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Workers strike at all 3 Detroit automakers, a new tactic to squeeze companies for better pay 09/15/2023 08:55pm • DETROIT (AP) — Nearly one in 10 of America’s unionized auto workers went on strike Friday to pressure Detroit’s three automakers into raising wages in an era of big profits and as the industry begins a costly transition from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles. By striking simultaneously at Gene New Mexico governor amends order suspending right to carry firearms to focus on parks, playgrounds 09/15/2023 08:04pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday narrowed an order that broadly suspended the right to carry firearms in and around Albuquerque to apply only to public parks and playgrounds where children and their families gather. The governor’s announcement came days afte Pep Boys NHRA Nationals Qualifying 09/15/2023 07:50pm • Friday At Maple Grove Raceway Mohnton, Pa. Qualifying after two rounds Top Fuel 1. Justin Ashley, 3.687 seconds, 335.57 mph; 2. Brittany Force, 3.689, 336.57; 3. Doug Kalitta, 3.696, 331.45; 4. Steve Torrence, 3.698, 332.43; 5. Antron Brown, 3.716, 329.50; 6. Shawn Langdon, 3.728, 331.12; 7. Austin Lawyers argue 3 former officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death should have separate trials 09/15/2023 05:51pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Three former Memphis police officers accused of fatally beating Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop should have separate trials because they have different levels of responsibility than two other former colleagues who also are charged with murder in the highly publicized case, What's at stake as 13,000 workers go on strike at major US auto makers 09/15/2023 05:46pm • DETROIT (AP) — About 13,000 auto workers have walked off the job at three targeted factories after their union leaders couldn't reach a deal with Detroit's automakers. The United Auto Workers union is seeking big raises and better benefits from General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. They want to get As captured fugitive resumes sentence in the US, homicide in his native Brazil remains unsolved 09/15/2023 05:37pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When the Brazilian prosecutor in charge of a homicide case targeting Danilo Cavalcante saw footage of the 34 year-old crab-walk out of a U.S. prison last month, he thought the fugitive might try to head home, where he stood to receive a considerably lighter sentence. Cavalcan Captured Pennsylvania fugitive tells officials he planned to head to Canada or Puerto Rico 09/15/2023 05:32pm • They caught him just in time. After eluding a police dragnet in southeastern Pennsylvania for two weeks, escaped murderer Danilo Cavalcante could sense authorities were closing in. He knew he had to make a break for it or face capture. So he formulated a plan: The 34-year-old fugitive would carjack Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, known for his inflated forms, has died at age 91 09/15/2023 05:23pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Renowned Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose depictions of people and objects in plump, exaggerated forms became emblems of Colombian art around the world, has died. He was 91. Lina Botero told the Colombian radio station Caracol that her father died Frida 6 'Soldiers of Christ' members are in custody after a woman's body was found in a car trunk 09/15/2023 04:40pm • DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — Five adults and a 15-year-old self-described as “Soldiers of Christ” religious group members were in custody Thursday on murder charges after a woman’s body was found in the trunk of a car parked outside a popular spa in Atlanta's suburbs. Investigators said that someone r Outrage boils in Seattle and in India over death of a student and an officer's callous remarks 09/15/2023 04:33pm • SEATTLE (AP) — Outrage grew Friday over a Seattle police officer's remark that the life of a young woman killed by a speeding patrol car had “limited value." Diplomats from India are asking for an investigation following the death of the Indian graduate student as people in Seattle protested the Guatemala's president-elect says he's ready to call people onto the streets 09/15/2023 03:42pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — President-elect Bernardo Arévalo plans to call Guatemalans into the streets next week to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office, he said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press. It would be Arévalo's first such request since winning the Biden sending aides to Detroit to address autoworkers strike, says 'record profits' should be shared 09/15/2023 03:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday dispatched two of his top aides to Detroit to help resolve the strike by unionized autoworkers, expressing sympathy for the union by suggesting that the Big 3 automakers should share their “record profits.” “No one wants to strike,” Biden sai Daniel Hemric to return to NASCAR Cup Series in 2024 with Kaulig Racing promotion 09/15/2023 02:22pm • BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Daniel Hemric will return to the NASCAR Cup Series next year in a promotion with Kaulig Racing. Hemric is in his second full season racing in the Xfinity Series for Kaulig and third consecutive season overall. He won the Xfinity championship in 2021 driving for Joe Gibbs Rac Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 09/15/2023 01:42pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Railyard explosion in Nebraska isn't expected to create any lingering problems, authorities say 09/15/2023 12:55pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska authorities said they don't expect any lingering problems related to Thursday's explosion of a railroad shipping container carrying an acid used to make explosives because the chemical largely burned off and any residue was contained at the scene. No one was injured in