Associated Press stories, Page 1991
Tennessee governor gives death row inmate temporary reprieve
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has granted a death row inmate a temporary reprieve from execution. Lee issued a short statement Friday afternoon saying he is granting a reprieve to Pervis Payne until April 9 “due to the challenges and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.” Payne is...
Demolition starts on big ship stranded 14 months off Georgia
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Using a heavy anchor chain like a saw, a towering crane Friday began cutting apart a cargo ship that’s been stranded on the Georgia coast since it overturned nearly 14 months ago. Demolition of the South Korean ship Golden Ray finally started after months of planning and...
Dodgers’ Justin Turner will not be disciplined by MLB for return to field
NEW YORK — Justin Turner will not be disciplined by Major League Baseball for coming onto the field last week to celebrate the World Series title with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates after testing positive for covid-19. The third baseman was removed after seven innings of Game 6 against Tampa...
No blooms, no fans, no roars make this Masters like no other
Nothing about this Masters will look familiar until the champion slips his arms through a green jacket. The purple, pink and white blooms of azaleas and dogwoods, which provide such a magnificent accent to Augusta National in spring, give way to the orange and gold hues of autumn. The course...
Major implications as West Virginia readies for matchup with No. 22 Texas
No. 22 Texas and West Virginia made statements last week to keep their Big 12 title hopes alive. The dream will likely end for one of them Saturday as the league starts to weed out a half-dozen contenders in a tight race for two spots in the championship game. The...
Trump’s wild claims test limits of Republican loyalty
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s wild and unsupported claims of voter fraud have emerged as a high-stakes Republican loyalty test that illustrates the tug of war likely to define the future of the GOP whether he wins or loses the presidency. There is a pervasive sense among current and former...
Trump faces tough road in getting Supreme Court to intervene
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has repeatedly said there’s one place he wants to determine the outcome of the presidential election: the U.S. Supreme Court. But he may have a difficult time ever getting there. Over the last two days, Trump has leaned in to the idea that the high...
U.S. consumer borrowing up $16.2 billion in September
WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers increased their borrowing in September, helped by the first gain in the category that covers credit cards in seven months. The Federal Reserve reported that total borrowing rose by $16.2 billion in September, rebounding after a drop of $6.9 billion in August. The increase included a...
Pennsylvania vote counters’ work to extend into next week
HARRISBURG — Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow but growing margin in the presidential race drew him closer to winning Pennsylvania’s cache of 20 electoral votes Friday as county-by-county teams of ballot counters continued to toil. The canvassing that in a normal year would be wrapping up on Friday will carry into...
Wallace family calls for firing of officers, police reforms
PHILADELPHIA — The family of Walter Wallace Jr. called Friday for the officers who fatally shot the young Black man to be fired and asked that some of the city’s more than $700 million police budget be diverted to mental health services. However, on the eve of his funeral, they...
AP declares Josh Shapiro winner in reelection bid for Pa. attorney general
The Associated Press on Friday declared Attorney General Josh Shapiro the winner in his bid for reelection over Allegheny County Republican Heather Heidelbaugh. Shapiro, 47, a Democrat from Montgomery County, took the lead in the race Thursday morning. At the time the race was called, Shapiro had won 50.5% of...
UK, EU leaders to discuss state of post-Brexit trade talks
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are set to speak by telephone Saturday to assess the state of post-Brexit trade talks between the U.K. and the European Union. A spokesman at Johnson’s Downing Street office said Friday that the prime minister’s...
At Fox News, pressure mounts and rifts emerge over election
NEW YORK — The steady counting of votes that has moved Democrat Joe Biden closer to the presidency is exposing rifts at Fox News Channel, the influential media outlet that is the favorite for many supporters of President Donald Trump. Despite intense pressure from Trump’s team, Fox’s decision team has...
Armed men arrested near Philadelphia vote counting location
PHILADELPHIA — Two armed men were arrested Thursday near the Philadelphia convention center where an ongoing vote count could decide the presidential election, police said. The men traveled to the city in a Hummer and did not have permits to carry the weapons in Pennsylvania, police said. They were arrested...
Trump vows to fight: ‘This is about the integrity of our entire election process’
President Donald Trump said Friday he “will never give up fighting for you and our nation” as he is on the cusp of losing his bid for reelection. Trump is spending Friday at the White House tweeting, watching results come in and continuing to cast unfounded doubt over the integrity...
Why Ethiopia is suddenly on brink of civil war
NAIROBI, Kenya — Suddenly, Ethiopia appears on the brink of civil war, threatening the stability of one of the world’s most strategic regions, the Horn of Africa, and the fracturing of one of Africa’s most powerful and populous countries. But the crisis in Ethiopia, a key U.S. security ally, has...
Analysis: Trump’s vote diatribe both shocking, unsurprising
WASHINGTON — It was at the same time shocking and utterly to be expected. As the nation held its collective breath and awaited the result of the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump stepped to the podium in the White House on Thursday and made a full-frontal attempt to undermine...
AP source: Red Sox to rehire Cora, manager from 2018 title
BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox will rehire Alex Cora as manager, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press, restoring him to the dugout less than a year after letting him go because of his role in the Houston Astros cheating scandal. The person spoke to...
Republican lawmakers rebuke Trump’s claims of voter fraud
WASHINGTON — Republican senators, governors and other elected officials have swiftly pushed back against President Donald Trump and his baseless claim that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, tweeted Thursday that the president’s claims of fraud are “getting insane.” If Trump has...
Stocks take a breather, while yields rally on jobs report
NEW YORK — Wall Street’s best week since April is taking its first breather, and stocks are mixed on Friday following their big rally on enthusiasm about the upside of potential gridlock in Washington. Optimism was still pumping through other areas of the market, though, and Treasury yields climbed after...
Al Roker to take time off work to battle prostate cancer
NEW YORK — Weatherman and morning TV co-host Al Roker has revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will be undergoing surgery to have his prostate removed. “It’s a good news-bad news kind of thing,” Roker said Friday on NBC’s “Today.” “Good news is we caught it...
Republican DeFoor elected Pennsylvania’s auditor general
HARRISBURG — Timothy DeFoor has been elected to become auditor general, Pennsylvania’s elected fiscal watchdog. The Republican controller in Dauphin County outpaced Democrat Nina Ahmad for the statewide position. DeFoor campaigned on his record of spending three decades conducting governmental audits and fraud investigations. Democrat Eugene DePasquale is finishing up...
Unemployment drops to 6.9% and U.S. adds a solid 638,000 jobs
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added 638,000 jobs in October, a solid pace though far fewer than needed to regain most of the jobs lost to the pandemic recession just as new viral cases are setting record highs. The gain suggested that a tentative economic recovery may remain intact even in...
Slow march to Pa. victory? Joe Biden methodically builds lead over Donald TrumpVideo
HARRISBURG — Joe Biden looks poised to pull away for good from President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. Biden, the former vice president and Democratic challenger, expanded his lead in the latest figures from the Pennsylvania Department of State. Biden led 3,335,345 (49.64%) to 3,307,167 (49.22%) — by about 28,000 votes....
NBA players approve plan to start season Dec. 22
The NBA’s player representatives voted Thursday to support the notion of starting this coming season Dec. 22, the date the league has been targeting in its talks about how and when to get teams back on the floor for a planned 72-game season. The vote, conducted by player reps within...
