By LUIS ANDRES HENAO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” has been a box office hit in the United States and several other countries. The film, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, is focused on the Rastafari legend’s story during the making of his 1977 album “Exodus” while leading up to
Continue ReadingBy Matt Stiles, CNN The US House on Wednesday approved legislation that could ban TikTok in the United States over concerns about the video sharing platform’s Chinese ownership. The bill, which passed on a bipartisan 352-65 vote, would require the app to part ways with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, within 180 days or face a ban
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say the International Monetary Fund will hold a crucial round of talks with Pakistan’s new government starting this week. The talks are aimed at determining whether Pakistan has met all the requirements to receive the final $1.1 billion tranche of last year’s $3 billion bailout. Officials
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has rejected an invitation from House Republicans to appear for a public hearing next week alongside former business associates. His attorney, Abbe Lowell, called the outreach a ‘carnival side show.’ Lowell went on to blast Republicans’ efforts to bring his client before a public hearing
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press A new narrative series on Max follows female journalists on the campaign trail for the presidential election. “The Girls on the Bus” is based on the memoir “Chasing Hilary” by Amy Chozick, who covered Hillary Clinton’s two unsuccessful campaigns for president. Chozick and Julie Plec, who was an executive producer
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press FUTABA, Japan (AP) — The head of the U.N. atomic agency has observed firsthand the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s ongoing radioactive wastewater discharges for the first time since the contentious program began six months ago. He called it an “encouraging start.” An 2011 earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden’s attorney has informed House Oversight Chairman James Comer that the president’s son will not accept the committee’s invitation for him to appear at a public hearing, according to a letter obtained by CNN. Last month, Hunter Biden spoke at a closed-door deposition before the
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia 2020 election interference case on Wednesday dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump and others, but the rest of the sweeping racketeering indictment remains intact. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee quashed six counts
Continue ReadingBy FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A senior U.S. official has urged Kosovo and Serbia to make tough decisions to restart talks on normalizing ties. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar met with officials in Kosovo on Wednesday in the latest American effort to restart talks on normalizing
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell, as lawmakers acted on concerns that the company’s current ownership structure is a national security threat. The bill, passed by a
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended his refusal to send Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine. He told German lawmakers Wednesday that prudence is not a weakness while insisting that he trusts Kyiv. Germany has become the second-biggest supplier of military aid to Ukraine after the United States,
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case on Wednesday dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump, but many other counts in the indictment remain. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote in an order that six of the counts in the indictment
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, Jason Morris and Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) — The presiding judge in the Georgia criminal case against Donald Trump and his allies has thrown out some of the charges against the former president and several of his co-defendants. The partial dismissal by Georgia Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee leaves most of the sprawling racketeering indictment intact. McAfee
Continue ReadingBy MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press GORDONVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Spring in southcentral Pennsylvania brings an annual tradition in Amish communities: mud sales. That’s what they call the country auctions that began in Lancaster County in the 1960s. These days some get thousands of bidders and can do more than a million dollars in sales. The
Continue ReadingRAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian soccer federation says former national team member Mohammed Barakat was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. The federation says the 39-year-old Barakat was killed in a strike Monday on a residential building in the southern city of Khan Younis. Affectionately known as “the lion” by
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, Ibrahim Dahman, Kareem Khadder and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — A toddler wearing a red jumper plays with fairy lights that adorn tents to celebrate the start of Ramadan in a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. Her blonde curls bob between rows of Ramadan bunting, as the yellow
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has introduced legislation to quash the wrongful convictions of hundreds of Post Office branch managers in England and Wales who were caught up in one of the United Kingdom’s biggest miscarriages of justice. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday the legislation “marks an important
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey says she’ll issue pardons for tens of thousands of people convicted of misdemeanor marijuana charges going back decades in the latest example of a state ambitiously seeking to forgive low-level drug offenders. The Democrat and former state attorney general said that potentially hundreds
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their records Wednesday, as a lull carries through financial markets worldwide. The S&P 500 was mostly unchanged in afternoon trading, a day after setting an all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 108 points, or 0.3%, as of
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli drone strike targeting a car in southern Lebanon near the coastal city of Tyre has killed a member of the Palestinian militant Hamas group and another person. Hamas identified its slain member as Hadi Mustafa and said he was with the group’s military wing, the
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