Month: December 2022

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of journalists who cover the social media platform and its new owner Elon Musk, among them reporters working for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other publications. The company hasn’t explained to the journalists why it took down

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is warning that the threat of terrorism has increased and become more diffuse in various regions of the world aided by new technologies. The council on Thursday strongly condemned the flow of weapons, military equipment, drones and explosive devices to Islamic

By JESSE BEDAYN, MATTHEW BROWN, BERNARD CONDON and MIKE BALSAMO Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Documents released in the 2021 dropped prosecution of the Colorado gay nightclub shooter paint a picture of potential missteps by prosecutors. Court transcripts reveal prosecutors were unable to successfully serve witnesses in a 2021 kidnapping case against Anderson Aldrich and

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Key questions resurfaced Thursday at a conference of Colorado River water administrators and users from seven U.S. states, Native American tribes and Mexico who are served by the shrinking river stricken by drought and climate change. Who will bear the brunt of more water supply cuts,

By SYAWALLUDIN ZAIN and EILEEN NG Associated Press BATANG KALI, Malaysia (AP) — A thunderous crush of soil and debris has killed 21 people, including several children, at a campground in Malaysia. Rescuers are digging through the mud in the night for another 12 feared buried in the landslide. More than 90 people were sleeping

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged Thursday with state crimes ranging from negligent homicide to malfeasance in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, a death authorities initially blamed on a car crash before long suppressed body-camera video showed white officers beating,

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Panama’s government has ordered the local subsidiary of a Canadian mining company to cease operations at its huge open pit copper mine after it failed to sign a new contract outlining substantially higher payments to the government. Minera Panama is a subsidiary of Canada’s First Quantum Minerals Ltd. It is the

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Democratic establishment is coalescing in support of state Sen. Jennifer McClellan in her bid to succeed the late U.S. Rep. A. Donald McEachin. On Thursday, one of McClellan’s primary opponents, Del. Lamont Bagby, dropped out of the nomination contest and threw his support to her.

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Two people were injured when a single-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Lihue Airport on Kauai Island in Hawaii. The Federal Aviation Administration says there were two people on board the plane Beechcraft BE77 which crashed around noon Thursday. The Kauai Fire Department says the injured

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California toddler fatally struck by a stray bullet while sleeping in his car seat last year was the victim of a rolling gun battle between rival gangs on a freeway, prosecutors said Thursday as they announced charges against three people. The 1-year-old boy, Jasper Wu, was killed Nov. 6,

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Iowa have charged a man in the death of a 4-year-old boy who was killed when a car that was racing on a city street crossed into oncoming lanes and crashed into two vehicles. Des Moines police say Thursday that 35-year-old Robert Miller III of Urbandale, Iowa, was

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who accused a former top adviser to New York Attorney General Letitia James of unwanted kissing, hastening his Dec. 2 exit, filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that James and her office enabled the man’s behavior by ignoring previous warnings about him. Sofia Quintanar,

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois House committee is conducting hearings on a wide-ranging gun legislation that includes a ban on semi-automatic weapons. Researchers and community activists told lawmakers Thursday that having fewer firearms in communities will help stop bloodshed. But they said it must be followed by programs

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities in El Paso, Texas, are describing a humanitarian crisis as they grapple with the daily release of roughly 1,600 migrants to local shelters and the streets of the border city in freezing temperatures. They also say they are prepared for even larger immigration flows

CINCINNATI (AP) — The E.W. Scripps Company has announced the launch of a sports division as it looks to acquire local and national rights for teams and leagues. Scripps has stations in 61 markets and is the nation’s fourth-largest local TV broadcaster. It also purchased ION Media last year, which has the fifth-largest national broadcast

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Officials say a pilot had safely ejected from a plane after a failed landing at a North Texas military base. Video that captured the crash shows the Marine Corps variant of a fighter jet, known as a F-35B, took a nose dive and spiraled after its wheels briefly touched down

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge handed guns rights advocates a victory Thursday and placed a new, voter-approved ban on high-capacity magazines that was intended to curtail mass shootings on hold until questions about its constitutionality can be decided. Harney County Judge Robert Raschio released the written ruling after

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border helped orchestrate the escape of eight girls he considered his wives from a group home where they were placed after authorities learned of what was happening, prosecutors allege in a Wednesday court filing. An

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City’s ban on the sale of foie gras had already been delayed by a court challenge. Now it has been found in violation of state agricultural law. The state Department of Agriculture and Markets informed city officials Wednesday that the ban “unreasonably restricts” the business of two upstate foie

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered a review of security standards at the nation’s far-flung electricity transmission network. The review follows shootings at two electric substations in North Carolina that damaged equipment and caused more than 45,000 customers to lose power. The order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal officials on Thursday granted Spire Inc. a permanent certificate to operate a natural gas pipeline in Missouri and Illinois, angering the environmental group that had sued over the project. The pipeline carries natural gas to the St. Louis region, where Spire serves around 650,000 customers. But the Environmental Defense Fund

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Residents of The Dalles, Oregon, are learning how much of their water Google’s data centers have been using to cool the computers inside the cavernous buildings — information that previously was deemed a trade secret. Google says its data centers in the Oregon town consumed 274.5 million gallons (1 billion

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A judge in Indiana has ruled that a Purdue University student charged with murder in the stabbing death of his dormitory roommate is incompetent to stand trial. Tippecanoe Circuit Judge Sean Persin appointed two doctors Thursday to treat Ji Min Sha until he is found competent to understand the charges against

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky soon will operate three high-security juvenile detention centers. He said Thursday that the centers will house teenage male offenders charged with serious crimes. It’s the next step in the governor’s efforts to bring security problems under control in the state’s juvenile