Year: 2021

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown and his ex-wife have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which she alleged he led a secret life during their marriage that included several affairs. The two sides agreed in court papers filed Monday to voluntary dismiss the lawsuit and

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s governor must soon decide whether to free one of America’s most notorious assassins. It’s a decision Gov. Gavin Newsom has said evokes one of the darkest periods in the nation’s history. Newsom has until sometime next month to allow or block the parole recommendation for

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Officials say firefighters have contained a blaze that raged for hours in Syria’s port of Latakia, hours after Israel launched missiles from the Mediterranean Sea, igniting the fire in the container terminal. The Tuesday attack was the second such assault on the vital facility this month.

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The jury weighing the fate Ghislaine Maxwell’s fate has told a judge it is “making progress” in reaching a verdict after four full days of deliberations. Still, Judge Alison J. Nathan made it clear on Tuesday she wants the jury to work longer

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital pulled books, money, ammunition, documents and other artifacts from a time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The team sliced open the 36-pound copper box Tuesday and meticulously

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s main opposition party is calling for the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate surveillance after reports that powerful spyware was used against three people associated with the political opposition. Donald Tusk called the surveillance “an unprecedented thing in our history” and said it represented “the biggest

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has agreed to defer its request for hundreds of pages of records from the Trump administration. The deferral is in response to concerns by the Biden White House that releasing all the Trump administration documents sought

By HASSAN AMMAR Associated Press TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s energy minister has launched two projects in the country’s north to facilitate the flow of natural gas from Egypt to improve electricity production and expand the country’s tanks to increase oil reserves. The revival of the Arab Gas Pipeline to deliver Egyptian gas to Lebanon

MIAMI (AP) — Federal regulators say the owner of a Miami-based payday loan company bilked hundreds of investors out of millions of dollars and repaid others with money he acquired from a Ponzi scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission says in a complaint filed in September that Efrain Betancourt Jr. and Sky Group USA committed

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s Supreme Court has thrown out the 2016 conviction of a Florida woman convicted of killing her 5-year-old son 25 years earlier. The high court voted Tuesday in favor of  Michelle Lodzinski, who has been serving a 30-year sentence without parole for the killing of