Month: July 2022

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party has been sidelined in a key vote in Punjab province, despite winning a byelection there earlier this week. Friday’s vote was held to determine whether the province’s sitting chief minister enjoyed the majority backing in the provincial parliament. The development

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian police say unknown assailants shot and wounded an official affiliated with Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers in the occupied West Bank. Nasser al-Shaer, who served as deputy Hamas prime minister for a year and a half after the group won the last Palestinian elections in 2006, was admitted to hospital

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Both pilots of a firefighting helicopter that crashed in Idaho have died, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday. Mary Cernicek with the Salmon-Challis National Forest said Thomas Hayes, 41, of Post Falls, Idaho, and Jared Bird, 36, of Anchorage, Alaska, died from injuries they sustained when

By JIM SALTER Associated Press St. Louis has joined the growing list of Democrat-led cities seeking to help women gain abortion access, even in red states that have largely banned the procedures. Not long after Democratic Mayor Tishaura Jones on Thursday signed a measure providing $1 million for travel to out-of-state clinics, Republican Missouri Attorney

Steven Spielberg is bringing his highly personal film “The Fabelmans” to the Toronto International Film Festival this fall. Organizers on Friday announced his participation, which will mark his first time at the festival. Spielberg co-wrote the coming-of-age story about a young man and a shattering family secret. His co-writer is Tony Kushner, who he also

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida prosecutors have presented some of the most graphic evidence to jury from a mass shooting in U.S. history. Jurors deciding whether school shooter Nikolas Cruz saw autopsy evidence Friday showing the extensive damage his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle did to some of his 17 victims

MIAMI (AP) — A former president of Paraguay who has been investigated for his alleged participation in money laundering operations has been included in a U.S. corruption list. The Department of State announced the designation of former Paraguayan president Horacio Manuel Cartes “for his involvement in significant corruption.” He served as president of Paraguay between

CHICAGO (AP) — Police say four people have been stabbed and injured in an attack on a Chicago Transit Authority train. Chicago police say six robbery suspects followed a 42-year-old man onto a Red Line train at about 2 a.m., then demanded his belongings and attacked him with a knife and a broken glass bottle.

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Friday that the U.S. is sending an additional $270 million in security assistance to Ukraine, a package that will include additional medium range rocket systems and tactical drones. The latest tranche brings the total U.S. security assistance committed to Ukraine

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it’s investigating illegal dumping in Houston, including dead bodies and medical waste, that officials say is plaguing Black and Latino neighborhoods in the nation’s fourth largest city. The investigation will be led by the department’s civil rights division and will examine whether city

VIENNA (AP) — Herbert Diess, the Volkswagen CEO whose image had been tarnished in the fallout from the German automaker’s emissions-cheating scandal, is stepping down. In a surprise announcement Friday, the company said Diess will depart Sept. 1 “by mutual consent” with the board. No reason was given. Porsche CEO Oliver Blume will succeed Diess.

By RYAN J. FOLEY and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Three family members were shot to death while camping in a state park in eastern Iowa Friday, and the suspected gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. Officers responded to reports of the shooting at the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground before 6:30

ROME (AP) — Italian environmental activists glued their hands Friday to the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli’s painting “Spring” in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, police said. The museum said thanks to the glass, which was installed as a precaution several years ago, the masterpiece was unharmed. Paired with the Florentine artist’s other masterpiece, “Birth of

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee business owner who scaled a wall outside the U.S. Capitol has been convicted of five charges connected to the attack. The Justice Department said in a statement that 38-year-old Matthew Bledsoe of Olive Branch, Mississippi, was found guilty Thursday of one felony and four misdemeanors. Federal prosecutors said Bledsoe

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s politicians are in campaign mode after coalition allies toppled Premier Mario Draghi’s government. Italy’s president said he reluctantly accepted Draghi’s resignation and put a premature end to the Italian Parliament’s term. Perhaps the quickest to spring into action was right-wing leader Matteo Salvini, who is keen

By PETER SMITH Associated Press MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) — To this day, Flo Buffalo doesn’t drink milk — not since two nuns force-fed her the sour milk she had refused at the Catholic-run Ermineskin Indian Residential School for Indigenous children that she attended in the 1960s. Holding out her right hand, she showed how she

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — A rural Colorado official known as the state’s most prominent election denier has surrendered to authorities amid allegations she violated terms of release as she waits for her trial on accusations of breaking into her county’s election system. Authorities say Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters turned herself in at an Aspen

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky judge granted an injunction on Friday that prevents the state’s near-total ban on abortions from taking effect, meaning the state’s two clinics can continue providing abortions, for now. Jefferson Circuit Judge Mitch Perry’s ruling says there is “a substantial likelihood” that Kentucky’s new abortion

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and DESMOND TIRO Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — More than 50 million people in the wider East African region are expected to face acute food insecurity this year, a regional bloc said Friday, warning that some 300,000 in Somalia and South Sudan are projected to be under full-blown famine conditions. The

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Wiz Khalifa and Maggie Rogers, Neil Patrick Harris playing an unattached gay man in his 40s in New York City in Netflix’s “Uncoupled,” and modern influencer culture is skewered in the smart new Hulu satire “Not Okay.” And there’s a treat in

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s attorney general says he will not file criminal charges against fellow Republican and former state lawmaker Mike Groene over photos the ex-lawmaker surreptitiously took of an aide. The office of Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson said Thursday that there is not enough information from the results of a Nebraska State

By STEVE PEOPLES and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three weeks before the most significant election of her political career, Liz Cheney was nowhere to be seen as thousands of voters gathered for a massive midsummer rodeo and cowboy festival in Wyoming’s largest city. Instead, the three-term Republican congresswoman was 1,600 miles

By SARA RATHNER NerdWallet You may have learned that all debt is bad, but sometimes debt can make the things you need or want possible. A loan can help you spread the cost of a large purchase out over a longer period of time, so you’re not left with so little in your checking account

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Parenting — that long chain of decisions that hopefully leads to a well-rounded adult — was always a little less stressful for Laura Guerra because her husband, Rigo, was “100% in it” for their daughter, Emilia. But Rigo died from COVID-19 on Christmas Eve in 2020,

By ERIC TUCKER and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This isn’t the end of the Capitol riot story. The House committee investigating the deadly events of a fateful, chilly January day — now a year and a half in the past — has wrapped up its hot summer series of televised hearings,

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has sought to reassure the public that the country will have sufficient winter supplies of natural gas and coal. At a time of rising discontent with high inflation and shortages of coal for heating, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attributed the problems to Russia’s nearly five-month war in Ukraine.