Associated Press stories, Page 1505
Bengals never waver en route to stunning Super Bowl seasonVideo
CINCINNATI — When the Cincinnati Bengals went down 21-3 early in the second quarter of Sunday’s AFC championship game, a third straight Super Bowl for the Kansas City Chiefs seemed inevitable. The Bengals weren’t feeling it, though. They’d been coming from behind and winning close games all season. What transpired...
EPA restores rule to limit power-plant mercury emissions
WASHINGTON — In a reversal of a Trump-era action, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will resume enforcement of a rule that limits power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous pollutants. The EPA action restores a rule imposed under President Barack Obama and continues a practice in which...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized again for not wearing a mask
LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing new criticism for shedding his face mask, rekindling a politically sensitive issue that has shadowed the Democratic governor since he was caught without a face covering at a private 2020 party that defied his own pandemic safety orders. The latest scrutiny...
Pennsylvania high court may step in to House districts case
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s highest court signaled Monday that it may get involved in the process of redrawing Pennsylvania’s congressional districts boundaries, as the state runs up against the primary schedule to adjust the boundaries to account for a decade of demographic shifts. The state Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision,...
Michigan earns its highest ranking in women’s AP Top 25Video
Michigan moved up one spot to sixth in the Associated Press women’s basketball poll Monday, the team’s highest ranking ever. South Carolina remained the No. 1 team in the poll, garnering 29 of the 30 first-place votes from a national media panel after beating Vanderbilt, then-No. 24 Mississippi and Florida....
Kentucky makes big leap in AP men’s Top 25Video
Auburn keeps winning, Kentucky is rising and that has the SEC putting its imprint atop this week’s Associated Press men’s college basketball poll. Bruce Pearl’s Tigers earned 49 of 61 first-place votes in Monday’s new poll to extend the program’s first stay at No. 1 for a second straight week,...
Officials: Frick Park bridge not bad enough to close after inspection
The bridge that collapsed in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park last week showed deterioration during a September inspection that was not bad enough to require its closure, PennDOT said Monday. The agency will not release the full inspection report, PennDOT spokesperson Alexis Campbell said, citing state and federal laws and the ongoing...
Bomb threats made to historically Black schools across U.S.
WOODSTOCK, Ga. — At least a half-dozen historically Black universities in five states and the District of Columbia were responding to bomb threats Monday, with many of them locking down their campuses for a time. In warnings to students, school officials say some of the threats were directed at academic...
U.S. sanctions Myanmar judiciary officials on coup anniversary
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Monday slapped sanctions on top members of Myanmar’s judiciary and one of its main revenue-producing ports over rights abuses since last year’s coup. The sanctions on the country’s attorney general, supreme court chief justice and others were announced by the Treasury and State Departments...
California moves to dismantle nation’s largest death row
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions, now is moving to dismantle the nation’s largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years. The goal is to turn the section at San Quentin State Prison into...
Rihanna is pregnant, debuts bump on stroll with A$ap Rocky
NEW YORK — Rihanna and A$ap Rocky took an epic stroll over the weekend in snowy New York to reveal she’s pregnant with her first child. Despite the frigid temperatures, the 33-year-old “Diamonds” singer and fashion mogul showed off her bump in a long open pink coat and jeans as...
‘Nazi’ protests held over the weekend condemned in Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. — More than a dozen self-proclaimed Nazis yelled antisemitic slogans outside a Florida shopping plaza and waved a swastika flag from a highway overpass before authorities broke them up over the weekend. The demonstrators, wearing Nazi garb, protested Saturday at an intersection near the University of Central Florida...
Moderna announces full U.S. approval for its covid vaccine
WASHINGTON — Moderna announced Monday that U.S. health regulators granted full approval to its covid-19 vaccine, a shot that’s been given to tens of millions of Americans since its emergency authorization over a year ago. The action by the Food and Drug Administration means the agency has completed the same...
Stocks end higher, still log worst month since March 2020
NEW YORK — Stocks notched broad gains Monday, but still posted their worst monthly loss since the early days of the pandemic, as Wall Street closes a tumultuous January wracked by worries that imminent interest-rate hikes will make everything in markets more challenging. The S&P 500 came back from an...
Chicago synagogue, businesses vandalized over weekend
CHICAGO — A synagogue and an affiliated Jewish school in Chicago were vandalized over the weekend with swastika images and antisemitic graffiti, officials said. The incidents occurred Sunday at the FREE Synagogue and Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School. “We’ll get through it,” Rabbi Levi Notik told WFLD-TV. “I want...
Georgia DA investigating Trump asks FBI for security help
ATLANTA — The prosecutor who’s investigating whether Donald Trump and others broke the law by trying to pressure Georgia officials to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential election victory is asking the FBI for security help after the former president railed against prosecutors investigating him. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on...
On to Super Bowl: Rams to host Bengals
Two years ago, the Cincinnati Bengals were the NFL’s worst team. Now they’re headed to the Super Bowl to play the Los Angeles Rams — in the Rams’ home stadium. Matching the biggest comeback in an AFC championship game, the Bengals rallied from an 18-point hole to stun Kansas City,...
WHO says it’s probing alleged racism, abuse by top director
GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization says an investigation is underway into alleged reports that the U.N. health agency’s top official in the Western Pacific engaged in racist, unethical and abusive behavior, following a report last week by The Associated Press. At a meeting of the WHO’s...
Judge rejects plea deal for man who killed Ahmaud Arbery
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday that would have averted a hate crimes trial for the man convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery’s parents denounced the proposed deal for Travis McMichael, with mother Wanda Cooper-Jones and father Marcus Arbery emotionally asking the judge to reject...
Myanmar authorities arrest dozens ahead of planned protests
BANGKOK — Security forces in Myanmar have arrested dozens of people in a preemptive move to suppress plans for a nationwide strike on the one-year anniversary of the army’s seizure of power. Opponents of military rule in the country have called for a “Silent Strike” on Tuesday that is intended...
Rams to play Super Bowl in home stadium after big 4th quarter vs. 49ersVideo
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Travin Howard made a game-sealing interception with 1 minute, 9 seconds to play, and the Los Angeles Rams rallied from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to secure a spot in the Super Bowl at their home stadium next month with a thrilling 20-17 victory over...
Source of carbon monoxide at Ohio hotel sought; 11 go to hospital
MARYSVILLE, Ohio — Authorities are trying to find the source of carbon monoxide at an Ohio hotel that sent at least 11 people, more than half of them children, to a hospital. Marysville Fire Chief Jay Riley told the Columbus Dispatch that everyone who was hospitalized had been in the...
US stumbles to 2-0 loss at 1st-place Canada in qualifyingVideo
HAMILTON, Ontario — Canada established itself as the dominant nation in soccer’s North and Central American and Caribbean region, taking a big step toward reaching the World Cup for the first time since 1986 with a 2-0 victory on Sunday over the United States. Cyle Larin scored in the seventh...
Hovland beats Bland in playoff to win Dubai Desert ClassicVideo
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Viktor Hovland beat Richard Bland in a playoff to capture the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday after Rory McIlroy missed a chance to win the title in regulation by bogeying the last hole. Hovland claimed his third victory in five events by making birdie from...
While NFL plays title games, world waits on Tom Brady retirement decisionVideo
TAMPA, Fla. — While the NFL conference championship games went on without Tom Brady for only the second time in 11 years, the world waits for the greatest quarterback of all time to make his future plans official. An announcement is expected soon and a person close to Brady told...
