By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Workers and volunteers at the Pan American Games were still removing bricks, pieces of wood and construction machinery from outside competition venues on the fourth of the largest multi-sport event in the region. Construction material is scattered around many of the entrances to the National
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has visited troops deployed near the border with Israel and U.N. peacekeepers as Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops clash for a third week. Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s visit Tuesday to the tense southern province is the first since clashes erupted along the border
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed higher after Verizon and other big companies reported fatter profits for the summer than expected. The S&P 500 rose 0.7% Tuesday. The Dow added 204 points, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.9%. The pace is picking up for profit reports, and the
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new shot for infants against RSV is in short supply, and U.S. health officials are telling doctors they should prioritize giving the drug to babies at the highest risk of severe disease. The one-time shot is called Beyfortus. It was developed by AstraZeneca and
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union turned up the heat on General Motors as 5,000 workers walked off their jobs Tuesday at a highly profitable SUV factory in Arlington, Texas. The move comes just a day after the union went on strike at a Stellantis pickup truck
Continue ReadingCNN, WDSU By Mary Gilbert and Macie Goldfarb, CNN (CNN) — An eighth person has died after a slew of crashes Monday along Interstate 55 in Louisiana’s St. John the Baptist Parish that involved at least 168 vehicles, state police said. At least 63 people were injured in the crashes, the Louisiana State Police said
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police in South Africa say a group of gold miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground for the second day over a union dispute. The head of the mine says some 15 miners have been injured in scuffles. Details
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Otis strengthened early Tuesday as it approached Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and was forecast to become a hurricane before making landfall near the resort of Acapulco late Tuesday or early Wednesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said that Otis was about 155 miles (250 kilometers) south-southeast of Acapulco on
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen once proclaimed he’d “take a bullet” for Donald Trump. Now, after breaking with the former president amid his own legal troubles, the fixer-turned-foe is poised to testify against his old boss Tuesday as a key witness at the civil fraud trial
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — The parties forming Spain’s acting government say they will push for a 37½-hour workweek. The coalition partners struck the agreement on Tuesday as they try to remain in power following an inconclusive election in July. Spain has had a 40-hour workweek for the past two decades. The proposal is for Spain to
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — The United Auto Workers union took its most serious shot yet at General Motors in its five-week old strike as 5,000 members walked off the job at a plant in Texas. Arlington Assembly builds GM’s very profitable full-size SUVs, the Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, GMC Yukon
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Talks to secure the release of a large number of hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza are ongoing, two sources familiar with the matter and one western diplomat familiar with the discussions told CNN, but the negotiations are being complicated by
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Nigeria’s government is celebrating a “landmark victory” after a UK court ruled it was not liable for a multibillion-dollar payout earlier awarded to a private firm over a failed gas project. The West African nation was previously ordered by an arbitration tribunal in 2017 to pay $6.6 billion, plus
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The gas-rich nation of Qatar has become a key intermediary over the fate of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas militants after their unprecedented attack on Israel over two weeks ago. The negotiations have once again put the small Arabian Peninsula country in the spotlight. They
Continue ReadingCNN By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty Tuesday in the Georgia election subversion case and will cooperate with Fulton County prosecutors – the third guilty plea in the past week. At an unscheduled hearing in Atlanta, Ellis pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected a lower court ruling that the state’s restrictive abortion law was invalid, leaving limited access to abortions unchanged for now. The justices on Tuesday rejected a lower court ruling that the ban was invalid because it was enacted in 2019, when
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Formula One fanatics will get more behind-the-scenes access to the global motorsports series through a new CNBC documentary that explores the business aspects of the highest form of racing in the world. The documentary “Inside Track: The Business of Formula 1” will debut Nov. 16 on CNBC ahead
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rising Tuesday after Verizon, General Electric and other big companies reported fatter profits for the summer than expected. The S&P 500 was 0.5% higher in early trading and on track to break a five-day losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says the damage done to an undersea telecoms cable between Sweden and Estonia was “purposeful,” but has declined to give any details. A spokesman for the Swedish Navy said that divers saw “seabed tracks nearby, but we don’t know if it’s deliberate or an accident.” Swedish authorities
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia, tearfully telling the judge she looks back on that time with “deep remorse.” Ellis, the fourth defendant in
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