Month: November 2021

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By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys presented dueling portraits of Ahmaud Arbery to jurors on the first day of the murder trial for three men charged in his death. In opening statements on Friday, the attorneys described Arbery as either an innocent Black runner fatally shot by three

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The president of Japanese video game maker Nintendo says the shortage in computer chips needed to make its Switch machine is a serious problem unlikely to be fixed soon. Shuntaro Furukawa said Friday that the Switch sales forecast for this fiscal year was cut to 24

By THOMAS BEAUMONT, AARON MORRISON and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans plan to forcefully oppose race and diversity curricula in public schools as a core piece of their strategy in the 2022 midterm elections. The party is supercharging a message that helped catapult Republican Glenn Youngkin to a win in Virginia’s governor’s

By ROBERT BURNS and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin L. Powell, the trailblazing soldier-diplomat who rose from humble beginnings to become the first Black secretary of state, was remembered by family and friends as a principled man of humility and humor. Powell died last month at age 84. At his funeral at

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of intelligence officers could soon face dismissal for failing to comply with the U.S. government’s vaccine mandate, leading to concerns from Republican lawmakers about potentially hurting agencies considered critical to national security. While the percentage of intelligence personnel who have been vaccinated is higher than for

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — While people are now able to travel freely in Australia’s more populated east, COVID-19-free Western Australia will maintain its tight restrictions into next year. Australia’s largest state by land mass has the nation’s lowest vaccination rates, and is the only Australian state or territory that does

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore is due to hang a Malaysian man next week for smuggling 1.5 ounces of heroin into the country. However, rights groups are urging the execution be halted because the man is intellectually disabled. Death penalty opponents say Nagaenthran K.Dharmalingam has an IQ of 69,

By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A witness at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial says the first man shot on the streets of Kenosha was acting “belligerently” but did not appear to pose a serious threat to anyone. Jason Lackowski is a former Marine who said he was

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says the captain of a fishing boat that collided with a chemical tanker near Galveston, Texas, killing three people, did not respond to danger signals from the other ship. A report issued Thursday by the agency says the tanker’s pilot radioed the fishing boat Pappy’s Pride