By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. Don’t worry: There’s no chance of it hitting us since it will pass seven times the distance from Earth to the moon. NASA’s Center for Near Earth
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Eagerly awaited redistricting reports that will recommend new maps expected to reshape the balance of power in the Wisconsin Legislature are due to the state Supreme Court. The political stakes in Thursday’s deadline are huge in the battleground state. Republicans have had a firm grip on
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday he never told his staff to keep his cancer surgery and hospitalization secret from the White House, but acknowledged he should have handled it differently and he apologized for keeping President Joe Biden and others in the
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police and student protesters have clashed in the center of the Greek capital after a demonstration against government plans to allow privately run universities. Demonstrators on Thursday attacked police cordons, set fire to trash dumpsters and threw stones at riot police near parliament and later during clashes along the capital’s narrow
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s is expected to issue an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who’ve been attacking Palestinians in the occupied territory. That’s according to four people familiar with the matter. A senior administration official says the White House
Continue ReadingCAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Annette Bening, a two-time Golden Globe winner who recently received her fifth Oscar nomination, was named Thursday as the 2024 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. The Pudding is the oldest theatrical organization in the nation and one of the oldest in the world. Since 1951, it
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Legendary Southern rapper Juvenile says he had been unaware of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series when a social media post suggested that he do a performance, setting off a frenzy. Two months later, Juvenile’s performance became one of the most notable of last year. with
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the 2024 Grammy Awards, boygenius — the major label rock band built of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus — is up for six awards, tying the likes of Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish and more. Those include two major
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the 2024 Grammy Awards, boygenius — the major label rock band built of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus — is up for six awards, tying the likes of Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish and more. Those include two major
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavy rain flooded roadways and much-needed snow piled up in the mountains on Thursday as the first of back-to-back atmospheric rivers pummeled California. The storm focused its energy on the southern and eastern parts of the state after initially hitting the San Francisco Bay Area on
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who’ve been attacking Palestinians in the occupied territory. That’s according to four people familiar with the matter. A senior administration official says the White House
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Jurors in Michigan have seen portions of a journal written by a teen before he shot up his school in 2021. Ethan Crumbley blamed his parents for not getting him mental health care, and he predicted he would spend his life in prison. The boy’s mother,
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired a ballistic missile at a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Red Sea. The attack happened Thursday west of Hodeida, a port city in Yemen long held by the rebels. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a British military group overseeing Mideast waterways,
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak, Michael Williams, Nikki Carvajal and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden issued an executive order targeting violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank whom he has said have undermined stability in the area, a US official and source familiar with the matter told CNN. The new directive,
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending her trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service, was taken into custody on Oct. 18
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are holding steadier Thursday following their worst tumble in months. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in midday trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 51 points, or 0.1%, as of 11:30 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% higher.
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Kansas youth baseball league will be able to replace a statue of Jackie Robinson that was stolen and destroyed last week after a flood of private donations – and a commitment by Major League Baseball. Pieces of the statue were found burned in a public trash container on
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A task force convened by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine after a deadly school bus crash is recommending enhanced training for drivers and installing a host of new safety features. The group recommended leaving the issue of school bus seat belts to individual districts. DeWine’s
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok may look (or sound) a little different when you scroll through the app going forward. Earlier this week, Universal Music Group — which represents big-name artists like Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and Drake — said that it would no longer allow its music on
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s two major farmers unions announced Thursday their decision to suspend protests and lift road blockades across the country, in a dramatic development shortly after the French prime minister unveiled a new set of measures they see as “tangible progress.” Farmers have been protesting for days across
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