AP Business Writer Shares of Nvidia fell Monday after China said it is investigating the high-flying U.S. microchip company over suspected violations of Chinese anti-monopoly laws. In a brief news release with few details, Chinese regulators appear to be focusing on Nvidia’s $6.9 billion acquisition of network and data transmission company Mellanox in 2019. Nvidia
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says the U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator is in Beirut in hopes of collecting information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice, an American journalist missing in Syria for 12 years. Spokesman Matt Miller told reporters Monday that the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs is talking to officials in
Continue Reading Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — For the first time in 50 years, the question of how Syria will be governed is wide open. The end of the Assad family’s rule is for many Syrians a moment of mixed joy and fear, of the total unknown. The insurgency that swept President Bashar Assad out of power
Continue Reading AP Entertainment Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globes will return in January with major star appeal thanks to a slew of big name nominees, including Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Denzel Washington, Ariana Grande and more. Nominations for the 82nd awards ceremony were announced Monday. The show will be televised
Continue Reading Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden designated a national monument at a former Native American boarding school site in Pennsylvania to commemorate the resilience of tribes whose children were forced to attend the school and similar abusive institutions. The White House announced the creation of the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Detroit’s 34-31 comeback victory over Green Bay last Thursday night averaged 17.29 million viewers, making it the most-streamed NFL regular-season game in history and Amazon Prime Video’s most-watched game since exclusively taking over the prime-time package in 2022. According to Nielsen, the audience peaked at 18.87 million viewers during the first
Continue Reading Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — As Donald Trump’s Cabinet begins to take shape, the nominees offer a preview of how his administration might handle abortion after he repeatedly flip-flopped on the issue on the campaign trail. Trump attempted to distance himself from anti-abortion allies by deferring to the states on abortion policy, even while he
Continue Reading PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Dozens of drone sightings across New Jersey in recent weeks don’t appear to pose a public safety concern. That’s what Gov. Phil Murphy stressed Monday. The FBI has been investigating reports about mysterious nighttime drone flights that started last month across central Jersey and has asked the public for help. Since
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says much of the money gained by eliminating independent oversight and regulatory agencies will go to the army to fund a rise in soldiers’ pay. The announcement by President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday is the latest in a a series of strange funding sources to pay for the country’s
Continue Reading AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The bestselling author team of Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray has a new novel in the works, while celebrating a milestone for its best known publication, “The Personal Librarian.” Benedict and Murray are writing a historical thriller set in 1930s New York, featuring such real-life characters as
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer If Juan Soto replicates his 2024 performance throughout his $765 million, 15-year deal with the Mets, he’ll make roughly $1.2 million for every home run he hits. He’s hardly the only superstar athlete earning outrageous sums for each of his accomplishments. Some NFL quarterbacks make more than $3 million per game. Stephen
Continue Reading Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana’s former leader John Dramani Mahama has been declared the winner of the presidential election. His victory speech on Monday pledged a “a life of limitless opportunity” for citizens after voters vented their anger over the West African nation’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. His win is seen
Continue Reading Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is taking on a lead role for Democratic efforts to win governorships in the 2026 midterm elections. A majority of states will be electing governors in 2026, including in presidential swing states. Democratic governors on Saturday picked Beshear as chair-elect of the Democratic Governors Association
Continue Reading Associated Press It could be argued that 2024 wasn’t the best year for TV. Highly-anticipated shows like the final season of “Stranger Things,” “The Last of Us,” and “The White Lotus” didn’t even make it on the calendar and will instead return in 2025. Also, streamers and broadcast networks tightened their budgets by saying yes
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Work to lay natural gas pipelines near the foot of the Acropolis has uncovered an ancient marble statue of a young man buried almost upright in a brick-lined pit. Greece’s Culture Ministry says in a statement that the nude statue resembles ancient representations of messenger of the Greek gods Hermes and
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar’s army claims it has captured the last military outpost in a strategic western town, gaining full control of the border with Bangladesh. The capture of Maungdaw by the Arakan Army makes the group’s control of the northern part of Rakhine state
Continue Reading OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has delayed a hearing in which an Oklahoma death row inmate is expected to make a final plea for mercy before his scheduled execution. The three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit delayed Monday’s scheduled hearing of the Pardon and Parole Board.
Continue Reading Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti’s capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in his community to avenge his son’s death, according to the government and human rights organizations that estimate more than 100 were killed. Reports on the number of
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man has been released from prison after 41 years in the latest review of convictions allegedly tainted by detectives in the 1980s in a “sex-for-lies” scheme. Russell Williams is the fourth person to have his conviction overturned in the investigation of whether police offered informants favors in exchange for false
Continue Reading Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The dramatic downfall of Syrian President Bashar Assad presents possible danger, and an opening, for neighboring Israel. After fighting wars on multiple fronts for months, Israel is now concerned that unrest in Syria could spill over into its territory. Israel also views the end of the Assad regime
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