By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The difference in the attitude of the teams was quite clear Thursday night. Los Angeles didn’t look like it was all that interested in fighting for coach Brandon Staley. On Friday, the Chargers fired him after one of the worst losses in franchise history. Las
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return 16 pieces of ancient artwork to Cambodia and Thailand that federal prosecutors say were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia. The Manhattan museum
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that a law making it a felony to impersonate an elections official is vague enough that voting rights advocates can pursue a legal challenge. The court’s ruling Friday revived a lawsuit that a lower court had dismissed. Four groups
Continue ReadingNEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A loose bull in New Jersey’s largest city found its way onto train tracks, snarling rail traffic for a while Thursday before it was captured, authorities said. The ruddy brown bull with long, dark-tipped horns stood on the tracks at Newark Penn Station, prompting a police response and holding up train
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE Associated Press CENTREVILLE, Md. (AP) — The family of a woman who disappeared in 1969 after going Christmas shopping at a suburban Baltimore mall is receiving a spark of hope this week when FBI investigators exhumed Joyce Malecki’s body as they continue working to identify her killer. The case has been a
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — If $700 million wasn’t enough, Shohei Ohtani’s record-setting contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers could also include a bonus: skipping most of California’s famously high income taxes. Not even the mighty Dodgers have the power to exempt Ohtani from paying his taxes. But they and the
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — If $700 million wasn’t enough, Shohei Ohtani’s record-setting contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers could also include a bonus: skipping most of California’s famously high income taxes. Not even the mighty Dodgers have the power to exempt Ohtani from paying his taxes. But they and the
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — The vehicle’s headlights silhouetted the exhausted teenager walking alone in the rain in deepest rural France, with a skateboard tucked under his arm. “I said to myself, ‘That’s strange. It’s 3 am in the morning, it’s raining, he’s all by himself on
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Being suspended for the first 25 games of the NBA season was tough on two-time All-Star Ja Morant, who said Friday he had “some horrible days” as he worked to focus on himself away from basketball. The Memphis Grizzlies point guard wouldn’t say he
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry’s phone was hacked by journalists and private investigators working for the Daily Mirror who invaded his privacy by snooping on him unlawfully, a judge ruled Friday, delivering an historic victory for the estranged royal who broke from family tradition to take on the British press.
Continue ReadingBy Jay Croft and Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — Sheriff’s officials in Maine “reasonably” responded to concerns about Lewiston mass shooter Robert Card’s mental health in the months before he killed 18 people at a bowling alley and restaurant, but improvements to the department’s strategy are recommended, a third-party review has found. “After an objective analysis,
Continue ReadingBy KARIN LAUB, NAJIB JOBAIN and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military on Friday mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages during its ground operation in the Gaza Strip, military officials said. The army’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said Israeli troops found the hostages and erroneously identified them as
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, Carroll Alvarado and Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — New Hampshire’s attorney general has filed a civil rights lawsuit against 20 members of a neo-Nazi group for violating anti-discrimination laws during a protest outside a drag story hour in June. Attorney General John M. Formella filed the lawsuit against members of the group
Continue ReadingDORAL, Fla. (AP) — It looks like Donald Trump’s golf courses won’t be left off the LIV schedule next year. Trump took to the Truth Social site to announce Trump National Doral has signed a deal to host a LIV Golf event in April. LIV didn’t immediately confirm the deal. Trump courses have hosted LIV
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press Melania Trump has welcomed new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives. It was a rare public appearance for the former first lady, who has largely stayed out of the spotlight as her husband, former President Donald Trump, runs for a second term. Melania Trump was born
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed an executive order that defunds diversity, equity and inclusion offices and programs in state agencies, including public colleges. The executive order, signed Wednesday, prohibits state funding and state “property or resources” from being used for such efforts. Oklahoma now joins several other Republican-led states
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut appeals court has upheld $75,000 in fines against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for missing a deposition in the lawsuit filed by Sandy Hook families. The lawsuit led to a $1.4 billion judgment last year against Jones for repeatedly calling the 2012 Newtown school shooting
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to China says the relationship between the two countries will be defined by strategic competition in the coming decades but most involve engagement when interests align. Nicholas Burns says the U.S. must engage with China on issues such as climate change, narcotics, public health
Continue ReadingEAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University trustees have approved settlements with the families of three students slain in a mass shooting earlier this year on the school’s campus. Trustees voted unanimously Friday to approve separate claims with the families of Brian Fraser, Arielle Anderson and Alexandria Verner. The school did not release the
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States experienced a dramatic 12% increase in homelessness to its highest reported level as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans, federal officials said Friday. About 653,000 people were homeless, the most since
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