By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Book Richardson doesn’t sleep much past 5:30 a.m. anymore. That was around the time seven years ago that FBI agents pounded on his door, barged in, handcuffed him and dragged him away while his 16-year-old son, E.J., looked on. “Ever since then, everyone looks at
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the beloved Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82. His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness. Flaherty, who was born in Pittsburgh, spent seven years at The Second City in Chicago before moving north of the border
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI and JILL COLVIN Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will continue to hammer President Joe Biden over his border policies during a trip to two pivotal Midwestern states that could determine the outcome of the 2024 election. Trump on Tuesday will deliver a speech in Grand Rapids,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — More and more businesses are taking advantage of the total solar eclipse set to dim skies across North America next week. In the snacks department alone, Krispy Kreme is teaming up with Oreo to sell a limited doughnut-cookie creation. Sonic Drive-In is selling a “Blackout Slush Float.” And Frito-Lay’s SunChips has
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Firefighters came to the rescue of two people who were trapped under a bridge early when the waters of an Ohio river began rising, and forecasters warned more severe weather was headed to the area. The Columbus Fire Department reports the pair were sleeping under the bridge around 8:45 a.m. Tuesday
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — Swiss police say three people have been killed and three others injured after a helicopter ferrying a guide and visitors to a mountaintop drop-off point for skiers crashed in the Swiss Alps. Authorities opened an investigation to determine why the light utility helicopter skidded off its landing zone on Tuesday near the
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER, DIDI TANG and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed Taiwan, artificial intelligence and security issues Tuesday in a call meant to demonstrate a return to regular leader-to-leader dialogue between the two powers. The call, described by the White House as “candid and
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen, leading the charity to suspend delivery Tuesday of vital food aid to Gaza, where Israel’s offensive has pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation. Ships still
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Lou Conter, the final survivor of the USS Arizona, the Navy battleship that was sunk – with a loss of 1,177 lives – during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at age 102. Conter was surrounded by family at his home in Grass Valley, California, and
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Maryse Condé, an acclaimed French-language novelist from Guadeloupe who in novels, stories, plays and memoirs imagined and redefined the personal and historical past from 17th century New England to contemporary Europe, has died at age 90. Condé, winner in 2018 of an “alternate” Nobel Prize,
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee and Donald Judd, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, marking the first conversation between the leaders since their historic in-person summit in November and the latest in ongoing efforts by US and Chinese officials to defuse tensions between the two superpowers. The
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM Associated Press Klaus Mäkelä has been hired to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since its start in 1891. A Finn who turned 28 in January, Mäkelä has had an astonishing rise in the music world. He became principal guest conductor
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — From its lavish opening in 1957 on a Las Vegas Boulevard surrounded by wide-open desert, to its sleepier years amid a boom in megaresorts, the Tropicana Las Vegas has been a familiar landmark home to colorful events in a city known for constant reinvention. Now the
Continue ReadingHOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) — An archaeological site that might shed more light on New Mexico’s ancient history has been discovered recently within the boundaries of Holloman Air Force Base. Base officials say geomorphologists and members of the 49th Civil Engineer Squadron environmental flight uncovered a campsite that’s about 8,200 years old and
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he is mourning a mayoral candidate killed the day before, just hours after she requested protection and started campaigning. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday the killing of one of his own party’s candidates “hurts a lot,” but he did not announce
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A deputy chief of Thailand’s national police force involved in many high-profile cases has turned himself in to fellow officers after a court issued a warrant for his arrest on money laundering charges. Thai media reported that the Bangkok Criminal Court approved an arrest warrant for Police
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have banned high school transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity. Evers had promised to veto the bill ever since it was introduced. Democrats did not have
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Police in Georgia have released the name of the man who they say rammed an SUV into the front gate at the FBI’s Atlanta office. A DeKalb County police spokesperson says officers have secured warrants against Ervin Lee Bolling for interference with government property. The FBI has said the crash happened just
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Peruvian archbishop who sued two journalists over their reports about sexual abuse and financial corruption in his religious movement has resigned amid a Vatican investigation. Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Piura Archbishop José Eguren. At 67, he is several years
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged delegates to a conference in the Netherlands to continue efforts to tackle impunity for war crimes “so that justice provides real strength to our common security — security from aggressions and terror.” Ministers and officials from dozens of countries
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