Former Polish officials claimed as spyware hacking victims
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A rights watchdog says former officials in Poland have been identified among the victims of attempted phone hacking with the…
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Former Theranos exec Ramesh Balwani convicted of fraud
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Reporter SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani…
Continue ReadingArizona governor faces universal school vouchers challenge
By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A massive expansion of Arizona’s private school voucher system awaits Republican Gov. Doug…
Continue ReadingNATO official: Western Balkans face ‘no imminent threat’
By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A NATO senior official says Western Balkan countries don’t face an…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: Is Griner’s guilty plea a step toward freedom?
By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — When Brittney Griner pleaded guilty to drug possession in a Russian court, hopes rose that her months…
Continue ReadingLone Mississippi abortion clinic seeks legal path to reopen
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys for Mississippi’s only abortion clinic filed papers…
Continue ReadingFederal agent charged in scheme to harass Chinese dissidents
By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors have announced charges against a government agent and private investigator in a…
Continue ReadingBurkina Faso’s ex-leader Compaore returns for crisis meeting
By OUMAR ZOMBRE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaore returned to the…
Continue ReadingSupreme Court Justice Breyer has options as a retiree
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme…
Continue ReadingPutin to Ukraine: Russia has barely started its action
MOSCOW (AP) — With Russia’s military action in Ukraine in its fifth month, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned Kyiv that it…
Continue ReadingEffort begun to eradicate giant African snails in Florida
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Invasive giant African land snails that can eat building plaster and stucco, consume…
Continue Reading‘Fighting for one day’: Louisiana abortion clinic still open
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Fielding a call from a woman seeking an abortion, the director of Hope Medical Group for…
Continue ReadingRapper Gunna again denied bond in gang, racketeering case
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in Atlanta has denied bond for rapper Gunna, who’s charged with racketeering along with…
Continue ReadingJames Caan, Oscar nominee for ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 82
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer James Caan, the curly-haired tough guy known to movie fans as the hotheaded Sonny Corleone of “The Godfather” and…
Continue ReadingNew head of anti-discrimination agency elected in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — German parliament has elected as the government’s new anti-discrimination commissioner a journalist whose nomination last month had…
Continue ReadingFinland to boost security at Russia border with amended law
By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s Parliament has passed amended legislation on border security that allows for the…
Continue ReadingOil minister says Iraq to act to annul Kurdish oil deals
By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s oil minister says the government will take steps to enforce a recent court decision to…
Continue ReadingRed flags missed: How July 4 suspect slipped through system
By BERNARD CONDON and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press Illinois’ “red-flag” law could have stopped, or at least slowed down, the suspect in the…
Continue ReadingWith US dollar nearly equal to euro, impact is being felt
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. dollar has been surging so much that it’s nearly equal in value to the euro…
Continue ReadingItaly seeks to bring home family whose son died in Egypt
ROME (AP) — The Italian Foreign Ministry says it is working to quickly bring back an Italian family from Egypt whose 6-year-old son died suddenly…
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