefield, as the top diplomat made an unannounced visit to reassure an ally facing a fierce new Russian offensive. In increasingly
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations have officially endorsed a major overhaul of the bloc’s failed asylum system. Tuesday’s move wraps up years of work and comes just as campaigning for next month’s Europe-wide elections gathers pace. Migration could be an important issue. The New Pact on Migration and Asylum
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s parliament on Tuesday began the third and final reading of a divisive bill that sparked weeks of mass protests, with critics seeing it as a threat to democratic freedoms and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. The bill would require media and nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofits to
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country’s Nazi occupation in World War II has been defaced with painted blood-red hands. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo decried the vandalism as “unspeakable.” She said the memorial was defaced overnight Monday to Tuesday. The attack
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long. Recommendations first made by major departments and police associations culminated in a 1995 federal
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for too long. Recommendations first made by major departments and police associations culminated in a 1995 federal
Continue ReadingBy JOHN SEEWER, REESE DUNKLIN and TAYLOR STEVENS Associated Press In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times. Most violations involved pinning people facedown in ways that could restrict
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Three inmates charged in the violent killing of notorious Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger while imprisoned with him in West Virginia have accepted plea agreements, court filings show. Fotios Geas and Paul J. DeCologero are accused by prosecutors of bludgeoning Bulger to death as fellow
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — No matter who wins the presidential election in November, American businesses can expect to pay more to import certain foreign-made goods. Former President Donald Trump, who has referred to himself as a “Tariff Man,” has called for increasing tariffs on all imports. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden – who
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces will begin the WNBA season Tuesday night as a heavy favorite to win a third straight title. The Aces, who were a unanimous choice at No. 1 in the preseason AP WNBA power poll, are plus-100 favorites to win the title again,
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK, FATIMA HUSSEIN, PAUL WISEMAN and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced plans to slap new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment — an election year move that’s increasing friction between the world’s two largest economies. The tariffs come in
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mine authorities in southern Poland say that two miners are dead and one is missing while 12 others were hurt following a cave-in at the Myslowice-Wesola coal mine. A company official said the cave-in happened early Tuesday in an underground area where 15 miners were working. Eleven were immediately brought to
Continue ReadingMUMBAI, India (AP) — A large billboard that collapsed amid raging thunderstorms in Mumbai killed at least 14 people and injured 75 others, reports said on Tuesday. A rescue operation was continuing Tuesday morning, and authorities told the Press Trust of India news agency that 89 people had been rescued since the incident occurred on
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — An Austrian court has ruled that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, raped her thousands of times and fathered seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison. The decision on Monday follows a legal back-and-forth on Josef Fritzl’s future. The state court
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russian authorities have arrested a second senior Defense Ministry official on bribery charges days after President Vladimir Putin replaced the defense minister in a Cabinet shake-up. The Investigative Committee, Russia’s top law enforcement body, said Tuesday that the chief of the ministry’s main personnel directorate Lt. Gen. Yury Kuznetsov was arrested
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