By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Amnesty International says it has documented widespread abuses, including torture and deprivation of medical care, in detention facilities holding thousands of suspected Islamic State members and their relatives in northeast Syria. The centers and camps hold about 56,000 people, the majority of them children and teens. They
Continue ReadingBy JOSH JACQUOT Edmunds Sometimes you need to buy a car you’ve never seen. And there may be powerful reasons to do so. Buying a vehicle online and sight unseen allows you to potentially shop the nation’s entire inventory of cars rather than what just happens to be sitting around at your local dealership. That’s
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than two decades ago, Kate Hudson took on the role of one of the most celebrated music fans to ever hit the silver screen: Penny Lane in “Almost Famous.” It is required viewing for record obsessives — and for Hudson, an extension of a
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than two decades ago, Kate Hudson took on the role of one of the most celebrated music fans to ever hit the silver screen: Penny Lane in “Almost Famous.” It is required viewing for record obsessives — and for Hudson, an extension of a
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Officials from both countries say Russian forces are being withdrawn from Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region, where they have been stationed as peacekeepers since the end of a war in 2020. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday confirmed reports of the withdrawal but didn’t give further details. Hikmet Hajiyev, the head of foreign policy
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla will ask shareholders to reinstate a compensation package for CEO Elon Musk potentially worth $55 billion that was rejected by a judge in Delaware this year and to move the electric car maker’s corporate home from Delaware to Texas. In a filing with federal regulators early Wednesday, the company said
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are more likely than the overall adult population to believe in human-caused climate change, according to a new poll. It also suggests that partisanship may not have as much of an impact on this group’s environmental
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla will ask shareholders to reinstate a compensation package for CEO Elon Musk potentially worth $55 billion that was rejected by a judge in Delaware this year and to move the electric car maker’s corporate home from Delaware to Texas. In a filing with federal regulators early Wednesday, the company said
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says America and its allies are discussing options “both inside and outside the U.N system” to create a new mechanism for monitoring North Korea over its nuclear weapons program. Russia last month vetoed a U.N. resolution in a
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, REBECCA BOONE and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — When wildfires broke out across Maui last August, some firefighters carried victims piggyback over downed power lines to safety and sheltered survivors inside their engines. Another drove a moped into a burning neighborhood again and again, whisking people away from danger
Continue ReadingBy Svitlana Vlasova, Sebastian Shukla and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A Russian missile strike killed and injured nearly 100 people in the city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine – an attack that could have been prevented if Ukraine was provided with better air defenses, President Volodomyr Zelensky said. At least 18 people were killed
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s parliament has voted in the first reading to approve a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad. Thousands gathered outside parliament to protest. Opponents say the proposal would obstruct Georgia’s
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The desert nation of the United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport, disrupting flights through the world’s busiest airfield for international travel. The state-run WAM news agency called
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tesla will ask shareholders to reinstate the compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that was rejected by a judge in Delaware this year and to move the electric carmaker’s corporate home from Delaware to Texas. In a filing with federal regulators early Wednesday, the company said it would ask shareholders to
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By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Visitors to Disney’s California parks could one day walk through the snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from “Frozen” or the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of “Zootopia” under a park expansion plan approved by the Anaheim City Council. Disney would spend at least $1.9 billion over the next
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — More than 5,500 years ago, two women were tied up and probably buried alive in a ritual sacrifice, using a form of torture associated today with the Italian Mafia, according to an analysis of skeletons discovered at an archaeological site in southwest France. Researchers investigated the unusual position of
Continue ReadingALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The police chief in Albany, New York, says an officer was “ambushed” by a driver who shot him the leg as he approached a vehicle following an attempted traffic stop and returned fire, killing the man. Police Chief Eric Hawkins says the officer was hospitalized at Albany Medical Center and was
Continue ReadingBy ANNIE MA Associated Press Four months after a contentious congressional hearing led to the resignations of two Ivy League presidents, Columbia University’s president is set to appear before the same committee over questions of antisemitism and the school’s response to conflicts on campus over the Israel-Hamas war. Nemat Shafik, Columbia’s leader, was originally asked
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats could end the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday before arguments even begin. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to call votes to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas after senators are sworn in as jurors midday, a
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Versha Pleasant has dedicated her career to finding ways to erase the racial health inequities facing Black mothers. A clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School, Pleasant said she developed a curriculum that teaches the history of racism in obstetrics and gynecology in the US.
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