By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A$AP Rocky appeared in a Los Angeles court Monday, where he could learn whether he will be ordered to trial on allegations that he fired a gun at a former friend and collaborator outside a Hollywood hotel. A Los Angeles judge is set to hear
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A second group of U.S. House lawmakers toured the building where Parkland high school students were massacred in 2018. Five Democrats and one Republican toured Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Monday, walking through the blood-stained and bullet-pocked building. The building will be torn down next
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Republican Party has urged New Mexico’s state Supreme Court to strike down a congressional map that divvied up a politically conservative oil-producing region and reshaped a swing district along the U.S. border with Mexico. The high court heard oral arguments without ruling Monday on
Continue ReadingBy DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The deaths of two people, heat-related illnesses and other misfortunes have left legions of Taylor Swift fans angry and disappointed in the three-day Rio de Janeiro leg of the pop superstar’s Eras Tour. Before the show Friday, fans lined up for hours outside the Nilton
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press ESTERO, Fla. (AP) — Dalton Banks had 15 points in Illinois State’s 61-52 victory over Long Beach State on Monday in an opening-round game of the Gulf Coast Showcase. Banks added five rebounds and six steals for the Redbirds (3-1). Johnny Kinziger was 3 of 7 shooting (2 for 5 from
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Nearly a month ago, the Israeli military unveiled a detailed 3D model of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital. It showed a series of underground installations that it said was part of an elaborate Hamas command and control center buried under the territory’s largest health-care center. Days after taking control
Continue ReadingBy COURTNEY BONNELL and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers The company that created ChatGPT was thrown into turmoil Monday after Microsoft hired its ousted CEO and many employees threatened to follow him in a conflict that centered in part on how to build artificial intelligence that’s smarter than humans. The developments followed a weekend of
Continue ReadingBy COURTNEY BONNELL and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers The company that created ChatGPT was thrown into turmoil Monday after Microsoft hired its ousted CEO and many employees threatened to follow him in a conflict that centered in part on how to build artificial intelligence that’s smarter than humans. The developments followed a weekend of
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rose again Monday to begin a holiday-shortened week and reached its best level in more than three months. The S&P 500 gained 33.36 points, or 0.7%, to 4,547.38, coming off its third straight winning week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 203.76, or
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The Palm Springs International Film Festival today announced that Da’Vine Joy Randolph will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award for her role in “The Holdovers.” The award will be presented Jan. 4, 2024, to Randolph at the Palm Springs Convention Center, 277 N. Avenida Caballeros, according to festival officials. “In The Holdovers, Da’Vine Joy Randolph brings
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces pressed their offensive against Hamas in northern Gaza on Monday, battling militants around a hospital where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks, and where despite the fighting health officials managed to evacuate
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government has issued a decree that will force private freight railway lines to give preference to passenger train service over their normal freight runs. The decree gives the two main private concessionary rail operators until Jan. 15 to present proposals for offering the service themselves. If they decline, the government
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found an explosion that killed one worker at a pharmaceutical chemical plant in Massachusetts could have been prevented. The May explosion at the Seqens plant in Newburyport, Massachusetts, killed 62-year-old Jack O’Keefe of Methuen. Video shows most of the
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, Hamdi Alkhshali and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, has become a flashpoint in Israel’s war against Hamas, which began when gunmen from the militant group crossed the border into Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people. Palestinians and humanitarian agencies say the current fighting in and around Al-Shifa
Continue ReadingBy Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The first presidential debate is set for mid-September 2024, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday, setting up the earliest ever start to the presidential debate schedule. The bipartisan commission, which has sponsored every general election presidential debate since its founding in 1987, will host three next year, with
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Linda Campbell decorated the Lions Club Christmas tree in her small hometown just as she would any other Thanksgiving week, but this was no ordinary Monday in late November. All around Plains, neighbors mourned the death of their matriarch, former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter, while
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three teenage girls have pleaded guilty in the dragging death of a woman whose arm was severed in a carjacking last year. New Orleans news outlets report that all were sentenced as adults to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted manslaughter in the death of 73-year-old Linda Frickey.
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, suggested that the economy appears to be on what he calls the “golden path,” another term for what economists often term a “soft landing,” in which the Fed would curb inflation without causing a deep recession.
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Grand Prix, which Max Verstappen won Saturday night, blew past BetMGM betting handles for previous Formula One races. Trading manager Seamus Magee said BetMGM took three times the number of bets than any other previous F1 race. Westgate Las Vegas and Red
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rising Monday to begin a holiday-shortened week, pushing to its best level in more than three months. The S&P 500 was 0.8% higher in late trading, coming off its third straight winning week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 242 points,
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