Associated Press stories, Page 896
Blood-red crickets invade Nevada town, residents fight backVideo
ELKO, Nev. — Dana Dolan was driving through her small Nevada hometown when she thought she had come upon a gory crash. The ground surrounding Elko’s stretch of Interstate 80 looked as if it had been covered in blood. As the red color shifted and moved, she realized instead it...
Column: Rory McIlroy is going on 9 years without a major and the questions won’t stop
LOS ANGELES — The only thing worse for players than getting asked about winning their first major are endless questions about when they will win another one. That’s what Rory McIlroy is facing. The scrutiny no longer is limited to the spring, with Augusta National on the horizon and the...
Vegas-Florida Stanley Cup Final shows the value of street hockey in many U.S. markets
Music blared from speakers outside the Vegas Golden Knights’ practice facility while kids ran around with hockey sticks, batting a ball into a couple of nets. Pizza was available nearby. A similar scene played out a week later steps from the Florida Panthers’ arena before Stanley Cup Final games, with...
What to know about Hunter Biden’s plea deal in federal tax and gun case
The announcement that federal prosecutors have reached a plea deal with President Joe Biden’s son Hunter over tax and gun charges marks the likely end of a five-year Justice Department investigation that has dogged the Biden family. It doesn’t, however, mean that congressional Republicans are done with their own wide-ranging...
Why haven’t China and the U.S. agreed to restore military contacts?
TAIPEI, Taiwan — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up a closely watched visit to Beijing during which he and President Xi Jinping pledged to stabilize plunging U.S-China ties. But China refused the biggest U.S. request: restoring military-to-military contacts. Blinken said he raised the issue of military communications...
MLB to stage Negro Leagues tribute game at Alabama’s Rickwood Field next June
NEW YORK — MLB will stage a Negro Leagues tribute game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., on June 20, 2024, between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals. The 10,800-seat stadium, opened in 1910, is the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and a National Historic Site. The...
Supreme Court turns away veterans who seek disability benefits over 1966 hydrogen bomb accident
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal on behalf of some U.S. veterans who want disability benefits because they were exposed to radiation while responding to a Cold War-era hydrogen bomb accident in Spain. The justices did not comment in turning away an appeal from Victor Skaar,...
Electric vehicle maker Rivian to join Tesla charging network
DETROIT — Electric vehicle maker Rivian says it will follow General Motors and Ford and join Tesla’s charging network next year. The startup truck, SUV and delivery van maker says Tuesday that like GM and Ford, it will include ports with Tesla’s connector on future Rivian vehicles starting in 2025....
Dr. Dre to receive first Hip-Hop Icon Award from music industry group ASCAP
LOS ANGELES — Dr. Dre will need to make room in his trophy case for another prestigious award. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers said on Tuesday that Dr. Dre will receive the first-ever ASCAP Hip-Hop Icon Award. He’ll be honored at the organization’s Rhythm & Soul Music...
French policeman left in a coma by German hooligans at 1998 World Cup to attend match
BERLIN — The French policeman who was left in a coma following a brutal beating from German soccer hooligans during the 1998 World Cup is to attend a friendly between the two nations in September. Daniel Nivel accepted an invitation to attend the match in Dortmund on Sept. 12, the...
Gannett sues Google, Alphabet claiming they have a monopoly on digital advertising
Gannett has filed a civil lawsuit against Google and its parent company Alphabet, claiming that they unlawfully hold monopolies in the advertising technology tools that publishers and advertisers use to buy and sell online ad space. The largest U.S. newspaper publisher by total daily circulation alleges in the suit that...
Hunter Biden will plead guilty in a deal that likely averts time behind bars in a tax and gun case
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter will plead guilty to federal tax offenses but avoid a full prosecution on a separate gun charge in a deal with the Justice Department that likely spares him time behind bars. Hunter Biden, 53, will plead guilty to the misdemeanor tax offenses as...
Soccer faces wave of racial and offensive abuse incidents amid FIFA pledge to stop games
GENEVA — Two international soccer games stopped because of racial abuse between players. A United States-Mexico game cut short amid homophobic chants by fans. An advisor to Brazil player Vinícius Júnior racially harassed by a steward at a stadium in Spain. All these incidents in the past week are evidence...
Trump adviser faces possible disbarment over his efforts to overturn 2020 election
LOS ANGELES — Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, concocted a baseless theory and made false claims of fraud in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, a prosecutor said Tuesday in arguing that Eastman be disbarred. Eastman’s...
Who gets a break? Clashing ideas on tax relief are teed up for the 2024 campaign
WASHINGTON — Just six days after the bipartisan deal on the debt limit became law, House Republicans proposed a slew of tax cuts, leading to charges of hypocrisy by Democrats in a squabble that shows two clashing visions for the U.S. economy. GOP lawmakers are pushing deep tax cuts for...
The U.S. Coast Guard says debris field has been found near the Titanic during search for submersible
The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday that an underwater vessel has located a debris field near the Titanic in the search for a missing submersible with five people aboard, a potential breakthrough in an increasingly urgent around-the-clock effort. The Coast Guard’s post on Twitter gave no details, such as whether...
Houston rapper Big Pokey dies after collapsing at show in Texas
HOUSTON — Milton Powell, a Houston rapper who performed under the name Big Pokey and is credited with elevating the city’s hip-hop scene, died after collapsing during a show in Texas, a local official said Monday. Tom Gillam III, a justice of the peace in Jefferson County, where Powell was...
Inside the deepening rivalry between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says there’s no chance “on God’s green earth” he’s running for president in 2024, but he wants to make clear that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running, is “weak” and “undisciplined” and “will be crushed by Donald Trump.” DeSantis, meanwhile, likes to...
Himalayan glaciers could lose 80% of their volume if global warming not controlled, study finds
BENGALURU, India — Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates across the Hindu Kush Himalayan mountain ranges and could lose up to 80% of their current volume this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t sharply reduced, according to a new report. The report Tuesday from Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain...
U.N. members adopt first-ever treaty to protect marine life in the high seas
UNITED NATIONS — Members of the United Nations adopted the first-ever treaty to protect marine life in the high seas on Monday, with the U.N.’s chief hailing the historic agreement as giving the ocean “a fighting chance.” Delegates from the 193 member nations burst into applause and then stood up...
Tropical Storm Bret forms in Atlantic, with possible hurricane threat to Caribbean islands
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tropical Storm Bret formed in the central Atlantic Ocean on Monday, with forecasters saying it could pose a hurricane threat to the eastern Caribbean by Thursday and the Dominican Republic and Haiti by the weekend. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Bret had maximum...
More than 1 million people are dropped from Medicaid as states start a post-pandemic purge of rolls
More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care coverage following the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Most got dropped for not filling out paperwork. Though the eligibility review is required by the federal government,...
Wyndham Clark’s U.S. Open win on Father’s Day is also a tribute to his late momVideo
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Open wrapped up, as it always does, on Father’s Day. Golf’s newest champion would be the first to tell people he always has been a mama’s boy. Wyndham Clark’s victory Sunday will be remembered for how a 29-year-old newcomer to the big time held off...
Trump faces questions about whether he’ll drag down the Republican Party after his indictments
Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican faithful was evident from the moment he left the federal courthouse in Miami last week. Fresh off becoming the first former president to face criminal charges levied by the government he once oversaw, Trump’s motorcade moved through a crowd of hundreds of mostly adoring...
Reds’ veteran Joey Votto returns to lineup after 10-month absence because of injuriesVideo
CINCINNATI — It took more than 10 months for Joey Votto to return to the Cincinnati Reds because of multiple surgeries. Now he is joining a team that is a surprise contender in the NL Central. The 39-year-old former MVP first baseman returned to the starting lineup Monday, batting sixth...
