Month: July 2022

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — As one of two Republican members of Congress from Washington to have voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler faces one of her toughest primaries since she was first elected to represent the southwest region of the state in 2010. The

WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) — Officials say a search crew in an aircraft looking for two missing Montana climbers in Glacier National Park has discovered their bodies. Park officials say the bodies were located Monday and plans were being made to recover them and the men’s belongings. The two 67-year-old men set out to Climb

By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — David Trimble, a former Northern Ireland first minister who won the Nobel Peace Prize for playing a key role in helping end Northern Ireland’s decades of violence, has died, the Ulster Unionist Party said Monday. He was 77. The party said in a statement

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s former President Ilir Meta has taken over the leadership of his old political party pledging to fight government corruption through referendums. Meta, who was replaced Sunday by new President Bajram Begaj, was elected Monday as leader of a committee to re-organize his old left-wing Socialist Movement for Integration party, or

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and JUSTIN KABUMBA The Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Demonstrators set fires and forced entry into the U.N. mission facilities in Congo’s eastern city of Goma, demanding that the peacekeeping forces leave the country amid rising insecurity in the region.  Congo’s security situation has deteriorated over the past year, with increased

By KAY DERVISHI of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Hollywood film producer Dan Lin — known for movies such as Disney’s live action “Aladdin” and “The Two Popes” — is launching a nonprofit with more than $1 million from the Ford and MacArthur foundations as well as several other philanthropies. His goal is

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s forests from wildfires, insects and other manifestations

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Boaters and whale watchers off Massachusetts got a surprise over the weekend when a humpback whale breached and landed on the bow of a 19-foot boat. Town officials say the boat operator reported no injuries Sunday and no major damage that affected the seaworthiness of the vessel. Video shows the animal

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An original script for Donald Trump’s speech the day after the Capitol insurrection included tough talk ordering the Justice Department to “ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law” and stating the rioters “do not represent me.” But those words were crossed

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a fire at a northwestern Arkansas home killed six people, including four children. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that the fire happened early Sunday at a trailer home in Springdale, about 145 miles (233 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock. It says emergency responders received a call at

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerreta on “Law & Order,” has died. He was 83. His publicist Roger Neal said he died Monday morning of natural causes at the Mayo Clinic in

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man pleaded not guilty in Ohio to charges of raping a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion. Her case has become a flashpoint in the national debate over access to the procedure. The 27-year-old defendant is charged

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Four people in Wisconsin with disabilities have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to ensure that they’ll be able to get help turning in their ballots, even though the conservative-controlled state Supreme Court said no one other than the voter can return absentee ballots in

By GRETCHEN EHLKE Associated Press Tim Giago, the founder of the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the United States, has died at age 88, his former wife said. Giago, who died at Monument Health in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Sunday, created an enduring legacy during his more than four decades of work

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers for Michigan’s former health director are asking a judge to sanction prosecutors. The move comes as prosecutors are trying to instantly turn invalid indictments into a fresh round of charges in the Flint water scandal. In June, the Michigan Supreme Court said a one-person grand jury

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The security of election workers and equipment in Wisconsin’s second-most-populous county isn’t adequate for the threats that officials and workers are facing in a climate of lies and misinformation about supposed fraud. That’s according to an election security task force that reported its findings

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The prosecutor who’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia cannot question a lawmaker who signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump won the state, a judge ruled Monday. Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney agreed

MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Mississippi school districts can temporarily make their own rules for letting armed people with enhanced licenses onto school grounds. The Mississippi Board of Education voted Thursday to approve a temporary rule that updates a 1990 internal policy that until now had prohibited anyone other than

LONDON (AP) — A fossil of a 560-million-year-old creature, which researchers believe to be the first animal predator, has been named after the British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough. Scientists said Monday they believe the specimen, named Auroralumina attenboroughii, is the earliest creature known to have a skeleton. It is related to the group that

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. congressman from Indiana, technology company executives, a man training to be an FBI agent, and an investment banker were among nine people charged in four separate and unrelated insider trading schemes revealed on Monday with the unsealing of indictments in New York City.

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations are struggling to find common ground on how to wean the bloc off its reliance on Russian natural gas. They seek to appease wary consumers at home while upholding unity as Moscow turns down the tap. On the eve of an emergency meeting to

DALLAS (AP) — A 37-year-old woman fired several gunshots, apparently at the ceiling, inside of Dallas’ Love Field Airport on Monday before an officer shot and wounded her, authorities said. The woman was dropped off at the airport at about 11 a.m., walked inside near the ticketing counters and entered a bathroom, Dallas police Chief

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Pacific Northwest is bracing for a major heat wave just as the Northeastern part of the United States will soon see a slight break in extreme temperatures. In Washington state and Oregon temperatures are forecast to top 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius) in

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Conflicting signs about the health of the U.S. economy have thrust the Federal Reserve into a difficult spot. With inflation raging at a four-decade high, the job market strong and consumer spending still solid, the Fed is under pressure to raise interest rates aggressively. But other