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Two space fans get seats on billionaire's private flight

A billionaire's private SpaceX flight has filled its two remaining seats with two longtime space fans. The newest passengers are a scientist-educator from Arizona and a Seattle-area data engineer whose college buddy actually won the seat in a lottery but gave him the prize. The two were introduced Tuesday as the newest crew members. They will join tech businessman Jared Isaacman, who's paying for the three-day ride around the globe this fall while also raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. An employee of St. Jude's was previously selected as a passenger.

Donations for Asian American groups surge after killings

Donations and contribution pledges to Asian American and Pacific Islander groups have spiked since the March 16 shooting in Atlanta that killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, and brought renewed attention to violence against Asian Americans. About…

States struggle to get rent relief to tenants amid pandemic

Fearing a wave of evictions, states last year announced plans to get tens of millions of dollars into the hands of cash-strapped tenants. But nearly a year later, the efforts have had mixed results. Many tenants were helped with more than $3 billion in federal coronavirus relief. But housing advocates said many programs fell far short of their goals. Some were overwhelmed by demand, and others were undermined by burdensome criteria that denied needy renters. Still others faced resistance from landlords who refused to accept the money or tenants who only learned about the programs after they were evicted.

Raised fists, kneeling during anthem OK at US Olympic trials

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee will allow raised fists and kneeling during the national anthem at Olympic trials. That will preview a contentious policy the USOPC expects to stick to when American athletes head to Tokyo this summer. The USOPC released a nine-page document to offer guidance about the sort of “racial and social demonstrations” that will and won't be allowed by the hundreds of athletes who will compete for spots on the U.S. team in various sports. The guidance came three months after the federation, heeding calls from its athletes, determined it would not enforce longstanding rules that ban protests at the Olympics.

Latest graphic novel about John Lewis coming in August

The award-winning graphic novels about congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis will continue a year after his death. The publisher Abrams announced Tuesday that “Run: Book One” will be published Aug. 3. That's just over a year after Lewis died at 80. As with the “March” trilogy, which traced Lewis’ growing involvement with the civil rights movement in the 1960s, “Run” features longtime collaborator Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell. They shape a narrative around Lewis’ reflections. Comic artist L. Fury will assist with illustrations. “Run: Book One” begins after the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

Syrian who fled to Germany drops out of race for parliament

BERLIN (AP) — A Syrian man who came to Germany as an asylum-seeker in 2015 and was running for a seat in parliament in his new country's September election said Tuesday that he is withdrawing his candidacy. Tareq Alaows, who…

A look at President Biden's first 11 judicial nominees

President Joe Biden has announced his first slate of judicial nominees. The list released by the White House early Tuesday includes Black, Muslim and Asian American Pacific Islander candidates among the nine women and two men. The most prominent selection is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Jackson would fill the vacancy created by Judge Merrick Garland’s move to lead the Justice Department. President Barack Obama had considered Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016. Biden has promised to nominate a Black woman for the high court if he has the opportunity to do so.

Slovak premier, government resign over Russian vaccine deal

PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia's Prime Minister Igor Matovic and his government resigned on Tuesday to ease a political crisis triggered by a secret deal to buy Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. It is the first European government to collapse due…

IMF head: global growth prospects rising but dangers remain

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the 190-nation International Monetary Fund says prospects for global growth have brightened since January, helped by a $1.9 trillion U.S. rescue package. But she warns that uneven progress in fighting the pandemic could jeopardize…

Biden Wants $4t Infrastructure Package Approved Over Summer

Biden announces diverse first slate of judicial nominees

President Joe Biden has announced his first slate of nominees to serve on federal courts and for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The list released by the White House early Tuesday includes Black, Muslim and Asian American Pacific Islander candidates among the nine women and two men. Biden calls it a “trailblazing slate” of nominees. The White House says the nominees reflect Biden's belief that the federal courts should reflect the “full diversity of the American people.” Former President Donald Trump leaned heavily on white men to fill judicial vacancies.

Consumer confidence surges in March to highest point in year

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence surged in March to the highest reading in a year, helped by increased vaccinations and more government economic support. The Conference Board said Tuesday its consumer confidence index rose to 109.7 in March, the…

Years later, Chickasaw remains returning to Mississippi home

Over the last century, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History has stored the remains of hundreds of Native Americans who once inhabited the state. Most of the remains were found in the Mississippi Delta and range from 750 to 1,800 years old. For decades, they sat on shelves in the state’s collections. Now, 403 Chickasaw ancestors have been returned to their people. This initiative is the largest of its kind conducted by the state of Mississippi since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, three decades ago.

'Lighting a fuse': Amazon vote may spark more union pushes

What happens inside a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama could have major implications not just for the country’s second-largest employer but the labor movement at large. Organizers are pushing for some 6,000 Amazon workers there to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on the promise it will lead to better working conditions, better pay and more respect. Amazon is pushing back, arguing that it already offers more than twice the minimum wage in Alabama and workers get such benefits as health care, vision and dental insurance without paying union dues. The two sides are fully aware that it’s not just the Bessemer warehouse on the line.

DraftKings buys VSiN sports betting video broadcast company

DraftKings has bought Vegas Sports Information Network, a multiplatform broadcast and content company delivering sports betting news, analysis, and data to U.S. customers. DraftKings made the announcement Tuesday. The acquisition provides more content for DraftKings, which has retail or online sports betting operations in 14 states. Terms of the deal were not released. It continues a nascent trend in the industry of sports betting and gambling companies acquiring broadcast partners in an effort to reach more potential sports betting customers, a tactic employed last year by Bally’s Corp. in partnering with Sinclair Broadcast Group. VSiN's on-air roster includes the noted sports broadcaster Brent Musburger.

AP PHOTOS: Spring training is MLB's most charmed season

A scramble up the grass hill for a home run souvenir. The scent of sunscreen mixed with pine tar. Games where no one really cares if the home team wins or loses -- or winds up in a tie. And…

Birds as revelations: Atwood writes foreword for Gibson book

NEW YORK (AP) — When Margaret Atwood would receive invitations over the years to literary events around the world, literature wasn't the only factor shaping her response. She also kept in mind the interests of her longtime partner and fellow…

School Plotters Often Were Bullied, Suffered From Depression

School plotters often are bullied, suffer from depression

Students who make plans to attack schools show the same types of troubled histories as those who carry them out. A U.S. Secret Service study released Tuesday shows the students were badly bullied, often suffered from depression with stress at home and exhibited behavior that worried others. The report finds that if other students, teachers and the community are aware of these behaviors, they can work to prevent school shootings. The study by the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center is a twist on the study of school shootings. The group analyzed 100 students responsible for plotting 67 thwarted attacks nationwide from 2006 to 2018 in K-12 schools.

US home prices soared in January by most in seven years

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices increased at the fastest pace in seven years in January as the pandemic has fueled demand for single-family houses even as the supply for such homes shrinks. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price…

Epic Games complains about Apple to UK competition watchdog

LONDON (AP) — Epic Games submitted a complaint Tuesday about Apple's alleged “monopolistic practices" to the U.K. competition watchdog, which is investigating the iPhone maker over concerns it has a dominant position in app distribution. The move by the maker…

Dapper Labs, creators of NBA Top Shot, get $305M in funding

Canadian blockchain technology company Dapper Labs has secured $305 million in private funding — some of it from current and former NBA players, including Michael Jordan — to scale up its virtual NBA trading card site, the company said Tuesday. Dapper says NBA Top Shot has rung up $500 million in sales and registered more than 800,000 accounts since October. The virtual cards come in the form of a floating digital cube with a video highlight of an NBA player. A LeBron James dunk sold for $210,000 recently but more common cards can often be had for less than $10.

Review: Tammy Duckworth illustrates a bold refusal to quit

Tammy Duckworth’s path to U.S. senator from Illinois was strewn with obstacles that would have defeated all but the most determined. The daughter of a white American military man and a Thai-Chinese woman, Duckworth endured prejudice in her early years overseas and poverty in Hawaii. But as Associate Press critic Jeff Rowe observes in his review of “Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir,” Duckworth overcame far greater obstacles than those as an Army helicopter pilot. Hers is an enduring story of how unfailing determination and a refusal to quit can overcome the most difficult challenges. “When the only obstacle is effort,” Duckworth writes, she will “move heaven and earth.”

UK watchdog: Police acted correctly at vigil for slain woman

LONDON (AP) — A U.K. police watchdog said Tuesday that officers didn't behave “in a heavy-handed manner” when they broke up a vigil for a London woman whose killing sparked an outcry about women's safety. Matt Parr, Her Majesty’s Inspector…

Goldberg, Zendaya to be honored at Essence Hollywood awards

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whoopi Goldberg, Andra Day and Zendaya will be among the honorees at this year's Essence Black Women in Hollywood event, which will be livestreamed during Oscars week for the first time this year. Essence on Tuesday…

Leader of Merkel's party vows to boost German voters' trust

BERLIN (AP) — The new leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's party pledged Tuesday to restore voters' confidence after discontent over Germany's pandemic management and a scandal over lawmakers enriching themselves in mask-procurement deals led to a sharp drop in its…

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