MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Several stores where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020 are suing the city for about $1.5 million. The lawsuit by Cup Foods and several other businesses accuses the city of not policing the area and blocking customers from the businesses. City officials have said they offered a range of
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader has presented a $34.8 billion spending plan for 2024 to federal lawmakers with a focus on stabilizing Africa’s largest but ailing economy and tackling a deadly security crisis. President Bola Tinubu projects the economy will grow by at least 3.76% next year. He lists
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — International mediators on Wednesday worked to extend the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel’s air and ground offensive. The cease-fire will otherwise
Continue ReadingWAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) — A judge has dismissed all charges against three western Pennsylvania emergency management supervisors accused of obstructing an investigation. The investigation was into an emergency dispatcher accused of failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding about a day later. The (Washington) Observer-Reporter
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was shut down. Paste Magazine, a digital pop culture publication, announced Wednesday that it was buying Jezebel.com from G/O Media, which closed Jezebel and laid off its staff earlier this
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, CNN Democrats in the Senate on Wednesday continue to debate whether more conditions need to be placed on aid sent to Israel, just one in a series of hurdles stalling a legislative package members in both chambers of Congress hope to send to aid Israel, Ukraine and the US southern border. Democratic
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Her frail husband a silent witness, Rosalynn Carter was celebrated by her family and closest friends Wednesday in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning that antisemitism in the United States has reached levels unseen in generations and called on his fellow Democrats to clearly condemn it. Schumer is the highest-ranked Jewish elected official in the U.S. His remarks during a nearly-45 minute speech on
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was shut down. Paste Magazine, a digital pop culture publication, announced Wednesday that it was buying Jezebel.com from G/O Media, which closed Jezebel and laid off its staff earlier this
Continue ReadingBy KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Top diplomats from more than 50 countries are arriving in North Macedonia while others are boycotting the expected presence of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have said they would not attend the Organization for Security and
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Alabama linebacker Dallas Turner and actress/producer Issa Rae are part of a diverse group of investors joining founding Uber engineer Ryan McKillen and professional sailor Mike Buckley in buying the United States SailGP Team in tech titan Larry Ellison’s global sailing league. Turner said he
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — International mediators on Wednesday worked to extend the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel’s air and ground offensive. The cease-fire will otherwise
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are considering holding a formal vote next month to authorize the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden as the party looks to legitimize a process that has yet to yield any direct evidence of wrongdoing by the president. The possible reversal from House Republicans comes amid
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says Hamas has begun releasing 12 hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip. The army said the first two hostages were transferred to Egypt late Wednesday. Ten others were expected to soon be freed. It was
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — An expensive private high school in Mexico has suspended and may expel a student who was caught on video beating a parking lot attendant at his housing complex. The high school student, whose name authorities have not yet confirmed, was seen on security camera footage rushing into the guard shack and
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China has presented the United Nations Security Council with a four-point plan for Middle East peace in a demonstration of its ambitions to be a global superpower. But the plan was somewhere short on details and the U.S. quickly reminded the council of its attempts to
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Sean Lewis returned to the head coaching ranks when he was hired by San Diego State on Wednesday to revitalize a program that dropped to the bottom of the Mountain West standings. Lewis had been offensive coordinator at Colorado, where first-year coach Deion Sanders took
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Manu Raju and Morgan Rimmer Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday expressed “real reservations” about expelling Rep. George Santos from the House since the New York Republican has yet to be convicted of a crime — even as GOP support grows to make him just the sixth member of the chamber ever to
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Black former delivery driver who says two white men shot into his work van and then pursued him in a chase in Mississippi has filed a new lawsuit against the men and his former employer, FedEx. This is the second suit on behalf of
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Colonial settlers of the Victorian era were often complicit in atrocities committed against native populations — and new research is unveiling just how those stories intertwine with the lineage of museum specimens still on display today. New details about the misdeeds of one prolific collector of human and animal
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