Month: September 2023

By MARTHA MENDOZA, CLAIRE GALOFARO and JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press The U.S. government has warned a Virginia judge that allowing an American Marine to keep an Afghan war orphan risks violating international law and could be viewed around the world as “endorsing an act of international child abduction,” according to secret court records reviewed by

By The Associated Press From Europe to Africa to southeast Asia, tens of thousands of climate activists around the world launched protests Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as Earth suffers from dramatic weather extremes. The global strike that continues through the weekend is driven by several mostly

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Elijah McClain’s fatal encounter with police began on a summer night in 2019 when a 911 caller reported that the young Black man looked “sketchy” as he walked down the street wearing a ski mask and raising his hands in the air in the Denver suburb of

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Blinded by a Russian mortar shell, Ukrainian veteran Ivan Soroka couldn’t see his bride when she walked into his family home in a shoulderless white dress, a bouquet of white flowers in her right hand. But when Vladislava Ryabets stepped toward him, Soroka wept with joy

By DAVID SHARP, ROBERT F. BUTAKY and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Fishermen removed lobster traps from the water and residents hauled hundreds of boats ashore — leaving some harbors looking like ghost towns — while utility workers from as far away as Tennessee began taking up positions Friday ahead of

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, KIM TONG-HYUNG and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected Russia’s most advanced fighter jet as he toured an aircraft factory Friday on an extended trip that has raised concerns about banned weapons transfer deals between the increasingly isolated countries. Since entering Russia

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is trumpeting Medicare’s new powers to negotiate directly with drugmakers on the cost of prescription medications — but a poll shows that any immediate political boost that Biden gets for enacting the overwhelmingly popular policy may be limited. Three-quarters of

By FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican transgender rights activists Kenya Cuevas and Andrea Luna sat in front of their longtime friend Paola Buenrostro’s pink grave in Mexico City. “You don’t have to pay rent anymore. You will have your own home now,” Luna said to her late friend, a transgender woman

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Flooding in Massachusetts that put several dams at risk have raised concern the structures may increasingly be at risk as New England is hit by stronger and wetter storms. There are thousands of dams across the region, including many that are decades or centuries old and were

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California has some of the strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S. and is on the verge of handing consumers a major new tool to combat the sale and secret use of personal information they may never have agreed to share. Both houses of the

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina has died. He was 95. The onetime conservative Democrat switched late in his career to the Republicans and then got elected to Congress. Former campaign aide and close friend Brad Crone said Faircloth died Thursday at his

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature has voted to give Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration permission to buy massive amounts of electricity, a move aimed at avoiding blackouts by shoring up the state’s power supply while jumpstarting the West Coast’s fledgling offshore wind industry. Five companies paid roughly $750

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A trial challenging voting district maps in Georgia has concluded, leaving a decision in the hands of a federal judge. A lawyer for the state said in closing arguments Thursday that court intervention on behalf of Black voters isn’t needed. Plaintiffs say Black voters are still fighting

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Contract talks that could end Hollywood’s writers strike are set to resume next week. The alliance that represents studios, streaming services and production companies said in a statement Thursday that they had reached out to leaders of the writers union, and the two sides agreed to resume negotiations next week. No

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico is on track to receive more asylum applications this year than ever before as the flow of migrants threatens to overwhelm governments at multiple points along the migratory route. Andrés Ramírez Silva, the director of Mexico’s refugee agency, said Thursday that the number of

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A last-minute legal challenge by Donald Trump’s lawyers could disrupt a trial scheduled for next month in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ business fraud lawsuit against the former president and his company. A state appeals court judge on Thursday ordered a potential postponement of

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will withhold less military aid from Egypt over its human rights abuses this year. Administration officials said Thursday that decision comes despite determining that the Egyptian government had made no progress or lost ground on arbitrary detentions and other abuses. Administration officials, speaking on

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis couple who took in former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher when he was in high school denied in court documents filed Thursday that they used a legal agreement between them to get rich at his expense and lied about intending to adopt him. Lawyers