Month: August 2023

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried say prosecutors have delivered another four million pages of documents on the FTX founder six weeks before trial. They say that makes it impossible for him to adequately review the evidence for an October trial from behind bars. Attorneys Christian Everdell and

By The Associated Press Yale University is settling a federal lawsuit that said the Ivy League school discriminated against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring them to withdraw. The settlement agreement between Yale and an alumni and student group was announced Friday. Yale says it will modify its policies regarding medical leaves of absence,

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before. Officials are already expecting updated COVID-19 vaccines that contain one

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican presidential candidate; Cedric Richmond, co-chair of President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign. __ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican presidential candidate; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. __ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Former Vice President Mike Pence, a Republican

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has rejected the expansion plans of Lutsen Mountains, one of the premier skiing destinations in the Midwest. Lutsen Mountains was hoping to expand onto 495 acres of public land in the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota, so it could essentially double its

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan Guidus was enjoying a spontaneous night out Wednesday with his 7-month-old daughter and mother-in-law at Cook’s Corner, a favorite family spot in Southern California that he’s frequented since his own childhood, when gunshots rang out. First, he thought it was fireworks. But when screaming began

STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator who sought to join the Islamic State terrorist group to fight in Syria and expressed interest in carrying out attacks on U.S. soil has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Thirty-one-year-old Muhammad Masood pleaded guilty a year ago

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is warning that the string of military takeovers in Africa’s Sahel region will hamper the fight against terrorism. It is also demanding that Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers deny safe haven to terrorist groups including al-Qaida and the Islamic State. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The party of former first lady Sandra Torres, who lost Guatemala’s presidential election this week, has filed a complaint alleging fraud in the way the votes were counted. Torres, who came to exemplify the political establishment in a country that’s grown tired of endemic corruption,

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A judge on Friday ruled against Texas’ ban on gender-affirming health care for minors while a separate judge in Missouri let a similar ban take effect, jumbling again where in the U.S. transgender youth can receive treatment. The conflicting decisions, handed down hours

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Former North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer learned a lesson about his car keys after his vehicle was stolen as he hosted a Fargo radio show. Schafer was guest hosting KFGO’s “News and Views” program Friday morning when police called the station to ask if he owned a 2020 GMC Yukon, the

SEATTLE (AP) — DoorDash will pay $1.6 million to its workers after a city of Seattle investigation found the company failed to implement the city’s required sick and safe time policy. The Seattle Times reports the Office of Labor Standards said this week that the San Francisco-based delivery company that contracts workers to make food

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Interest rates in the European Union will need to stay high “as long as necessary” to slow still-high inflation, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, said Friday. Lagarde’s remarks, at an annual conference of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, came against

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. air defense has scrambled fighter jets to wave off a civilian aircraft that had entered temporarily restricted air space near Lake Tahoe, where President Joe Biden and Jill Biden are vacationing. The crews of two F-16s fired flares to catch the attention of the pilot of the civilian craft

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A beloved Las Vegas neighborhood peacock named Pete was killed with a hunter’s bow and arrow, and authorities are trying to find who was behind it. Animal Protection Services officers are investigating the death of the peacock, which belonged to a resident in a small gated

By The Associated Press The grassland birds that bring sweet song to North America’s prairie are in decline, with habitat loss, land degradation and climate change threatening what’s left of a once-vast ecosystem. Biologists, conservation groups, farmers and ranchers are ramping up efforts to tag birds, track them, and foster best practices for land use

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of Iowa’s largest cities repealed its ban on “conversion therapy” — the discredited practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling — after a Christian organization threatened legal action, part of a deepening national movement to challenge protections

BEIRUT (AP) — The office of Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati says a three-year probe against him and his family over corruption allegations has been closed by Monaco’s judicial authorities for lack of evidence. Mikati’s office said in a statement on Friday that Morgan Raymond, the deputy public prosecutor in Monaco, told the prime

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Friday chose Houston to host their 2028 national convention, hoping to cement support in Texas even as Democrats are betting that a booming Hispanic population and other key demographic shifts could eventually turn the country’s largest reliably red state blue. “I am excited to announce

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Courts nationwide are delivering a mixed verdict on the future of state laws restricting gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, as legal battles ramp up over the historic wave of bans enacted this year. Judges ruled against bans in Georgia and Texas this week, while

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A senior State Department official is voicing hope that North Macedonia will be able to make politically difficult changes to the constitution that would help the country’s bid to join the European Union. Gabriel Escobar, a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Balkan policy, said Friday in the capital Skopje that the