By JOHN RABY and AARON BEARD AP Sports Writers CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed by a group of states alleges the NCAA’s transfer rule for college athletes violates antitrust law. The lawsuit filed in West Virginia challenges the NCAA’s authority to impose a one-year delay in the eligibility of certain athletes who
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rising Thursday following its first three-day losing streak since Halloween. The S&P 500 was 0.7% higher in late trading and continuing to hang near its highest level since March 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 62 points, or 0.2%, as
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation’s new training center will be built in Fayetteville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta about a 30-mile drive from downtown Atlanta. The USSF announced the specific site adjacent to Trilith Studios on Thursday after saying on Sept. 15 it intended to construct a complex in the Atlanta area. Atlanta
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is encouraging Mideast allies to join the Combined Maritime Forces, a partnership that exists to counter malign action by non-state actors in international waters. The push is in light of increasing attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels against ships in the southern Red Sea. The
Continue ReadingBy John Miller, Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — A deputy US marshal was arrested in the United Kingdom, accused of drunkenness onboard a flight from the United States to the UK, according to the US Marshal Service and London’s Metropolitan Police. The Metropolitan Police said the deputy marshal was also accused of
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A gunman who killed three people, including at least two business school professors, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before dying in a shootout with police, did not appear to be targeting students, according to two law enforcement officials with direct knowledge
Continue ReadingBy EMILIE CHETTY Associated Press VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) — The president of Seychelles has declared a state of emergency after a huge blast at an explosives depot that followed deadly flooding in other parts of the country’s main island. President Wavel Ramkalawan says three people have died in the flooding. The health ministry says 178
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying that incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change. Federal
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying that incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change. Federal
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden is sending a clear message to Democratic negotiators on Capitol Hill that he is open to striking a compromise with Republicans on border security in order to get talks on funding for Ukraine back on track. During his impassioned speech in the
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová and David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli prime minister said Wednesday that Israeli forces had surrounded the house of Yahya Sinwar, potentially closing in on the top Hamas official in Gaza – and the man most wanted by Israeli authorities. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sinwar was not in the house and was believed to be hiding underground in Gaza, but a
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — To date, tens of millions of animal mummies have been unearthed in Egypt. But while there are millions of mummified cats, dogs, ibises and birds of prey, primate mummies are rare — and little understood. Now, new analysis of mummified baboons is shedding light on the animals’ place in
Continue ReadingBy Avery Lotz, CNN (CNN) — A New York man who filed to run for ousted Rep. George Santos’ seat in the House of Representatives was found guilty of several charges stemming from the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. A federal grand jury found Philip Sean Grillo guilty earlier this week of
Continue ReadingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Kodak Black has been arrested again in South Florida, this time on charges of possessing cocaine, jail records show. The Broward County jail listed Bill Kapri, Kodak Black’s legal name, as being in custody Thursday. The jail records say Plantation police charged him with improperly stopping or parking his
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian melodrama’s official recognition as a global cultural treasure is getting trumpeted with La Scala’s season premiere of Verdi’s “Don Carlo.” The start of the Milan opera house’s 2023-24 season Thursday will serve as an unofficial national celebration of the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO including Italian lyric
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two former students are suing Sarah Lawrence College. They argue that the New York school failed to protect them from Lawrence “Larry” Ray as the ex-convict moved into his daughter’s housing on campus and began grooming her friends for abuse. The plaintiffs allege in their lawsuit
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United Nations says at least three of every four Africans can’t afford a healthy diet because of an “unprecedented food crisis.” A U.N. report released Thursday with the African Union Commission says rising hunger and malnutrition in the continent of 1.4 billion people is caused
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is gaining ground Thursday following its first three-day losing streak since Halloween. The S&P 500 was 0.8% higher in afternoon trading and continuing to hang near its highest level since March 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 90 points, or 0.3%,
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Qiblawi, Mia Alberti and Allegra Goodwin, CNN (CNN) — Israeli tank fire killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah and injured six other international journalists in a double strike in southern Lebanon on October 13, forensic analysis by CNN suggests, confirming reports by two news organizations and two human rights groups. On Thursday, Reuters, AFP, Amnesty International
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — The dangerous bacteria that sparked powdered formula recalls and shortages last year has infected two babies this year, killing a Kentucky child and causing brain damage in a Missouri infant. Federal health officials confirmed Thursday that two cases of invasive infections caused by cronobacter sakazakii
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