By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor pursuing a case against former President Donald Trump and others has asked a judge to revoke the bond of defendant Harrison Floyd. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said in a motion Wednesday that Floyd has been intimidating witnesses and codefendants in the case.
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says if U.S. voters give former President Donald Trump another term in the White House, “he will destroy democracy in America.” The comments come amid speculation that the West Virginia Democrat is eyeing his own third-party run for the nation’s high
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Muscogee (Creek) Nation is suing the city of Tulsa for continuing to ticket Native American drivers for traffic offenses within the tribe’s reservation boundaries. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Tulsa against the city, Mayor G.T. Bynum, police Chief Wendell Franklin and
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Meta permitirá que los anuncios políticos en sus plataformas cuestionen el resultado de las elecciones presidenciales de EE.UU. de 2020, como parte de un retroceso en la moderación de contenido relacionado con las elecciones entre las principales plataformas de redes sociales durante el último año, y antes de la contienda presidencial
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FELCSUT, Hungary (AP) — A European Championship qualifying game between Switzerland and Israel ended with a 1-1 draw on Wednesday. It was a match that brought the Israeli team to Hungary after all scheduled games in Tel Aviv were postponed due to the Israel-Hamas war. The match was one of two “home games”
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawyer for the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and attacked her husband has asked jurors to consider that he was acting because of his political beliefs. Federal public defender Angela Chuang told the jury Wednesday that
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked for a mistrial in the New York civil fraud case that threatens the former president’s real estate empire. His team accuses the judge of tainting the proceedings with “tangible and overwhelming” bias. Their motion filed Wednesday argues that Judge
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday to jail Harrison Floyd, who is charged in the 2020 election subversion case in Georgia, because of his alleged “effort to intimidate codefendants and witnesses,” according to court filings. This is the first time Fulton County District Attorney Fani
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — The FBI has added a Haitian gang leader to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for the kidnapping and slaying of American missionaries in that country, but conceded capturing him will be a difficult task in the often lawless nation. In conjunction with the announcement, the
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Anheuser-Busch InBev’s US chief marketing officer is stepping down after the company reported a slump in Bud Light sales, as the backlash against the beer continues. In a statement Wednesday, Anheuser-Busch said Benoit Garbe, the company’s US chief marketing officer, “will be resigning at the end of
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The state of California operates a little-known program to lease land under freeways that is now under scrutiny after an arson fire under Interstate 10 in Los Angeles. The land under the freeway was leased by the state of California to businesses that
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for the founder of truckmaker Nikola Corp. say he should not face incarceration because his criminal conviction is nothing like what landed Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in prison. The lawyers told a Manhattan federal court judge Tuesday that Trevor Milton never acted in a “greedy
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Jimmy Kimmel volverá a ser el anfitrión de los Premios de la Academia 2024, anunció el miércoles la Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMPAS, por sus siglas en inglés), el organismo que organiza los Oscar. Esta será la cuarta vez que el presentador nocturno esté al frente de los prestigiosos
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — An investigation into what authorities described as a major drug trafficking group based in southern Oregon resulted in two dozen arrests and the seizures of guns, fentanyl, methamphetamine and other drugs, law enforcement agencies said Wednesday. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Oregon State Police and the Grants Pass Police Department
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — We “wish you well,” The Pleasance & Awkward Productions. The London-based production company is staging a musical based on one of the more diverting and even amusing passages from 2023 – Gwyneth Paltrow’s now-famous skiing accident trial from the spring. Back in March, the Oscar-winning Goop founder attended
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state has sued PepsiCo in an effort to hold the soda-and-snack food giant partly responsible for litter that winds up in bodies of water that supply the city of Buffalo with drinking water. The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court by Attorney
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a carriage horse driver has been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty more than a year after his horse collapsed on the streets of Manhattan. Ian McKeever was arraigned on a charge of overdriving, torturing and injuring an animal for his treatment of the horse
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has given up on his monthslong fight to move his New York hush-money criminal case to federal court. The former president’s lawyers said in court papers Wednesday they’re dropping an appeal that sought to have a Manhattan federal court take control of the case.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission says it issued warnings to two food and beverage industry groups, as well as to a dozen online influencers and dieticians for failing to adequately disclose paid social media posts that promoted a sweetener and sugary products. The letters point to Instagram and TikTok posts made by
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A lawyer for a former elections director charged alongside former President Donald Trump and others over efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election says he released videos of prosecutors’ interviews with some of their codefendants because he thought they helped his client and the public had the right
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