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Trump campaign calls 'The Apprentice' 'blatantly false,' director offers to screen it for him

May. 21, 2024 10:32 AM EDT

CANNES, France (AP) — Donald Trump’s reelection campaign called “The Apprentice,” a film about the former U.S. president in the 1980s, “pure fiction” and vowed legal action following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. But director Ali Abbasi is offering to privately screen the...

NYC mayor defends police response after videos show officers punching pro-Palestinian protesters

May. 20, 2024 15:09 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the police department's response to a pro-Palestinian street demonstration in Brooklyn over the weekend, calling video of officers repeatedly punching men lying prone on the ground an “isolated incident.” “Look at that...

'The Apprentice,' about a young Donald Trump, premieres in Cannes

May. 20, 2024 13:47 PM EDT

CANNES, France (AP) — While Donald Trump's hush money trial entered its sixth week in New York, an origin story for the Republican presidential candidate premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, unveiling a scathing portrait of the former president in the 1980s. “The...

Giuliani becomes final defendant served indictment among 18 accused in Arizona fake electors case

May. 19, 2024 18:26 PM EDT

Arizona's attorney general says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state's fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Arizona...

Preakness winner Seize the Grey is likely running in the 1st Belmont at Saratoga

May. 19, 2024 15:38 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Even without a Triple Crown on the line, the upcoming Belmont Stakes is one of the most anticipated horse races in the sport's history. That's because it's being run at Saratoga Race Course for the first time, part of a two-year hiatus in upstate New York while the...

The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

May. 19, 2024 13:07 PM EDT

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking on the Big Bang. Millions of students for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were provocative in their times, products of an ideal that holds universities as sacrosanct spaces for debate,...

NYC firefighter who collapsed in burning home likely saved by smoke inhalation drug

May. 17, 2024 20:52 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials credited a smoke inhalation drug for likely saving the life of a New York City firefighter who fell unconscious and stopped breathing while battling a house blaze Friday. The firefighter was one of three injured during the response in the Bronx. All are...

New Jersey overall gambling revenue up 10.4% in April, but in-person casino winnings were down

May. 16, 2024 15:36 PM EDT

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's casinos, horse tracks that accept sports bets and their online partners won more than half a billion dollars from gamblers in April, an increase of 10.4% from a year earlier, state gambling regulators said Thursday. But that was due in large...

A cricket World Cup is coming to NYC’s suburbs, where the sport thrives among immigrant communities

May. 16, 2024 14:19 PM EDT

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is rising in a suburban New York park that will host one of the world's top cricket tournaments next month. But on a recent Saturday morning, on the other side...

Drones smuggled drugs across Niagara River from Canada, 3 suspects caught in NY

May. 16, 2024 13:22 PM EDT

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A smuggling operation used drones to fly drugs across the Niagara River from Canada into upstate New York, using a newly purchased $630,000 house along the river as a drop point, according to a criminal complaint unsealed this week. One person has pleaded...