Month: December 2022

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s top officials certified the midterm election results Monday, formalizing victories for Democrats over Republicans who falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged. The certification opens a five-day window for formal election challenges. Republican Kari Lake, who lost the race for governor, is expected to file

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has deepened Charleston’s port to make sure it can take in any ship and remains one of the deepest harbors on the East Coast. The channel leading to the Port of Charleston is now 52 feet, once again allowing the biggest ships in the

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The U.S. and Argentina have agreed to have their tax agencies automatically share data about their citizens’ finances in each other’s countries. The government in Buenos Aires hopes this will lead to an estimated $100 billion that Argentines have tried to shelter in the United States. Financial data is already

By CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press PUCARANI, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is one of the poorest nations in South America, and nearly a fourth of its citizens could not read nor write a generation ago. Now the United Nations says the country’s illiteracy is down to just 2.7%, thanks to “Bolivia Reads.” The government-sponsored program has

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Orion capsule and its test dummies swooped one last time around the moon Monday, flying over a couple Apollo landing sites before heading home. Orion will aim for a Pacific splashdown Sunday off San Diego, setting the stage for astronauts on the next

PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says one of his deputies fatally shot another while they were off duty and taking a break from playing an online video game. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said in a social media video posted Sunday that the deputies were best friends and roommates. Ivey says 23-year-olds

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors say a man accused of killing four workers at a marijuana farm had demanded the return of his $300,000 investment in the operation shortly before he started shooting. Prosecutors charged 45-year-old Chen Wu on Friday with four counts of first-degree murder and one count

NICE, France (AP) — French writer Dominique Lapierre has died at age 91. In 1964, Lapierre drew on archived material to co-author with American writer Larry Collins “Is Paris Burning?” — a recounting of the World War II liberation of the French capital. Lapierre had a special bond with India and spent a lot of

By AUDREY McAVOY and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — USS Arizona sailor Lou Conter lived through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor even though his battleship exploded and sank after being pierced by aerial bombs. That makes the now 101-year-old somewhat of a celebrity, especially on the anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941,

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis hospital says it has paused, not stopped, its gender-affirming services in response to possible legal action by civil rights advocates who argue the hospital’s move is illegal and discriminatory. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee last week accused Memphis-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say a Turkish military vehicle has run over a woman and a child in a northern Syrian town killing them instantly. The incident Monday led to protests by locals. The apparent accident happened in the town of Atareb west of the northern city of Aleppo as two armored vehicles

French President Emmanuel Macron says it’s time to “open our eyes” to resurgent antisemitism and xenophobia. He spoke on Monday while visiting a camp where authorities rounded up Jews before and during World War II. Some 10,000 people of 38 nationalities were interned at the Camp des Milles on the outskirts of Aix-en-Provence. More than

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Rail service has resumed between Nigeria’s capital and neighboring Kaduna state eight months after a deadly attack. Back in March, assailants ambushed the train with gunfire and explosives, killing seven people. They also abducted dozens of passengers, all of whom were later released. On Monday, only

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Scientists around the world warned governments who will be gathering in Montreal this week for the United Nations biodiversity summit to not repeat past mistakes and urged officials to “avoid trade-offs” between people and conservation needs in a report Monday. The study published in the One

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The police chief in Tampa, Florida, resigned Monday after using her position to escape a ticket during a traffic stop involving a golf cart driven by her husband. Mary O’Connor submitted her resignation after an internal affairs review found she violated police department policy during the Nov. 12 stop by a

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As a businessman and president, Donald Trump faced a litany of lawsuits and criminal investigations yet emerged from the legal scrutiny time and again with his public and political standing largely intact. But he’s perhaps never confronted a probe as perilous as the Mar-a-Lago investigation, an inquiry

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Major Western measures to limit Russia’s oil profits over the war in Ukraine have taken effect. They bring uncertainty about how much crude could be lost to the world and whether they will unleash the hoped-for hit to a Russian economy that’s held up better

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer is asking U.S. regulators to authorize its updated COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5. The youngest tots already are supposed to get three extra-small doses of the original vaccine as their primary series. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said Monday that if the Food and Drug Administration

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press HAVACO, W.Va. (AP) — The unmarked graves in a forgotten West Virginia burial ground known locally as Little Egypt contain the remains of dozens of coal mine workers who died in a 1912 mine explosion. For Ed Evans, a Democratic state lawmaker and retired school teacher, they are a reminder

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has denounced a European Union proposal to create an U.N.-backed special tribunal to prosecute crimes in Ukraine. Karim Khan pushed back on Monday against the plan European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced last week to

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press HAVACO, W.Va. (AP) — Mayapple plants sprout in the sunken soil where the bodies lie, their leaves sheltering the unmarked graves like tiny umbrellas. The forgotten burial ground is overrun by four-wheel tire tracks near a path strewn with discarded bottles and other trash. More than a century of overgrowth

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s prime minister says a European Union summit in his country’s capital this week demonstrates the EU’s heightened geostrategic interests in the Western Balkans region during Russia’s war in Ukraine. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is set to host the Tuesday meeting aimed at rekindling the