Month: March 2023

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The influential sister of North Korea’s leader warned Tuesday that her country is ready to take “quick, overwhelming action” against the United States and South Korea, a day after the U.S. flew a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber in a demonstration of strength against the North. The

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members have filed a lawsuit against the company. The say it failed to take appropriate precautions at its meat-packing plants during the early days of the COVID pandemic. The lawsuit was filed in Tyson’s home state of Arkansas. The plaintiffs say

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former spokesperson Hope Hicks met Monday with Manhattan prosecutors who are investigating hush-money payments made to women on the ex-president’s behalf — the latest member of the Republican’s inner circle to be questioned in the renewed probe. Hicks and her lawyer, Robert Trout,

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Election officials in Florida, Missouri and West Virginia say they are withdrawing from a bipartisan, multistate effort aimed at ensuring the accuracy of voter rolls that has found itself in the crosshairs of conspiracy theories fueled by Donald Trump’s false claims about

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans issued another series of subpoenas Monday as part of an ongoing investigation into what they contend is the mistreatment of parents who protested “woke” school board policies. Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, demanded documents and testimony from three individuals, including the

PEKIN, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man has received an 18-month prison sentence after being convicted of illegally giving his son an assault-style rifle he later used in a 2018 shooting attack that killed four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee. A judge last May convicted Jeffrey Reinking of illegal delivery of a firearm

By JOSH BOAK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With an eye on 2024, President Joe Biden will showcase his election-year budget plan this week in must-win Pennsylvania rather than the usual White House setting. Biden’s trip to Philadelphia on Thursday is a sign that the president’s budget proposal is part of

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge has sanctioned former Republican secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem and his attorney over a lawsuit challenging his loss in last year’s election. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Melissa Julian said in a March 1 ruling that Finchem’s suit “was groundless and not

By DAVE COLLINS and DAVID SHARP Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Officials say a corporate jet may have experienced stability problems before the severe buffeting that caused the death of a woman who served in prominent posts in two presidential administrations. The NTSB initially reported that the plane experienced severe turbulence on Friday. But

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press An employee of Catholic Charities in Omaha, Nebraska, alleges in a lawsuit that she suffered emotional distress when the organization held an active shooter drill but didn’t tell employees it was fake. The employee, Sandra Lopez, says in her lawsuit that administrators went along with the drill despite knowing it

By RON TODT Associated Press Norfolk Southern announced plans on Monday to improve the use of detectors placed along railroad tracks to spot overheating bearings and other problems in response to a fiery derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border a month ago. The announcement came the same day Pennsylvania’s governor announced that the company had agreed

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man tried to open an airliner’s emergency door on a cross-country flight from Los Angeles to Boston and then tried to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken metal spoon, federal prosecutors alleged Monday. Francisco Severo Torres, 33, of Leominster, was tackled and restrained with the aid

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Residents of Southern California mountain towns have continued to struggle to dig out and get necessities in the aftermath of a record-setting blizzard last month that dumped so much snow that roads became impassable and roofs collapsed. Here’s a closer look at the situation: SURVIVAL Free food distribution centers have been

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has escalated the dispute over proposed Mexican limits on genetically modified corn. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office has called for consultations with Mexico over proposed rules that would ban GM corn for human consumption, and could eventually ban it for animal feed. The trade representative’s office says the

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief says that women’s rights are being “abused, threatened and violated” around the world and that gender equality won’t be achieved for 300 years on the current track. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Monday’s opening session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of

NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona rancher accused of killing a Mexican man on his land near the U.S.-Mexico border has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges. George Alan Kelly was present during his arraignment Monday in Santa Cruz Superior Court in Nogales on charges of second-degree murder and aggravated assault. The 74-year-old

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who was supposed to stand trial Monday on charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack as well as another riot defendant who has also gone missing. An FBI agent said Monday that a federal judge in Washington issued bench

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Work to clear tons of ash, silt and other debris from a traditional irrigation canal in northern New Mexico has started, and residents who depend on the water say it’s just in time for the spring runoff. Acequia de Cañoncito is the first on the

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans produce and consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to the Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a new study. Continuing the dietary patterns of today will push the planet past the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit of

By ELAINE GANLEY and JEAN-FRANCOIS BADIAS Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — If your secret wish is to get a reward, not just family compliments, for your talents in the kitchen, then Georgiana Viou might serve as inspiration. The self-taught chef from the west African country of Benin, who came to Paris dreaming of becoming

GENEVA (AP) — The makers of Toblerone are stripping images of Switzerland’s famed Matterhorn and the Swiss flag from the packaging of the milk-chocolate treat as they move some production to Slovakia. Mondelez International of Deerfield, Illinois, which owns the Swiss-born brand, said Monday that it’s in the process of adapting the packaging of Toblerone

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Residents of Vermont’s largest city will vote Tuesday on whether to create a community police oversight board that would have the authority to discipline Burlington police officers, including the chief. Mayor Miro Weinberger, a Democrat, vetoed a similar measure in 2020. The Burlington City Council had passed it following protests

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Norfolk Southern has pledged several million dollars to cover the cost of the response and recovery in Pennsylvania after last month’s derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals just across the border in Ohio, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Monday. Shapiro’s office said he met with Norfolk

By GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) — The Russian government has donated 20,000 tons of fertilizer to Malawi as part of its efforts to garner diplomatic support from various African nations. Russia will give 260,000 tons of fertilizer to countries in the continent, Russian Ambassador to Malawi Nikolai Krasilnikov said at a handover

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge will again be asked to decide which justice of the peace should handle a preliminary hearing in the case against former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III, who is accused of killing a woman in drunken car crash in 2021. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace