Month: September 2022

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press A commission created by Congress is recommending changes at West Point when it comes to commemorating Robert E. Lee and other Confederate officers during the Civil War. The commission also takes aim at towering bronze panels that depict dozens of historical events and people, including a hooded figure above the

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say they’re investigating a confrontation Tuesday in which a detective shoved and hit a woman, causing her to fall to the ground, after she struck him as he helped arrest a suspect in an attempted killing. Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A hearing officer for a federal labor board has rebuffed Amazon’s attempt to scrap a historic union win at a warehouse on Staten Island, New York. Shortly after the labor win in April, Amazon filed more than two dozen objections with the National Labor Relations

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America A North Carolina police chief says one person was killed and two were injured in an apparent stabbing at a high school. Jacksonville Police Chief Mike Yaniero said Thursday that two minors were taken to the hospital with injuries and that one later died after the attack at

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press Connecticut’s attorney general will investigate any “potentially illegal discrimination” recorded in a viral video of a public elementary school assistant principal. The assistant principal at Cos Cob Elementary School in Greenwich appears on an apparently secretly record tape saying he’d prefer not to hire older and politically conservative staff, including

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the Oregon State Hospital must limit the amount of time it can hold patients charged with crimes, in a bid to create space at the overcrowded hospital for criminal defendants who need mental health treatment but are housed

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. federal agents have simultaneously searched three properties linked to a billionaire Russian oligarch whose $120 million yacht was seized in April. Agents searched a high-rise in Manhattan, an estate in the posh beach community of Southampton, New York, and an exclusive

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Wisconsin man who acknowledged he posed as Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on a state website to obtain Vos’ absentee ballot with election fraud and identity theft. The state Justice Department charged Harry Wait on Thursday with two misdemeanor counts of election fraud

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former state agency director who claimed Gov. Kim Reynolds fired him after he objected to her diverting federal Medicaid money to pay a member of her staff. Reynolds fired former Department of Human Services

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed updated COIVD-19 boosters. The decision opens the way for a fall vaccination campaign that could blunt a winter surge if enough Americans roll up their sleeves. The new boosters targeting today’s most common omicron strains should begin arriving in pharmacies

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden says he doesn’t consider any Donald Trump supporter to be a threat to the country. Biden said Friday that when people voted for Trump, “they weren’t voting for attacking the Capitol. They weren’t voting for overruling the election. They were voting

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday tentatively declined to overturn the jury conviction of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy. That leaves the former Silicon Valley star a step closer to serving prison time. U.S. District Judge Edward

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration is phasing out a program that aimed to give at-risk Afghans a quicker legal pathway to the U.S. through humanitarian relief but was criticized for its bureaucratic barriers. Instead, starting Oct. 1, the U.S. government says it will focus on beefing up efforts

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An abortion-rights group has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to approve a November ballot question on whether the right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution. Reproductive Freedom for All filed its request with the high court on Thursday after the

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A jury in Kansas could not reach a verdict in the case of a woman accused of killing her ex-husband and his girlfriend. After deliberations spread over six days, a Shawnee County jury told a judge on Thursday that it was unable to determine if Dana Chandler shot and killed 47-year-old

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside the ornate Mississippi Capitol because Jackson’s water system is in crisis. The big “Gotta Go” trailer is just one example of the city’s desperation. Many homes, businesses and government offices

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks has named a longtime PepsiCo executive as its new CEO. The coffee giant said Thursday that Laxman Narasimhan will join Starbucks on Oct. 1 after relocating from London to Seattle, where Starbucks is based. He will work closely with Starbucks’ interim CEO, Howard Schultz, through April 1, when

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced on Thursday to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault one of the police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters. Thomas Webster’s

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials say 75 immigrants have arrived in the city on buses from Texas, as part of a border policy by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office confirmed that the migrants arrived Wednesday night and that the city has welcomed them and will make sure they receive shelter and food.

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (AP) — Prosecutors say a southwest Arkansas man has been charged with 132 counts accusing him of sexually assaulting more than 30 children over 25 years. Court records show 58-year-old Barry Walker is charged with rape, engaging a child in sexually explicit conduct and other counts involving children in Clark and Pike counties.

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a failed attempt to bar the admission into evidence several swastikas Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz drew on assignments, his attorneys made an unusual argument Thursday at his penalty trial: he was an equal opportunity killer who shot his victims without regard to race

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Todd Field didn’t write “TÁR” with Cate Blanchett in mind. He wrote it for Cate Blanchett only. If she didn’t want to do it, it wouldn’t exist. The film, which had its world premiere Thursday night in competition at the Venice International Film Festival, looks

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — One of Atlanta’s largest hospitals says it plans to shut down in two months after experiencing more than $100 million in losses over the past year. Wellstar Health System announced late Wednesday that the Atlanta Medical Center will close on Nov. 1. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens blasted

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a Southern California wildfire were pulled back at times to find rest and shade on Thursday, a day after seven were sent to the hospital in the midst of a grueling heat wave. Progress on the Route Fire in northwestern Los Angeles County gave strike team leaders the luxury