Ex-officer acquitted of lying about arrest of Black man
By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former San Diego-area police officer who pushed a Black man during an arrest last year has been…
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US hostage envoy visited Venezuela to meet jailed Americans
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that a senior U.S. diplomat quietly traveled to…
Continue ReadingExplosions in Palestinian camp in Lebanon cause casualties
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says that weapons stored for the Palestinian Hamas group exploded in a refugee camp in…
Continue ReadingMan gets 10 years for actions during Portland protests
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A far-right extremist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his violent actions during August 2020 protests against…
Continue ReadingMan held in California crash that killed girl, injured kids
DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A California man has been arrested on suspicion of rear-ending a school bus and then plowing his Cadillac into a…
Continue ReadingMexican actor Carmen Salinas dies at 82
By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican actress Carmen Salinas, known for movies like “Danzón”, “Man on Fire” and…
Continue ReadingUN appoints Biden adviser Catherine Russell to head UNICEF
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the appointment of an assistant to U.S. President Joe Biden as the next…
Continue ReadingMan sentenced to life for killing wife with heroin in cereal
DAVISON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who was convicted of killing his wife by spiking her cereal with heroin was sentenced Friday to life in…
Continue ReadingU.S. government deficit down 17% from same period a year ago
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. budget deficit totaled $356.4 billion in the first two months of the budget…
Continue ReadingAG won’t appeal resentencing of Tennessee death row inmate
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorney General Herbert Slatery says he wouldn’t appeal the resentencing of a…
Continue ReadingMichael Nesmith, the Monkee for all seasons, dies at 78
By JOHN ROGERS and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Nesmith, the wool-hatted, guitar-strumming member of the 1960s,…
Continue ReadingNavy blames Hawaii water contamination on jet fuel spill
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and MARK THIESSEN HONOLULU (AP) — Navy officials say they believe that contaminated tap water that went to Hawaii…
Continue ReadingSuit: Kansas deputies used rubber bullets on woman in cell
By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A former inmate at a Kansas jail alleges in a federal lawsuit that deputies fired a flash grenade and nonlethal…
Continue ReadingUS approves Indigenous name change for Colorado mountain
DENVER (AP) — A federal panel has approved naming a Colorado peak after a Cheyenne woman who facilitated relations between white settlers and…
Continue ReadingAfter Jussie Smollett verdict, more court cases await
By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The jury’s guilty verdict that Jussie Smollett faked a racist and homophobic attack isn’t…
Continue ReadingTimeline of events surrounding Texas’ ban on most abortions
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has banned most abortions since early September under a law that has created the…
Continue ReadingUK says omicron to become its dominant variant within days
LONDON (AP) — The UK Health Security Agency says the omicron variant of COVID-19 is spreading rapidly throughout Britain and is likely to become…
Continue ReadingNC GOP Senate primary intensifies as campaigns go negative
By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and ex-Rep. Mark Walker are…
Continue ReadingUK police faulted over men’s killings, accused of homophobia
By KHADIJA KOTHIA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Families of four young gay men slain by a sex predator have demanded that the Metropolitan Police…
Continue ReadingAmtrak says it could cut service over vaccination mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amtrak passengers may be facing service cutbacks in January. The rail system’s president is blaming employees who…
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