Month: October 2021

By JILL COLVIN and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Donald Trump rallied Republicans this past week to vote for Glenn Youngkin in the tight race for Virginia governor. But that may be the closest Trump gets to campaigning in the most closely watched election of 2021. The two men aren’t expected to

By ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden says he would prefer to slash the length of the new and expanded programs in his $3.5 trillion social safety net and climate change legislation, rather than eliminate programs entirely. Biden is trying to reassure progressives who are worried their

LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A black bear that was caught on video snacking on food in stores near Lake Tahoe has been shot and killed when it refused to leave a California campsite. The California Department of Fish and Game announced Thursday that the 500-pound male dubbed the “Safeway Bear” was killed in August

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Far from the White House, Donald Trump continues to circle the Republican Party. And still circling Trump is Rep. Adam Schiff. The Intelligence Committee chairman who led the first Trump impeachment and probed the former president’s ties to Russian election interference is now turning his attention

By HAVEN DALEY and LOU KESTEN Associated Press ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — A spokesman says Bill Clinton will spend one more night at a Southern California hospital where he is recovering from an infection. Spokesman Angel Ureña says Saturday that Clinton is making excellent progress. He’ll receive IV antibiotics before an expected release on Sunday.

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand health care workers have administered a record number of vaccine jabs as the nation holds a festival aimed at getting more people inoculated against the coronavirus. Musicians, sports stars and celebrities pitched in for the “Vaxathon” event Saturday which was broadcast on television

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix says it has fired an employee for disclosing confidential financial information about the Dave Chappelle comedy special “The Closer,” which some have condemned as being transphobic. Netflix said Friday that it fired the employee for sharing “commercially sensitive” information that appeared in a Bloomberg news article that mentioned how much

Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Eleven students have drowned and 10 others were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia’s West Java Province. Local officials said 150 students from an Islamic junior high school were participating in the cleanup along the banks of the Cileueur river bank when 21 of

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — A moderately strong earthquake and aftershock has hit Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, killing at least three people and destroying dozens of homes. The quake hit just before dawn Saturday, causing people to run outdoors in a panic. The U.S. Geological Survey said

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior U.N. official says the Taliban told him they will announce “very soon” that all Afghan girls will be allowed to attend secondary schools. UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi, who visited Kabul last week, told U.N. reporters Friday that five of Afghanistan’s 34

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Defense Department says it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in an errant U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a statement Friday that the Defense Department is also working with the State Department

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The leaders of Japan and South Korea say they will look to deepen ties in the face of regional security threats despite strained bilateral relations. Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke Friday by telephone with Korean President Moon Jae-in. Kishida had already spoken to other world

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Al Wolf is used to clearing one or two snakes from under people’s homes. But recently when he was called by a woman who said she had seen rattlesnakes scurry under her Northern California house he was surprised to find more than 90 snakes getting ready to

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The lawyer for an American journalist detained almost five months in military-ruled Myanmar says he is being prosecuted for an offense allegedly carried out by a news service for which he had stopped working more than half-a-year previously. Danny Fenster,  managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, an online

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A truck driver accused of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and injured six others on a Colorado highway has been convicted of vehicular homicide and other charges. Rogel Lazaro Aguilera Mederos was convicted by a Jefferson County jury on Friday in connection with the April 2019 crash on

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) —  An appellate court has ordered a federal judge to consider an Alabama’s inmate’s request to block his execution next week. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled a federal judge prematurely dismissed a lawsuit arguing that Willie B. Smith III was due help

By SARA CLINE Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week, smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage. But police officers didn’t stop them. Portland Police Bureau officials say that’s because legislation passed by Oregon lawmakers this

NEW YORK (AP) — A California man has pleaded guilty to threatening harm in text messages sent during the attack on the Capitol to a New York-based family member of a journalist. Robert Lemke entered the plea Friday in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors say that from November 2020 through early January, Lemke sent threatening electronic

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the U.N. political mission in Haiti after a dispute between China, which has no diplomatic relations with Latin America’s poorest country, and many other members who stressed the importance of the long-term presence of the United

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former Boeing employee has pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud in connection with development of the 737 Max before two of the planes crashed. Mark Forkner made his first appearance in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday. He faces six counts of fraud, and trial has

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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog group says it has filed an ethics complaint against White House press secretary Jen Psaki for a comment she made earlier this week about Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington says Psaki violated the federal Hatch Act

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Ron Watkins, a prolific promoter of false conspiracies about the 2020 election who is closely tied to the QAnon movement, says he is running for Congress as a Republican in Arizona. Watkins has a large and fervent following among Donald Trump supporters who believe the former

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A 2018 candidate for governor of Nevada says his enthusiastic pursuit of big contributions from a Rudy Giuliani associate he met at a Trump hotel ended with a $10,000 check he had to return. Adam Laxalt testified Friday at the election finance trial of Lev Parnas.

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an Elton John album of duets and an HBO documentary about the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump. One of the year’s most anticipated spectacles lands on Friday when the cult sci-fi adaptation “Dune” hits the big screen

By MARCOS ALEMÁN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press BERLIN, El Salvador (AP) — At a geothermal power plant near El Salvador’s Tecapa volcano, 300 computers whir inside a trailer as they make complex mathematical calculations day and night verifying transactions for the cryptocurrency bitcoin. The pilot project has inspired a rash of volcano emojis from

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The president of Central African Republic has declared a unilateral cease-fire with the armed rebels who tried to overthrow his government earlier this year. President Faustin Archange Touadera made the announcement on national radio, saying that the military’s operations against the rebels would

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a Black man shot to death by a U.S. Marshals task force wants a new investigation into the shooting after prosecutors decided not to file any charges. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports Winston Smith Jr.’s family says officers at the scene were never interviewed and submitted only written statements.

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press CUAUTLA, Mexico (AP) — Two young volunteers dressed in long sleeves, jeans and face masks dig into the steep side of stream bank reeking of sewage that flows from a shopping center in the central Mexico town of Cuautla. Neither the overpowering stench, the piles of garbage, nor the suffocating