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Workers unload a part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train from a cargo ship at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers lower an electric multiple unit, part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train, onto a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Security personnel stand guard as workers position a part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train onto a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers position a part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train onto a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers secure an electric multiple unit, part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train, onto a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers use crane to unload part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train from a cargo ship at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers and officials watch as a part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train is placed onto a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers unload a part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train from a cargo ship at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers lower an electric multiple unit, part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train, onto a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Security personnel stand guard as workers position a part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train onto a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers position a part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train onto a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers secure an electric multiple unit, part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train, onto a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers use crane to unload part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train from a cargo ship at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
Workers and officials watch as a part of Chinese-made high-speed passenger train is placed onto a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. The first high-speed electric train which is prepared for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway arrived in the capital city on Friday.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An initial set of Chinese-made train cars for Indonesia's first high-speed railway arrived in Jakarta's port on Friday.
The 142.3-kilometer (88.4-mile) railway worth $5.5 billion is being constructed by PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia-China, a joint venture between an Indonesian consortium of four state-owned companies and China Railway International Co. Ltd. The joint venture says the trains will be the fastest in Southeast Asia.
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Russian authorities have designated a beloved rock musician, a key ally of jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny and four other people as “foreign agents,” alleging they engaged in unspecified political activities while receiving funding from Ukraine. The term “foreign agent” carries a strong pejorative sense in Russia and implies additional government scrutiny. Among those added to the online “foreign agent” register Friday are Andrey Makarevich, the founder of a cult rock band noted for his previous opposition to Moscow’s actions in eastern Ukraine, and Ivan Zhdanov, the former head of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.
A Silicon Valley executive who prosecutors said lied to investors about inventing technology that tested for allergies and COVID-19 using only a few drops of blood was found guilty of health care fraud. The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday that a federal jury convicted Mark Schena,of Los Altos, California, of defrauding the government after his company billed Medicare $77 million for fraudulent coronavirus and allergy tests. Prosecutors say the 59-year-old touted that his Sunnyvale-based company, Arrayit Corporation, had the only laboratory in the world that offered “revolutionary microarray technology” that allowed it to test for allergies and the coronavirus with the same finger-stick test kit.
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles clinic diluted more than 2,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, and did not inform some patients until months later, according to a report.
Ryan Blaney and Austin Dillon were unsure of their playoff plans until the very end of NASCAR's regular season. Now both will switch from fighting to reach the postseason to chasing a Cup Series title. The chase begins Sunday with the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Blaney is the only driver in the 16-team field without a victory. He nudged his way in by three points over Martin Truex Jr. Dillon pulled off a win-and-in victory at Daytona last week after picking his way through a massive crash 22 laps from the end.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed an open records request seeking emails between two journalism professors and a fact-checking organization. Schmitt's office is seeking three years of some emails sent by the professors and the executive director of PolitiFact while they worked at the Columbia Missourian on the University of Missouri campus. A Schmitt spokesman said the office is "trying to get to the bottom of the fact-checking process." University officials say an outside legal firm is determining which emails will be released to the attorney general. Most private media outlets aren't subject to open records requests, but the Missourian could be because it's linked a public university.
Individual ranchers and the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation are seeking to intervene in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice challenging recently-passed state water rights laws. The request filed earlier this week in U.S. District Court involves laws passed in the last five years that create a path through the Idaho Department of Water Resources for ranchers to take control of federal public land instream water rights through a state-approved forfeiture procedure. The Idaho Legislature is also seeking to intervene. The Justice Department in a lawsuit filed in June contends that the Idaho forfeiture procedure violates the U.S. and Idaho constitutions.
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PITTSBURGH — A welder living in Uniontown accused of violently assaulting the U.S. Capitol using mace in support of Donald Trump's election lies is asking that his case be moved from Washington, D.C., and that prosecutors not be allowed to use information seized from his phone after the FBI …
Greek politicians and the country’s powerful Orthodox Church have joined in condemning a retired bishop who claimed that women aren’t raped “without wanting it.” In an interview at private Skai TV Friday, Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Dodoni supported the Church’s official position against abortion, but added that there should be no abortion even in the case of rape. Greece's education and religious affairs minister condemned the remarks as “inconceivable and ... to be condemned.”
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CHICAGO — Chicago Bears President and CEO Ted Phillips will retire at the end of the 2022 season and the search for his replacement already is underway, the team announced Friday morning.
The Swiss financial markets watchdog says Sberbank, one of Russia’s largest banks, is selling its Swiss subsidiary that had come under pressure because of international sanctions on Russian interests over the invasion of Ukraine. Terms were not disclosed in the sale to Geneva’s Groupe M3. Sberbank (Switzerland) AG, which focuses on trade finance in commodities, was already facing liquidity problems after a first round of Western sanctions hit Russian interests earlier this year. Then, last month, Switzerland’s executive branch froze the bank’s assets and banned it from providing any funds, resources or technical services following a new round of tightening sanctions..
PHILADELPHIA — A Black family that was apparently snubbed by a mascot at Sesame Place in July was once again snubbed, according to their attorney, this time by the CEO of the park’s parent company, who pledged last month to hear them out.
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A conservative podcaster who embraces former President Donald Trump’s discredited claims of a stolen 2020 election continues to push to get on the November ballot in Ohio’s secretary of state race after being declared ineligible. Terpeshore “Tore” Maras alleges more of the voter signatures she submitted as an Independent should be counted as valid, according to a court complaint filed Friday. LaRose’s office said she fell short of the 5,000 signatures needed to put her name on the ballot by dozens. In an Aug. 26 ruling, the judge who heard the challenge to the signatures that initially had qualified Maras determined that 18 of 35 challenged signatures were invalid.
Florida Georgia Line has reached the end of its line.
Federal authorities reviewing a Chinese company’s purchase of land in North Dakota for a wet corn milling plant say more information is needed before they can decide whether project is detrimental to national security. Fufeng Group’s planned $700 million project in Grand Forks is near a U.S. Air Force base, prompting opponents to raise the concerns about potential for espionage. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States told Fufeng this week that the information it's provided is “insufficient.” The company says it will comply with the government’s request for more information. The Grand Forks city administrator said Friday that infrastructure work being done for the project will be halted until the review is done.
A Kentucky city has recovered more than $3.9 million in housing funds that was taken electronically. The city of Lexington said in a news release Friday that the funds were seized from a private account and refunded to the city. The federal rent assistance and transitional housing funds were meant to be transferred to the Community Action Council. But the release says someone managed to divert the funds into a private account. Investigators have no evidence of criminal activity by employees of the city or Community Action Council. The investigation is continuing.
Gandalf would say a wizard arrives precisely when he means to but the same can't be said for Episode 1 of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power."
The Biden administration is set to announce a more than $1 billion arms sale to Taiwan as U.S.-China tensions escalate over the status of the island. The sale includes $355 million for Harpoon air-to-sea missiles and $85 million for Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. The largest portion of the sale, however, is a $655 million logistics support package for Taiwan's surveillance radar program, which provides defense warnings. This is according to American officials and a congressional aide briefed on the sale. They said the administration is to notify Congress of the sale after close of business on Friday. Acrimony and strident rhetoric between the U.S. and China over Taiwan have increased sharply since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island last month.
A Florida man will spend nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding more than 30 women of more than $1.3 million by pretending to be a doctor on online dating services. U.S. Attorney Jason Cody announced the sentence Thursday. Brian Brainard Wedgeworth who formerly lived in the Florida capital city of Tallahassee and in Center Point, Alabama, used 10 different aliases as part of the scheme. The 47-year-old will also be required to pay nearly $1.2 million in restitution.
LOS ANGELES — The leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been accused by former colleagues of stealing more than $10 million in donations from the organization for his own personal use, according to a lawsuit filed in court this week.
The Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin endorsed by Donald Trump is calling for people to take up “pitchforks and torches” in reaction to a story that detailed his giving to anti-abortion groups and others. Democrats and the campaign of Gov. Tony Evers say that Tim Michels is threatening violence. Michels spokesperson Anna Kelly is downplaying his remarks, saying “only political hacks and media accomplices would freak out about Tim using a figure of speech.” His comments on a conservative talk radio show come amid a strong pushback to a story published earlier this week by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailing his charitable giving.
President Joe Biden has brought back a veteran of past Democratic administrations to put in place the climate part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Biden on Friday put John Podesta in charge of shaping the administration's ambitious climate package, newly invigorated by $370 billion from Congress. Biden also announced the departure of his current climate adviser, Gina McCarthy. A former Environmental Protection Agency chief, McCarthy had led Biden’s domestic climate program during Democrats’ two years of struggle to get the climate financing through Congress.
California teenager Lucy Li has the early 36-hole lead on the LPGA Tour. The 19-year-old Li had another bogey-free round in the Dana Open. She shot a 64 for a two-shot lead over 19-year-old Ruoning Yin of China among early starters. Li is playing with a lot more freedom than some of the players. She already has her LPGA card wrapped up for next year. That's from winning twice on the Epson Tour to secure one of the 10 cards available on the developmental circuit. Lydia Ko and Lexi Thompson are among those playing in the afternoon.
A federal judge has thrown out an indictment charging a boat captain with manslaughter in the deaths of 34 scuba divers three years ago off the California coast. Judge George Wu ruled Friday that the indictment charging the captain of the dive boat Conception with seaman’s manslaughter failed to allege that Jerry Boylan acted with gross negligence. Federal prosecutors argued that the law only requires proving simple negligence. Prosecutors say Boylan failed to post a watch on the boat the night in September 2019 when a fire led to one of the deadliest maritime disasters in recent U.S. history.
LOS ANGELES — Southern California is bracing for a Labor Day weekend full of intense heat as firefighters continue to battle wildfires across the state amid triple-digit heat that could potentially lead to rolling blackouts.
AP source: University presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff have approved expanding it to 12 teams.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is seeking tens of billions of dollars in emergency funds as part of the upcoming short-term spending bill lawmakers will take up this month, ranging from more military aid to Ukraine to heating and cooling assistance for low-income households.
MIAMI — Several people were rescued from the ocean off the Florida Keys Friday morning and the Coast Guard was searching for others who were aboard a large migrant boat attempting to reach South Florida.
Authorities say a passenger van carrying several warehouse workers overturned on a major highway in northern New Jersey, killing four people and injuring eight others. The crash on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Englewood Cliffs occurred around 1:25 a.m. Friday. Authorities say the van ended up in the center median of the southbound lanes of the highway, leaving the driver and all the passengers trapped inside the vehicle. The four people killed were pronounced dead at the scene, while the injured people were being treated at hospitals. Authorities say everyone in the van was from New York City, but their names and further details about them have not been released. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
LOS ANGELES — California’s Death Valley is one of the hottest places on Earth.
Barbara Ehrenreich, the muckraking author, activist and journalist who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch” challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the very idea of an American dream, has died at age 81. A prolific author who regularly turned out books and newspaper and magazine articles, she was a longtime proponent of liberal causes from economic equality to abortion rights. For “Nickel and Dimed,” she worked in minimum wage jobs so she could learn firsthand the struggles of the working poor, whom she called “the major philanthropists of our society.”
The families of two military veterans from Alabama who are missing in Ukraine this week met virtually with federal government officials and Ukraine’s ambassador, Oksana Markarova, and participated in two Ukrainian-American events to observe that country’s Independence Day. Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh went missing after their unit came under heavy fire in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border on June 9.
Mississippi's capital city is struggling with its water system. Many of Jackson's 150,000 residents have had little or no water coming from their faucets the past several days. Problems started days after torrential rain fell in central Mississippi and altered the quality of the raw water entering Jackson’s treatment plants. That slowed the treatment process, depleted supplies in water tanks and caused a precipitous drop in pressure. Jackson has longstanding problems with water quality. It has aging pipes that break. The water treatment plants have had problems with equipment and staffing. And, Jackson has been under a federal order to fix problems with wastewater.
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