Month: July 2022

A lawyer says a civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP has been found dead. Attorney Mark Cummings says the Rev. T. Anthony Spearman died on Tuesday. Cummings said he was representing Spearman but did not say why. He declined to provide additional details about Spearman’s death. A

BY SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The U.S. State Department has named 60 current and former officials, as well as some corporate figures in its latest list of people suspected of corruption or undermining democracy in four Central American countries. This year’s list especially focused on politicians, judges and others suspected

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man who ran into a burning home and saved five people, including a 6-year-old girl he jumped out of a second-floor window with, says he’s no hero and that the serious injuries he suffered were “all worth it.” Nick Bostic, 25, of Lafayette, was driving early on July 11

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal magistrate judge has ordered an attorney suing a private prison firm over an inmate’s death to delete certain tweets and restrict his public commentary. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffery Frensley issued the order last week, limiting what attorney Daniel Horwitz can say in the lawsuit

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has confirmed one of its worst-kept secrets, publicly acknowledging for the first time that it uses unmanned aerial vehicles to carry out attacks. Israel is a world leader in UAV technology. But until Wednesday, the military censor barred official confirmation of the use of attack drones. In a statement,

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Eyewitnesses to the killings of 17 people by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are giving heart-wrenching testimony at his penalty trial. A teacher on Wednesday recalled how her student correctly answered a question in her Holocaust studies class moments before gunshots penetrated the glass window

DETROIT (AP) — Two former presidents of the United Auto Workers who were convicted of corruption at the union have been released early from prison after less than a year in custody. The Detroit News reports that Gary Jones was released to home confinement in June. Dennis Williams went home in March. Jones and Williams

DENVER (AP) — The 12 people who died in the Colorado theater shooting are being remembered a decade after they were killed. Dozens of people gathered to remember them in a midnight vigil in Aurora to mark the anniversary of the July 20, 2012 attack. Gunman James Homes killed 12 people and injured 70 others

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Three weeks of continuous demonstrations and road blockades to protest high fuel and food costs in Panama have begun to cause shortages of some food products, fuel and medicine. The closures, including of the Pan-American Highway, have forced the national electric company to ration electricity in Darien province, which borders Colombia.

By CAROLYN THOMPSON, ANNIE MA and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — When the shooting began at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Mario Jimenez’s son was in the classroom next door. The 10-year-old saw his teacher and a friend hit by bullets that passed through the wall. Now, Jimenez worries the boy will

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators has reached agreement on proposed changes to the Electoral Count Act. That’s the post-Civil War-era law for certifying presidential elections. The law came under intense scrutiny after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In his first media interview since having a stroke two months ago, Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman of Pennsylvania says he’s “100% able to run fully and to win” against Republican Mehmet Oz in November. The current lieutenant governor spoke over video Wednesday with a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter and disclosed for

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s secretary of state has informed two candidates who lost their Republican primary races last month that it will not conduct a recount of their races because they have not paid for them. The office told secretary of state candidate Tina Peters and U.S.

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — India’s film industry is one of the most vast and varied in the world. It’s really not one but many separate industries, including Bollywood, Tollywood and others — yet few of the country’s roughly 2,000 annual movies ever make much of a dent with Western

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The key to dispelling conspiracy theories and misinformation about how elections are run is to confront the lies head on, top state election officials said Wednesday. The advice from election administrators in Georgia, Ohio and Utah came during a gathering of the National Association of State

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Emergency dispatch recordings show that one of the four first responders killed in last weekend’s New Mexico helicopter crash managed to call 911 before succumbing to his injuries. It’s not clear which crash victim made the call Saturday evening to San Miguel County dispatchers, but the call sparked a frantic search

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A nurse who previously worked at a Florida hospital has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for stealing fentanyl and replacing the powerful pain medication with saline. Court records show 36-year-old Monique Carter was sentenced Tuesday in Jacksonville federal court. She pleaded guilty in April to

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A woman accused of killing professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson as a romantic rival has pleaded not guilty to murder and the judge granted her attorneys request for a quick trial, scheduling it to begin in late October. The 25-year-old Wilson, who was a Vermont native,

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers have erased regulations allowing Wisconsin election clerks to fill in missing information on absentee ballot envelopes. The move marks another in a series of steps Republicans and conservative allies have taken to tighten voting procedures in the crucial swing state. Earlier this month, the

By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling and said Georgia’s restrictive 2019 abortion law could take effect immediately. The Georgia law bans most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present. Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate unexpectedly launched a new push Wednesday to protect same-sex marriage in federal law after a surprising number of Republicans helped pass landmark legislation in the House. Some GOP senators are already signaling support. The legislation started as an election-season political effort to confront the

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When “Top Gun: Maverick” roared into theaters in late May, the Air Force was ready. The smash hit movie may feature Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as a hotshot Navy aviator, but to much of the movie-going public, the distinction between Air Force and Navy fighter jets is

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former prime minister is accusing the current government of mismanaging the country’s already fragile economy. Imran Khan said Wednesday that the impoverished Islamic nation’s economy is being mishandled by Premier Shahbaz Sharif and an “economic collapse” could result. Khan’s remarks to journalists at his residence in