Month: April 2023

By AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke by phone with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday amid signs that the Saudis and Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen are making “remarkable progress” toward finding a permanent end to their nine-year conflict. The

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Saying she is ready to share the “unfathomable” experience of being arrested and incarcerated in Russia, basketball star Brittney Griner is working on a memoir that is scheduled for spring 2024. Griner was arrested last year at the airport in Moscow on drug-related charges and

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Three construction workers were injured Tuesday when part of an upper floor collapsed inside Savannah’s 124-year-old federal courthouse, which has been undergoing extensive renovations for more than a year. All three workers were taken to a hospital, none of them with life-threatening injuries, after part of

By MICHAEL REZENDES and JASON DEAREN Associated Press The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under a state law that exempts religious officials from having to report child sex abuse if they learn of the crime during a

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has approved an overhaul of the state’s sentencing laws that will eliminate parole eligibility for certain violent offenses. The Republican governor on Tuesday signed into law legislation that will require anyone convicted of any of 18 violent offenses such as

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press U.S. authorities have arrested a 21-year-old information technology specialist in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues. The suspect is an airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard named Jack Teixeira. The leak is believed to have started

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A witness and independent media say airstrikes by Myanmar’s military have killed as many as 100 people, including many children, who were attending a ceremony held by opponents of army rule. The military is increasingly using airstrikes to counter a widespread armed struggle against its rule, which

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Tribal leaders in Arizona say they hope to persuade the Biden administration to create protections for areas adjacent to the Grand Canyon, which they consider sacred. They said Tuesday they’re looking to build on the momentum of President Joe Biden’s recent designation of a national monument in

HOUSTON (AP) — Steve Murdock, a former state demographer of Texas who served one year as the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, during which he helped keep the 2010 census on track, has died. He was 75. Murdock died last Friday, according to Rice University in Houston, where he spent nearly a decade until

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say a man was killed and three others were critically injured in a shooting outside of a funeral for a homicide victim in the nation’s capital. Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee says a police officer was stationed near the funeral home in northeast Washington when the

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors in the Virginia city where a 6-year-old shot his teacher in an elementary school classroom are investigating whether the “actions or omissions” of any school employees could lead to criminal charges, according to court documents released Tuesday. Howard Gwynn, the commonwealth’s

NORTHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — A student at a private southeastern Minnesota college has been charged with multiple counts after authorities say they found empty ammunition and magazine boxes, knives, propane canisters and other items in his dorm room. Twenty-year-old Waylon Kurts, a St. Olaf College student, was charged Monday with conspiracy to commit second degree

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday, an extraordinary move as he seeks to halt a House Judiciary Committee inquiry that the prosecutor contends is a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” him over his indictment of former

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has proposed a rewrite of a bill that aimed to ban the recreational sales of intoxicating hemp-derived products. He’s seeking changes intended to ensure the availability of certain therapeutic CBD products that don’t give users a high. Youngkin made the proposed amendments

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute will face criminal charges for a fire that killed 40 migrants in a locked cell, the federal Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday night. The office said in a statement that the head of the immigration agency, Francisco Garduño, was criminally remiss in not preventing

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A court hearing set was pushed back until next week for an Alaska children’s book illustrator charged with terroristic threatening after authorities said he posted around the capital city transphobic notes that referenced shooting children. Mitchell Thomas Watley was scheduled for a preliminary hearing Tuesday but

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A retired firefighter who threw a fire extinguisher at police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison. Robert Sanford struck two police officers in the head with the fire extinguisher that he threw as he stormed the Capitol on Jan.

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A lawsuit over a deadly explosion at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory says the candy-maker ignored warnings of a natural gas leak. The lawsuit was filed by the family of one of seven workers killed last month. It alleges that R.M. Palmer Co. bears responsibility for the explosion. The family of

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican tourist has been shot to death in the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum in a dramatic robbery inside a coffee shop. The tourist apparently refused to hand over an expensive watch he was wearing, and was shot by the robbers. Video of the killing posted on social media Tuesday

By HALELUYA HADERO and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Social media companies are once again in the spotlight after a bank employee in Louisville, Kentucky, killed five people in a mass shooting and livestreamed the attack on Instagram. Tech companies have gotten better in recent years at cooperating to tamp down the

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is joining other states in stockpiling abortion pills. It’s a response to a ruling in Texas that would limit access to a commonly used abortion drug. Governor Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday that the state will begin purchasing 150,000 doses of one of

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials have unveiled three new high-tech policing devices including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago. The new devices also include a GPS tracker for stolen cars and a cone-shaped security robot.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s Congress has approved a law gradually reducing the work week from 45 to 40 hours, a decision hailed by the government as a breakthrough for workers’ rights. The bill, which was approved by a 127 to 14 margin with three abstentions, is expected to be signed into law by President

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s right-wing government has declared a state of emergency to help it cope with a surge in migrants arriving on the country’s southern shores. Premier Giorgia Meloni and her Cabinet on Tuesday decided to impose the emergency status for six months. Some 31,000 migrants, either rescued by

IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan man who shot an 84-year-old woman campaigning against abortion rights has pleaded no contest to assault. The shooting occurred in September in Ionia County. Seventy-five-year-old Richard Harvey says Joan Jacobson was talking to his wife about opposing a constitutional amendment on the November ballot and had refused to

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A federal court trial is underway in Vermont for a man charged with kidnapping a woman and her 4-year-old son in early 2019. The trial of 45-year-old Everett Simpson began Tuesday and is expected to last four days. Simpson is representing himself. Prosecutors say Simpson left

ROME (AP) — Italy will push for stiff, five-figure fines on vandals who damage monuments or other cultural sites. At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the government approved proposed legislation, championed by the culture minister, that would impose fines as high as 60,000 euros (about $65,000) and such vandals. Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said that

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has been rebuffed in her attempt to stay out of federal prison while she appeals her conviction for the fraud she committed while overseeing a blood-testing scam that exposed Silicon Valley’s dark side. In an 11-page ruling issued late Monday, U.S. District Judge Edward

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military shot and killed two Palestinians who allegedly opened fire at troops from their car in the northern West Bank, the latest incident in a wave of deadly violence gripping the occupied territory. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the two men killed in the village

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas police officer has pleaded guilty to several sexual assaults under a plea deal in which he must serve at least 20 years in prison. Todd Allen pleaded guilty Monday to 12 felony sex crimes and five breach of privacy charges. Sentencing is set for May. The assaults occurred

CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors have found three former leaders of a Chicago-based company guilty of multiple counts of fraud, following a 10-week federal trial that tracked Outcome Health’s rise and dramatic fall. The Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday that jurors found former CEO Rishi Shah guilty on 19 of 22 counts, co-founder, former president Shradha Agarwal