Month: August 2023

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says building roads and bridges shouldn’t be a partisan matter, but his Republican challenger is deflecting any credit away from the incumbent Democrat for a burst of projects underway. The influx of infrastructure spending turned into a theme for some speeches at

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. Kevin Patrick Smith pleaded guilty in April to making threats in voice messages left at the Democratic lawmaker’s office in Kalispell. He was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge.

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A Donald Trump supporter who surrendered to Georgia authorities on charges he conspired with the former president and other allies to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss is also facing federal charges that he assaulted an FBI agent in Maryland. Harrison William Prescott Floyd turned himself in to the Fulton County

BUNNELL, Fla. (AP) — Florida school district officials have apologized for an elementary school assembly in which Black students were singled out for a presentation on low test scores. Officials at Flagler County’s school district in northeastern Florida said at a news conference Thursday that the assembly at Bunnell Elementary School was a “horrible, horrific

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has left the Sao Paulo hospital where he underwent a series of routine medical exams. His close aide, Fabio Wajngarten, says Bolsonaro will head back in the capital city of Brasilia. Bolsonaro was admitted to Vila Nova Star Hospital in Sao Paulo on

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Economists calculate that the world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution,  it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for what they put out. An author of a new study in Thursday’s journal Science estimates that the climate damage from publicly

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former customer service manager at a U.S. Postal Service office in Indianapolis has been sentenced to 40 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing hundreds of checks worth about $1.7 million that businesses had mailed. Forty-two-year-old James Lancaster fought back tears after a federal judge sentenced him Wednesday. WTHR-TV

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Russian geneticist living in Virginia has been sentenced to probation in federal court after pleading guilty to smuggling test tubes with DNA from endangered species into the U.S. Customs agents were alarmed when they discovered the test tubes last year at Dulles Airport on a

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As Israel’s first and only female prime minister, Golda Meir may have broken a glass ceiling. But she had a prickly relationship with feminism, a label she did not embrace. Still, argues director Guy Nattiv, the trajectory of Meir’s career — especially the nature of

By The Associated Press The head of a Russian mercenary group who launched a rebellion against Moscow’s military leadership in June is presumed dead after a mysterious plane crash. But much remains uncertain. A plane that authorities said was carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants from the Wagner Group went down northwest

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two telecommunication companies in Haiti say their fiber optic cables were severed this week, temporarily leaving customers without service. The interruptions are suspected to be acts of sabotage by criminal gangs. Digicel Haiti said one of its cables was cut on Thursday in the community of Martissant near the capital of

By KRYSTA FAURIA and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fran Drescher believes that the walkouts that have shut down Hollywood are about something much bigger than the actors union she leads, or the writers striking alongside them, or the entertainment industry. Drescher told The Associated Press the moment is about the entire

By The Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A CIA officer trainee has been convicted in Virginia of attacking a female colleague with a scarf and kissing her inside a stairwell at the agency’s headquarters in Langley. The unusual case has sparked a legal reckoning within CIA in which two dozen women have come forward

By The Associated Press The Dominican Republic was starting to get back on its feet Thursday after Tropical Storm Franklin raked the island nation, with heavy flooding that killed at least two people. The storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people and left more than 1.6 million without water. Heavy rains elsewhere

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A study points to a “substantial” increase in philanthropic funding for journalism over the past five years, particularly to outlets that serve poor and minority communities. The struggling news industry is increasingly relying on donors and subscriptions to make up for the collapse of the

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police say two men have been arrested on suspicion of burning down an historic English pub that was famous for its lopsided walls and sagging foundation. Staffordshire Police said Thursday that the suspects were being questioned about the Aug. 5 blaze that gutted the 18th century

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a sweeping Republican elections bill that would end a grace period for voting by mail and make new allowances for partisan poll observers. The Democratic governor accused legislative Republicans of using their slim veto-proof majorities to execute

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julian Edelman is joining “Fox NFL Kickoff” for the upcoming season. The former Patriots receiver who won three Super Bowls with New England is replacing Sean Payton on the show, which airs Sunday mornings during the season. Payton did television for one year before returning

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press An artist has lost his appeal to remove fabric panels covering his murals at a Vermont law school that were intended to honor African Americans and abolitionists involved in the Underground Railroad.  Artist Sam Kerson created the murals entitled “Vermont, The Underground Railroad” and “Vermont and the Fugitive Slave” in

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee says he will push to either end or extend the timeline of a legal clause that requires annual approval for the sale of U.S.-made weapons to Cyprus. New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez told a gathering of Cypriot diaspora in the capital

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s attorney general says Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new model policies for the treatment of transgender students are in line with federal and state nondiscrimination laws and school boards must follow their guidance. Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares issued the advisory opinion Thursday. It comes as