Month: June 2022

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Nicaraguan government has closed an additional 101 civic and charity groups, including the local branch of the Missionaries of Charity established by Mother Teresa. The closures were approved by the country’s congress Wednesday. The move brings to 758 the number of non-governmental organizations closed in Nicaragua over the last four

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a teenager wounded during a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan are suing the shop that sold the handgun used to kill four students and injure six other people. The federal complaint filed Tuesday on behalf of Matthew and Mary

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Four of five former U.S. naval officers have been convicted of conspiracy, bribery and fraud as part of the “Fat Leonard” corruption scandal. The five were the last of 34 defendants to stand trial on charges they were bought off by the Malaysian defense contractor Leonard Francis, who who prosecutors said

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted dictator, praised his father’s legacy and glossed over its violent past as he was sworn in as Philippine president Thursday after a stunning election victory that opponents say was pulled off by whitewashing his family’s image. His

BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia’s foreign minister is visiting Myanmar as part of regional efforts to pursue peace in the country mired in violence and civil unrest since the military seized power last year. State-run television said Prak Sokhonn was welcomed by officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. He is a special envoy

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Department of Justice says it wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases. That’s broader exposure than initially disclosed Tuesday. Attorney General Rob Bonta, who heads the department, said Wednesday he was

By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Evidence suggests twin Russian airstrikes deliberately targeted a theater being used as a shelter in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. That’s according to rights group Amnesty International. The report released Thursday calls the attack a war crime. Amnesty says there is no evidence the Donetsk Academic

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors want a judge to sentence one of the four former Minneapolis police officers convicted of civil rights violations in George Floyd’s killing to as many as 6 1/2 years in prison, but to impose stiffer sentences on two others. They urged the court Wednesday to

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Republican attorney general says that a pre-statehood law that bans all abortions is enforceable. Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced his decision Wednesday and said he will soon file for the removal of an injunction that has blocked it for nearly 50 years. Brnovich has been weighing

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Shareholders of Spirit Airlines will vote next month on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines. If that deal fails, Spirit could be sold to JetBlue Airways. A vote on the Frontier deal had been scheduled for Thursday but was delayed until July 8. The outcome could

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Religious leaders and others in Georgia’s oldest city have called for the police chief’s resignation and a federal probe into the fifth officer-involved shooting in Savannah this year. Authorities said a 31-year-old Black man, Saudi Arai Lee, was shot and killed by a white Savannah police officer after a short chase

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Donald Trump has endorsed a Republican running against Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who last week gave powerful testimony to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. Bowers is blocked by term limits from seeking another term in the Arizona House and

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials in Puerto Rico are raising electric rates again — the seventh time in a year amid continuining power outages and the U.S. territory’s economic crisis. For a client that consumes 800 kilowatt hours, the new rate will be 33 cents per kwh, compared with the previous 29 cents.

SAO PAULO (AP) — The head of Brazilian state-run bank Caixa Economica Federal has resigned amid a sexual harassment investigation against him. A day before Wednesday’s announcement by Pedro Guimarãe, the website Metrópoles reported that prosecutors are investigating accusations by at least five staffers against the bank official. The case is sealed, according to Brazilian

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL and Deshaun Watson’s legal team presented their arguments before a disciplinary officer for a second day with both sides holding firm as the hearing is scheduled to continue in Delaware on Thursday. The league is insisting on an indefinite suspension and Watson’s side is arguing there’s

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Despite a growing recognition of the newspaper industry’s problems among politicians and philanthropists, a new report says a downward trend continues. A report from Northwestern University says local newspapers in the United States are dying at the rate of two per week. There has been

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection issued a subpoena Wednesday to former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, whose reported resistance to Donald Trump’s schemes to overturn his 2020 election defeat has made him a long-sought and potentially revelatory witness. Cipollone is said to have stridently

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a stolen Olympic gold medal belonging to a member of the 2020 U.S. Women’s Volleyball Team has been found in Southern California. Olympian Jordyn Poulter reported the medal stolen May 25 after she discovered her car broken into at a parking garage in Anaheim. Detectives later arrested a suspect

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government will purchase another 105 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in anticipation of a fall booster campaign. The $3.2 billion agreement comes as federal scientists weigh whether and how to update the vaccines to better protect Americans from the rapidly evolving virus. Federal

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted to maintain the U.N. peacekeeping mission in turmoil-wracked Mali. The resolution adopted Wednesday also condemns Mali’s military rulers for using mercenaries that commit human rights and humanitarian violations. And it expresses “grave concern” at the deteriorating political and security

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A man already sentenced to death for an Oklahoma cold-case killing has pleaded guilty to murder in the deaths of two girls and a young woman whose disappearances also went unsolved for decades. William Reece pleaded guilty Wednesday in a courtroom in Galveston and nearby Angleton in the 1997 killings of

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press An expert says the combination of heat and humidity would have quickly created life-threatening conditions inside the packed, un-airconditioned tractor-trailer where dozens of immigrants were found dead this week. It’s unclear how long the immigrants had been inside the trailer, but Jennifer Vanos, an assistant professor in climate and health

By JULIE WATSON and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The two cousins returned to the tiny, hardscrabble hamlet they grew up in in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye in what has become a rite of passage for generations of migrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region in Oaxaca

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump is no longer in contempt of court. Judge Arthur Engoron said Wednesday that Trump has met conditions required to lift the sanction following a legal battle. Engoron had declared Trump in contempt April 25

By HALELUYA HADERO NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is limiting how many emergency contraceptives consumers can buy, joining other retailers who put in place similar caps following the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade. Amazon’s limit, which temporarily caps purchase of the contraceptives at three units per week, went into effect on Monday, a

MEETEETSE, Wyo. (AP) — A distress signal initially thought to be from a crashed aircraft led searchers to a backpacker who’d been mauled by a grizzly bear in a remote Wyoming wilderness, according to sheriff’s officials. No plane or helicopter had crashed but a crew preparing to search the Francs Peak area on Monday learned

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Activists on Wednesday urged Morocco to launch an unbiased investigation into the deaths of at least 23 migrants who attempted to enter Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla last week. The Moroccan Association for Human Rights demanded in a letter to prosecutors that a judicial inquiry be opened into the events

By JAY REEVES and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is officially becoming a justice. Jackson will be sworn as the court’s 116th justice at midday Thursday, just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires. Breyer says in a letter to President