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FILE - The Warehouse nightclub, where needle attacks had been reported, is pictured Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Nantes, western France. In recent days, several suspects around France have been given preliminary charges of purposefully pricking people with a needle at nightclubs or concerts, in connection with a surge of mysterious needle attacks across France. Since January 1.004 people have filed formal complaints to authorities about such needle pricks, told the Ministry of Interior to the Associated Press.
FILE - The Warehouse nightclub, where needle attacks had been reported, is pictured Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Nantes, western France. In recent days, several suspects around France have been given preliminary charges of purposefully pricking people with a needle at nightclubs or concerts, in connection with a surge of mysterious needle attacks across France. Since January 1.004 people have filed formal complaints to authorities about such needle pricks, told the Ministry of Interior to the Associated Press.
PARIS (AP) — Several suspects around France have been detained or given preliminary charges in recent days of pricking people with a needle in nightclubs or at concerts following a surge in needle attacks that confounded authorities and seeded panic among young club-goers.
The French Interior Ministry, prosecutors, the national anti-drug agency, public health authorities and doctors have not determined a motive for the attacks, or whether the victims were injected with drugs, viruses or any substance at all.
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The Tennessee attorney general’s office has filed an emergency motion asking a federal appeals court to let the state immediately begin banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The state also has a trigger law that was written to ban nearly all abortions if Roe v. Wade was overturned. That ban cannot take effect until 30 days after Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling. But the six-week ban could be implemented as early as next week, if the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agrees to lift a court injunction. Planned Parenthood officials say they plan to keep providing abortions for now.
LOS ANGELES — Candace Parker took the second left instead of the first, sat in an unfamiliar locker room and warmed up on the opposite side of the court. After 13 years as a Spark, returning to Los Angeles for the first time as an opposing player felt backward, but her performance felt painf…
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has tested positive for COVID-19. A news release from the governor's office disclosed the positive test Friday. Edwards says he does not currently have any symptoms and will follow recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and will isolate for five days. His office says the Democratic governor is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus and has received his recommended booster doses. A spokesperson says Edwards traveled Sunday to California for a conference and returned to Louisiana on Thursday.
PILTON, Somerset, England — Phoebe Bridgers has more than emotional motion sickness after Roe v. Wade was overturned Friday.
CHICAGO — The Chicago Blackhawks are expected to name Montreal Canadiens assistant Luke Richardson as their new head coach, sources confirmed to the Chicago Tribune on Friday.
The New York Racing Association has increased purses by $1.6 million for the upcoming summer meet at Saratoga Race Course. The NYRA announced the increases on Friday for the meet that runs from July 14-Sept. 5. Thoroughbred horses are currently racing at Belmont Park. The increases will range from $3,000 per race to $20,000 depending on the conditions of the race. The highlights of the meet are the $1.25 million Runhappy Travers on Aug. 27 and the $1 million Whitney on Aug. 6. The meet will feature 77 stakes worth $22.6 million in total purses.
Every day, a network of volunteers for the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund — mostly women, diverse in age and background — log on to their computers, power up their phones and get to work.
A U.S. Army private from Kentucky has pleaded guilty to charges that he plotted to kill members of his unit in an organized attack. Ethan Phelan Melzer entered the plea Friday in Manhattan federal court. The 24-year-old Louisville, Kentucky, man is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 6 after he pleaded guilty to trying to murder U.S. military service members, attempting to provide support to terrorists and illegally transmitting national defense information. The three charges carry a potential maximum penalty of 45 years in prison. Authorities say Melzer was already a member of a radical violent group known as 09A even before joining the Army in 2018.
Former Brazil and Sao Paulo midfielder Richarlyson says in a podcast he is bisexual. He is the first player from a Brazilian top-flight team to say he's bisexual. The 39-year-old Richarlyson played two matches for Brazil in 2008. He was part of Sao Paulo’s squad that won the 2005 Club World Cup against Liverpool. The midfelder also won three national titles for the club. Ricky, as fans used to call him, was also in Atletico Mineiro’s Copa Libertadores winning squad in 2013.
CHICAGO — Bears linebacker Matt Adams was arrested Thursday night in Chicago on a misdemeanor charge of unlawful firearm possession, according to police. He also was cited for having high-capacity magazines and metal-piercing bullets, a violation of city code.
The secret about how Orlando was going to take Paolo Banchero with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft was incredibly well-kept. Even Banchero didn't know until the final seconds. The secret is out now. Banchero arrived in Orlando on Friday, one day after his name got permanently etched on the list of No. 1 draft picks. The 6-foot-10 forward out of Duke will officially start workouts next week for Orlando’s July 7 opener at NBA Summer League.
Kentucky’s so-called trigger laws means abortion has largely been outlawed in the state upon the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday. The state’s only two abortion clinics, both in Louisville, halted abortions Friday. The Kentucky law passed in 2019 declares that abortion would become illegal “effective immediately” if Roe v. Wade is overturned. The measure contains a narrow exception allowing a physician to perform a procedure necessary to prevent the death or permanent injury of a pregnant woman. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said the ruling triggers a ban that also includes victims of rape or incest. Republican state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a candidate for governor, hailed the ruling as “a new era.”
It’s a rock musical space odyssey. Star Wars goes to Warped Tour, circa 2005. And it’ll make you want to dance. “Vaxis II” is a 13-track prog-rock symphony that was released Friday. It is a continuation of the concept albums, which pairs with the comic book series “The Amory Wars,” that the band has been building on for more than two decades. Coheed frontman Claudio Sanchez talked with The Associated Press about what it was like working on the album through the pandemic, the origin stories behind some of the songs and how his fans converted him into a cruise lover, or at least someone who can enjoy the moment.
Canelo Álvarez is hurting after his first loss in nearly a decade, and he’s still angry about everything that’s happened during a half-decade of fighting and arguing with Gennady Golovkin. Álvarez says he is determined to channel all of those bad feelings into a spectacular win over Golovkin when they complete their rivalry trilogy on Sept. 17 in Las Vegas. The Mexican superstar declared his third fight with Golovkin to be a grudge match Friday as they began promotion of their showdown with a news conference in Hollywood. Álvarez declared he will “definitely” punch the 40-year-old Golovkin into retirement with a knockout.
LOS ANGELES — There's nothing complicated about this.
Canelo Álvarez is hurting after his first loss in nearly a decade, and he’s still angry about everything that’s happened during a half-decade of fighting and arguing with Gennady Golovkin. Álvarez says he is determined to channel all of those bad feelings into a spectacular win over Golovkin when they complete their rivalry trilogy on Sept. 17 in Las Vegas. The Mexican superstar declared his third fight with Golovkin to be a grudge match Friday as they began promotion of their showdown with a news conference in Hollywood. Álvarez declared he will “definitely” punch the 40-year-old Golovkin into retirement with a knockout.
LOS ANGELES — There's nothing complicated about this.
LOS ANGELES — Anger, frustration and broken heart emojis began filling the Twitter and Instagram feeds of athletes on Friday morning.
North Carolina Republican legislative leaders want Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein to ask a federal court to restore a state law banning nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore wrote to Stein on Friday following the U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier in the day overturning abortion protections. A federal judge struck down the 20-week limit in 2019 and extended the abortion right to the point of fetal viability, which is generally between 24 and 28 weeks. Moore and Berger say they are ready to take action to get the injunction lifted if Stein is not.
NASA's plan to explore a strange metal asteroid is on hold. The space agency was late delivering its own navigation software for the spacecraft called Psyche. NASA said Friday there will be an independent review to see what should be done with the nearly $1 billion mission. Nothing is wrong with the equipment or software, the agency just ran out of time to test the software properly. It could launch next year or in 2024. Psyche is just the latest in NASA’s fleet of asteroid-exploring spacecrafts. One is headed back to Earth with rubble collected from an asteroid.
A judge has ruled that Alaska elections officials do not need to put the fifth-place finisher in this month’s U.S. House special primary on the upcoming special election ballot in place of a candidate who withdrew. Superior Court Judge William Morse issued an order Friday agreeing with the Alaska Division of Elections’ reading of the law. His decision can be appealed. The division’s director had said that because independent Al Gross withdrew less than 64 days before the election, state law did not permit the division to put the fifth-place candidate, Republican Tara Sweeney, on the special election ballot in his place. A lawsuit challenging that interpretation was filed by three registered voters.
Sen. Susan Collins is being criticized for the Supreme Court ruling allowing states to ban abortion because the moderate Republican voted to confirm two of the justices who were in the majority opinion. Critics attacked the Maine senator on social media, and some called for her resignation. The Maine Democratic Party and others cast some of the blame on Collins because her vote was crucial in confirming Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Collins also voted to confirm Justice Neil Gorsuch, who also sided with the majority opinion. Collins says in a statement that the overturning of Roe is a “sudden and radical jolt to the country” that will sow division.
With the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 overruling of Roe v. Wade, eliminating a woman’s constitutionally ensured right to a legal abortion, America has been presented with the trailer for the movie of its own future. It is a film promising to make the pre-Roe, 1963 setting of “Dirty Dancing” look…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The federal government has sued Sacramento City Councilman Sean Loloee, alleging he threatened to deport employees who cooperated with a federal investigation into his grocery stores.
Federal authorities say a Mississippi man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for wire fraud related to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca, in a news release Friday, said 25-year-old Trevon Evans, of Kiln, was sentenced Thursday. He pleaded guilty to the charges in February. According to LaMarca's office, Evans was arrested in 2020 in a stolen vehicle case and during the investigation he was found in possession of multiple ID cards. Further investigation found that Evans had used the identities of his elderly neighbors to apply for unemployment insurance in their names and had the benefits sent to his home. LaMarca's office said the benefits totaled more than $7,000, which authorities said Evans spent at Gulf Coast casinos.
Congress has passed a bill that aims to keep up the expanded, pandemic-era distribution of free meals for all students this summer. Final passage Friday of the Keep Kids Fed Act in the U.S. House came less than a week before rule changes for child nutrition programs were set to expire June 30. The bill now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature. The legislation is intended to extend the rules that were adopted soon after COVID-19 disrupted schools nationwide. The rules allow summer meal distribution sites to operate in any community with need, rather than just where there’s a high concentration of low-income children.
The Je Khenpo, the senior Buddhist authority in Bhutan, has begun ordaining a group of 144 women as bhikshunis, or female monks, at the Ramthangkha monastery. Many of the new bhikshunis are Bhutanese, but some came to the tiny Himalayan country from elsewhere in Asia. They are all being ordained in the Tibetan lineage. The news was announced in a post on the Facebook page of the central monastic body of Bhutan and confirmed by Damcho Diana Finnegan, an ordained Buddhist nun and co-founder of the Dharmadatta Nun’s Community in Virginia. Finnegan calls the ceremony a “major step towards ending the institutionalized inequality between men and women in Tibetan Buddhism.”
ALBANY, N.Y. — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade and roll back 50 years of federal abortion rights means dozens of states will move to restrict or ban access to the procedure.
Katie Ledecky has extended her record haul of medals and Australia has set a world record in the mixed 4x100 meters freestyle final at the world swimming championships in Budapest. American star Ledecky won the 800 freestyle final for the fifth time at the worlds to seal her fourth consecutive 400/800/1,500 triple at the event. Australia’s mixed relay team shaved two-hundredths of a second off the Americans' record from the 2019 worlds. Ben Proud won Britain’s first gold of the championships in the men’s 50 freestyle. Sarah Sjöström won her fourth consecutive 50 butterfly title, and Kristóf Milák added the 200 butterfly to his 100 title.
A Massachusetts couple whose prematurely-born baby girl died less than two weeks after she was delivered has sued one of Boston’s most prestigious hospitals for losing the infant’s body. The lawsuit filed Thursday says that baby Everleigh’s body was inadvertently thrown away by a Brigham and Women’s Hospital employee in August 2020 along with soiled linens from the hospital’s morgue. A lawyer for the couple says it was like losing their baby all over again. The negligence and emotional distress suit seeks more than $1.3 million. The hospital’s chief medical officer said in a statement that he sympathizes with the family.
A federal agency investigating a helicopter crash in West Virginia this week says the flight during an annual reunion for helicopter enthusiasts was the last one planned for the day. The National Transportation Safety Board said those killed Wednesday included the pilot and five passengers, two of whom were pilot-rated. They have not been identified. The NTSB said Friday that the flight route was different from the tour paths that had been flown previously Wednesday. The flight departed Logan County Airport and crashed about 3.7 miles northeast of the airport just before 5 p.m. The agency says much of the wreckage was consumed in a fire after the crash.
Mississippi and Oklahoma are set to meet for the national championship in the College World Series. The best-of-three finals open Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska. Ole Miss is playing for the title after it was the last team to receive an at-large bid for the NCAA baseball tournament. Oklahoma got off to a slow start this season and didn't get hot until the second half. An unseeded team will leave Omaha with the championship for the first time since Coastal Carolina in 2016.
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted an Indianapolis member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group with conspiracy and other charges for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors say the indictment unsealed Friday charges 39-year-old Michael Greene with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging any duties, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and tampering with documents or proceedings. Greene was arrested in Indiana on Thursday. He was expected to make his initial court appearance later Friday.
The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade to end constitutional protections for abortion hews closely to the leaked draft opinion that was published in May. Key passages in Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion and the final ruling are identical, including sharp denunciations of the Roe ruling as “egregiously wrong,” with “exceptionally weak” reasoning and “damaging consequences.” The major additions to the final copy are pointed rebukes of the dissent from the court’s three liberal justices as well as a concurring opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts. The draft opinion labeled a “1st Draft” of the “Opinion of the Court” was leaked in a nearly unprecedented breach of protocol.
LVIV, Ukraine — Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers appeared to be all but encircled as Russian troops advanced Thursday around two strategically important cities in eastern Ukraine in what a senior Ukrainian official called a “fearful climax” of the battle for the Donbas, signaling that the fal…
The Democratic governors of California, Washington and Oregon on Friday vowed to protect reproductive rights and help women who travel to the West Coast seeking abortions following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The three states issued a joint “multi-state commitment” pledging to work together to defend patients and medical professionals providing reproductive health care. They also vowed to “protect against judicial and local law enforcement cooperation with out of-state investigations, inquiries, and arrests” regarding abortions performed in their states.
MIAMI — Since COVID-19 vaccines first became available, Publix has played a major role in tackling the public health emergency in Florida by offering vaccines to adults and, later, children as young as 5.
DENVER — Family and friends of the late Victor Hallcy Sr. released balloons and doves on Sunday in Denver in a bittersweet Father’s Day tribute. Hallcy died on Easter Sunday in a two-vehicle crash when the vehicle he was in was hit by a driver who allegedly ran a red light.
Two members of a loose-knit group of dissident artists have been sentenced to prison in Cuba. The prosecutor’s office said Friday that Maikel Castillo was sentenced to nine years for attacks and defamation against the country’s institutions while Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara got five years for insulting national symbols. Both were involved with the so-called San Isidro Movement that had attracted unusually wide support among prominent Cuban artists. Castillo helped compose the Latin Grammy-winning song “Patria y Vida” — or “Fatherland and Life." Its twist on the Communist Party slogan “Fatherland or Death! made it a sort of opposition anthem.
Changes are coming at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, sparked by frustration with years of flat revenue and what some portray as heavy-handed management in the wake of sex-abuse scandals that upended the movement in America. At their keynote addresses at this week’s annual assembly of U.S. athletes and administrators, both CEO Sarah Hirshland and chair Susanne Lyons said the federation’s top-line priority for the upcoming year is on athlete excellence and expanding revenue. This is a shift after years of placing athlete safety above all else after the scandals exposed what critics said was the USOPC’s single-minded focus on money and medals.
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