Associated Press stories, Page 963
East Palestine families living in limbo months after fire
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that serves as a nightstand — his pickup truck parked just outside the door at the roadside motel where he’s taken...
Trial opens in E. Jean Carroll’s rape lawsuit against Trump
NEW YORK — A nearly 30-year-old rape claim against Donald Trump went to trial Tuesday as jurors in the federal civil case heard a former advice columnist’s allegation of being attacked in a luxury department store dressing room. The former president says nothing happened between them. E. Jean Carroll will...
Why is Biden announcing 2024 bid now, and what will change?
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has formally announced he’s seeking reelection. But he’s also still the president, with roughly 20 months left in his term regardless of whether he wins a second one on Election Day 2024. With Tuesday’s campaign video release, Biden is following through on months of saying...
Rodgers latest aging NFL star to join Jets late in career
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The trade of quarterback Aaron Rodgers from Green Bay to New York puts one of the greatest players in NFL history in a Jets uniform. Despite a 54-year Super Bowl drought and the league’s longest active streak without a playoff appearance (12 seasons), the Jets have...
Melissa McCarthy fronts People magazine’s ‘Beautiful Issue’
LOS ANGELES — Melissa McCarthy is out front on this year’s People magazine “Beautiful Issue.” The “Bridesmaids” star says being on the cover “felt like it was saying something really lovely to my younger self, to my 20-year-old self. Maybe to other people, too.” People on Tuesday revealed McCarthy’s selection...
Comedian Richard Lewis reveals he has Parkinson’s disease
NEW YORK — Comedian Richard Lewis is retiring from stand-up following four surgeries and a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. The 75-year-old “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star, who is known for wearing all-black and exploring his neuroses onstage, posted a video Monday to Twitter explaining his various health issues. “For the last...
Ginnie Newhart, wife of comedy legend Bob Newhart, dies
LOS ANGELES — Ginnie Newhart, who was married to comedy legend Bob Newhart for six decades and inspired the classic ending of his “Newhart” series, has died. She was 82. Publicist Jerry Digney said Newhart died Sunday in Los Angeles after a long illness. No further details were available. The...
GM, Samsung plan new EV battery cell factory in U.S.
DETROIT — General Motors and South Korea’s Samsung SDI plan to invest more than $3 billion in a new electric vehicle battery cell plant in the United States, the companies said Tuesday. They did not announce the intended location of the new factory, which is expected to begin operations in...
Coronation gives tourism boost, but U.K. economy still reeling
LONDON — Kelly Curto is taking her first trip outside the U.S., and the die-hard fan of the British royal family is making it the one at the top of her bucket list — heading to London for King Charles III’s coronation. After arriving on May 5, the 44-year-old school...
1 killed, 10 wounded as Russian forces hit Ukrainian museum
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian missile hit a museum building in a Ukrainian city on Tuesday, killing one of its workers and wounding 10 other people, part of a relentless barrage that comes as Ukraine is readying its forces for an expected spring counteroffensive. Ukrainian officials said the Russian military...
President Joe Biden announces 2024 reelection bid
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” and extend the run of America’s oldest president for another four years. Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a...
Mexico finds 11,520 tequila bottles with liquid meth at port
MEXICO CITY — Mexican Navy inspectors have intercepted 11,520 tequila bottles bound for export that actually contained nearly 10 tons of concentrated liquid meth, the navy said Monday. The discovery was made Sunday at the Pacific coast seaport of Manzanillo, the navy said. It said the bottles contained approximately 19,000...
Bengals’ Zac Taylor set for 5th draft as head coachVideo
CINCINNATI — “Draft Day” isn’t on the list of Zac Taylor’s all-time favorite movies. “I saw it a long time ago. Very unrealistic,” the Cincinnati Bengals coach said Monday. The 2014 film, which stars Kevin Costner as Sonny Weaver Jr., the fictional general manager of the Cleveland Browns, gives viewers...
First Republic clients pulled $100B in deposits during panic
NEW YORK — Depositors at First Republic Bank pulled more than $100 billion out of the bank during last month’s crisis, as fears swirled that it could be the third bank to fail after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. San Francisco-based First Republic said Monday that...
Rob Manfred: ‘Sorry’ for Oakland fans; A’s can compete in Las VegasVideo
NEW YORK — Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred says he feels “sorry for the fans in Oakland” about the Athletics’ plans to relocate to Las Vegas but denies claims by Oakland’s mayor that the franchise used negotiations with the city as leverage. Manfred discussed the plans Monday during a meeting with...
Injuries force teams to adapt, push through in NHL playoffs
RALEIGH, N.C. — Mackenzie MacEachern went from joining the Carolina Hurricanes as a call-up from the minors to skating on the team’s top line in a road playoff game for a team struggling with injuries. “Obviously it’s a playoff game,” MacEachern said, “but it’s just trying to approach it like...
DA Fani Willis to decide on Georgia election probe charges in summerVideo
ATLANTA — The prosecutor in Atlanta investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia said Monday she expects to announce charging decisions in the case this summer and urged “heightened security.” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wrote in a letter to...
Jets agree on deal to acquire Aaron RodgersVideo
After six weeks of waiting, Aaron Rodgers is leaving behind his brilliant legacy in Green Bay and heading to the bright lights — and massive expectations — of the Big Apple. The New York Jets agreed on a deal Monday to acquire the four-time NFL MVP from the Packers, according...
De’Aaron Fox doubtful for Game 5 with broken fingerVideo
Sacramento star guard De’Aaron Fox broke the index finger on his shooting hand and is doubtful to play in Game 5 of the Kings’ first-round series against the Golden State Warriors. A person familiar with the injury said that Fox injured the finger on his left hand late in a...
1 dead in Oklahoma college shooting, suspect in custody
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. — A man shot and killed another man Monday at Rose State College in Oklahoma, according to police, who reported no other injuries after the campus was briefly put on lockdown. Midwest City Police Chief Sid Porter said the men were “acquainted through a domestic situation,” but...
Review: ‘Home for Wayward Girls’ about rising above abuse
“The Home for Wayward Girls” (Harper) by Marcia Bradley There have been a number of recent accounts of young people, particularly young women, who were sent to schools for so-called “troubled” or “bad” kids. In 2022, Elizabeth Gilpin published “Stolen: A Memoir,” about her experience in one of these schools...
Singer R. Kelly moved to North Carolina prison from Chicago
BUTNER, N.C. — Singer R. Kelly was moved from a Chicago correctional center to a medium-security prison in North Carolina last week, according to federal officials. Robert Sylvester Kelly was transferred from the Metropolitan Correctional Center Chicago to the federal correctional institution in Butner, North Carolina, on April 19, Federal...
Favre remains in Mississippi welfare lawsuit, judge rules
JACKSON, Miss. — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will remain as a defendant in a civil lawsuit that seeks to recover millions of dollars of misspent welfare money that was supposed to help some of the neediest people in the United States, a Mississippi judge ruled Monday. Circuit Judge Faye...
Migrants walking through Mexico threaten road blockades
TAPACHULA, Mexico — Around 3,000 migrants walking through southern Mexico in a mass protest procession threatened Monday to block roads or harm themselves unless the government agrees to talks or provides them with buses. The migrants set out walking from the city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, on Sunday...
Severe solar storm creates dazzling auroras farther south
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An intense solar storm has the northern lights gracing the skies farther south than usual. A blast of superhot material from the sun late last week hurled scorching gases known as plasma toward Earth at nearly 2 million mph (3 million kph), the National Oceanic and...
