Month: May 2023

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — The head of security for Pittsburgh’s Jewish community says there has been an “uptick in hate speech” on the internet, but no specific threats, in the early stages of the trial of the man accused of killing 11 worshippers at a synagogue here in 2018. And Jewish

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Election officials in Virginia have announced plans to withdraw the state from a bipartisan effort designed to ensure accurate voter lists and combat fraud — but that also has been caught up in conspiracy theories spread since the 2020 presidential election. When

By DYLAN LOVAN and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s secretary of state has won bipartisan praise during his first term in office for expanding voter access during the COVID-19 pandemic and overseeing elections that have been free of widespread problems. That record still hasn’t paved a clear path to reelection

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Hodding Carter III, a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who as U.S. State Department spokesman informed Americans about the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries, has died. He was 88. His daughter, Catherine Carter Sullivan, confirmed that he died Thursday in Chapel Hill, North

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s top police officer has defended the department from complaints of a heavy-handed response to protesters during the coronation of King Charles III. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley says his officers intervened to prevent “serious disruption and criminality.” Rowley says the response was based on “rapidly developing

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A boycott by Republican state senators in Oregon threatens to derail hundreds of bills, including on gun control, gender-affirming care and abortion rights, as a deadline looms that could also upend the protesters’ political futures. Democrats control the Statehouse in Oregon. But the GOP is leveraging

By CALEB JONES Associated Press Renowned Associated Press photojournalist Elise Amendola — a determined, joyous and patient journalist who masterfully photographed pivotal global news and sporting events spanning decades — has died. She was 70. Amendola, who recently retired from the AP, died Thursday at her home in North Andover, Massachusetts, after a 13-year battle

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk is welcoming a veteran ad executive to the helm of Twitter. He says he has hired Linda Yaccarino as the social media site’s new CEO. Yaccarino has worked as an advertising executive for decades. She came to NBCUniversal in 2011 and was most

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A group of families has won a key court victory in an effort to pin some responsibility on a Michigan school district for a shooting that left four students dead in 2021. A judge says the families can pursue claims that the Oxford district may have pushed

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Federal authorities have proposed new regulations that would force Minnesota’s iron mining industry to slash its mercury emissions. The rule announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week follows two decades of litigation and other pressure by tribes and environmental groups who have long urged the agency to adopt mercury

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Strong is going from a corporate boardroom on TV to a whistleblower on Broadway. The actor who plays Kendall Roy in the HBO television series “Succession” has signed on to play a man who tries to expose water contamination in a Norwegian spa town

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Gimena Páez could barely pay her bills. Then inflation in Argentina started rising even faster. The value of the country’s currency plunged, making many goods unobtainable. Getting enough food for herself and her 11-year-old daughter became a daily struggle for Páez. Inflation has been a

By SIAN WATSON Associated Press After two decades in the spotlight, the Jonas Brothers are still chasing butterflies. Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas are releasing their sixth studio record “The Album” on Friday, before embarking on an U.S. tour in August. Nick says the band of brothers are putting themselves in new positions so they

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored Friday with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his portrait. The release of the stamp of Chief Standing Bear comes 146 years after the

By ABBY SEWELL and BASSEM MROUE BEIRUT (AP) — Family members of a Lebanese man who died in custody in the United Arab Emirates say local authorities mistreated the 55-year-old man after his arrest. A committee of family members of Lebanese citizens detained in the UAE alleged in a statement Friday that Lebanese citizen Ghazi

BUENA VISTA, Colo. (AP) — Colorado’s wildlife officials said a mountain lion swatted an 11-year-old girl when she went to check the family’s chickens in their hen house Wednesday. The girl sustained a small puncture wound on her cheek. Colorado Parks and Wildlife later arrived at the scene, found the predator still in the wire

BERLIN (AP) — Officials say an explosion at a residential building in Germany that left nine first responders seriously injured appears to have been a planned attack. Police and firefighters went to the building in the town of Ratingen on Thursday in response to a call about a helpless person inside a top-floor apartment. The

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Budget Office says this year’s projected federal budget deficit has jumped by $130 billion. That’s due in part to a proposed change to student loan repayment plans and a series of bank rescues. Overall, the agency expects deficits to increase by $20 trillion in the

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former correctional officer at a federal women’s prison in California where inmates say they were subjected to rampant sexual abuse has been arrested and accused of abusing three inmates. The Justice Department announced the charges Friday. Darrell Wayne Smith worked at the

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An ex-prosecutor who once oversaw Manhattan’s yearslong investigation of former President Donald Trump declined to substantively answer questions at a closed-door deposition Friday of the House Judiciary Committee, according to a Republican lawmaker in the meeting. Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, exited the meeting after roughly

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has nominated Philip Jefferson, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, to serve as vice chair of the board. Biden has also chosen Adriana Kugler, a Georgetown University economist, to join the Fed’s board. If confirmed by the Senate, she would

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The arrest of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan earlier this week has shown how quickly his fervent loyalists can mobilize in large numbers. Within hours of his detention, his supporters torched vehicles and buildings. They attacked police and military facilities to express their fury over the

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Just ahead of what could be a record-breaking summer travel season, pilots from one of the nation’s biggest airlines marched in picket lines at major airports on Friday as they push for higher pay. The United Airlines pilots have been working without a raise for more

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — U.S. Army Chief of Staff James McConville has met with Indonesia’s top defense official to push for stronger security ties amid growing Chinese maritime activity in the Indo-Pacific region. McConville says he and Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto discussed ways to deepen cooperation, including enhanced joint military

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Representatives from 25 Indian Ocean nations are discussing regional economic growth, cooperation and security at the Indian Ocean Conference in Bangladesh as the Indo-Pacific grows in importance amid changes in the world order. Government officials and experts discussed the Russia-Ukraine war in several sessions, reflecting concerns

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military commanders said Friday that their troops had recaptured more territory from Russian forces at the scene of the war’s longest and bloodiest battle, for the eastern city of Bakhmut, but it wasn’t clear if this marked the start of Kyiv’s long-expected counteroffensive. Russia’s Defense

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers Elon Musk has confirmed that the new CEO for Twitter, will be NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino, an executive with deep ties to the advertising industry. Musk said that Yaccarino “will focus primarily on business operations” while he plans to center on product design and new technology at