Month: February 2023

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press The man who took care of Alex Murdaugh’s dogs testified Tuesday during the disgraced attorney’s double murder trial that puddles of water were not where they should have been when police responded to the killings of Murdaugh’s son and wife. Dale Davis also testified Tuesday that the dogs were in

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania has briefly scrambled military jets and neighboring Moldova temporarily closed its air space after authorities in both countries reported mysterious weather balloon-like objects traversing their skies. The incidents occurred at around midday local time Tuesday and briefly raised concerns in the two Eastern European countries, both which border Ukraine and

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Louis Vuitton has named multitalented singer-songwriter-philanthropist Pharrell Williams as creative director of its menswear division. He replaces the late Virgil Abloh. The company says in a statement Tuesday that the multitalented Pharrell is a global icon and established visionary in music, art and fashion. The appointment

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Democrat Adam Frisch came within inches of unseating Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert in 2022 and says he will try again in 2024. Frisch announced his second bid Tuesday in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. Frisch is a former city council member from Aspen who fell short of Boebert

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News has lost a bid to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit accusing the network of spreading lies that a voting-technology company helped “steal” the 2020 election from then-U.S. President Donald Trump. A mid-level New York appeals court ruled Tuesday against the network. The company,

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a man who has served nearly 28 years of a life sentence for a killing that he has always said he didn’t commit. Lamar Johnson, 50, closed his eyes and shook his head slightly as a member

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are warning of a potential economic crisis if Congress and the White House fail to raise the federal debt ceiling. They made the remarks during speeches Tuesday at the National Association of Counties. Yellen notified Congress

By GISELA SALOMON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — U.S. authorities have arrested four more people in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, including the owner of a Miami-area security company that hired ex-Colombian soldiers for the mission, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The squad of former Colombian soldiers are among dozens of suspects

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Russian millionaire with ties to the Kremlin has been convicted of participating in an elaborate insider trading scheme using secret earnings information from companies such as Microsoft that was stolen from U.S. computer networks. Vladislav Klyushin was found guilty on all charges against him on

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A convoy of 11 trucks from a United Nations agency has crossed into northern Syria from Turkey — just hours after the U.N. and Syrian government reached an agreement to temporarily authorize two new border crossings into the rebel enclave. Syrian officials in Damascus

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla workers in New York are launching a campaign to organize a union with Workers United Upstate New York. In a letter posted to Twitter on Tuesday, the Tesla Workers United organizing committee said that the employees are seeking a voice on the job at

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians say Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during an army raid in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The death on was the latest in an almost year-long surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence that shows no signs of abating. During an operation

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A woman accused in a grisly killing and dismemberment case in Wisconsin attacked her attorney Tuesday during a court hearing, moments after a judge agreed to delay her trial. Taylor Schabusiness, 25, was seated in a Brown County circuit court when her attorney, Quinn Jolly, asked the judge for an

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Autopsy results show that a former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died by suicide. The autopsy report and other documents related to the death of the Rev. T. Anthony Spearman were released Tuesday. The 71-year-old was found dead last July inside his home in Greensboro. Spearman’s

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A California man has pleaded guilty to using a stun gun to attack a Washington, D.C., police officer who was brutally injured while trying to defend the U.S. Capitol from the angry mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters on Jan. 6, 2021. Daniel Rodriguez admitted to taking part in

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The ungainly yet graceful wood stork, which was on the brink of extinction in 1984, has recovered sufficiently in Florida and other Southern states that U.S. wildlife officials proposes removal of the wading bird from the endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — In a story published Feb. 14, 2023, about a shooting at Michigan State University that left three students dead, The Associated Press erroneously reported that MSU student Jaqueline Matthews was a student at Sandy Hook Elementary school when a mass shooting occurred there in 2012. She attended a nearby intermediate

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief has launched a $397 million appeal to help nearly 5 million survivors of last week’s devastating earthquake in rebel-held northwest Syria who have received very little assistance. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appeal a day after he welcomed an agreement between

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen stormed a Syrian hospital that is caring for a baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home, and the attackers beat the facility’s director, a hospital official said Tuesday. The official denied reports on social media that the Monday night attack

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has named Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard as the new director of his National Economic Council. That makes the Ph.D. economist a key point person for coordinating policy, talking with business leaders and negotiating with Congress. Biden has also nominated