Month: December 2022

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The police chief of San Diego, California, says one of his officers was shot repeatedly by a fleeing crime suspect and may have been saved by his protective vest. Police say the officer spotted what was reported to be a stolen car early Monday but it drove off. Authorities say an

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associatated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran New York City politician whose 2021 campaign for mayor was derailed by a decades-old sexual misconduct allegation has sued his accuser for defamation. Former state Assembly member and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer says in his lawsuit filed Monday in state court in

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Crews have removed the plywood box that had been placed over a Philadelphia statue of Christopher Columbus that saw tense standoffs in 2020 between supporters of the monument and opponents who viewed it as a symbol of white supremacy. The box was removed Sunday night, as a small crowd cheered. The work

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is slapping corruption sanctions on the son of Zimbabwe’s president as the U.S. prepares to host a major summit of African leaders in Washington. The Treasury Department announced Monday it was hitting four Zimbabwean people and two companies with penalties for their roles in undermining democracy and facilitating high-level

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press CVS and Walgreens have finalized more than $10 billion in settlements of lawsuits nationwide over the toll of the opioids their pharmacies sold. Now, it’s up to states to decide whether to join or to be able to take their claims to court under settlements announced Monday. The pharmacies’ tentative

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press The former superintendent of a northern Virginia school system has been indicted on three misdemeanor charges by a special grand jury that has investigated the response to two sexual assaults committed by a student last year. The grand jury has also issued a felony perjury indictment against the school system’s

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, died on Sunday. She was 96. Her death was announced Monday morning outside ʻIolani Palace,

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Nevada’s most populous county and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger have received subpoenas related to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of former President Donald Trump, who focused strongly on the states as he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss. Smith was appointed last month to

By BERNARD McGHEE Associated Press One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II. In her 70 years on the throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For most Britons, she was

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has set a special election for Feb. 21 to fill the 4th Congressional District seat of the late Democratic Rep. A. Donald McEachin. McEachin died last month at 61 of what his staff said were secondary effects from his fight against colorectal

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting Tuesday in Paris an international conference meant to help Ukraine make it through winter. In the longer term, he insists talks with Russia will be needed to find a path to peace. The Paris conference is meant to provide Kyiv with

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign ministers have imposed new sanctions on clerics, senior officials and top state media employees in Iran over the government’s brutal crackdown on protesters. The EU ministers also targeted experts they believe are linked to supplying Russia with explosive drones to use in its war

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top official has called for the creation of an independent ethics body covering all of the bloc’s institutions and said corruption allegations involving a vice president of the EU legislature were of “utmost concern.” Belgian prosecutors investigating  influence peddling at the European Parliament have

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says the body and possessions of soccer journalist Grant Wahl have been repatriated to the United States after his death last week while covering the World Cup in Qatar. The department says Wahl’s remains and his belongings arrived at New York’s John F.

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge says a person’s choice to decline vaccinations does not outweigh public health and safety requirements in medical settings. US. District Court Judge Donald Molloy on Friday permanently blocked a section of a law that said it was discriminatory for most employers to

KINGSFORD, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan Army veteran has been killed in a crash while delivering bicycles to children in Florida affected by Hurricane Ian. Steven Pringle was 57. The Detroit Free Press says Pringle was driving a pickup truck on Nov. 23 when he drove through a Punta Gorda intersection that was missing a

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is in federal court in Miami seeking to dismiss criminal money laundering charges by arguing that he is a Venezuelan diplomat immune from prosecution in the U.S.  A handful of protesters carrying the Venezuelan flag and signs reading “Free

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism. The extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad