Month: November 2023

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia judge overseeing the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and others declined a request to revoke the bond of one of the defendants but did impose stricter bond conditions after prosecutors complained about his social media posts that mentioned witnesses and co-defendants. Fulton

By MARGERY A. BECK and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Vivek Ramaswamy has failed to rise in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race and is increasingly risking becoming an afterthought. At a recent Iowa campaign event, hardly anyone was in the room when Ramaswamy was supposed to start. Ramaswamy took

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan textbooks contain maps of the region in which students learn to quickly point out their homeland as well as neighboring Colombia, Brazil and Guyana. But the map differs greatly from those in many other sources. It shows a much larger Venezuela, one that includes

By UZMI ATHAR, Press Trust of India NEW DELHI (AP) — Manju Devi suffered in pain for two months last year as she worked on a farm near Delhi, unable to break away from duties that sometimes had her standing for hours in the waist-deep water of a rice paddy, lifting heavy loads in intense

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has portrayed Google as a ruthless bully that resorts to shady tactics to protect a predatory payment system. The portrayal came during testimony Monday in an antitrust trial focused on Epic Games’ attempt to upend Google’s store for Android phone

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Elon Musk’s social media company X filed a lawsuit against liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America on Monday, saying it manufactured a report to show advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts in order to “drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.” Media Matters, a

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Authorities say at least 10 people have died after an illegal gold mine collapsed in the South American country of Suriname. President Chan Santokhi said Monday that police, military officials and rescue crews were dispatched to the mine located in the country’s rural southern region. Officials said the miners are believed

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An appeals court Monday upheld a judge’s decision to deny bail to a New Mexico man charged with attempted murder in the September shooting of a Native American activist during confrontations about canceled plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador. The New Mexico

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A lawsuit filed in North Carolina alleges newly adopted district boundaries for the state Senate divide a cluster of predominantly Black counties in the northeast corner of the state. The lawsuit alleges those divisions unfairly dilute the voting power of Black residents. Two Black

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has put a military spy satellite into orbit on its third attempt. The North’s space authorities said the launch vehicle placed the Malligyong-1 satellite into orbit on Tuesday night. The North’s claim couldn’t be independently confirmed immediately. Observers

NEW BUFFALO, Mich. (AP) — A 911 call center is taking some responsibility for an Amtrak train derailment last week in Michigan. Berrien County says it misidentified a crossing and contacted a different railroad to warn that a car was stuck on tracks. The Amtrak train with 200 passengers crashed into the empty car and

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas attorney has been accused of using work-related visits to a county jail to smuggle in legal paperwork laced with ecstasy and synthetic marijuana to inmates over the past several months, authorities announced Monday. Ronald Lewis, 77, was arrested on Friday after arriving at the

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who was struck and killed by a police SUV in March has now received a funeral and burial attended by family and friends. Dexter Wade was originally buried in a pauper’s grave without police or other officials notifying the 37-year-old Black man’s

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti have arrested a new suspect in the July 2021 slaying of President Jovenel Moïse. Defense attorney Jimmy Jean-Baptiste told The Associated Press on Monday that Jacmel mayor Macky Kessa was detained but has not been charged. He said Kessa is being held in

KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — For the second time in nearly four months, officials in a northwestern Arizona county narrowly rejected a proposal to hand count all ballots in the 2024 election cycle rather than using electronic tabulating equipment. The 3-2 vote on Monday by the Mohave County Board of Supervisors against the proposal came a

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean in the Mariana Trench has died. He was 92. His daughter Elizabeth says he died Nov. 12 at his home in Myrtle

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Backers of a proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system can finally begin gathering signatures. After repeated delays, Citizens Not Politicians now has until July 3 to collect roughly 414,000 signatures required to make the November 2024 ballot. The amendment aims to replace the

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — State authorities were investigating Monday after a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man over the weekend in the middle of a Los Angeles area freeway during a struggle recorded on video. Sunday afternoon’s deadly encounter occurred after the highway patrol responded to multiple