Month: November 2021

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prospective jurors got their first glimpse of a British socialite charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls and women when a judge began questioning them individually. Wearing a black suit, Ghislaine Maxwell hugged her lawyers when she entered the courtroom Tuesday and

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press NEW ALBANY, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman is scheduled to be a witness when her stepfather is executed this week. David Neal Cox is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday for the 2010 killing of his wife, Kim Kirk Cox. He also pleaded guilty to other crimes,

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime California Rep. Jackie Speier is the latest congressional Democrat to announce retirement from Congress ahead of the 2022 midterm election cycle. The seven-term congresswoman from the San Francisco Bay Area said in a video message Tuesday that after nearly 40 years in public office at the

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The shotgun blasts that hit Ahmaud Arbery punched a gaping hole in his chest and unleashed massive bleeding. That’s according to a medical examiner who testified Tuesday at the murder trial of the three white men accused of chasing Arbery down. Jurors also saw autopsy photos

LONDON (AP) — A British court has found a former official in Muammar Gadhafi’s government “jointly liable” for the fatal 1984 shooting of a police officer outside the Libyan Embassy in London. Constable Yvonne Fletcher was killed when men armed with submachine guns fired from the embassy’s windows on protesters gathered outside the building. A

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The Estonian and Swedish accident investigation boards say a research expedition earlier this year to the wreck of a ferry that sank in the Baltic Sea 27 years ago hasn’t provided new evidence contradicting the official accident investigation report. The M/S Estonia sank in rough weather on

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Jane Campion and Kirsten Dunst admired one another before they’d ever met, but it was Campion who made the first move. She was enamored of Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides” and wrote Dunst a letter. But it would be years until they’d get the chance to work together, on

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding Attorney General Merrick Garland immediately fire the director of the beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons. Sen. Dick Durbin’s demand on Tuesday comes two days after an Associated Press investigation detailing serious misconduct involving correctional officers. More than 100

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Lazio is sponsoring a soccer friendly between the Vatican and a team from the World Roma Federation. It’s Lazio’s latest effort to promote tolerance amid further episodes of racism and fascism from its fanbase. Captain Ciro Immobile will referee Sunday’s match at Lazio’s Formello training center.

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has asked competition regulators to investigate the national security implications of American technology company NVIDIA’s planned $40 billion takeover of British chip designer Arm Ltd. U.K. Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries asked the Competition and Markets Authority on Tuesday to look into both the deal’s impact on competition and national

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The Qatar-based satellite news network Al-Jazeera says Sudanese authorities have released its bureau chief, two days after he was detained in the African country. The network said on Twitter that its journalist was freed on Tuesday. Sudanese security forces arrested the reporter on Sunday, following a raid on his home in

PARIS (AP) — Six Greenpeace activists have blocked a railroad in southern France in what they say is an attempt to prevent loads of reprocessed uranium from getting exported to Russia. The tracks the activists stood on Tuesday are located in the commune of Pierrelatte just outside a plant where radioactive material is processed and

HOUMA, La. (AP) — Authorities in southern Louisiana are searching for a woman who bit off part of an officer’s ear. Houma police say they were trying to break up a fight between several women in a bar’s parking lot just after midnight on Friday when one of them bit the ear of one of

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla (AP) — A Florida teacher hospitalized with COVID-19 has died after her husband unsuccessfully sued to force doctors to treat her with ivermectin, a drug popular among some sceptics of accepted coronavirus treatments despite a lack of studies proving its effectiveness. Tamara Drock’s husband told the Palm Beach Post that she

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says his country is ready to offer whatever support it can to help mend relations between Lebanon and Gulf Arab nations. The unprecedented diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations unraveled late last month and has threatened to destabilize Lebanon’s new government and escalate the country’s

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans have taken a darker view of the economy as inflation has worsened. Yet so far, they appear no less willing to spend freely at retailers, an encouraging sign for the crucial holiday shopping season. Buoyed by solid hiring, healthy job gains

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A senior American official overseeing arms exports says the U.S. remains “fully committed” to a proposed sale of advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates despite the Biden administration slowing down the deal. Mira Resnick of the State Department made the

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Veterans and officials from China and the United States have celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Flying Tigers, American pilots who flew for China in World War II, as a historic example of better relations and cooperation. The online event was held the day leaders of the

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says it will resume allowing air travel to Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mongolia starting Dec. 1. The government coronavirus task force said Russia will also lift the remaining restrictions on flights to Cuba, Mexico and Qatar, and increase the number of flights to Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Vietnam.

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they are no longer ruling out an Islamic extremist motive in a knife attack on a train earlier this month that left four people wounded. Prosecutors in Munich said Tuesday that Islamic State group propaganda videos had been found on the suspect and that material on the 27-year-old’s Facebook

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court says Hungary broke EU law by making it a criminal offense to help migrants apply for asylum. The ruling issued Tuesday is a new legal blow to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s staunchly anti-migrant government. Worried by the arrival of asylum-seekers, Orban accused

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s elected public advocate Jumaane Williams is running for New York governor. The self-described activist is the most progressive candidate in next year’s increasingly crowded Democratic primary race already featuring Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James. Williams is a 45-year-old former

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian judicial panel says that army soldiers “shot, injured and killed” peaceful protesters demonstrating against police brutality at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos in Oct. 2020. The report calls the shootings “a massacre” and says that police also “shot at, assaulted and battered unarmed

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart topped almost all expectations in the third quarter, an encouraging sign for the upcoming holiday shopping season already beset by snarled supply chains and rising costs. The Bentonville, Arkansas, company also raised its full-year earnings guidance and shares rose before the opening bell Tuesday.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — People in the Netherlands can get to know their future queen a little better with the publication of an authorized book about Princess Amalia three weeks before her 18th birthday. The book published Tuesday delves into Amalia’s school life, her work at a beach bar, her love of horseback riding

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have arrived in Jordan as part of the first royal tour since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The British royals were greeted on the tarmac Tuesday by a Jordanian color guard. They were slated to meet

By LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet It’s a critical year to shop small for the holidays, as businesses continue dealing with the fallout of pandemic restrictions, inflation and global supply chain disruptions. Small Business Saturday is Nov. 27, nestled between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Ahead of the shopping day, we talked to small-business, supply-chain and

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow other manufacturers to make its experimental COVID-19 pill. The move could help make the treatment available to more than half of the world’s population. In a statement on Tuesday, Pfizer said it would