Month: November 2021

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Election officials delivered a relatively smooth Election Day after a year of dealing with false claims and death threats. There were few reports of voting or equipment problems Tuesday other than minor issues such as power outages or polling places opening late. Much

By ROBERT JABLON and DONALD THOMPSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Top drug manufacturers have won a round in a California lawsuit that blamed them for the opioid crisis and sought billions of dollars to cover the costs of dealing with it. A judge in Orange County made a tentative ruling Monday that said

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has launched a wide-ranging plan to reduce methane emissions, targeting a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming. Methane packs a stronger short-term climate punch than even carbon dioxide. The plan was announced Tuesday as President Joe Biden wraps up a two-day

By JOSH BOAK, ELLEN KNICKMEYER AND ZEKE MILLER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — President Joe Biden says historic progress on addressing global warming was achieved at the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. He is expressing optimism for a similar outcome in Washington, where his legislative agenda has been stalled by intra-party disagreements. Biden

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge says Kobe Bryant’s widow won’t have to undergo psychiatric testing in her lawsuit over graphic photos of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball star, her 13-year-old daughter and seven others. The judge made the ruling Monday in Los Angeles. Kobe and the others died in January 2020

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s secretary of state says Donald Trump was threatening him when he asked him to “find” enough votes to overturn his loss in Georgia. Republican Brad Raffensperger writes about the call in his new book, “Integrity Counts,” which goes on sale Tuesday. Georgia’s top election official also

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Robot food delivery is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Hundreds of little robots __ knee-high and able to hold around four large pizzas __ are now navigating college campuses and even some city sidewalks in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere. While

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press SEQUOIA CREST, Calif. (AP) — Tiny giant sequoia seedlings have been planted in a California community where wildfire destroyed homes and the massive trees. The nonprofit Archangel Ancient Tree Archive last week led an unusual effort to replace torched sequoias with offspring from some of the world’s oldest and largest

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican coal lobbyist Mike Carey has defeated a two-term state lawmaker to win an open U.S. House seat in central Ohio, while Democrat Shontel Brown coasted to victory in a second up-for-grabs congressional district in the Cleveland area. Carey was endorsed by former President Donald

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis voters have rejected a proposal to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety — an idea that arose from the May 2020 death of George Floyd. The initiative would have changed the city charter to remove a requirement

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press It may be an odd-numbered year but Tuesday’s elections aren’t sleepy, local contests. Voters in Virginia are weighing in on a governor’s race that could rattle President Joe Biden and Democrats in Washington. In Minneapolis, a city still shaken by George Floyd’s murder will vote on whether to disband its

By WILL WEISSERT and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Tight races for governor were unfolding in Virginia and New Jersey late Tuesday with the Democratic candidates narrowly trailing their Republican rivals in states that President Joe Biden easily captured a year ago. Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin were locked in

By CHRISTINA LARSON and EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press JIAOZUO, China (AP) — China is the largest contributor to global warming, but meanwhile, China’s people are already suffering the brunt of climate change. Historic floods that destroyed farms this summer in the country’s agricultural heartland are a preview of the kind of extreme conditions the

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted on all charges in the fatal shooting of two men and wounding of a third during a night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. Among the counts the 18-year-old from nearby Antioch, Illinois, faced were one count of reckless

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats say they have sealed a deal to lower pharmaceutical drug costs for most older Americans as part of President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1.75 trillion domestic proposal. The plan would cap out-of-pocket Medicare costs to $2,000 and lower insulin prices, according to Senate Majority

By MICHAEL TARM, AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A prosecutor says Kyle Rittenhouse instigated the confrontation that led him to shoot three people on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a turbulent protest against racial injustice. But Rittenhouse’s attorney says his client acted in self-defense after one of the

By ROBERT JABLON and DON THOMPSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has ruled for top drug manufacturers as local governments seek billions of dollars to cover their costs from the nation’s opioid epidemic. Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson issued a tentative ruling on Monday that said the governments hadn’t

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized Monday in Washington D.C., after falling and hitting his head while helping Howard University students who are protesting living conditions on campus. A spokesman says the 80-year-old Chicago civil rights leader was entering a campus building when he fell and hit

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Huawei Technologies Co. is gearing up to provide smart services and 5G technology to industries such as healthcare for new revenue streams that might offset the damage to its smartphone business from U.S. sanctions. In the southern city of Guangzhou, the company teamed up with a Chinese hospital to equip it

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has joined a conservative Republican lawmaker’s campaign to investigate books that cover race, gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools. State Rep. Matt Krause of Fort Worth, who chairs the House General Investigating Committee, has written to the state education agency and local school officials to

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has attacked the credibility of French President Emmanuel Macron as a newspaper quoted a text message that suggested France anticipated “bad news” about a now-scuttled submarine deal. Macron this week accused Morrison of lying to him in June about the fate

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man who fatally tortured a Chihuahua puppy and posted a video about it online has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. The U.S. attorney’s office says 19-year-old Angel Ramos-Corrales of Riverside was sentenced Monday for a February assault during which he broke the skull and ribs

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by a Texas online freelance journalist. Priscilla Villarreal said officials in Laredo, Texas, violated her constitutional rights when they arrested her in 2017. She was arrested for alleged violation of a little-known Texas law governing the seeking

An Army veteran who plotted to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. Prosecutors say 28-year-old Mark Domingo of Los Angeles was sentenced Monday. Authorities say the former combat infantryman wanted to bomb an April 2019 rally in Long Beach, but the plot was foiled

By BOB CHRISTIE and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican who has served as president of the Arizona Senate for the past three years and oversaw an unprecedented review of 2020 election results in the state’s most populous county says she won’t seek reelection in 2022. Senate President Karen Fann said