By COLLEEN SLEVIN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A major storm dumped heavy snow in Colorado on Thursday – forcing flight cancellations and shutting down a highway that connects Denver to Colorado ski resorts. The storm, which began Wednesday night, delivered the slushy, wet snow typical for March, one of the snowiest
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press A new series on Apple TV+, premiering Friday, tells the lesser-known aspects of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on the pursuit of his killer, John Wilkes Booth. Many don’t know that Lincoln’s killing occurred days after the end of the Civil War and that Booth acted with co-conspirators who
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — Multiple Democratic senators and their staff have privately warned the White House in recent days that there does not appear to be enough votes in the Senate to confirm Adeel Mangi, President Joe Biden’s Muslim-American judicial nominee, sources familiar with the conversations tell CNN – appearing to suggest
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says a plane carrying Defense Secretary Grant Shapps had its satellite signal jammed as it flew near Russian territory. The government said the Royal Air Force jet carrying Shapps, officials and journalists “temporarily experienced GPS jamming when they flew close to Kaliningrad” on a flight from
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are slipping away from their records Thursday following a mixed batch of data on the economy. The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower in afternoon trading after wavering between earlier gains and losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 137 points, or 0.4%,
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has kept his part of a bargain struck last year with Catalonia’s separatists to keep him in power by pushing through a divisive amnesty bill. The legislation aims to clear hundreds of secession supporters for their roles in an illegal breakaway
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The powerful lower house of Japan’s parliament has passed a bill to promote awareness of LGBTQ+ issues amid protests by activists who say that last-minute revisions by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s conservative party favor opponents of sexual equality instead of guaranteeing equal rights. The passage followed only
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has certified a union to represent Dartmouth basketball players after the deadline passed for the school to object to the election. Big Green players voted 13-2 to join the Service Employees International Union Local 560. It’s the first-ever labor union for college athletes. The deadline was for
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s high court ruled Thursday that an Australian computer scientist is not, as he claimed, the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Craig Wright has for eight years claimed that he was the man behind “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the pseudonym that masked the identity of the creator of
Continue ReadingBy BERT WILKINSON and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A plan to create a transitional presidential council is moving forward after a majority of Haitian parties and coalitions submitted the names of those charged with finding new leaders for the country, Caribbean officials said Thursday. The names were provided to a regional
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is imposing stricter limits on a chemical used to sterilize medical equipment after finding a higher-than-expected cancer risk at facilities that use ethylene oxide to clean billions of devices including catheters and syringes. The EPA says a rule finalized Thursday will reduce ethylene
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer BAY FC 2023 FINISH: Expansion team for 2024. COACH: Albertin Montoya. KEY PLAYERS: Deyna Castellanos, Racheal Kundananji, Asisat Oshoala. OUTLOOK: Bay FC went on a spending spree heading into its first season and if coach Albertin Montoya can get all the parts on the same page, the San
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump looked on in court Thursday as his lawyers urged a federal judge to dismiss the criminal case accusing the former president of illegally retaining classified documents after he left the White House. As the presumptive 2024 Republican
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an incident in which an American Airlines plane flying from Dallas to Los Angeles suffered a tire problem, just a week after a United Airlines jetliner lost a tire during takeoff. The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that preliminary information indicated that American flight 345 “blew
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, Manu Raju, Haley Talbot and Melanie Zanona, CNN Speaker Mike Johnson told Republican senators during their closed-door retreat Wednesday that he was committed to finding a path ahead for Ukraine aid in the House of Representatives, a sign GOP senators took to mean that aid to the embattled country isn’t yet dead
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s high court ruled Thursday that an Australian computer scientist is not, as he claimed, the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Craig Wright has for eight years claimed that he was the man behind “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the pseudonym that masked the identity of the creator of
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, Jennifer Feldman, Amanda Jackson and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — A Missouri girl was critically injured in a fight captured on video near Hazelwood East High School, the St. Louis County Police Department said. Video of Friday’s altercation has since been shared by thousands of people online. It shows a girl getting thrown to
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Lawmakers in the European Parliament have adopted a non-binding resolution saying Russia should return gold and other valuable heritage items to Romania that were sent to Moscow during World War I for safekeeping. During that war, Romania sent by railroad 91.5 metric tons of gold coins and ingots to Moscow, along
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to adopt a proposal to create a new emergency alert that could help save the lives of many missing and endangered Indigenous people and others across the United States. The new alert code would function like AMBER and Silver alerts, making it easier for public safety officials to
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX’s mega rocket has flown higher and farther than ever before. The nearly 400-foot Starship blasted off from Texas on Thursday on the third test flight. But the spacecraft was lost near the end of its hourlong trip. The company said it lost contact with the spacecraft as it
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