Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco is planning on passing new laws and strengthening penalties to combat art forgeries in order to protect a multimillion dollar art market that officials believe will continue to grow. The North African nation’s chief prosecutor on Monday kicked off a series of meetings with the country’s ministry of
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said league and independent inspectors have found the practice field set aside for the San Francisco 49ers is safe to use during Super Bowl week despite complaints from the team. The Niners had expressed concern to the league that the field on UNLV’s campus
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gap Inc. has tapped American fashion designer Zac Posen as the chain’s creative director. The hire announced on Monday is among the first big personnel moves under the San Francisco-based chain’s new CEO Richard Dickson, who took the helm in August and is aiming to
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gap Inc. has tapped American fashion designer Zac Posen as the chain’s creative director. The hire announced on Monday is among the first big personnel moves under the San Francisco-based chain’s new CEO Richard Dickson, who took the helm in August and is aiming to
Continue ReadingBy JAVIER ARCIGA AND ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Nearly every day since September, hundreds of migrants from China, Colombia and other countries have wiggled through openings in the border wall with Mexico and walked dirt trails to surrender to U.S. agents and seek asylum. Some days, more than 1,000
Continue ReadingBy JAVIER ARCIGA AND ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Nearly every day since September, hundreds of migrants from China, Colombia and other countries have wiggled through openings in the border wall with Mexico and walked dirt trails to surrender to U.S. agents and seek asylum. Some days, more than 1,000
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Authorities today identified a 19-year-old man who drowned in the lake outside SoFi Stadium during a sold-out dance music concert. The man was identified as Mirai Ashley Shepard, of Chula Vista, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner reported. Shepard was observed entering the lake at 9:27 p.m. Friday, while musician and
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago children’s hospital has been forced to take its networks offline after an unspecified cyberattack. Access to medical records and communication by phone or email has been limited since the middle of last week. Lurie Children’s Hospital initially described the issue Wednesday as a network outage.
Continue ReadingBy MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press A franchisee of fast food giant McDonald’s has agreed to pay a teenage girl $4.4 million to settle her lawsuit over having been sexually assaulted by a Pittsburgh-area restaurant manager who was a registered sex offender. The victim’s lawyers announced on Monday the deal between the girl, who was 14
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s one of the most hard-fought provisions in the bipartisan border security package, and one that Democrats had to be persuaded to include: a new authority for the U.S. government to block migrants from entering the country. Now it’s the central line of attack from many
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s one of the most hard-fought provisions in the bipartisan border security package, and one that Democrats had to be persuaded to include: a new authority for the U.S. government to block migrants from entering the country. Now it’s the central line of attack from many
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press The U.S. Biathlon board of directors will hire an auditor to review “athlete wellness practices and team culture” after the Associated Press reported that a female team member had been sexually harassed and abused while racing on the elite World Cup circuit. A U.S. Center for SafeSport investigation found that
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Four bus and taxi drivers are dead following apparently coordinated attacks by gunmen in the city of Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern Pacific coast state of Guerrero. Drug gangs battling for control of the city have long been known to kill people for not paying “protection” fees. The problem is
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A day after Taylor Swift made music history at the Grammy Awards, a band formed long before she was born made their own history: The Grateful Dead have broken the record for the most Top 40 albums to chart on the Billboard 200. The Grateful
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan jury went home Monday after a full day of deliberations in a novel trial against a school shooter’s mother who could go to prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the deaths of four students in 2021. The jury will return Tuesday for a
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Eleven people and multiple canines who became stranded today on strips of land surrounded by fast-moving water in the Santa Ana River bottom were rescued by fire crews. The water emergency was reported shortly before 10 a.m. near the Van Buren Boulevard bridge, according to the Riverside Fire Department. Witnesses spotted people standing on
Continue ReadingWCBS By Holly Yan and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Bob Beckwith, the former New York City firefighter who famously stood alongside President George W. Bush atop a charred fire truck in the rubble of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has died, according to the union representing New York firefighters and former US Rep. Peter King. He was 91.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Camila Lange, who is 7-months-pregnant, on Monday sat with her husband and dog in what used to be their home in Vina del Mar, Chile. Hundreds of homes in the central coastal area of the South American nation have been destroyed in fires that have killed at least 112 people. Weather and climate
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Camila Lange, who is 7-months-pregnant, on Monday sat with her husband and dog in what used to be their home in Vina del Mar, Chile. Hundreds of homes in the central coastal area of the South American nation have been destroyed in fires that have killed at least 112 people. Weather and climate
Continue ReadingBy Paula Newton, Lindsay Isaac and Jason Hanna, CNN (CNN) — New information uncovered during a reopened investigation led to sexual assault charges being brought last week against five professional hockey players, four of whom are playing in the NHL, Canadian police said Monday, six years after the offense was allegedly committed. The case against
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