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Key players: Who's who at Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial 04/20/2024 11:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial shifts to opening statements Monday, followed by the start of witness testimony. A jury of seven men and five women, plus six alternates, was picked last week. The trial centers on allegations the former president falsified his company’ Autoworkers union celebrates breakthrough win in Tennessee and takes aim at more plants in the South 04/20/2024 08:55pm • DALLAS (AP) — The United Auto Workers' overwhelming election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader inroads in the South, the least unionized part of the country. The UAW won a stunning 73% of the vote at VW after losing elections in 2014 and 2 Felix Rosenqvist career turnaround continues as Swede gives Meyer Shank Racing 1st IndyCar pole 04/20/2024 05:21pm • LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Felix Rosenqvist's career turnaround continued Saturday when the Swede won Meyer Shank Racing its first ever pole in IndyCar by barely edging Will Power for the top starting spot at the Long Beach Grand Prix. Rosenqvist is in his first season with his third IndyCar team Longtime AP journalist, newspaper publisher John Brewer dies at age 76 04/20/2024 03:09pm • John Brewer, whose coast-to-coast journalism career spanned 50 years, including nearly two decades at The Associated Press, has died. He was 76. Brewer and his longtime friend Randy Johnson were on their annual fly fishing trip in Montana on Friday when the boat Brewer was in hit a submerged log and Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai producing. An election coming. ‘Suffs’ has timing on its side 04/18/2024 08:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Shaina Taub was in the audience at “Suffs,” her buzzy and timely new musical about women’s suffrage, when she spied something that delighted her. It was intermission, and Taub, both creator and star, had been watching her understudy perform at a matinee preview last week. Sud Real Madrid adapts to Champions League needs: Shock and awe one week, armadillo defense the next 04/18/2024 09:14am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Antonio Rudiger stared down the goalkeeper, took a deep breath, and drilled home the decisive penalty, proving once again there is no tougher task in club soccer than beating Real Madrid in the Champions League. Madrid’s victory over Manchester City after a penalty shooto NFL draft has potential to set a record for most players on offense selected in the first round 04/18/2024 08:35am • The NFL draft will be offensive. We’re not talking about hurt feelings. This draft has the potential to set a record for most offensive players selected in the first round. No draft has seen more than 19 players on offense chosen in the first round. That happened three times, most recently i Abu Ghraib military contractor warned bosses of abuses 2 weeks after arriving, testimony reveals 04/17/2024 10:06pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison resigned within two weeks of his arrival and told his corporate bosses that mistreatment of detainees was likely to continue. Jurors saw the October 2003 email from Rich Arant, who wor Ashanti and Nelly are engaged and expecting a baby 04/17/2024 06:45pm • (CNN) — Congratulations are in order for singer Ashanti and rapper Nelly. The reunited couple have gone public with both a pregnancy and their engagement. They shared the news exclusively with Essence magazine, which posted an announcement Wednesday on social media. “This new year of my li Boeing put under Senate scrutiny during back-to-back hearings on aircraft maker's safety culture 04/17/2024 05:27pm • An engineer at Boeing said Wednesday that the aircraft company, in rushing to produce as many planes as possible, is taking manufacturing shortcuts that could lead to jetliners breaking apart. “They are putting out defective airplanes,” the engineer, Sam Salehpour, told members of a Senate subco Lab chief faces sentencing in Michigan 12 years after fatal US meningitis outbreak 04/17/2024 01:26pm • HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Days after a routine injection to ease back pain, Donna Kruzich and a friend drove across the border to Canada in 2012 to see end-of-summer theater in Stratford, Ontario. The 78-year-old Michigan woman suddenly became ill and returned home. By early October, she was dead. “M Copenhagen fights the last pockets of a fire that destroyed a 400-year-old landmark 04/17/2024 10:02am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish firefighters toiled Wednesday to extinguish the last pockets of a fire that gutted Copenhagen’s 400-year-old stock exchange building the previous day, as owners of the structure looked ahead to rebuilding the iconic landmark. Tuesday’s blaze, which destroyed h Russian soldiers who quit Putin's war get no hero’s welcome abroad as asylum claims surge 04/15/2024 06:41pm • ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — If the choice was death or a bullet to the leg, Yevgeny would take the bullet. A decorated hero of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Yevgeny told his friend and fellow soldier to please aim carefully and avoid bone. The tourniquets were ready. The pain that followed was the pric Ex-youth center worker testifies that top bosses would never take kids' word over staff 04/15/2024 04:17pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A man who oversaw staff training and investigations at New Hampshire’s youth detention center testified Monday that top-level administrators sided with staff against residents, while lower-level workers wanted to punish kids for speaking up. Virgil Bossom returned to the w Americans are saving less these days. Here’s why and what that means 04/14/2024 07:30am • Washington (CNN) — Americans haven’t been stashing money into their savings accounts like they used to, according to government statistics. That’s part of the reason why consumer spending has been so robust since the economy ascended from pandemic depths, despite high inflation and elevated in