Month: May 2023

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday night that they are withdrawing a case against a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a man as he raped and attacked her. In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Eric Adams has hailed his city’s right to shelter as a hallmark of compassion for its most destitute. Now he must decide if he will extend that compassion by bestowing homeless people with the right to sleep outside. The

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The conservative party of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won a landslide election victory Sunday but without enough parliamentary seats to form a government outright. The prime minister has indicated he will seek a second election in a bid to consolidate his

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Assocaited Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s participation in the Group of Seven summit is making some atomic bomb survivors feel the visit is overshadowing their pursuit of nuclear abolishment. Zelenskyy needs to bolster international support to take back Russian-seized territory in the war that began last year, and

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured when stampeding soccer fans pushed through one of the access gates at a quarterfinal match in the Salvadoran league Saturday. The National Civil Police said in a preliminary report via Twitter that nine dead

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have prayed together at a memorial for Korean victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Hiroshima on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit. Yoon is in Hiroshima to join leaders from seven

DENVER (AP) — Officials in Colorado and Montana have issued air quality alerts due to smoke from dozens of wildfires in Canada that has drifted south into the United States. Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment put out an advisory for Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon for much of the eastern half of the

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer who quit Donald Trump’s legal team this past week attributed his decision Saturday to strategy disagreements with a close adviser to the former president. Timothy Parlatore, who had been a key lawyer for Trump in a Justice Department special counsel investigation into the potential mishandling

By MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sudan’s warring factions have agreed to a new short-term ceasefire, U.S. and Saudi mediators announced on Saturday, after several previous attempts to broker a truce that holds have failed. Meeting in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces signed off

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — A horse trained by Bob Baffert was euthanized on the track because of a leg injury during the undercard at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, several hours before another one of the Hall of Famer’s 3-year-old colts, National Treasure, won the Preakness Stakes. On the same

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Bob Baffert choked back tears and his voice cracked while he tried to juggle the conflicting feelings of seeing one of his horses win the Preakness Stakes hours after another was euthanized on the same track. “This business is twists and turns, ups and downs,” the

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Senators in Minnesota passed a bill Saturday that would allow recreational marijuana use by people over the age of 21 and make it the 23rd state to legalize the substance for adults. The measure has already been approved by the House and now goes to

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former Rep. Marion Berry, who was known for his blunt rhetoric and his advocacy work for farmers and older residents in eastern Arkansas, has died. He was 80. Berry’s son, Mitch, in a statement Saturday announced his father’s death. He said his father lived his

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Martin Scorsese unveiled “Killers of the Flower Moon” at Cannes on Saturday, debuting a sweeping American epic about greed and exploitation on the bloody plains of an Osage Nation reservation in 1920s Oklahoma. Scorsese’s latest — starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer GOIANIA, Brazil (AP) — Lifelong soccer fan and full-time police officer Hugo Jorge Bravo felt there was only one thing to do when he received information over what has since blown up into a major alleged match-fixing scandal in Brazil. He started his own investigation. But this case was