Month: August 2022

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Supporters of Iran-backed Shiite groups have rallied in Baghdad to denounce their rivals, followers of an influential Shiite cleric who stormed the parliament last month and have since been holding a sit-in outside the assembly building in the Iraqi capital. The rivalry between the two sides shows

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Attorney General William Tong says federal officials have agreed to recognize the state’s pardons as legally valid again and stop deporting people who have been pardoned for their crimes by a state board. The settlement announced Friday reverses a hard-line stance taken by the Trump

BELFAST, Maine (AP) — A Maine shipyard is preparing for a painstaking stem-to-stern restoration of a floating piece of presidential history. French & Webb was tapped for the restoration by the current owner of the Sequoia, a 1925 motor yacht that served eight presidents before being sold by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Todd French

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. A bloodied

By ED WHITE Associated Press A lawyer has raised concerns about a juror in the second trial of two men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan’s governor. The judge is taking steps to keep a public lid on those concerns, ordering attorneys to keep quiet about the issue. Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. are

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Capping an extraordinary week in Donald Trump’s post-presidency, a New York judge ordered Friday that his company and its longtime finance chief stand trial in the fall on tax fraud charges stemming from a long-running criminal investigation into Trump’s business practices. Manhattan Judge Juan Manuel

MIAMI (AP) — LGBTQ and health groups have denounced a new rule by Florida health officials set to take effect later this month to restrict Medicaid insurance coverage for gender dysphoria treatments for transgender people. Online records show the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration filed the new rule Aug. 1, and it is set

By KAREN MATTHEWS and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The virus that causes polio has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday. The presence of the

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — India will miss its renewable energy target for the end of the year, with experts saying “multiple challenges” including a lack of financial help and taxes on imported components are stalling the clean energy industry. The country has installed just over half of its planned renewable

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Paraguay Vice President Hugo Velázquez Moreno said he will resign next week shortly after he was included on a U.S. corruption list for his alleged involvement in offering bribes to a public official. The inclusion of Velázquez on the corruption list, delivered by U.S. Ambassador to

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gang riot inside a border prison that left two inmates dead quickly spread to the streets of Ciudad Juarez where alleged gang members killed nine more people, including four employees of a radio station, security officials said Friday. The surge in violence recalled a far more deadly period in Juarez

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, ZEKE MILLER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI recovered “top secret” and even more sensitive documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to court papers released Friday after a federal judge unsealed the warrant that authorized the sudden, unprecedented search this week. A property

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A judge has ordered a gunman who took up to 10 hostages at a Beirut bank to force the release of his trapped savings to stay behind bars. It’s apparently a bid to prevent copycats as desperation deepens over Lebanon’s economic meltdown. Relatives said Friday that keeping

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Batiste, his career soaring after winning multiple Grammys this year, is leaving his perch as bandleader of “The Late Show” after a seven-year run backing up host Stephen Colbert. “We’ve been so lucky to have a front row seat to Jon’s incredible talent for

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The number of people who died as a result of flash flooding in eastern Kentucky has risen to 39. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the death count rose when a death was counted in Breathitt County. He didn’t identify the person or provide details. On Thursday,

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian mourners have held a funeral for a militant who succumbed to wounds suffered during three days of heavy fighting between Israel and Gaza militants last weekend. His death on Friday brings the total number of Palestinians killed in the flare-up to 49, including 17 children. That’s according to

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has criticized China’s decision to block the imposition of U.N. sanctions against the deputy chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad, a Pakistan-based extremist group designated by the United Nations as a terrorist organization. Abdul Rauf Azhar has been under U.S. sanctions for acting for or on behalf of

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — With voting already under way in Florida’s Aug. 23 election, officials in a county where about one in four voters are Hispanic are scrambling to fix a Spanish translation error that can’t help efforts to raise more money for education. The Broward school district — the nation’s sixth largest serving

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says a search and rescue operation is continuing for a third day for migrants reported missing after their boat capsized south of the Greek island of Rhodes. The coast guard says a Greek frigate and three merchant ships are searching areas south of Rhodes and southeast of Karpathos.

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Ford Foundation took the unprecedented step of issuing $1 billion in debt to help stabilize other nonprofits in June 2020. The move delighted investors and inspired several other large foundations to follow suit. Two years later, the foundations all stand by their decisions to take

BERLIN (AP) — Germany says it’s suspending its participation in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali after the the West African country refused to grant a civilian aircraft carrying German troops permission to use its airspace. The flight was part of a troop rotation, and German officials said it was not the first time Mali

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of firing shots inside the Mall of America before fleeing the suburban Minneapolis shopping complex with the help of several accomplices has been arrested in Chicago. The Bloomington Police Department says 21-year-old Shamar Alon Lark, of Minneapolis, was arrested Thursday along with another man who had

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A man wanted by security officials in Saudi Arabia has killed himself with an explosive belt to avoid arrest, wounding four others in the blast. The state-run Saudi Press Agency, citing the Saudi State Security Presidency, identified the dead man as Abdullah bin Zayed al-Shehri on Friday. The report

MANSFIELD, Pa. (AP) — Services are set to get underway for young siblings who died last week in a Pennsylvania house fire that also killed eight other people. Mourners are gathering Friday afternoon at a funeral home in Mansfield to remember 7-year-old Ariana Trout and her brother, 5-year-old Bradley Trout. The fast-moving, middle-of-the-night inferno destroyed

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York has amended several state laws to remove the word “inmate” and replace it with “incarcerated person” to refer to people serving prison time. The changes, signed into law Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, are intended to reduce the stigma of being in

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Three state-owned Chinese corporate giants say they will remove their shares from the New York Stock Exchange amid a dispute between Washington and Beijing over whether U.S. regulators can see records of their auditors. PetroChina Ltd., China Life Insurance Ltd. and China Petroleum & Chemical Co.