Four officers in now-disbanded police unit charged in cover-up of 2020 beating
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Four Baton Rouge police officers have been indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on charges alleging that they covered up the…
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Indictment alleges West Virginia couple used adopted Black children as ‘slaves,’ judge says
Associated Press A couple in West Virginia is set for trial later this year after some of their adopted children were found locked in a shed. Donald…
Continue ReadingUS ambassador calls China’s tech support for Russia during Ukraine invasion a ‘major mistake’
SHANGHAI, China (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Beijing says China’s support for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by providing…
Continue ReadingWhy NASA astronauts are delayed at the space station after Boeing Starliner launch
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two astronauts are spending extra time at the International Space Station as NASA and Boeing troubleshoot capsule…
Continue ReadingJudge sets $10M bond for second Venezuelan man accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl
HOUSTON (AP) — A second Venezuelan man living in the U.S. illegally and accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl has been ordered to be held…
Continue ReadingHaitians hold their breath as newly arrived Kenyan police force prepares to face gangs
Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as the country welcomes the fourth major foreign…
Continue ReadingFlorida’s balloon ban will protect sea turtles, birds and other marine life
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Intentionally releasing a balloon will soon be illegal in Florida. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday…
Continue ReadingBiden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex ban
AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pardoning potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of…
Continue ReadingSoprano Anna Netrebko announces separation from tenor Yusif Eyvazov
Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Yusif Eyvazov have separated. The couple had been together since 2014, when they appeared together in Puccini’s…
Continue ReadingTransgender prison inmate assaulted by cellmate in Arizona gets $10K judgment in civil rights suit
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A transgender woman who was assaulted by a male inmate while housed in a men’s unit at an Arizona penitentiary has won a…
Continue ReadingBaby cousin with cancer inspires girls to sew hospital gowns for sick kids across U.S. and Africa
Associated Press FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — Fighting brain cancer, little Giada Demma was lying in her pediatric hospital bed, her tiny body virtually…
Continue ReadingNo shield required: ‘Captain America’ star Anthony Mackie’s own super power is swimming with sharks
Associated Press Marvel star Anthony Mackie swam with sharks in the Gulf of Mexico for the new National Geographic special “Shark Beach with…
Continue ReadingMore than a hundred Haitian migrants arrived in a sailboat off the Florida Keys
Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Local and federal agencies say that a group of more than a hundred Haitian migrants arrived in a sailboat off the…
Continue ReadingWisconsin youth prison counselor is declared brain-dead after inmate assault
Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A county coroner says a counselor at Wisconsin’s youth prison has been declared brain-dead following a…
Continue ReadingSuspected Houthi attack targets a ship in the Gulf of Aden, while Iraqi-claimed attack targets Eilat
Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities say a suspected missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a ship in…
Continue ReadingKaren Read’s jurors weigh evidence in a murder trial that challenged police integrity
Associated Press DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The fate of Karen Read is in the hands of jurors after a two-month murder trial in the death of her Boston…
Continue ReadingJury recommends death penalty for ex-prison guard trainee who murdered 5 women inside Florida bank
Associated Press A jury has recommended that a former prison guard trainee be sentenced to death for his execution-style murders of five women inside…
Continue ReadingEx-‘Jackass’ star Bam Margera will spend six months on probation after plea over family altercation
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Former “Jackass” star Bam Margera will spend six months on probation after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct…
Continue ReadingTrial starts over the 2022 assassination attempt of Argentina’s Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine federal court has opened proceedings in the trial of three people suspected in the…
Continue ReadingJustices seem set to allow emergency abortions in Idaho for now, a prematurely posted opinion says
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at…
Continue ReadingFormer Honduran president sentenced to 45 years for helping traffickers get tons of cocaine into US
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in New York Wednesday to 45 years in…
Continue ReadingIndependent UN experts accuse Sudan’s warring parties of using starvation as weapon
Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Human rights experts working for the United Nations have accused Sudan’s warring parties of using starvation as a…
Continue ReadingMedical workers in Albania are charged with abusing their posts by sending cancer patients elsewhere
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Two doctors and five other medical workers in Albania have been charged with abusing their posts by sending cancer patients…
Continue ReadingFormer GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger endorses Biden, whose campaign wants to flip anti-Trump Republicans
AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger has endorsed President Joe Biden. “I am proud to stand up here…
Continue ReadingSri Lanka reaches deal on debt restructuring with bilateral creditors including China and France
Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced a debt restructuring deal with countries…
Continue ReadingThe collapse of a cable car in Colombia kills 1 person and injures 20
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A cable car in the Colombian city of Medellin failed and plunged onto a sidewalk next to a station platform Wednesday,…
Continue ReadingPennsylvania bishop Sean Rowe elected new leader of Episcopal Church. He’s the youngest since 1789
Associated Press Sean Rowe, a 49-year-old bishop from western Pennsylvania, on Wednesday became the youngest person ever elected as leader of the…
Continue ReadingFeds charge 5, including man acquitted at trial, with conspiring to bribe Minnesota juror with $120K
Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five people were charged Wednesday with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in…
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court rules for Biden administration in a social media dispute with conservative states
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far…
Continue ReadingFrance bans extreme-right and radical Islamic groups ahead of polarizing elections
Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s government has ordered the dissolution of multiple extreme right and radical Muslim groups, four days…
Continue ReadingSuspect in Ohio killing rearrested after jail freed him by mistake
CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities say a suspect in an Ohio killing has been rearrested after a jail mistakenly released him because of a typo. U.S.…
Continue ReadingA US journalist goes on trial in Russia on espionage charges that he and his employer deny
Associated Press YEKATERINBURG, Russia (AP) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich went on trial behind closed doors in Yekaterinburg on…
Continue ReadingFrom DVF to Star Wars, filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy charts her own path in Hollywood
AP Film Writer Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s oeuvre defies simple categorization. She’s made documentaries about acid attack victims and…
Continue ReadingStock market today: Asian shares are mostly lower ahead of key US inflation report
AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Thursday in most Asian markets ahead of a key U.S. inflation report due Friday that might point the…
Continue ReadingSupreme Court overturns ex-mayor’s bribery conviction, narrowing the scope of public corruption law
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has overturned the bribery conviction of a former Indiana mayor, the latest in a series of…
Continue ReadingElie Saab’s classic fall couture has foliage, shimmer — and capes for men
AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Elie Saab again transported his VIP guests, including Avril Lavigne and Ellie Goulding, to Paris’ Musee des Arts…
Continue ReadingAlex Morgan left off the 18-player U.S. soccer roster headed to the Olympics
AP Soccer Writer U.S. national team forward Alex Morgan has been left off coach Emma Hayes’ roster for the Paris Olympics. Morgan was the most…
Continue ReadingWind-driven wildfire spreads near popular central Oregon vacation spot and prompts evacuations
Associated Press A wildfire in Oregon’s high desert, near the popular vacation destination of Bend, grew rapidly Wednesday, and officials urged the…
Continue ReadingAfter a failed bid to become prime minister, Croatia’s president says he’ll run for a second term
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s President Zoran Milanović says he plans to seek a second five-year term at a presidential election expected…
Continue ReadingGermany moves to ease the deportation of foreigners who glorify terrorist acts
Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German goverment has launched new legislation to ease the deportation of foreigners who publicly approve of…
Continue ReadingHe flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000
ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state…
Continue ReadingIllinois man rejects deal to plead guilty to 7 murder charges in shooting at 2022 July Fourth parade
Associated Press WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The man accused of opening fire at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago in 2022 has rejected a…
Continue ReadingKenya’s president says he won’t sign the finance bill that led protesters to storm the parliament
Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president said Wednesday he won’t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes that…
Continue ReadingSwollen river claims house next to Minnesota dam as flooding and extreme weather grip the Midwest
Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam collapsed into the…
Continue ReadingHealth care needs to diversify its workforce to get rid of racial inequalities, a new report says
AP Health Writer A new national report says racial and ethnic inequities in health care are found in every state despite some progress over the past…
Continue ReadingGassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from…
Continue ReadingFed up with the UK Conservatives, some voters turn to the anti-immigration Reform party for answers
Associated Press CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (AP) — Dorothy Carr is fed up with how things are run in her hometown. It’s impossible to get a…
Continue ReadingNo charges for London driver who had seizure and plowed into a school, killing 2 children
LONDON (AP) — The driver of a 4×4 who plowed into a school in southwest London in July, killing two children, suffered a seizure that could…
Continue ReadingGunfire, lawlessness and gang-like looters are preventing aid distribution in Gaza, an official says
Associated Press LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — Thousands of tons of food, medicines and other aid piled up on a beach in war-torn Gaza is not reaching…
Continue ReadingA Vatican Radio territory in north Rome once blamed for electro-smog will become a solar farm
Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has decreed that an area of northern Rome long used by Vatican Radio will now house a field of solar…
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