Month: April 2023

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched his longshot bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination next year. Kennedy is a member of one of the country’s most famous political families who has recent years he has been linked to some far-right figures. He kicked off

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay. Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court has confirmed that the General Assembly has asked for it to issue an advisory opinion on “the obligations of States in respect of climate change.” U.N. nations led by the South Pacific island state of Vanuatu adopted a historic resolution

ATLANTA (AP) — A former executive for a longtime city of Atlanta vendor has pleaded guilty to paying bribes in exchange for millions of dollars in city contracts and to paying bribes to an official in a neighboring county. Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that besides admitting to paying bribes to Atlanta and DeKalb County officials,

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The public broadcasters of four Nordic countries have published a joint investigation that says Russia is suspected of spying in the waters of the Baltic Sea and North Sea using civilian fishing trawlers, cargo ships and yachts. The investigation by the public broadcasting companies of Denmark, Finland,

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A county commissioner in far southeast Oklahoma who was apparently caught on tape discussing killing reporters and lynching Black people has resigned from office, Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office confirmed Wednesday. Stitt spokesperson Carly Atchison said the office received a handwritten resignation letter from McCurtain County

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A coding error in an annual survey by the U.S. Census Bureau has offered unprecedented insight into how large numbers of Brazilians in the U.S. identify as Hispanic. An analysis by Pew Research Center shows that the error revealed at least 416,000 Brazilians, or more than two-thirds of Brazilians in

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a Turkish bank’s main arguments for avoiding prosecution on charges it helped Iran evade U.S. sanctions. But the court sent the case back to a lower court for additional review. Halkbank had argued that a federal law gave foreign states absolute immunity

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Leaders of the U.K., the European Union and two U.S. presidents have urged Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party to restore the mothballed Belfast government and reap the reward of more economic investment. “It’s time to get this show on the road,” former U.S, President Bill Clinton said

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer The first sign is the hair. Not exactly a total mess. But definitely not neat, either. Keri Russell’s hair on “The Diplomat,” her new Netflix series set in the world of high-stakes global diplomacy, is the hair of a woman — in this case, the U.S. ambassador to Britain

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Microsoft has agreed to buy a $50 million parcel of land in southeastern Wisconsin meant for Foxconn after the world’s largest electronics manufacturer failed to fulfill grandiose promises to build a massive facility that would employ thousands of workers. Microsoft plans to build a $1 billion

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has vowed to try again to give control of the National Guard to the Army, despite a Supreme Court ruling against such a move. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he will instruct the civilian Public Safety Department to appoint a retired general to lead the quasi-military guard, which

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Foo Fighters have announced a new album is in the works, the first since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins. The rockers said in a statement that the upcoming 10-track “But Here We Are” will be “a brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Fox News’ nearly $800 million settlement of a voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit marks the first milestone in a larger legal strategy designed to combat the false claims and conspiracy theories about elections that have rippled through the United States for nearly three years. Several similar lawsuits

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis added more wins to his agenda targeting the LGBTQ+ community as a state board approved an expansion of what critics call the “Don’t Say Gay” law Wednesday, and the House passed bills on gender-transition treatments, bathroom use and

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Investigators say two teenagers and a 20—year-old man have been arrested and charged with reckless murder after a shooting that killed four young people at a Sweet Sixteen birthday party in Alabama. District Attorney Mike Segrest said Wednesday the two teens would be

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A legal official says Myanmar’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s convictions and requests for reduced sentences in several cases in which she was charged with corruption, election fraud and violating the official secrets act. Suu Kyi was arrested

By ADRIAN SAINZ and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The family of Tyre Nichols, who died after a brutal beating by five Memphis police officers, sued the officers and the city of Memphis, blaming them for his death and accusing officials of allowing a special unit’s aggressive tactics to go unchecked despite

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER Associated Press LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — The 84-year old man who shot Ralph Yarl when the Black teenager went to his door by mistake pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a case that has shocked the country and renewed national debates about gun policies and race in America. Andrew Lester

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal watchdog is investigating whether the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration under chief Anne Milgram improperly awarded millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to hire her past associates, people familiar with the probe told The Associated Press. Among the spending under scrutiny by the

By GENE JOHNSON, ANDREW SELSKY and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press TUMWATER, Wash. (AP) — Legal marijuana growers along the West Coast are struggling with oversupply, low prices and limited outlets for selling their product. Oregon’s top cannabis regulator recently warned of an “existential crisis” in the industry. Few expect a fractured Congress to help

By JOHN RABY Associated Press KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — The jukebox plays Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” as Malli Jarrett and Nathaniel Fornash take turns at the Griffith & Feil Drug food counter preparing old-fashioned, soda-fountain phosphate drinks. Soda fountains like this were hugely popular a century ago. Often located in pharmacies, they were a gathering

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed should have a chance to argue for testing of crime-scene evidence that he says will help clear him. The justices, in a 6-3 decision, sent Reed’s case back to a lower court for his constitutional challenge to the state’s

By PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP Associated Press BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) — A man confessed to killing four people, including his parents, and then firing on motorists on a busy interstate highway, just days after being released from prison, police said Wednesday. Mike Sauschuck, commissioner of the Maine Department of Public Safety, called the shootings

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.S. lawmakers have accused the embattled Swiss bank Credit Suisse of limiting the scope of an internal investigation into Nazi clients and Nazi-linked accounts. The Senate Budget Committee says an independent ombudsman initially brought in by the bank to help lead the probe was “inexplicably terminated” as

By ADAM PEMBLE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s defense minister says U.S.-made Patriot missiles have arrived in Ukraine. The missiles will provide Kyiv with a long-sought new shield against the Russian airstrikes that have devastated cities and civilian infrastructure. The U.S. agreed in October to send the surface-to-air systems, which can target aircraft,