Month: October 2023

By TARA COPP and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has sent military advisers, including a Marine Corps general versed in urban warfare, to Israel to aid in its war planning and is speeding multiple sophisticated air defense systems to the Middle East days ahead of an anticipated ground assault into Gaza.

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Republican-led Legislature has convened special session to begin fixing a budget mess. Lawmakers quickly got to work on 14 bills that would resurrect provisions of a major budget bill struck down last month by the state Supreme Court. Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has urged

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to ban the cancer-causing chemical trichloroethylene. The chemical is known as TCE. It’s used in a range of consumer products, including automobile brake cleaners, furniture care products and arts and crafts spray coating. The EPA wants to ban manufacturing,

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Aruba have requested documents from the U.S. Department of Justice in the extortion case against Joran van der Sloot, including his description of killing Natalee Holloway on the island nearly 20 years ago. Van der Sloot agreed as part of a plea deal to describe what happened to Holloway

SAO PAULO (AP) — A teenager has opened fire at a high school in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, killing one student and wounding two others.  The state government says police took the shooter into custody, but authorities have not released details about the suspect.  The Folha de S.Paulo newspaper has identified the assailant

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Federal authorities have released more details and unsealed charges in the theft of more than 2 million dimes earlier this year from a tractor-trailer that had picked up the coins from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. The truck driver was bound for Miami when he pulled into a parking lot to sleep

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the release of a Maryland man who has been imprisoned for more than four years on charges that he plotted Islamic State group-inspired attacks at an airport and at an entertainment complex in the Washington, D.C., area. Rondell Henry pleaded guilty

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy NEW YORK (AP) — To appeal to a new generation of philanthropists, the Brooklyn Community Foundation is ditching the word “foundation” and establishing itself with a new name: Brooklyn Org. Jocelynne Rainey, who took over as president of the 14-year-old grantmaker two years ago,

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has compared Hungary’s membership in the European Union to more than four decades of Soviet occupation. Orbán made the comments during a speech on Monday commemorating the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution. Orbán accused the EU of seeking to strip Hungary

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Forty years after one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East, some warn that Washington could be sliding toward a new conflict in the region. On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide bomber hit an American military barracks at Beirut International Airport, killing 241

By TRAVIS LOLLER and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville Police Chief John Drake has spent much of his career trying to steer young people away from crime. Inspired by mentors who helped him as a young man, Drake has tried to pay it forward. But sadly, he was unable to keep

By SAMYA KULLAB and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Yousra Abu Sharekh’s days begin in the southern Gaza Strip often after sleepless nights amid blaring ambulance sirens and the clamor of neighbors in the brief pause between relentless Israeli airstrikes. By daybreak, the 33-year-old mother is on the hunt for

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — At least seven people were killed Monday after a “superfog” of smoke from marsh fires and dense morning fog caused a series of wrecks on Interstate 55 near New Orleans that left a long stretch of mangled and scorched cars, trucks and tractor-trailers. An estimated 158 vehicles were involved and 25

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — On Day 20 without a House speaker, Republicans found themselves starting over Monday — bumbling ahead with few ideas about who will lead, what they are fighting over and when they will get Congress working again. Republicans gathered late in the evening to hear quick speeches

BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is working with federal and local law enforcement agencies to investigate a shooting that happened near the Mississippi home of U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. Investigators say no one was injured in the shooting Sunday afternoon near Hyde-Smith’s Lincoln County home in south Mississippi. They haven’t said

NEW YORK (AP) — Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar Al Baker is stepping down after 27 years at the helm of the company. Al Baker’s retirement will go into effect Nov. 5, Qatar Airways says. He will be succeeded by Badr Mohammed Al-Meer — who currently serves as the chief operating officer of Hamad

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Incomplete homicide autopsy reports continue to pile up in Mississippi even as state leaders have touted tough-on-crime governance this year heading into the Nov. 7 general election. Mississippi’s system for conducting autopsies has long been plagued by delays. Records obtained by The Associated Press