Month: August 2023

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a New York man to serve three months in prison for making threatening phone calls to Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Joseph Morelli was sentenced Thursday in a Syracuse federal court after pleading guilty in February to threatening Greene in several calls to her Washington,

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the French ambassador has been asked to leave the country. The move further escalates the international crisis in the West African nation stemming from a coup that ousted the West African nation’s democratically elected president. French Ambassador Sylvain Itte was

By YOUCEF BOUNAB Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris booksellers who work on the banks of the River Seine for decades are refusing to leave during the Paris Olympics next year. The opening ceremony will be held on the Seine, taking place outside of a sports venue for the first time in the Games’ history.

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time Grammy winner Jason Mraz released his latest album “Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride” in June, a pop record that’s a turn from his balladeering, acoustic persona. Conceived during the pandemic, the 46-year-old says his fans helped navigate its musical direction. But Mraz, who is

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Open Society Foundations plan to significantly curtail their work in Europe and lay off much of their staff there. That’s according to an internal email and several current employees, who say the decision is painful and perplexing. The planned European cuts would represent a historic break with the roots of

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press POTTER, Neb. (AP) — When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the western South Dakota prairie. Nothing’s better, he says, than getting up at sunrise as the birds light up the area with song. “It’s

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Marine Corps pilot has died in the crash of combat jet near a San Diego military base. The service says in statement Friday that the F/A-18D Hornet went down at 11:54 p.m. Thursday in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. The Hornet belonged to Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack

McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor says he will not seek the death penalty for a man convicted of killing two elderly women and suspected of killing nearly two dozen total. “Billy Chemirmir is an evil person who preyed upon our most vulnerable citizens,” Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis said in a statement

Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish customs agents and National Police said they confiscated the country’s biggest cocaine haul to date of 9.5 tons hidden in a banana freight container originating from Ecuador. The drug was found in a refrigerated container hidden among a cargo of more than a thousand boxes of bananas in the

By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — At least seven tornadoes touched down in Michigan as part of severe storms powered by strong winds that killed five people, while downing trees, tearing roofs off buildings and leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power, officials said. The National Weather

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s internal security officers are searching for the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease which has killed seven people and infected more than 100 in a strategic city near the border with Ukraine. The region around Rzeszow, in Poland’s southeast, is a key transit hub for international military support for

By KEN MILLER and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press Fire broke out Friday morning at a state prison in Texas, forcing more than 650 inmates to evacuate but injuring no one, an official said. The fire, the cause of which isn’t yet known, appeared to be confined to the attic and third floor of the

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s far-right national security minister lashed out at supermodel Bella Hadid on Friday for criticizing his recent fiery televised remarks about Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. In an interview earlier this week with Israel’s Channel 12 following two deadly Palestinian attacks on Israelis in

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats are accusing big tax preparation firms including Intuit and H&R Block of undermining the federal government’s upcoming electronic free file tax return system. Letters obtained by The Associated Press show the lawmakers accuse the tax prep companies of lobbying against the new program, hiring former

By REBECCA BOONE, BEATRICE DUPUY, GENE JOHNSON and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Within a day of Maui County releasing 388 names of people unaccounted for following the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, more than 100 of them or their relatives came forward to say they’re safe, the FBI

PARIS (AP) — French investigative magistrates have ordered former president Nicolas Sarkozy and 12 others to go on trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The national financial prosecutor announced that the decade-long investigation has been formally closed. The trial’s

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s vice president and front-runner in upcoming presidential elections has accused China of employing unfair trade practices that could be used to influence the voting. William Lai said China “will be hoping to interfere in the elections with all sorts of tactics.” If they succeed, he

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Danish government will propose a law that would make it illegal to desecrate any holy book in Denmark. A recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists has sparked angry demonstrations in Muslim countries. Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s interim central bank governor has called on the country’s ruling class to quickly implement economic and financial reforms that the central bank won’t offer loans to the state and does not plan on printing money to cover the huge budget deficit to avoid worsening inflation. Wassim

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will observe Monday’s 60th anniversary of the March on Washington by meeting with organizers of the 1963 gathering and relatives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.