By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Oakland Athletics return to Las Vegas this weekend for exhibition games against Milwaukee, their first appearance since announcing the relocation to what the team envisions as its future home city. The games at Las Vegas Ballpark, home of the franchise’s Triple-A Aviators, feature an
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two Jewish students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The lawsuit filed Thursday accuses the university of tolerating antisemitism that has resulted in the two students being intimidated, harassed and assaulted. A statement from MIT says the university does not typically comment
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is moving closer to requiring abortion providers to ask patients why they’re terminating their pregnancies and report the answers to the state. It would join at least eight other states with Republican legislatures that ban most abortions even though Kansas voters have affirmed abortion
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay legal fees to a company founded by a former British spy that he sued for making what he claimed were false claims that harmed his reputation. A London judge threw out the case against Orbis Business Intelligence
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists calculate that for the ninth straight month Earth has obliterated global heat records. The European Union’s climate agency Copernicus says February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans set new high-temperature marks. Sea surface temperatures weren’t just the hottest for February, but are
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating a possible smuggling ring at a Wisconsin prison that has resulted in the suspension of nearly a dozen employees. A spokesperson for Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday that the governor and the state Department of Corrections asked the U.S. Department of Justice
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain says it’s providing 10,000 drones to arm Ukraine in its fight against Russia. U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps made the announcement Thursday during a visit with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. The investment includes 125 million pounds ($160 million) of new funding on top of 200 million pounds ($256 million)
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of theft, as Republicans seized on the recent death of a nursing student in Georgia to rebuke President Joe Biden’s border policies just hours ahead of his
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities and locals in Nigeria say gunmen attacked a primary school in the northwest of the country on Thursday morning and abducted at least 100 pupils as they were about to start classes. Authorities were still trying to confirm the exact number of pupils abducted but
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Michael Hayden, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Personal Birth date: March 17, 1945 Birth place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Birth name: Michael Vincent Hayden Father: Harry Hayden Mother: Sadie Hayden Marriage: Jeanine (Carrier) Hayden Children: Margaret, Michael and Liam Education: Duquesne University, B.A,
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Arab League, an organization of Middle Eastern and African countries and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Facts Ahmed Aboul Gheit of Egypt is the current secretary-general of the Arab League. There are also four observer states: Eritrea, India, Brazil and Venezuela. The Arab League’s purpose,
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a story published March 6, 2024, about the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Ohio, The Associated Press erroneously reported the target of $2.9 million in planned ad spending by Club for Growth Action. It will be spent exclusively against candidate Matt Dolan, not against both Dolan and candidate Frank LaRose.
Continue ReadingBy Jack Forrest and Will Mullery, CNN (CNN) — When President Joe Biden returns to the House chamber to deliver his third State of the Union address, the former longtime senator will address his onetime congressional colleagues as a guest. The president is invited to address Congress by the House speaker, in accordance with his constitutional duty
Continue ReadingBy SIAN WATSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Now that he’s been doing it for well over half a century, Anthony Hopkins believes acting is much “easier” now. The 86-year-old stars as real-life hero Nicholas Winton in “One Life,” out March 15. Winton saved more than 600 children during World War II by organizing train
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press The city of Baltimore has agreed to pay $275,000 toward the legal fees of a far-right Catholic media group to settle a lawsuit over the city’s unsuccessful attempt to block a rally in 2021. The agreement with St. Michael’s Media, the parent firm of the Church Militant website, comes even
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very long time: Hand its top award to a blockbuster. After years of favoring smaller movies like “The Shape of Water” and “Nomadland, ” the clear best-picture favorite “Oppenheimer” —
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Navy demoted Rep. Ronny Jackson in 2022 after a scathing report from the Defense Department watchdog found the former White House physician drank on the job, routinely screamed at subordinates and acted inappropriately. Jackson, who retired in 2019 as a one-star rear admiral, was demoted to the rank
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Security Service says it arrested four people on suspicion of preparing “terrorist offenses” with links to Islamic extremism and organized crime. The service did not say where or when the alleged attacks were to have taken place, but in a brief statement it added that it had “worked on the
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY, ABBY SEWELL and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden will announce a plan Thursday for the U.S. military to help establish a temporary port on the Gaza coast to increase the flow of aid into the territory during the Israel-Hamas war, according to senior administration officials. The
Continue ReadingA CORUNA, Spain (AP) — Alone, Cole Brauer braved three oceans and the elements as she navigated her sailboat for months. When she and her 40-foot (12.2-meter) sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain, the 29-year-old became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by herself, traveling across about 30,000 miles (48,280
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