What to know about Scott Bessent, Trump’s pick for treasury secretary
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen money manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction and…
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Trump chooses Bessent to be treasury secretary, Vought as budget chief, Chavez-DeRemer for Labor
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he’ll nominate billionaire hedge fund manager Scott…
Continue Reading Wisconsin man to spend decades in prison for wrong-way crash that killed 4 siblings
WAUPACA, Wis. (AP) — A drunken driver who was traveling the wrong way on a Wisconsin highway has been sentenced to more than 35 years in prison.…
Continue Reading Venezuela’s government will investigate opposition leader Machado for supporting US House bill
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government has announced another investigation against opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, continuing…
Continue Reading Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sens. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sen.…
Continue Reading Louisiana GOP lawmakers want to make it easier to try juveniles as adults
Associated Press/Report for America BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s GOP-dominated Legislature approved a constitutional amendment on…
Continue Reading Massachusetts will phase out use of hotels and motels to shelter homeless families, governor says
Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has announced that the state’s reliance on hotels and motels to shelter…
Continue Reading Listeria outbreak tied to Yu Shang Food leaves California infant dead and 10 people sick
AP Health Writer U.S. health officials said a California infant has died and at least 10 other people have been sickened in an outbreak of listeria…
Continue Reading UN expert: Myanmar’s desperate military ramps up attacks including beheadings, rapes and torture
Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Myanmar’s desperate military junta is ramping up attacks on villages that have fallen to opposition…
Continue Reading Detroit-area police officer charged with manslaughter in crash that killed 2 men
Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit police officer has been charged with manslaughter after his patrol car smashed into another…
Continue Reading Daniel Penny doesn’t testify as his defense rests in subway chokehold trial
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Penny has chosen not to testify at his trial in the death of an agitated man he choked on a subway train.…
Continue Reading Charlotte airport workers voting on whether to strike during busy Thanksgiving travel week
Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Service workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport are voting on whether to go on a 24-hour strike…
Continue Reading US senator says Trump would laugh at Canada’s military spending as Canadian security forum begins
Associated Press HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A U.S. senator and supporter of Donald Trump said Friday the president-elect would laugh at Canada’s…
Continue Reading Lawyer says ex-Temple basketball standout Hysier Miller met with NCAA for hours amid gambling probe
Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lawyer for former Temple basketball standout Hysier Miller says the 22-year-old sat for a long interview…
Continue Reading Florida detective sentenced to 24 years in prison for sexually exploiting a teenage girl
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida detective accused of severely beating a Black man has been sentenced to nearly 25 years in federal…
Continue Reading Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ third bid to be released on bail won’t be decided until next week
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says he’ll rule next week on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ third request to be released from jail on bail…
Continue Reading National monument proposed for North Dakota Badlands, with tribes’ support
Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A coalition of conservation groups and Native American tribal citizens have asked President Joe Biden to…
Continue Reading Alice Brock, who helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s classic ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83
NEW YORK (AP) — Alice Brock has died at age 83. Her Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard,…
Continue Reading A police chief in Mexico kills himself as troops try to arrest him in a corruption probe
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The police chief of a small town in central Mexico took his own life as troops closed in to arrest him as part of a large-scale…
Continue Reading Officer kills pet dog mistaken for a coyote in Massachusetts town. The owner says it was unnecessary
Associated Press An animal control officer shot and killed a pet dog in a Massachusetts town after mistaking it for a coyote in an incident local…
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