What led to Danny Masterson’s rape retrial and what happens next
By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles jury has found “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson guilty of two counts of rape…
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Canada’s Trudeau hails VW plant as ‘generational’ investment
By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a massive Volkswagen electric battery…
Continue ReadingSilenced transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr: What to know
By MATTHEW BROWN, AMY BETH HANSON and SAM METZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The latest instance of one party deciding who can be heard…
Continue ReadingNew this week: David Bowie, ‘Fatal Attraction’ and Smokey
By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Smokey Robinson and The National, a live action take on the…
Continue ReadingNFL suspends 5 players for violating gambling policy
By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Three NFL players were suspended indefinitely Friday for betting on NFL games in the 2022 season, while two…
Continue ReadingCalifornia researchers attempt ocean climate solution
By JULIE WATSON Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Engineering faculty at the University of California Los Angeles say they have developed…
Continue ReadingMinister: Ukraine will beat Russia in war of technologies
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukrainian and Russian troops fight conventional battles on the front lines, Europe’s…
Continue ReadingFeds get first guilty plea in Michigan marijuana board probe
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Friday to bribing the head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board, the…
Continue ReadingPeru ex-leader Toledo surrenders to be extradited from US
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has surrendered to U.S. federal agents to be extradited to Peru. He…
Continue ReadingVermont governor signs bill raising marriage age to 18
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A new Vermont law that raises the eligibility age for marriage to 18 takes effect in July. Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed…
Continue ReadingJudy Blume, on top of the world (and her Key West bookstore)
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — At Books & Books, the nonprofit store Judy Blume and her husband have run for the…
Continue ReadingMan who drove into pedestrians in Berlin convicted of murder
BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a 30-year-old man who drove into groups of pedestrians in Berlin last year of one count of murder and 16…
Continue ReadingIt’s Met Gala time again — here’s what we know so far
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Last year, it took 275,000 bright pink roses to adorn the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the…
Continue ReadingEarly morning fire destroys wing of Idaho high school
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — An early morning fire destroyed part of a large high school in the southern Idaho city of Pocatello on Friday. No one was…
Continue ReadingVienna nudists oppose plans for cable car over their beach
BERLIN (AP) — Nudists in Austria are up in arms about plans for a cable car that would pass over a popular beach on the northern edge of Vienna…
Continue ReadingDrive-by shooting wounds 3, kills 12-year-old bystander
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Bullets sprayed out from a speeding car in Connecticut’s capital, killing an innocent…
Continue ReadingWhite House: No evacuation plans for all Americans in Sudan
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, MATTHEW LEE and TARA COPP Associated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — The Pentagon has deployed forces and is…
Continue ReadingCanadian professor convicted in 1980 Paris synagogue bombing
PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in…
Continue ReadingJudge scolds 1/6 lawyer, but won’t seek disciplinary action
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge reprimanded an attorney whose withdrawal from a Jan. 6 defendant’s…
Continue ReadingOn the brink: The scenario facing Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham
By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The champagne is on ice for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Soccer is the new love of the Hollywood celebrities…
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