By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis called his new home the Death Star in 2020 — and the name stuck. Allegiant Stadium, with its black facade, in fact resembles the ominous space station from the “Star Wars” movie franchise that was capable of destroying planets.
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has acquitted climate activist Greta Thunberg of a charge that she had refused to leave a protest that blocked the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year. Thunberg was acquitted along with four other defendants. Judge John Law said
Continue ReadingBy TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Liquid petroleum gas cylinders exploded in an illegal depot in a residential area of the Kenyan capital, officials said Friday, setting off a late-night inferno that killed at least three people and injured 280 others. The death toll was expected to rise. The depot in Nairobi
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Worries about the downside of a too-hot job market are keeping Wall Street in check on Friday, drowning out some big gains for Big Tech stocks. Leaps for Meta Platforms and Amazon, which are two of the market’s most influential stocks, had the S&P 500
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers delivered a stunning burst of hiring to begin 2024, adding 353,000 jobs in January in the latest sign of the economy’s continuing ability to shrug off the highest interest rates in two decades. Friday’s government report showed that last month’s job gain —
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court says it has jurisdiction to rule on a request by Ukraine for a declaration that Kyiv is not responsible for genocide. The ruling Friday comes in the preliminary phase of a case filed by Ukraine alleging that Moscow used trumped-up
Continue ReadingISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Scrutiny over Taylor Swift’s travel in private jets has been bubbling up online, with people pointing out the planet-warming emissions that are let off with each flight. The chatter heated up in the last few days after the Kansas City Chiefs, the team that Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce
Continue ReadingBy Abbas Al Lawati, CNN (CNN) — The White House has set its sights on Israel’s settlers, a controversial movement that has grown in power over the years and is seen by the outside world as a major impediment to peace between Israel and the Palestinians. On Thursday, the State Department announced the first round
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A group of residents of towns near Japanese nuclear plants has submitted a petition asking regulators to halt safety screening for the restart of idled reactors until damage to a plant that partially lost external power and spilled radioactive water during a recent powerful earthquake is fully
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Police say a man has died after falling from the Tate Modern art gallery in London. The Metropolitan Police force said officers and ambulance crews were called to the gallery at about 10:45 a.m. (1045GMT) on Friday A man was pronounced dead at the scene. He has not yet been identified. Police
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Punxatawney Phil, the central character of the annual rite of winter known as Groundhog’s Day, isn’t great at his job. His predictions are wrong more often than they are right. On Friday, the divining marmot did not see his shadow, indicating an early spring. Though, technically speaking, winter will
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, CNN Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been subpoenaed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan to produce documents related to the use and spending of federal funds, according to copy of the subpoena obtained by CNN. Willis is the Georgia district attorney who brought the 2020 election subversion case against former President Donald
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin describes Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a battle for Russia’s survival as he campaigned for reelection next month in balloting that he’s all but certain to win. Speaking at a meeting with arms industries workers Friday in the city of Tula south of Moscow, Putin declared that the
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as president, Joe Biden began rolling back his predecessor’s immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as harsh and inhumane. A lot has changed in three years. Biden, now
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as president, Joe Biden began rolling back his predecessor’s immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as harsh and inhumane. A lot has changed in three years. Biden, now
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Worries about the downside of a too-hot job market are keeping Wall Street in check on Friday, drowning out some big gains for Big Tech stocks. Leaps for Meta Platforms and Amazon, which are two of the market’s most influential stocks, had the S&P 500
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has bolstered defenses at a base in Jordan that was attacked by Iran-backed militants as it prepares for a wider U.S. response to the drone attack that killed three service members, a U.S. official said Friday. Even as a larger U.S. military
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — If Taylor Swift is jetting from her upcoming Tokyo concert to Las Vegas to see boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl the next day, she’d better already have a place to park her plane. Places to leave private aircraft at airports in and around
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Devan Cole, CNN New York City (CNN) — New guidance from court officials suggests a verdict in the civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Donald Trump could come any time in the next few weeks. “It’s looking like early to mid-February, as a rough
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president says the country’s government will seek an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the escalation of tensions with its former province of Kosovo after its government decided to ban the use of the Serbian dinar and introduce the euro in areas
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