Month: March 2023

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan grand jury that has been hearing testimony about hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf will not take up that inquiry again this week, further delaying a potential vote on an indictment until next week at the earliest. That’s according to two people

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Texas companies have resolved Clean Air Act violations with the Environmental Protection Agency by agreeing to reduce emissions of planet-warming methane and other harmful pollutants wafting from the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region. EPA announced Monday that Matador Production Company has agreed to pay

By JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that former Vice President Mike Pence will have to testify before a grand jury in the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. That’s according

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press The cold weather in North Dakota kept chemicals that spilled from a derailed Canadian Pacific train from spreading very far. Richland County Emergency Management Director Brett Lambrecht said Tuesday that with temperatures well below freezing all of the chemicals that leaked remained within about 100 feet of where 31 cars

By RON TODT and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia officials say the city’s water system will not be affected by contamination following a chemical spill into the Delaware River. Health officials just north of Philadelphia say a pipe burst late Friday evening at a chemical facility. They say it spilled between 8,100

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan for the Boy Scouts of America has been upheld by a federal judge, clearing an important hurdle in the legal challenge by certain insurance companies and dissenting sex abuse survivors. The plan would let the Texas-based organization keep operating while it

By BRIAN WITTE and LEA SKENE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland appellate court on Tuesday reinstated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction and ordered a new hearing in the case, marking the latest development in the protracted legal odyssey chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial.” Though Syed’s conviction has been reinstated, he will not

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — The brother of the late New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is facing criminal and motor vehicle charges in Connecticut. Dennis Hernandez, who has been known as D.J. and Jonathan, was issued a misdemeanor summons by Bristol police over allegations he threw a brick onto the ESPN headquarters campus on Thursday.

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Senate staffer remained hospitalized Tuesday after police say he was attacked leaving a restaurant in Washington this weekend by a man who had been released from federal prison a day earlier. Authorities say 42-year-old Glynn Neal was arrested in the attack a day after he was

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Three active-duty military members are taking the first step toward suing the U.S. government over jet fuel that contaminated drinking water in Hawaii. Their attorneys say the pre-litigation claim forms will allow them to later file a federal lawsuit in Honolulu. In 2021, jet fuel spilled

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writers GENEVA (AP) — Some Russian athletes can soon return to international sports, although their status for the Paris Olympics is still up in the air. The International Olympic Committee has recommended that individual athletes from Russia and Belarus should be allowed to return to competition under

By TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Visitors flocked to see Michelangelo’s David sculpture in Florence on Tuesday, following an uproar over a Florida school’s decision to force the resignation of the principal over complaints about a lesson featuring the Renaissance masterpiece. Tourists, many of them Americans on spring break or studying abroad,

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Posters calling on Pope Francis to stop his crackdown on the old Latin Mass have appeared near the Vatican. The posters that were visible Tuesday featured images of Pope Benedict XVI and St. John Paul II and quoted from their texts speaking positively about the old rite. They

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A series of criminal indictments announced Tuesday accuse 33 defendants of operating a violent drug trafficking organization in Baltimore. The indictment comes as part of an anti-violence strategy the city launched last year, the so-called Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which targets potential shooters and victims, offering them