Associated Press stories, Page 190
Boeing settles with a man whose family died in a 737 Max crash in Ethiopia
CHICAGO — Boeing reached a settlement Friday with a Canadian man whose wife and three children were killed in a deadly 2019 crash in Ethiopia, averting the first trial connected to the devastating event that led to a worldwide grounding of Max jets. The jury trial at Chicago’s federal court...
Amateur star Woad keeps pace with Korda and in contention at Evian Championship
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Top-ranked amateur Lottie Woad is living up to her pre-tournament billing and in contention at the halfway point of the Evian Championship. Keeping pace with world No. 1 Nelly Korda, Woad — coming off a remarkable six-stroke win on the Ladies European Tour — shot 2-under-par 69...
LIV Golf tries again to get world ranking points
LIV Golf has applied again to be included in the Official World Golf Ranking, without any indication how it will operate differently from when its first application was rejected nearly two years ago. The OWGR said in a statement Friday it had received the application and has started the review...
BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff transferring following tumultuous few months
PROVO, Utah. — BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff is transferring after a tumultuous few months that included being named in a civil sexual assault suit that was later dismissed. “After a lot of prayers, reflection and conversations with those I trust, I’ve made the difficult decision to officially withdraw from BYU...
Chris Gotterup pounds his way to a 61 and leads the Scottish Open
NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — The hardest task for Chris Gotterup was waking up Friday. Once he got going, he never really stopped until he tied the course record with a 9-under-par 61 and wound up with a two-shot lead going into the weekend at the Scottish Open. Gotterup rolled in...
Bears, general manager Ryan Poles agree to contract extension through 2029
CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears and general manager Ryan Poles have agreed to a contract extension through the 2029 season, multiple media outlets reported Friday. The Bears are coming off a last-place finish in the NFC North. They are 15-36 in three years under Poles and have two double-digit losing...
Northern Arizona resident dies from plague
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare to humans, with on average about seven cases reported annually in the U.S., most of them in the western states, according to federal health officials. The death in Coconino County,...
Holding No. 1 pick, Nationals’ front-office upheaval injects even more uncertainty into MLB draft
The Washington Nationals are at a pivotal point in their rebuild to baseball relevance, owning the No. 1 overall pick in the MLB Amateur Draft that begins Sunday night in Atlanta. There are multiple intriguing prospects they can choose from, including prep shortstop Ethan Holliday, the son of seven-time All-Star...
Yankees’ Rodón, Royals’ Estévez and Garcia, Tigers’ Mize are replacements on AL All-Star roster
Carlos Rodón, Carlos Estévez and Casey Mize on Friday were named replacement pitchers on the American League roster for the All-Star Game. The New York Yankees’ Rodón, an All-Star for the third time in five seasons, will replace teammate Max Fried for Tuesday’s game in Atlanta. Fried will be unavailable...
Carlos Alcaraz wins, will face Jannik Sinner in Wimbledon final
LONDON — First, Carlos Alcaraz did his part to set up The Grand Slam Rematch The Tennis World Wanted, barely averting a fifth set and getting past Taylor Fritz, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (6), in the semifinals Friday to move within a victory of a third consecutive Wimbledon championship. Then...
Holding No. 1 pick, Nationals’ front-office upheaval injects more uncertainty into MLB draft
The Washington Nationals are at a pivotal point in their rebuild to baseball relevance, owning the No. 1 overall pick in the Major League Baseball amateur draft that begins Sunday night in Atlanta. There are multiple intriguing prospects they can choose from, including prep shorstop Ethan Holliday, the son of...
Son of ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty in U.S. drug case, promising cooperation for lighter sentence
CHICAGO — A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, becoming the first of the drug lord’s sons to enter a plea deal. Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the Sinaloa cartel....
Walgreens shareholders approve $10 billion private equity buyout
Shareholders of Walgreens Boots Alliance overwhelmingly approved the drugstore chain’s $10 billion acquisition by private equity firm Sycamore. It is a rough era for national pharmacy chains like Walgreens, CVS, and Rite-Aid, closing hundreds of stores due to changing consumer behavior, declining pharmacy reimbursements and rising costs. Walgreens will close...
Elon Musk’s X platform investigated in France for alleged data tampering and fraud
PARIS — French prosecutors have launched a police investigation into alleged data tampering and fraud involving X, Elon Musk’s platform. The Paris prosecutor’s office, in a statement Friday, announced the opening of the investigation, and said that a branch of the French gendarmerie is conducting the inquiry. The investigation is...
Appeals court throws out plea deal for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks
WASHINGTON — A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal that would have spared him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks. The decision by a panel of the...
At least 4 presumed dead, 11 missing after Houthi rebels sink ship in Red Sea, EU naval mission says
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Four people are presumed dead and 11 others are still missing after a Liberian-flagged cargo ship sank in the Red Sea following an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a European Union naval mission said Friday. The update from the EU’s Operation Aspides came as private...
Wind turbine maker to pay settlement after blade broke apart and washed up on Nantucket beaches
NANTUCKET, Mass. — The maker of a massive wind turbine blade that broke apart off Nantucket Island and washed up on beaches for months has agreed to a $10.5 million settlement to pay local businesses for their economic losses, officials said Friday. Fiberglass fragments of the blade began washing ashore...
Death threats over Texas flooding cartoon force museum journalism event to be postponed
BUFFALO, N.Y. — An event in support of local reporting was postponed after death threats against a journalist for his newspaper editorial cartoon about the catastrophic flooding in Texas, according to a union. An online fury erupted this week over an editorial cartoon in The Buffalo News by Pulitzer Prize-winner...
Pennsylvania man who posted video of father’s severed head online is found guilty of murder
DOYLESTOWN — A Pennsylvania man who posted a video of his father’s severed head on YouTube was convicted of murder Friday and sentenced to life without parole. Bucks County Judge Stephen A. Corr found Justin D. Mohn, 33, guilty in the January 2024 shooting death of his father at their...
Thousands gather in Srebrenica on 30th anniversary of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since WWII
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of a massacre there of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men — an atrocity that has been acknowledged as Europe’s only genocide after the Holocaust. Seven newly identified...
Protesters and federal agents clash during raid at Southern California farm
A confrontation erupted Thursday between protesters and federal officials carrying out a raid on a Southern California farm, with authorities throwing canisters that sprayed what looked like smoke into the air to disperse the crowd. Vehicles from Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection blocked the road in a...
Trump plans to tour Texas flood damage as scope of disaster tests his pledge to shutter FEMA
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump heads to Texas on Friday for a firsthand look at the devastation caused by catastrophic flooding, he has remained conspicuously quiet about his previous promises to do away with the federal agency in charge of disaster relief. The Trump administration isn’t backing away from...
CDC finds nearly 1 in 3 U.S. youth have prediabetes, but experts question scant data
A new federal estimate shows a rise in prediabetes among American adolescents, a finding that is spurring concerns about the health of U.S. children — and the way Trump administration health officials are conducting research and communicating information, experts said. In 2023, nearly 1 in 3 U.S. youngsters ages 12...
Satellite photos suggest Iran attack on Qatar air base hit geodesic dome used for U.S. communications
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A June 23 Iranian attack on an air base in Qatar that is key to the U.S. military likely hit a geodesic dome housing equipment used by the Americans for secure communications, satellite images analyzed Friday by The Associated Press show. The U.S. military and...
State Department is firing over 1,300 employees under Trump administration plan
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The State Department is firing over 1,300 career diplomats and civil servants on Friday in line with a dramatic reorganization plan initiated by the Trump administration earlier this year. The department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic...
