Month: November 2021

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — UNICEF is warning that schools in Haiti are increasingly at the mercy of gangs, with children becoming targets of robbery or ransom. The agency said Tuesday that at least seven schools in the capital of Port-au-Prince have been forced to pay unidentified gangs in exchange for security in the past two

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The iconic French label Chanel drew throngs of guests and some celebrities to view the brand’s latest resort collection with a runway show in Dubai. The collection shown Tuesday was defined by stark two-tone pieces inspired by the label’s founder. The label hosted an

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A hearing examiner is recommending that New Mexico regulators reject a proposed merger involving the state’s largest utility, Public Service Co. of New Mexico, with Spanish energy giant Iberdrola. The recommendation by Public Regulation Commission hearing examiner Ashley Schannauer says the potential downsides of the merger outweigh the benefits. Under

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police smashed their way into a suburban house and rescued a 4-year-old girl whose disappearance from her family’s camping tent more than two weeks ago both horrified and captivated Australians. Officials wept with relief after seeing body camera video of a police officer scooping up the

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after a man he shot in 2017 died from his injuries. District Attorney Chesa Boudin said Tuesday San Francisco Police Officer Kenneth Cha was charged with voluntary manslaughter and assault with a semiautomatic firearm,

MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says suspects being held in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection do not need to be removed from the District of Columbia jail despite their complaints about conditions there. The Marshals completed an inspection of the jail complex in the

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A top Russian security official has met with the visiting chief of the Central Intelligence Agency in Moscow. Kremlin Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev met CIA Director William Burns on Tuesday to discuss U.S.-Russian relations, according to Patrushev’s office. It didn’t provide any details. Ties between the

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Jean Rounds, the wife of Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, has died in hospice care. She was 65. Jean Rounds had been undergoing treatment for cancer since May of 2019. Doctors initially found a malignant, aggressive tumor near her sciatic nerve and she

By TERRY TANG Associated Press Two major U.S. cities have elected their first Asian American mayor and a third could join them. Boston’s next mayor will be Michelle Wu. The city’s first Asian American city councilor on Tuesday beat Annissa Essaibi George, who is Arab Polish American. In Cincinnati, Aftab Pureval, who is of Tibetan

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. congresswomen have renewed demands for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide a formal apology and release records in connection with the January 2020 detainment of 200 Iranian Americans at the U.S.-Canada border. Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Suzan DelBene sent a letter Tuesday to the

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Federal regulators have delivered a tough report to a Michigan city where residents have been urged not to drink the water. The Environmental Protection Agency says Benton Harbor had failed to timely warn people about high levels of lead in the water and must make improvements at its water plant.

By SARA BURNETT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press Republican Glenn Youngkin mobilized voters with concerns over race and education and made slight gains with suburban voters and other key groups to improve on Donald Trump’s poor showing last year and win election as Virginia governor. That’s according to a survey of voters, AP VoteCast. The

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Spike” is a new photograph book to be published November 17. It’s filled with images Spike Lee’s brother David shot over the years as his older brother’s on-set photographer, with stills from Spike’s 35-plus films. It even has custom typography based on Radio Raheem’s “LOVE/HATE”

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to top executives of ExxonMobil, Chevron and other oil giants, charging that the companies have not turned over documents needed by the committee to investigate allegations that the oil industry concealed evidence about the dangers of global

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The trial has been delayed for a former Fort Worth police officer who was charged with murder after shooting a Black woman through a back window of her home while responding to a call about an open front door in 2019. Aaron Dean’s trial had been scheduled to begin Nov.

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani’s legal team has asked a court-appointed monitor to block prosecutors from seeing some of the thousands of electronic files that were seized from his phones and computers during an FBI raid in April. A court-appointed monitor said Tuesday that of the 2,200 seized electronic

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The attorney for a Missouri man accused of killing his Chinese wife says the woman’s death in 2019 was a tragic accident. During opening statements Tuesday, defense attorney Scott Rosenblum said Joseph Elledge pushed his wife, Mengqi Ji, during an argument at their Columbia home, causing Ji to fall and hit

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been released from a Washington, D.C. hospital a day after falling and hitting his head while helping Howard University students who are protesting campus living conditions. A Jackson spokesman says the 80-year-old left Howard University Hospital after an overnight stay and was

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Jurors are deliberating in the trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged with murder in the death of a 12-year-old Colorado girl who disappeared in 1984. Suspect Steve Pankey was a neighbor of Jonelle Matthews and her family when she vanished after being dropped off at her empty home

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon-based youth climate activists say settlement talks with the U.S. Department of Justice have failed six years after they first filed a federal lawsuit in Eugene. The 21 plaintiffs alleged in the original lawsuit against the U.S. that they have a constitutional right to a climate that sustains life and that

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Police say three people have been arrested in the killing of a 19-year-old woman who was last seen leaving a Halloween party over the weekend in Northern California. Fairfield Police Lt. Jausiah Jacobsen said in a statement that Leilani Beauchamp, of Carmel, was last seen leaving a party Saturday in Sacramento

By PETER SMITH Associated Press The spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians has given his formal blessing to a shrine that will replace a small parish church destroyed during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople presided at the ceremonial door opening at St. Nicholas

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police have found the bullet-ridden bodies of 11 men in the western state of Michoacan, where several drug cartels have been waging bloody turf battles. State prosecutors said late Monday the bodies were found near the town of Tarecuato, in the northern part of the state near the border with Jalisco

BOSTON (AP) — Celebrity chef Mario Batali’s trial on a sexual misconduct charge in Boston has been set for April. The office of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Tuesday that the trial will take place April 11 in Boston Municipal Court. Batali pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and battery on allegations that

By DAVID BILLER and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s seven-day total for deaths from COVID-19 has fallen to its lowest level since the start of the pandemic. That’s according to online research website Our World in Data. The nation recorded 2,188 deaths in the seven days through Nov. 1, a