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Month: October 2023

Election denier and ‘MyPillow Guy’ Mike Lindell confirms he’s out of money, can’t pay legal bills

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit, saying he owes them unspecified millions of dollars and can’t pay the millions more that he’ll owe in legal expenses going forward.

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Amazon launches test satellites for its planned internet service to compete with SpaceX

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Amazon has launched the first test satellites for its planned internet service. United Launch Alliance’s Atlas rocket blasted off Friday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the two test satellites. The liftoff marked the start of Amazon’s goal to improve global broadband access with an

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Biden says a meeting with Xi on sidelines of November APEC summit in San Francisco is a possibility

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says that he could potentially meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday that a meeting has not yet been set up “but it

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US expels 2 Russian diplomats after Moscow expelled American diplomats last month

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Two Russian diplomats have been expelled from Moscow’s embassy in Washington, the US State Department confirmed Friday. The expulsion is in response to Russia’s “specious expulsion of two US Embassy Moscow diplomats” last month, a spokesperson said, adding that “the State Department reciprocated by declaring persona non grata two

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New Mexico congressional map that was approved by Democrats can stand, a judge says

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico state judge has ruled against a Republican Party challenge of new congressional boundaries approved by Democrats that divvied up a politically conservative oil-producing region. In an order published on Friday. Judge Fred Van Soelen wrote that the redistricting plan enacted by Democratic

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Louisiana Republicans are in court to fight efforts to establish new Black congressional district

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Voting rights advocates are locked in a court fight with Louisiana’s top Republicans over whether the state must follow Alabama’s court-ordered path in drawing a new, Black-majority congressional district. Louisiana is among multiple states still wrangling over congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in

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Amazon launches first Project Kuiper satellites with goal of creating a megaconstellation

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Amazon has officially joined the race to build massive constellations of satellites that can blanket the globe in internet connectivity — a move that puts the tech company in direct competition with SpaceX and its Starlink system. The first two prototype satellites for Amazon’s network, called Project Kuiper, launched aboard

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