By MARK ANDERSON and ROB MAADDI AP Sports Writers HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Former Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury isn’t going to Las Vegas to become the Raiders offensive coordinator after all, a person informed of the decision told The Associated Press on Saturday. Kingsbury, who spent this past season at USC as an offensive
Continue ReadingBy John Miller, CNN (CNN) — New York City police no longer believe that four of the suspects arrested and subsequently released following an assault on NYPD officers in Times Square fled the city on a bus to California, a senior law enforcement official told CNN on Wednesday. The same senior law enforcement official told
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — The House will vote next week on a standalone bill providing aid for Israel, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced in a letter Saturday, representing an about-face for the speaker as the Senate prepares to unveil its own long-awaited border deal and foreign aid package. Johnson put a $14.3 billion
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors are appealing the dismissal of a manslaughter charge against a former Detroit police officer accused of causing the death of a 71-year-old man by punching him in the face and causing him to fall to the ground. The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office filed a claim of appeal Friday in the case
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s role as Europe’s perennial spoiler has frequently brought the European Union to a breaking point as he has blocked crucial decisions to leverage concessions and forced EU leaders to find workarounds. Now, frustrated officials are trying to determine what Orbán seeks
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military has launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed fighters in western Iraq and eastern Syria in retaliation for a drone strike in Jordan in late January that killed three U.S. service members and wounded dozens. Tensions had been rising since the Israel-Hamas
Continue ReadingFederal investigators say a dead goose was found within a medical helicopter that crashed in western Oklahoma, killing three people on board. The preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board does not cite a suspected cause of the crash. But it noted that one goose was found in the flight control system and others
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Tourists have barely started trickling back into the Mexican resort of Acapulco, but the gangland killings on the beaches have already returned. At least three people were shot to death on the beach in Acapulco last weekend. One of them was killed by gunmen who arrived — and escaped — aboard
Continue ReadingBy ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD and ALI JABAR Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi militia official on Saturday hinted at a desire to deescalate tensions in the Middle East following retaliatory strikes launched by the United States against dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Hussein al-Mosawi,
Continue ReadingOver two dozen people have been detained at a protest in central Moscow, as relatives of Russian servicemen mobilized to fight in Ukraine called for their return. The relatives gathered Saturday to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, just outside the Kremlin walls. They marked 500 days since the Kremlin ordered a
Continue ReadingBy ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD and ALI JABAR Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi militia official on Saturday hinted at a desire to deescalate tensions in the Middle East following retaliatory strikes launched by the United States against dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Hussein al-Mosawi,
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A union representing hospitality workers has reached a tentative agreement with four hotel-casinos in downtown Las Vegas as employees at three other properties remained poised to strike Monday when the city kicks off Super Bowl week. By Saturday morning, the Culinary Workers Union had announced it had reached a tentative five-year
Continue ReadingBy Darya Tarasova and Amy Cassidy, CNN (CNN) — A number of people, including journalists from foreign press organizations, have been detained in Moscow after authorities cracked down on protesters at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s election headquarters, independent outlets reported Saturday. The protest was organized by the wives of mobilized men amid a growing movement of women who are demanding that their husbands
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRE PLAZA and PATRICIA LUNA Associated Press VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have left at least 19 people dead and destroyed about 1,100 homes, officials said Saturday. Chile’s Interior Minister Carolina Tohá said there were currently 92 forest fires burning in
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — The remains of a hiker who went missing in a Southern California park last year have been found nearly nine months after the man’s disappearance, according to the National Park Service. Staff members with the Joshua Tree National Park discovered the skeletal remains of Trammell Evans, 25, on
Continue ReadingCLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities have released the names of three people who were killed when a small airplane crashed into a mobile home park. The city of Clearwater said Saturday that those killed in Thursday’s crash included 86-year-old Martha Parry, who lived in a double-wide mobile home that was destroyed. A visitor to
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Strauss, CNN Las Vegas (CNN) — The consensus at the 2024 Republican National Committee winter meeting in Las Vegas this week was clear among the pro-Trump and anti-Trump factions alike: Donald Trump will be the party’s presidential nominee this year. “Let’s be honest about it. Trump is going to be the nominee of the
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Marilyn Manson, who was sentenced to community service for blowing his nose on a videographer at a 2019 concert in New Hampshire, recently completed his time at an organization that provides meeting space for Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon, according to court paperwork. The shock rocker, 55,
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Marilyn Manson, who was sentenced to community service for blowing his nose on a videographer at a 2019 concert in New Hampshire, recently completed his time at an organization that provides meeting space for Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon, according to court paperwork. The shock rocker, 55,
Continue ReadingBELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — Police say an inert Cold War-era rocket of the type used to carry a nuclear warhead has been found in the garage of a home of a deceased resident in Washington state. Bellevue police said an Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday evening reported an offer to donate the
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