Month: January 2022

SEATTLE (AP) — An investigation by Seattle’s police watchdog group shows Seattle police exchanged detailed fake radio transmissions about a nonexistent group of menacing right-wing extremists at a crucial moment during 2020 racial justice protests. The Seattle Times reports the radio chatter on June 8, 2020, about members of the Proud Boys marching around downtown

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rockin’ Ryan Seacrest is still the king of New Year’s Eve television, no matter what Andy Cohen might say. Seacrest’s ABC show, celebrating its 50th anniversary, reached just under 20 million viewers for the hour surrounding the ball’s drop in New York City’s Times Square.

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will renew his push for federal voting rights legislation in a speech next week in Georgia. Georgia is among states with new laws limiting how and when people can vote. Biden will be joined Tuesday in Atlanta by Vice President

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba was an early leader in recognizing women’s rights and equality after Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959. Women were put in positions of power and responsibility, and the government legalized abortion and created day care centers, steps that allowed women to join the workforce alongside men. Yet

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The revelation of text messages from Sean Hannity offering advice for former President Donald Trump raises ethical issues for both the prime-time host and his network, Fox News Channel. The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol revealed a series of

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The former chief financial officer for the New Mexico Spaceport Authority has filed a whistleblower lawsuit. Zach DeGregorio alleges he was forced to resign after raising concerns about financial malfeasance. DeGregorio also claims top officials committed securities fraud by refinancing spaceport gross receipts tax bonds

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian health officials have announced that vaccination of children between the ages of 5 and 11 will begin in January, without the demand for prescriptions from doctors the government had previously signaled. The government’s guidelines come almost three weeks after the health regulator authorized use of

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Police say the father of a New Hampshire girl who authorities believe was last seen in 2019 at age 5, but who wasn’t reported missing until the end of last year, has been arrested on several charges. Thirty-one-year-old Adam Montgomery was arrested on a second-degree assault

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A man is facing charges after an Illinois child welfare worker was stabbed to death during a home visit in a town south of Springfield. Sangamon County authorities say 36-year-old Diedre Silas was conducting a welfare check at a home in Thayer on Tuesday afternoon

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Italian government is making it obligatory for people 50 or older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. As the omicron variant steadily drives up daily caseloads to new records in Italy, Premier Mario Draghi’s Cabinet met Wednesday evening and voted unanimously for the mandate. Earlier in

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A news anchor at a St. Louis television station has received an outpouring of support from around the world since a viewer criticized her for “being very Asian” and told her to “keep her Korean to herself.” KSDK-TV anchor Michelle Li did a segment on New Year’s Day about foods people

BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — A judge has denied bail to the second of two people charged with killing one police officer and wounding another at a northern Illinois hotel last week. Judge Kathy Bradshaw-Elliott’s denial of bail to 25-year-old Darius Sullivan on Wednesday came two days after she denied it to his 26-year-old co-defendant, Xandria

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Richmond man has been refunded the $600 he was charged for an Uber ride that became trapped with hundreds of others on an icy stretch of Interstate 95 in Virginia this week. WTOP-FM reports that Andrew Peters was returning from San Francisco and taking an Uber from Dulles International Airport

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has tapped a former coal lobbyist and Trump administration Environmental Protection Agency chief to join his cabinet in a role overseeing the state’s environmental policy. Youngkin’s transition announced Wednesday that Andrew Wheeler is his pick for secretary of natural resources. The

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MARTHA IRVINE Associated Press Parents who send their children to a day care center in Arlington, Texas, will be able to breathe easier after the city refused to let a major energy company drill more gas wells a few hundred feet from the center’s playground. The Arlington City Council voted 5-4

MIAMI (AP) — Hundreds of passengers who embarked on an 11-day cruise from Miami were returned to port after less than two days at sea because of several dozen COVID-19 cases among crew members. The pandemic also prompted a last-minute cancelation of another cruise that was scheduled to depart Wednesday. Norwegian Cruise Line said it

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis couple who made headlines by waving guns at racial injustice protesters in 2020 is in court trying to get the weapons back back. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Robert Dierker of the City Counselor’s Office told a judge during a virtual hearing Wednesday that the city of

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland vows to hold accountable anyone who was responsible for last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, whether they were physically there or not. In a speech to Justice Department employees Wednesday, Garland said prosecutors remained “committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Employees of a Starbucks store in upstate New York who voted to unionize last month have walked off the job. The employees in Buffalo say they don’t have the staff or resources to work safely amid surging COVID-19 cases. Six employees formed a picket line Wednesday outside the store and led

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dramatic surge in coronavirus cases has sidelined about 800 Los Angeles city police and firefighters and led to slightly longer ambulance and fire response times. That’s adding to concerns about shortages of critical staff including health care workers. Mayor Eric Garcetti said Thursday that more

By MARK PRATT Associated Press A Russian millionaire who U.S. authorities allege participated in a scheme to steal information on computer networks and use it to trade shares of companies, bringing in tens of millions of dollars illegally, has been denied bail. A federal judge ordered 41-year-old Vladislav Klyushin detained Wednesday given that he is

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the weeks before the Jan. 6, 2021, certification of President Joe Biden’s victory, a small group of House Democrats huddled to contemplate what they would do if then-Vice President Mike Pence tried to overturn the presidential election. They never came up with a perfect answer.

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Tennessee House Republican lawmaker has apologized for losing his temper and being ejected from watching a high school basketball game after getting into a confrontation with a referee. Video footage of the game appears to show Rep. Jeremy Faison make either