NEW YORK (AP) — A worker guiding an out-of-service New York City subway train that this month says he lost radio contact with the driver before the crash and a message to stop at a red light was not received, according to a new federal report.

The communication breakdown came before the out-of-service train crashed at low speed with another 1 train near the 96th Street station on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, derailing both and leaving around 25 people with minor injuries

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The manslaughter retrial for the man who shot former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith following a traffic crash almost eight years ago neared its end Friday, with a defense lawyer insisting rightfully feared for his life when he shot Smith — and the city’s top prosecutor insisting Hayes fired needlessly.

“One gun was fired by one man,” an animated District Attorney Jason Williams said, holding in the air the evidence-tagged handgun that Hayes fired, hitting Smith eight times — seven in the

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Senate is backing a plan to give the state’s appointed election board the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s handling of elections, despite the measure’s sponsor saying that the bill is in “murky water” when it comes to its constitutionality.

The Senate voted 30-19 along party lines Friday for Senate Bill 358, sending it to the House for more debate.

The chamber’s Republican majority also on Friday pushed through a proposal to ban

A scourge of pornographic deepfake images generated by artificial intelligence and sexualizing people without their consent has hit its most famous victim, singer Taylor Swift, drawing attention to a problem that tech platforms and anti-abuse groups have .

Sexually explicit and abusive fake images of Swift began circulating widely this week on the social media platform X.

Her ardent fanbase of “Swifties” quickly mobilized, launching a counteroffensive on the platform formerly known as Twitter and a #ProtectTaylorSwift hashtag to flood it with more positive images of the pop star. Some

New Jersey’s public transit agency said Friday it is scrapping plans for a backup power plant that would have been fueled by natural gas, heartening environmental justice advocates who targeted it and several other power plants in largely minority areas.

NJ Transit said it is redirecting $503 million in federal funding that would have been used to build the backup system, called the TransitGrid Microgrid Central Facility, to other resiliency projects scattered around northern and central New Jersey.

The backup plant was to have been built in Kearny, a

Jesse Smith described the loud noise in the burning Winters Hotel in Vancouver as people were streaming out when she went back to help others and their pets escape.

“It’s wood. So, you could hear just wood burning,” she told a coroner’s inquest on Friday.

She had been in the rooming house that day in April 2022 working for a program that supported tenants with pets.

Smith stood in the atrium, just for a few seconds, shooting video of the smoke and flames

LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) — A small plane crashed in a neighborhood near the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire shortly after takeoff, and firefighters helped remove the trapped pilot, who was taken to a hospital, authorities said Friday.

The plane landed in the woods.

“He was probably 70 feet (21 meters) from a residence, a single-family residence,” Londonderry Fire Chief Bo Butler said at a news conference. “So it was very, very close.

SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia is restricting the use of cellphones in schools and targeting social media companies in an attempt to reduce the harm they cause to children, which Premier David Eby likened to the damage from tobacco and opioids.

Eby said Friday the province would launch services to remove predatory images from the internet used for cyberbullying and extortion, as well as introduce legislation in the spring to allow B.C. to sue social media companies for costs relating to “population-level” harms.

The province

VANCOUVER — Rogers Sugar Inc. says it has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing workers at its Vancouver refinery.

Details of the tentative deal were not immediately available, but the company said a ratification vote will be held next week.

Approximately 140 workers at the refinery have been on strike since Sept. 28. According to the Public and Private Workers of Canada union, the labour dispute stemmed from issues such as wages, benefits, and the company’s proposal to increase refinery operations to 24