Year: 2022

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has been charged with attempted murder and multiple gun assault charges after authorities said he fired at a pickup truck carrying a man accused of sexually abusing a 4-year-old family member. Velasquez was arrested Monday after he allegedly chased a pickup carrying the

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Two leading conservatives in South Korea’s presidential race have unified behind one of them in a last-minute deal that could boost their chances of victory in next week’s election. Ahn Cheol-soo told a hastily arranged news conference Thursday that he would withdraw to support the

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An estimated 38.2 million TV viewers watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. That’s according to Nielsen ratings for the Tuesday night address. The audience for Biden’s speech  surpassed the 37.2 million for Donald Trump’s last such address in 2020. But Biden’s audience fell short of the more than

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ refugee agency says 1 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion less than a week ago. It is an exodus without precedent in this century for its speed. The tally from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees amounts to more than 2% of

By EDITH M. LEDERER Assocaited Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan says the international community hasn’t done enough to revive the country’s economy as it heads toward “a point of irreversibility.” U.N. envoy Deborah Lyons told the Security Council on Wednesday that Afghanistan is nearing “a tipping point that will

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has given a former American executive at Nissan charged with underreporting his boss Carlos Ghosn’s pay a 6-month suspended sentence. The verdict allows Greg Kelly to return to the U.S. Kelly’s defense said they planned to appeal, stressing Kelly is completely innocent. Kelly

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A Washington man who was being chased when a sheriff’s deputy mistakenly shot and killed off-duty police officer Donald Sahota has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges including murder. The Columbian reports 20-year-old Julio Segura of Yakima was arraigned in Clark County Superior Court Tuesday on charges including three counts of