By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin and Assembly Republican Speaker Robin Vos have reached a sweeping deal that would freeze hiring for diversity positions across the system in exchange for lawmakers approving employee pay raises and funding for a new engineering building at the flagship campus. Vos blocked
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The second of two former Black Panthers who always maintained their innocence in the 1970 bombing death of a white Omaha police officer has died in prison. A spokesman for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said Friday that Ed Poindexter had died a day earlier
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A bouquet of bright yellow sunflowers recently arrived at Savannah Rennie’s office from a friend at USC who supported her through a life transition last year. “Just because,” the assistant volleyball coach at the University of California explained with a smile. Just as Lauren Crawford,
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN (CNN) — The commander of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia is vowing more attacks on US interests in Iraq after the US Embassy in Baghdad came under mortar fire. On Friday morning local time, a multi-mortar attack was launched against the US Embassy compound in Iraq, a US official
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have found a tyrannosaur’s last meal perfectly preserved inside its stomach cavity. What was on the menu 75 million years ago? The hind legs of two baby dinosaurs, according to new research on the fossil published Friday in the journal Science Advances. Dinosaur guts and hard evidence of
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s state media say top leaders held an annual planning meeting where they agreed to step up spending to help rev up the economy. The official Xinhua News Agency said leader Xi Jinping chaired the meeting that was aimed at boosting growth, defusing risks and ensuring stability. The report gave few details
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JULIA FRANKEL and LEE KEATH Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said Friday that the military was rounding up Palestinian men in northern Gaza for interrogation, searching for Hamas militants, while desperate Palestinians in the south crowded into an ever-shrinking area, and the U.N. warned that its aid operation
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday the newest member of the faith’s top governing body to fill a vacancy when a member died last month will be a man raised in England who had been previously serving on a middle tier
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday the newest member of the faith’s top governing body to fill a vacancy when a member died last month will be a man raised in England who had been previously serving on a middle tier
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A leaked internal memo from Amazon posted online this week outlines the company’s strategy for growth in Southern California in 2024. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Amazon planned to grow its influence in Southern California through a plethora of efforts that include burnishing its reputation through charity work and pushing back against “labor agitation”
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nicki Minaj’s highly anticipated fifth studio album, “Pink Friday 2,” is here. Out Friday, on her 41st birthday, the 22-track “Pink Friday 2” is Minaj’s first full-length release in five years. The road to “Pink Friday 2” has been long, with the album initially teased
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge in suburban Detroit is hearing hours of anguish from families and surviving victims of the Oxford school shooting. Ethan Crumbley could be sentenced to life in prison Friday. He also could receive a shorter term with an opportunity for parole. The
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York can continue to enforce laws banning firearms in sensitive locations, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in its first broad review of a host of new gun rules passed in the state after a landmark Supreme Court ruling last year. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of appeals also said
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’ attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights violations, saying it repeatedly subjected LGBTQ+ events and facilities sheltering migrant families to intimidation and harassment. The complaint filed Thursday against NSC-131 and two of its leaders accuses the group of engaging
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY and MARC LEVY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University’s president apologized as pressure mounted for the University of Pennsylvania’s president to resign over their testimony at a congressional hearing on antisemitism that critics from the White House on down say failed to demonstrate they would stand up to antisemitism on campus.
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — University of Nebraska officials have unveiled a plan for a $450 million renovation of its football stadium in Lincoln. That comes as the four-campus NU system faces a $58 million budget shortfall that threatens to cut academic programs. Critics say that sends the message that
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some Republican Missouri lawmakers are renewing their call to allow homicide charges against women who have abortions. Measures that would do so have been introduced in both chambers of the state’s legislature for consideration in the session that begins in January.
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin on Friday to say goodbye to The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan as his coffin wound through the Irish capital before a small-town funeral attended by family, neighbors and friends including Johnny Depp and Nick Cave. MacGowan died Nov. 30
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Pennsylvania man described by authorities as the lead defendant in a drug distribution and human smuggling case has pleaded guilty to federal crimes in Louisiana. Court records show that 47-year-old Carl Allison of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty Thursday in New Orleans. Sentencing was scheduled for March 28. The U.S. Justice Department
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge has found the New Hampshire publisher of a weekly community newspaper guilty of five misdemeanor charges that she ran advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising. The judge acquitted Debra Paul, publisher of the Londonderry Times, of a sixth misdemeanor
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