By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has found a way for her team to avoid early season upsets despite losing all five starters from last year’s Final Four squad. The Gamecocks remained the unanimous choice at No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll on Monday, receiving
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union officials worked into the late hours last week hammering out an agreement on world-leading rules meant to govern the use of artificial intelligence in the 27-nation bloc. The Artificial Intelligence Act is the latest set of regulations designed to govern technology in Europe destined
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday accusing a New Hampshire man of threatening to “blow” a presidential candidate’s “brains out” during a campaign stop in the state. Though the presidential candidate is not named in charging documents, a spokesperson for Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that his campaign was
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top Republican lawmaker says he is finished negotiating with the Universities of Wisconsin over a deal that would have given the university system’s employees a pay raise and paid for the construction of a new engineering building in exchange for reductions in staff positions focused
Continue ReadingLUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech senior running back Tahj Brooks revealed Monday that he plans to use his final season of eligibility and return to play again with the Red Raiders in 2024. Brooks, a first-team AP All-Big 12 pick, is fourth nationally and second in the Big 12 with 1,443 yards rushing (120.3
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say one of the five co-defendants on trial with rapper Young Thug has been stabbed at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, delaying the proceedings for at least a day. The county sheriff’s office said in a news release Monday that Shannon Stillwell had been stabbed multiple times Sunday evening during
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force inspector general says the massive classified documents leak by a service member this year was made worse by the intentional failure of multiple officials to take required action on his suspicious behavior. Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira is accused of leaking highly
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Reporter WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation edging closer to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, its policymakers are facing — and in some cases fueling — hopes that they will make a decisive shift in policy and cut interest rates next year, possibly as soon as spring. Such a move would
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A group of 18 California children – ranging in ages from 8 to 17 – has filed a new constitutional climate case in federal court against the US Environmental Protection Agency, alleging it has harmed children’s health and welfare over decades. The case, Genesis B. v. United States Environmental
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Early honors in Hollywood’s unfurling awards season have gone to films like Celine Song’s tender relationship drama “Past Lives,” Jonathan Glazer’s piercing Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest” and Martin Scorsese’s sprawling Osage murders epic “Killers of the Flower Moon.” But a showdown was always
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Early honors in Hollywood’s unfurling awards season have gone to films like Celine Song’s tender relationship drama “Past Lives,” Jonathan Glazer’s piercing Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest” and Martin Scorsese’s sprawling Osage murders epic “Killers of the Flower Moon.” But a showdown was always
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Poland’s populist Law and Justice Party has lost a confidence vote to end its authoritarian eight-year stint in power, paving the way for Donald Tusk to take charge of the country this week. The party, known by the acronym PiS, fell well short of a parliamentary majority in October’s general
Continue ReadingBy BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The United Nations has ended its 10-year peacekeeping mission in Mali following the government’s request that alleged the force was inadequate to respond to growing violent extremism in the West African nation. The U.N. effort in Mali has been the deadliest peacekeeping mission in the world,
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The leaders of Guyana and Venezuela have expressed their intentions to cooperate ahead of their meeting this week meant to address an escalating dispute over a region rich in oil and minerals. But their diametrically different positions over the role that the International Court of
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Police say two people have been killed and one was wounded when a gunman fired shots at two locations in a southern Swiss town. Authorities were alerted to a wounded person in a parking lot in Sion, the capital of Valais canton on Monday morning. They found a woman with a fatal
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday threw out several cases challenging the federal government’s now-defunct Covid-19 vaccine mandates for executive branch employees and military service members. The court’s action comes after the federal employee vaccine requirement was rescinded by President Joe Biden in May, and the Pentagon – as a
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A man who had spent two decades in prison for firing the shots in a plot by then-Carolina Panthers player Rae Carruth to kill Carruth’s pregnant girlfriend has died. North Carolina correction records show Van Brett Watkins died earlier this month at age 63. A state official says Watkins died at
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX has postponed the next launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket until at least Tuesday evening, delaying the latest mission of a mysterious space plane that remains one of the US military’s most fascinating projects as the country races to journey deeper into the cosmos. The secretive X-37B robotic spacecraft was
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is pursuing an impeachment strategy against President Joe Biden that he once said could cause “irreparable damage” to the country when Democrats sought to oust then-President Donald Trump, according to a CNN KFile review of his past public comments. Just four years
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Early honors in Hollywood’s unfurling awards season have gone to films like Celine Song’s tender relationship drama “Past Lives,” Jonathan Glazer’s piercing Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest” and Martin Scorsese’s sprawling Osage murders epic “Killers of the Flower Moon.” But a showdown was always
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