Month: April 2023

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Biden administration is urging U.S. meat processors to make sure children aren’t being hired illegally to perform dangerous jobs at their plants. The call comes after an investigation over the past year found more than 100 kids working overnight for a company that cleans

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Inter American Commission on Human Rights is urging the government of El Salvador to restore all the rights suspended under an “emergency” anti-gang decree that is now entering its second year. The commission is an arm of the Organization of American States. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele asked the

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 1-year-old Australian shepherd took an epic trek across 150 miles (241 kilometers) of frozen Bering Sea ice that included being bitten by a seal or polar bear before he was safely returned to his home in Alaska. Mandy Iworrigan, Nanuq’s owner who lives in Gambell, Alaska, and her family were

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — The mother of a boy who was killed and another who was wounded in a shooting during a road rage incident in Colorado testified Wednesday at the start of the other driver’s trial. Meghan Bigelow says Jeremy Webster followed her and her three sons into the

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s president is renewing his call to confiscate Russian Central Bank assets held around the world and use them to help rebuild Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made the appeal Wednesday to the heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank during a meeting in Washington.

The Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro has removed the national police director who had talked about using exorcisms to catch fugitives. Neither Petro nor the Defense Ministry elaborated on the reason for the dismissal Wednesday of Gen. Henry Sanabria, a staunch Catholic who was appointed by Petro in August of

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The sexual abuse trial of a “Dances With Wolves” actor charged in Nevada is on hold indefinitely. A sweeping indictment accuses Nathan Chasing Horse of abusing Indigenous women and girls for more than a decade in the Las Vegas area. The 46-year-old’s trial was supposed to

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — GOP gubernatorial candidate Kelly Craft is campaigning alongside U.S. Rep. James Comer in Kentucky. She’s looking to maximize support from the influential home-state Republican after missing out on an endorsement from former President Donald Trump. Craft hit on campaign themes Wednesday during a stop in Elizabethtown.

By MCIHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Warner Bros. Discovery has unveiled a streaming service combining iconic HBO programming such as “The Sopranos” with a mix of unscripted TV series. It’s a push to reap more subscribers from what so far has been a muddled media merger. The $16-per-month service, called Max, will be released May

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer The management of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center has drawn criticism from a prominent archbishop — and some members of Congress — by choosing not to renew a contract for Franciscan priests to provide pastoral care, and instead hiring a secular firm to oversee provision of those services

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and HANNA ARHIROVA WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s leaders say they don’t see a major U.S. intelligence leak as gravely damaging future offensives. A key reason: They have long held back on sharing their most sensitive operational information, doubting Washington’s ability to keep their secrets safe. Ukrainian and U.S. officials said this week

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — U.S. officials in North Carolina will not federally prosecute the person suspected of killing a Charlotte-area woman vacationing in Mexico last year, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Federal prosecutors say they have presented the findings of their investigation to the family of Shanquella Robinson, who was seen being beaten

LONDON (AP) — A man who allegedly piloted a small boat packed with migrants that capsized crossing the English Channel in December has been charged with four counts of manslaughter. Ibrahima Bah is due to appear at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court Thursday to face the charges related to the Dec. 14, 2022 capsizing. Authorities say helicopters

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a federal rule in 24 states that is intended to protect thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways throughout the nation. U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland in Bismarck, North Dakota, halted the regulations from the U.S.

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — United States forces will assist their Colombian and Panamanian counterparts with intelligence gathering to dismantle smuggling rings operating in the dense jungle of the Darien Gap. A senior Biden administration official said Wednesday that migration through the Darien would not end, but the campaign

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Eric Adams has named a former school teacher as the city’s “rat czar,” tasked with leading the battle against the clawed vermin. Adams announced Wednesday that he picked Kathleen Corradi, a former school teacher, from among scores of applicants. The mayor expects

MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is reportedly in failing health because of a new suspected poisoning. A spokeswoman says the 46-year-old Navalny fell ill last Friday when he was let out of the punishment cell and put in a conventional cell. He had lost about 18 pounds in 15 days. On

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A hippopotamus descended from animals illegally brought to Colombia by the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar has died in a collision with an SUV on a highway near Escobar’s hacienda, environmental authorities said Wednesday. The hippos, which spread from the estate into nearby rivers and now number more than 100, have

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Turmoil in the banking system after two major banks collapsed led many Federal Reserve officials to envision fewer rate increases this year out of concern that banks will reduce their lending and weaken the economy. The heightened uncertainty surrounding the banking sector also helped Fed officials

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An advocacy group for prisoners’ rights has filed a civil rights lawsuit against corrections officers who allegedly ignored requirements that they videotape a prison-cell encounter with an inmate, who says he was sexually abused, beaten without provocation and taunted with words that evoked the 2020