Month: January 2023

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Former United Nations Ambassador Kelly Craft is shying away from talking about her ex-boss — Donald Trump — and his support for a rival in the race for Kentucky governor. Craft was at the statehouse Thursday to file for the May Republican primary. She vowed to

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A preliminary report on a Hawaii medical transport plane that went missing says a witness saw it hit the ocean. The National Transportation Safety Board report says the witness — a small plane pilot — reported seeing the Hawaii Life Flight plane Dec. 15 make a

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press Court documents unsealed Thursday after the suspect in the November fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students made his first court appearance in Idaho reveal the timeline for how Bryan Kohberger went from being on law enforcement radar to becoming the man charged with four counts of first-degree murder

By GRACE EKPU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The European Commission on Thursday banned imports of seafood caught in Cameroon’s waters, or by ships flagged there, and it labeled the West African country as “non-cooperating” in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The commission said in a statement that Cameroon was not

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers The Federal Trade Commission is proposing a rule that would prevent employers from imposing noncompete clauses for workers. The clauses prohibit employees from joining a competitor, typically for a period of time, after they leave a company. The proposed rule released Thursday follows an executive order

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill aimed at easing the cost for prisoners to call family and friends. The legislation clarifies that the Federal Communications Commission can set limits for fees on audio and video calls inside corrections facilities. Phone calls from prisons and

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Turks & Caicos Islands say they have arrested a police officer and charged him with harboring undocumented migrants. Officials in the archipelago are struggling with a recent spike in Haitian migration. Police Commissioner Trevor Botting declined further comment but said in a statement Thursday that the

CAIRO (AP) — Interpol says that an Eritrean national described as one of ’’the world’s most wanted″ human traffickers has been arrested in Sudan after an international manhunt led by the United Arab Emirates. Thursday’s announcement says the suspect — identified as Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam — is accused of leading a criminal organization that abducts,

By CAMILLE RODRIGUEZ MONTILLA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition has selected an all-female team of exiled former lawmakers to replace the beleaguered Juan Guaidó as the face of its faltering efforts to remove socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Last week politicians who were elected to the National Assembly in 2015

NEW YORK (AP) — A health care executive who was convicted of manslaughter for fatally drugging her 8-year-old developmentally disabled son has died by suicide. Gigi Jordan was found dead on Dec. 30 in her Brooklyn home. The city medical examiner’s office ruled that the death was a suicide by asphyxia. Jordan was charged with

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press More than 1.3% of the adult population in the U.S. was displaced by natural disasters in the past year, with hurricanes responsible for more than half of the forced relocations, according to first-of-its-kind survey results from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Household Pulse Survey results said that 3.3 million U.S.

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has been sworn in for a fourth term. Two years ago, he was sworn in during a private ceremony because of concerns about both the coronavirus pandemic and potential violence. But Thursday’s inauguration was back at the Statehouse before a crowd of

By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has fired basketball coach Chris Beard, who faces a felony domestic family violence charge after his fiancée told police he strangled and bit her. The school sent Beard’s attorney a letter that said the coach was “unfit” for the position. Beard had been suspended

By RIO YAMAT and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Delta Air Lines says it will start providing free Wi-Fi for all passengers on most of its U.S. flights starting next month. The airline said Thursday that it provide the service through a partnership with T-Mobile. By the end of the year, Delta

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland is challenging a Maine law that eliminated the statue of limitations for child sexual abuse, allowing a wave of new lawsuits. The diocese suggests the law is unconstitutional through retroactive changes that violate due process and vested rights. A plaintiff

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing the former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network, saying he misled investors. The lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to ban Alex Mashinsky from doing business in the state. James says Mashinsky, a co-founder of Celsius, encouraged investors to put billions of

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Maura Healey was sworn in as the first woman and first open member of the LGBTQ community to be elected Massachusetts governor. Healey’s inauguration Thursday signals a political shift in the state’s top elected office from GOP to Democratic hands. Healey replaces former Republican Gov. Charlie Baker

By LAURA UNGAR and SHELBY LUM Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Shubham Chandra knows how dangerous the coronavirus can be: He lost his dad during the pandemic. So when he cleared customs at Newark Liberty International Airport and saw people offering anonymous COVID-19 testing, he was happy to volunteer. “It’s a minimum amount of

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The world’s glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with two-thirds of them projected to melt out of existence by the end of the century at current climate change trends, according to a new study. But if the world can limit future warming to just a few

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The harrowing on-field collapse of Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin has forced some fans to confront a truth they’ve always known but hated to think about: Football, a game with violence in its DNA, can go from exciting and joyous to dark and tragic

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. officials say federal agents have arrested a Puerto Rican woman accused of assaulting two Spirit Airlines employees after she was removed from a plane and tried to get back on it. The U.S. Attorney’s Ofice said Thursday that the woman lives in Tampa and was indicted by a

NEW YORK (AP) — A white New York City police officer has been suspended after a video posted on social media showed him hitting a Black 14-year-old girl in the head while trying to break up a fight. Police say the incident happened Tuesday when officers responded to a brawl involving a group of girls.

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An environmental group has given the Chesapeake Bay watershed a D-plus grade in its “State of the Bay” report — the same grade it gave the watershed two years ago. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s report released Thursday says efforts to restore the nation’s largest estuary are

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will send Ukraine nearly $3 billion in military aid, in a massive new package that will for the first time include several dozen Bradley fighting vehicles, U.S. officials said Thursday, in the Biden administration’s latest step to send increasingly lethal and

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mercedes-Benz will build its own worldwide electric vehicle charging network starting in North America in a bid to compete with EV sales leader Tesla. The German luxury automaker said at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas Thursday that it will start building the North American network this year at a