Afrofuturist opera `Lalovavi’ to premiere in Cincinnati on Juneteenth 2025
By RONALD BLUM Associated Press The Cincinnati Opera will present an Afrofuturist-themed production next year that commemorates the Juneteenth…
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Data from phone, Apple Watch help lead police to suspect in Iowa woman’s death
MARENGO, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say that data from an iPhone and Apple Watch helped lead police to a suspect after a woman’s body was found in…
Continue ReadingMexico president denies report of allegations that close associates took drug money during campaign
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is denying allegations contained in a U.S. media report about a U.S. inquiry into…
Continue ReadingEPA approves year-round sales of higher ethanol blend in 8 Midwest states
By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drivers in eight Midwestern states will be able to fuel up with a higher blend of…
Continue ReadingFire engulfs 2 buildings in Spanish city of Valencia, killing at least 4 people. Nearly 20 missing
By ALBERTO SAIZ Associated Press VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — A fire has engulfed two residential buildings in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia,…
Continue ReadingHydeia Broadbent, AIDS activist, dies at age 39
By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Hydeia Broadbent, known for raising awareness for HIV/AIDS since she was a young child, has died, her father said…
Continue ReadingInvestigators: Man who killed 3 Minnesota responders opened fire without warning, inside his house
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Investigators have revealed that the man who killed two Minnesota police officers and a…
Continue ReadingAnti-doping law nets first prison sentence for therapist who helped sprinters get drugs
NEW YORK (AP) — The first person charged for violating a 2020 law that forbids conspiracies to taint international sports events through…
Continue ReadingDeSantis calls takeover of Disney government a ‘success’ despite worker exodus, litigation
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Almost a year after Florida lawmakers passed a law giving Florida’s governor control over…
Continue ReadingEA Sports College Football 25 to block gamers from manually adding players who reject NIL opt-in
By RYAN KRYSKA AP Sports Writer Gamers will be blocked from manually adding players to EA Sports’ new college football game who decide not to…
Continue ReadingTwo men charged in Vermont murder-for-hire case to go on trial in September
The Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Two men facing federal charges connected to a murder-for-hire plot that led to the 2018 abduction and…
Continue ReadingBrazil’s Bolsonaro chooses to remain silent in meeting with police as part of coup allegation
By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his former top aides have met with…
Continue ReadingOhio mom who left toddler alone when she went on vacation pleads guilty to aggravated murder
An Ohio mother who left her 16-month-old daughter home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation pleaded guilty on…
Continue ReadingWhy it’s so difficult to land on the moon, even five decades after Apollo
CNN By Kristin Fisher and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of miles beyond Earth, a phone booth-size spacecraft is en route to…
Continue ReadingSpace telescope spies neutron star in the debris of famous supernova
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists have confirmed what became of a star that exploded in a stunning supernova visible to Earth more than…
Continue ReadingUS is imposing more than 500 new sanctions on Russia’s war machine, indicts Russian businessmen
By FATIMA HUSSEIN and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department plans to impose more than 500 new sanctions on…
Continue ReadingTiger Woods’ son shoots 86 in pre-qualifier for PGA Tour event
HOBE SOUND, Fla. (AP) — The PGA Tour will have to wait for the 15-year-old son of Tiger Woods. In a pre-qualifier for the Cognizant Classic on…
Continue Reading2 killed in chain-reaction crash at a Georgia welcome center that engulfed semitrucks in flame
PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say two truck drivers are dead following a chain-reaction crash at a Georgia welcome center that engulfed…
Continue ReadingPlanned Parenthood asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to find 1849 abortion law unconstitutional
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a 174-year-old…
Continue ReadingNew Hampshire man convicted of killing daughter, 5, whose body has not been found
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday in the death of his…
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