By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby apologized Friday for hopping on a private plane to get out of the New York area earlier this week while thousands of United passengers were stranded because the airline canceled so many flights. “Taking a private jet was the wrong decision because it was
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge has awarded more than $1 million to a Black church in Washington, D.C. that sued the far-right Proud Boys for stealing and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest. Friday’s ruling also bars the group and its leaders from coming near the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
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By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cam Johnson is staying with the Brooklyn Nets on a four-year deal worth about $108 million after quickly becoming one of their top players following his arrival in the trade for Kevin Durant. Johnson averaged 16.6 points in 25 starts after coming from Phoenix in
Continue Reading By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday says the Biden administration’s racial equity work is not just the morally right thing to do but also is in the country’s best economic interests. Her comments made her the first treasury secretary to speak at the Essence
Continue Reading By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Friday that nearly all of North Carolina’s revised 12-week abortion law scheduled to begin this weekend can take effect, while temporarily blocking one rule that doctors feared could expose them to criminal penalties. The decision by U.S. District Judge Catherine
Continue Reading By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has blocked a package of anti-LGBTQ+ bills from becoming law. He vetoed the three bills Friday. They are: a ban on gender-affirming medical care for young transgender people that includes puberty-blockers, hormone treatment and surgery; a “Don’t Say Gay”
Continue Reading By LUJAIN JO Associated Press MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims have walked in the footsteps of the prophets beneath a sweltering sun as contracted cleaners in lime-green jumpsuits held out matching plastic bags to collect their empty water bottles. It takes tens of thousands of cleaners, security personnel, medics
Continue Reading By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials on Friday said they will make it easier for scientists to relocate plants and animals outside their historical ranges as a last resort to save species threatened with extinction by climate change. Relocations of species struggling because of climate change have been carried out
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Jeff Van Gundy, Suzy Kolber, Jalen Rose and Steve Young are among roughly 20 ESPN commentators and reporters who were laid off on Friday as part of job cuts by the network. ESPN had planned this additional round involving on-air talent to prevent further reductions to off-air staff after
Continue Reading YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake has shaken parts of Indonesia’s main island of Java, causing panic as it killed at least one person, injured two others and damaged dozens of houses and prompting panic. The U.S. Geological Survey said Friday’s magnitude 5.8 quake was centered 84 kilometers southwest of Bambanglipuro, a village in
Continue Reading By COLLEEN SLEVIN, JESSE BEDAYN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday could refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her. The request in dispute, from a person
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Air Force chef and a Marine Corps chef, both crowned “Chopped” champions during Jill Biden ‘s appearance on a military-themed episode of the Food Network show, spent Friday whipping up lemon-herb scallops and osso buco in the White House Navy Mess. Air Force
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican infighting has erupted in Kentucky over gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron’s plans to attend a rally sponsored by an ex-rival now looking to challenge a GOP congressman next year. That congressman, Thomas Massie, said Friday it would be a mistake for Cameron to attend the September
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Continue Reading ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota recorded a 20% jump in abortions in 2022. That’s partly because more patients are traveling from states that have banned or limited abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The Minnesota Department of Health says in an annual report that over 16% of the more than
Continue Reading By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A Texas grand jury has handed up a capital murder charge against a man accused of fatally shooting five neighbors in April outside Houston. Prosecutors said Wednesday they do not know whether they will seek the death penalty against 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza. Police say Oropeza stormed
Continue Reading By CORA LEWIS, ADRIANA MORGA and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 43 million borrowers who could have seen their student loan balances decreased or erased will now resume their original payments in the fall, following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Biden administration’s debt forgiveness plan. Student loan
Continue Reading SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Special prosecutors in the shooting death of a cinematographer on the set of the Alec Baldwin film “Rust” are asking to shield the name of a witness from public disclosure as they pursue charges against a movie weapons specialist. In court filings Friday, prosecutors say the witness is prepared to
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing a Colorado Christian graphic artist to refuse to work with same-sex couples has LGBTQIA+ people across the country worried about just how far the consequences will reach. The high court’s conservative majority sided with Lorie Smith, a designer of wedding websites for heterosexual
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — The city of Phoenix will step away from contributing funding and other resources to the operation of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Officials have issued notice to the CEO and board of the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority, which owns and operates the airport, that Phoenix will cease its membership on June 30, 2024. Phoenix
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