Month: October 2021

By EMILIO SANABRIA and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press HERNANDARIAS, Paraguay (AP) — The gigantic Itaipu hydroelectric dam straddling the Brazil-Paraguay border is feeling the heat of Brazil’s worst drought in nine decades. According to Itaipu’s website, 2020  was the was one of the driest years in the plant’s history, with power output at its lowest

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military chief says that the leader of an Islamic State-linked group has been killed. The alleged death of Abu Musab al-Barnawi was not immediately confirmed by the group and there was no immediate way to corroborate the claim. Gen. Lucky Irabor, Nigeria’s chief of defense

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Opening statements have started in the trial of the 1984 killing of a 12-year-old Colorado girl. She was named by former President Ronald Reagan as one of the first missing children featured on milk cartons across the U.S. A former neighbor of the girl went

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The leader of the Marxist party that carried Pedro Castillo to Peru’s presidency says it won’t support his newly named Cabinet. The Free Peru party chief Vladimir Cerrón said on his Twitter account that the party´s deputies won’t give a vote of confidence to the new

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta discussed financial transparency as the East African leader visited the White House on Thursday. Kenyatta faces scrutiny over revelations that he and his family stashed millions of dollars in hidden offshore accounts. Kenyatta was one of more than 330

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities are accusing a fugitive of selling forged paintings by contemporary artist Raymond Pettibon. They say Christian Rosa fled the United States last year and remains at large. An indictment filed in New York City alleges the fraud centered on a well-known series of paintings by Pettibon depicting huge ocean

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State University has removed the chair of its Department of French Studies. The Advocate reports that the move comes after six women filed a lawsuit accusing LSU of doing little to address allegations of sexual harassment and assault against a French graduate student. An email from an LSU official

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A former Marine battalion commander who was relieved of his duties after making comments criticizing the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has pleaded guilty in a special court-martial. An attorney representing Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller confirmed in a text message that his client pleaded guilty at Thursday’s court-martial at Camp Lejeune,

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s deputy humanitarian chief says Yemen’s economy is collapsing, its humanitarian crisis is worsening, and the conflict in the Arab world’s poorest nation is growing more violent. The grim remarks came during his briefing to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday . The official

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A Coast Guard official says the amount of crude oil spilled in an offshore pipeline leak in Southern California is believed to be close to 25,000 gallons, or only about one-fifth of what officials initially feared. The worst-case scenario for the leak off the coast

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Steven DuBois, an Associated Press reporter who spent two decades sharing Oregon’s biggest news and quirkiest neuroticisms with readers, died Tuesday after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 53. Quiet and self-effacing, DuBois avoided the spotlight during his more than 20 years in AP’s Portland

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is slated to return to New York City to provide a videotaped deposition in a case about his security team’s crackdown on a protest during the early days of his presidential campaign in 2015. Trump is expected to record the deposition on

LA PORTE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana couple who accused staffers at a La Porte elementary school of strapping their then-8-year-old autistic daughter into a homemade restraining chair in the classroom have settled their lawsuit against the district. Heather and Charles Castle confirmed this week that the settlement that was reached days before the case

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike Parson has condemned one of Missouri’s largest newspapers for exposing a flaw in a state database that allowed public access to thousands of teachers’ Social Security numbers. Parson’s criticism of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday came even though

ROME (AP) — It’s the end of business for Italy’s bankrupt national carrier Alitalia, and an end of an era for Italy. Alitalia is flying it final flight on Thursday, from Cagliari, Sardinia to Rome, before it formally folds. Alitalia operated in the red for more than a decade will be replaced by a new

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators say they are cracking down on what they’re calling an explosion of businesses’ use of fake reviews and other misleading messages to promote their products and services on social media. The Federal Trade Commission says it has warned hundreds of major corporations and smaller

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Many Norwegians recall it all too well: politicians, residents and Norway’s royal family together mourning an act of home-grown mass violence in a nation where such tragedies are rare. A  bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people in a quiet town Wednesday brought immediate comparisons with a terror

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a raft of progressive new laws in the weeks after he defeated an attempt to remove him from office. The Democrat signed laws that require gender-neutral displays of children’s toys and toothbrushes in large department stores. He made it illegal

By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Industrial gas supplier Air Products has announced it will build a $4.5 billion clean energy facility in Louisiana’s capital region. Air Products President and CEO Seifi Ghasemi said the Ascension Parish site will be the largest permanent carbon dioxide sequestration facility in the world, helping

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Reproductive rights supporters are asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to put three anti-abortion laws on hold, including restrictions on medication-induced abortions. The appeal filed Wednesday comes after District Judge Cindy Truong said she would allow the laws to take effect Nov. 1, pending the outcome of a legal challenge. The case

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Caesars Entertainment and the company that produces the show “Absinthe” in Las Vegas are teaming up on theater and dining projects in three states that will cost nearly $75 million. Caesars tells The Associated Press it has signed a deal with Spiegelworld to create new

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is on an asteroid roll as it gets set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing rocks. A robotic trailblazer named Lucy is due to blast off Saturday on a 12-year cruise

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The mother of a letter carrier who shot a supervisor and a manager before killing himself in a Tennessee postal facility says he was not a violent person and had been bullied at work. Tracey Haley told The Associated Press on Thursday that her 28-year-old son