Month: December 2022

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a month-long trial and nine days of deliberations, Los Angeles jurors on Monday found Harvey Weinstein guilty of the rape and sexual assault of just one of the four accusers he was charged with abusing. But the three guilty counts involving an Italian actor

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and others are suing the city of Albuquerque to stop officials in the state’s largest city from destroying homeless encampments and jailing and fining people who are living on the street. The lawsuit filed Monday accuses the

Syria’s military says two soldiers were wounded in Israeli airstrikes that hit near Damascus, the Syrian capital. A military statement reported the strikes early on Tuesday and said they were the first such attack in more than a month. It added that there were also some “material losses” in the strikes. The military said Syrian

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three suicides by sailors assigned to a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier were not connected, but the poor quality of life onboard was a “contributing factor” in one of the deaths. Those are the conclusions of a new Navy report released Monday. The suicides, which all happened

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Caring for sick children has become extra stressful recently for many U.S. parents due to shortages of Children’s Tylenol and other medicines. Doctors and other experts say the problem could persist through the winter cold-and-flu season but should not last as long as other recent shortages of baby formula

Officials say eight people have been killed and three injured in an attack by gunmen on an Iraqi village previously held by the Islamic State extremist group. The officials say the attack took place Monday evening in the village of Albu Bali, northwest of Fallujah in Iraq. It came a day after an explosive device

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Shirley Ann Watts, a former art student and prominent breeder of Arabian horses who met drummer Charlie Watts well before he joined the Rolling Stones and with him formed one of rock’s most enduring marriages, has died. She was 84. “Shirley died peacefully on Friday 16th December in Devon

By TED SHAFFREY and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At a small patch of Central Park flanking New York’s Harlem neighborhood, scores came Monday to remember the injustice that imprisoned five Black and Latino teenagers after they were wrongly accused and convicted of the 1989 rape of a white jogger. They

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers but the brief order leaves open the prospect that the restrictions in place since the coronavirus pandemic began and have been used to turn back hundreds of thousands of prospective asylum

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A man has been arrested after Nazi symbols were carved into a menorah in Southern California. A Beverly Hills police statement says officers responded Sunday night to reports that a menorah on private property was being vandalized. Use of surveillance video led to the arrest of Eric Brian King, of

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly’s onetime manager has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for calling in a shooting threat that halted a screening of a damning documentary about the R&B star. Donnell Russell worked with Kelly as the Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer was starting to face what

MOSCOW (AP) — Officials of the Jehovah’s Witnesses say four Russian members of the religious denomination have been sentenced to prison terms ranging up to seven years. Russia banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2017 and designated the religion an extremist organization. In a statement, Jehovah’s Witnesses spokesman Jarrod Lopes says more than 110 adherents are

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack has referred Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and three other GOP lawmakers to undergo an ethics investigation for their refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas. The referrals to the House Ethics Committee made Monday during the panel’s final meeting escalate

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Several of Indiana’s major employers want their local utilities to make it easier for them to buy power generated by wind and solar farms so they can move closer to their renewable energy goals. Cummins, Salesforce, Roche and other companies joined with the cities of Indianapolis and Bloomington in signing a recent

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A jury began deliberating the sentence Monday for a former Texas police officer who was convicted of manslaughter last week after fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window in her home in 2019. Aaron Dean faces up to 20 years in prison, but jurors also have the option of

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has grounded its entire fleet of B-2 stealth bombers following an emergency landing and fire earlier this month, and none of the strategic aircraft will perform flyovers at this years’ college bowl games. A bomber experienced an in-flight malfunction on Dec. 10, forcing it

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost says he laments any pain he caused by suggesting in a nationally televised interview that a 10-year-old rape victim who sought an abortion in Indiana might have been a fabrication. The Republican maintained in a year-end interview with The Associated

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ energy minister says a pipeline conveying Israeli natural gas to the island nation where it would be liquefied for export by ship is an option the government is weighing on how to get east Mediterranean gas to Europe and elsewhere amid the energy crisis prompted

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jan. 6 committee set out to compile a public record for history of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. But after 18 months and more than 1,000 interviews, its final report has become so much more — a “roadmap to justice,” Chairman Bennie Thompson

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To get a sense of Janelle Monáe’s powers of transformation, look no further than her Instagram photos of past Halloweens. Monáe doesn’t just throw something on. When she turns into the White Rabbit from “Alice in Wonderland” or Diva Plavalaguna from “The Fifth Element,” Monáe

By AAMER MADHANI and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the U.S. is looking to expand and strengthen its relationship with Ecuador, one of its staunchest allies in South America and a country that’s also getting plenty of attention from China. Biden spoke of the relationship as Ecuadorian President Guillermo

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Iowa say they’ve arrested a second man in the death of a 4-year-old boy killed when a car racing on a city street crossed into oncoming traffic, crashing into two vehicles. Des Moines police said 47-year-old Keith Eric Jones, of Des Moines, was arrested on charges that included

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Vatican-appointed investigator who helped bring to light decades-old allegations of sexual and spiritual abuse against a famous Jesuit priest is calling for the hierarchs who hid his crimes to “humbly ask the world to forgive the scandal.” In correspondence obtained Monday, Bishop Daniele Libanori also said

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president has paid tribute to Jewish communities in Poland and worldwide for the help they have extended to Ukrainian refugees this year. President Andrzej Duda expressed his gratitude during a Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony at his presidential palace in Warsaw on Monday. Poland’s Jewish community

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A white Kansas City charter school teacher has been fired after students recorded him using a racial slur several times. Officials at University Academy said the teacher, Johnny Wolfe, was fired and school officials are planning several steps to improve the school’s culture and diversity. University Academy is a K-12

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has named former Rep. Joe Kennedy III as America’s special envoy to Northern Ireland. The appointment, announced Monday, puts a member of a storied Irish American political dynasty in a position to deal with post-Brexit economic tensions. Kennedy, 42, is a former congressman who

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Russia’s war in Ukraine and anti-regime protests in Iran limited both Moscow and Tehran’s ability to try to influence or interfere in the recent U.S. midterm elections, a senior American military official said Monday. U.S. agencies were on high alert before November’s vote for potential

Since Elon Musk took control of Twitter in late October, confusion over what is, and what is not allowed on the platform, even what a verified account is, has run rampant. Rules and policies can change daily, or even hourly. Little of what’s transpired at Twitter in almost two months under Musk’s leadership has anything

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Naomi Ackie, who plays Whitney Houston in the new biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” is the first to admit she is not a doppelganger for the pop star. In fact, she’ll go so far as to say she doesn’t look like her at all. But the people who

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Medical examiners say the death of Cincinnati Bengals analyst Adam Zimmer was caused by chronic alcohol use. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office in Minnesota released the finding Friday. Zimmer had been found dead in October at age 38 at his home in Minnesota. Zimmer was a former Minnesota Vikings co-defensive coordinator

By PETER SMITH and JESSIE WARDARSKI Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — And it came to pass — actually, quarterback Terry Bradshaw came to pass, but bear with us. This is a story about football, culture and religion, so it seems right to begin with some biblical phrasing. Thus, Bradshaw barely got off the pass, which