Month: July 2022

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Daniel J. Palmer III had long been considered the key suspect in a brutal attack that left his sister comatose two years ago. But the case remained dormant — until she awakened last month. Able to speak only a word at a time after coming out

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press RANDOLPH, N.H. (AP) — The trial for a commercial truck driver charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of seven motorcycle club members in New Hampshire is set to start more than three years after the 2019 crash that devastated the region’s close-knit biker community and exposed flaws in state

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian central bank diverged from its Western counterparts by slashing its key interest rate just a month after dropping it to where it was before the country sent troops into Ukraine. The bank on Friday lowered its key rate by 1.5 percentage points, to 8%, saying consumer prices are still easing

Associated Press Lululemon workers in Washington, D.C. are filing to hold a union election, joining workers at other major companies aiming to organize amid a wave of labor wins over the past year. The petition was filed this week by the Association of Concerted Educators. The company refers to its sales staff as educators. The

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Three Kenyan policemen and an informant were found guilty Friday for the killing in 2016 of a human rights lawyer and two others. The court in the capital, Nairobi, acquitted a fourth officer of the charges, citing a lack of evidence. The killing of attorney Willie Kimani, taxi driver

By ANGELA CHARLTON and NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The family of a French backpacker who went missing in Egypt have used a Paris visit by the Egyptian president to press for an investigation into the 27-year-old traveler’s disappearance. Family members and friends raised placards asking, “Where is Yann Bourdon, President Sissi?” as

SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — A fire on a Boston-area public transit train that prompted one passenger to jump into a river and others to scramble out of windows appears to have been caused by a metal panel on the train’s base that came loose and touched the electrified third rail, the system’s general manager said.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Two babies were killed when a huge tree crashed into a home during a storm with wind gusts near 50 mph (80 kph) in Alabama, and officials said a third child was killed by a falling tree in Maine. Jalaia Ford, 3 months old, and Journee Jones, 11 months old, were

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself. He had so much left to say. Mann says: “There’s always the sense of being shortchanged.” He has finally rounded

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Public prosecutors have charged three individuals with the June murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the remote western reaches of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, according to a statement. All are local riverine dwellers, and their motive was that Pereira asked

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his estranged vice president, Mike Pence, held rival campaign events in Arizona on Friday, turning the governor’s race into a broader referendum on the Republican Party’s future. Trump and Pence both talked up the successes of their administration and hammered

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Police have announced an arrest in the shooting death of a Rochester police officer, in what authorities say was an ambush. A second officer and a 15-year-old girl were wounded. Police on Friday said they arrested a 21-year-old Massachusetts resident and charged him with murder and other counts. The two plainclothes

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted Friday of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Committee leaders called the verdict “a victory for the rule of law.” Bannon,

SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) — Investigators have confirmed that remains unearthed in a Florida junk yard 41 years ago match a missing teenager, the victim of a serial killer now imprisoned for life in California, sheriff’s officials said. Hernando County Sheriff’s investigators, with an assist from the University of North Texas and Virginia-based DNA technology

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — When questioned by members of Congress, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said its new update to the nation’s flood insurance program will prompt more people to sign up for coverage, even though many will pay more for it. But in a FEMA report obtained by The

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man has been charged with attempted assault after brandishing a sharp object and attacking U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin as the Republican candidate for New York governor delivered a speech in western New York. The head of the state Republican party chair said the congressman

LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency says the smallpox vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic should also be authorized against monkeypox as an outbreak of the once-rare disease sickens people across Europe. In a statement on Friday, the European Union drug regulator said its recommendation was based on animal studies that suggest the vaccine protects

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s government says the ruin of a massive silo struck with a deadly blast at Beirut’s port two years ago risks collapsing. Lebanon’s prime minister said Friday that an ongoing fire due to fermenting grain inside the silo has now expanded. He ordered firefighters to step back

MOSCOW (AP) — The foreign minister of Moldova’s separatist Transnistria region said Friday that the it is committed to achieving independence and possible unification with Russia, and said Moldova’s becoming a candidate for European Union membership effectively ends any possibility of cooperation. Transnistria, a sliver of land lying between Ukraine and the rest of Moldova,

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The Albanian Parliament has asked Europe’s top human rights body to rescind a 2011 resolution that cited since-unsubstantiated allegations of human organ harvesting during the 1990s war in Kosovo. The parliament voted 125-0 late Thursday for a motion asking the Council of Europe to clear both

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new president has always aspired to the pinnacle of power, enduring setback after setback but managing to recover from seemingly impossible defeats. Ranil Wickremesinghe has moved quickly to consolidate his position after lawmakers elected him this week to finish the

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it plans to lift its decadeslong ban on public access to North Korean television, newspapers and other publications as part of its efforts to promote mutual understanding between the rivals. In a policy report to President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, South

WAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have filed charges against three more people in the case of a Pennsylvania 911 operator accused of failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding about a day later. According to a criminal complaint, the three men were charged Monday with

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s nuclear regulator has approved methods and facilities for the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea next year. Friday’s approval by the Nuclear Regulation Authority will enable Tokyo Electric Power Co. to start building necessary facilities ahead of

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry can take the British government to court over his security arrangements in the U.K., a judge in London ruled Friday. Harry and his wife Meghan lost publicly funded U.K. police protection when they stepped down as senior working royals and moved to North America in 2020. The prince wants to

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s ruling junta says that jihadi rebels attacked the Kati military base on the outskirts of the capital city Bamako. It’s the first time Kati, Mali’s largest military base, has been targeted by extremist rebels in their more than 10-year insurgency in the West African country.

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government will take a roughly 30% stake in energy supplier Uniper as part of a rescue package prompted by surging prices for natural gas and reduced Russian deliveries. Uniper, which has been Germany’s biggest importer of Russian gas, asked for a bailout two weeks ago.

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s emergencies agency says three bodies were recovered from a school hit by a Russian airstrike in the country’s east. The casualties in the city of Kramatorsk followed attacks elsewhere in Ukraine, including a Russian attack that killed three people Thursday in the nation’s second-largest city,

By RAMI MUSA Associated Press BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — A Libyan medical official says that at least 13 people have been killed in clashes between local militias in the country’s capital, Tripoli. Osama Ali, spokesman for Tripoli’s emergency services, says that among those killed on Friday were three civilians and a 12-year-old child. He said