Month: December 2022

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Chuck Schumer has been elected for another term as Democratic leader in the Senate. Democrats met behind closed doors Thursday at the Capitol to choose their leadership team. Schumer will helm a bolstered 51-seat majority for what is about to become a new era of

LONDON (AP) — An American woman who left the U.K. after killing a teenager in a road accident more than three years ago has been given an eight-month suspended prison sentence, though she declined to come to Britain for the court hearing. Anne Sacoolas was sentenced Thursday over an August 2019 accident in which 19-year-old

By ELEANOR H. REICH Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s designated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached a coalition deal with an ultra-Orthodox party, taking another step forward toward forming what is expected to be the most right-wing and religious government in the country’s history. Under Thursday’s deal, the Shas party will either control or

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Imprisoned Belarusian human rights campaigner Ales Bialiatski, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with rights groups in Russia and Ukraine, hasn’t been allowed by Belarus authorities to hand over his speech for the award ceremony. His wife Natalia Pinchuk, who will deliver a speech on Bialiatski’s

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A judge in Miami has admonished federal prosecutors for instructing a cooperating witness to gather information on his co-defendants and then lying to the court to cover up misconduct he said violated their constitutional right to a fair trial. The rebuke came in an excoriating ruling unsealed

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar is investigating the death of a migrant worker who reportedly was killed while doing repairs at a resort that had served as the Saudi team’s training base during the World Cup. Nasser Al Khater, the head of Qatar’s organizing committee for the World Cup, expressed his condolences to the family

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who returned to Moscow after a swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner, is widely known outside the country as the “Merchant of Death” who fueled some of the world’s worst conflicts. At home, however, he is seen as a swashbuckling businessman who

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump arrived in Washington with a hodgepodge of ideas developed over decades in business and television that were far outside the Republican mainstream. After a generation of neoconservative nation-building, multilateral trade deals and off-shoring, Trump ran on an isolationist foreign policy platform, with a deep

LONDON (AP) — George “Johnny” Johnson, the last known survivor of Britain’s daring World War II “Dambusters” raid on German infrastructure, has died aged 101. Britain’s PA news agency said Johnson died peacefully at a care home in the Bristol area of southwest England on Wednesday. Johnson was a 21-year-old bomb aimer on the 1943

By ASHRAF IDRIS KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of Sudan’s capital demanding the ouster of its military rulers and rejecting a deal for the gradual transfer of power to civilian leaders. Demonstrators on Thursday headed for the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the seat of the country’s ruling military

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tanita Hilliard made a wish the night a shooter livestreamed himself driving around Memphis, firing at people: “I hope it isn’t one of my babies.” She paused the video to study the young man. “I know that face,” she thought. She sent a screenshot to some

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have installed multiple rocket launchers at Ukraine’s shut-down Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials claimed Thursday, raising fears Europe’s largest atomic power station could be used as a base to fire on Ukrainian territory and heightening radiation dangers. Ukraine’s nuclear company Energoatom said

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Lawmakers in Slovakia have started debating a parliamentary no-confidence vote against the country’s coalition government in a move that could threaten Prime Minister Eduard Heger’s minority Cabinet. The opposition liberal Freedom and Solidarity party, which requested the vote, withdrew from the coalition government in September. Freedom and Solidarity head Richard Sulik

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Lawmakers in Greece are set to approve plans to outlaw commercial spyware following weeks of allegations that senior government officials may have been targeted. The use, sale or distribution of spyware in Greece will carry a penalty of a two-year minimum prison sentence, under the legislative

The Associated Press Celine Dion has put a halt on all performing after being diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder. In an emotional video messages posted in French and English on Thursday on Instagram, Dion said stiff person syndrome was causing spasms that affect her ability to walk and sing. “Unfortunately, the spasms affect every

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly more Americans filed for jobless claims last week but the labor market remains one of strongest parts of the U.S. economy. Applications for unemployment benefits rose to 230,000 for the week ending Dec. 3, up by 4,000 from the previous week’s 226,000, the Labor Department

By ERIC TUCKER, MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner headed home Thursday night, freed from Russian prison in exchange for the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in the culmination of an eight-month saga of high diplomacy and dashed hopes. But the U.S. failed

By The Associated Press Brittney Griner has been freed from a Russia prison in a high-level prisoner exchange. Here’s a look at the WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medalist’s career on and off the basketball court.