Month: January 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is suing state Attorney General Letitia James seeking to force her to release interviews from the sexual misconduct investigation that led to his resignation. Cuomo filed the case against James in state court on Thursday. He argues that he needs the witness statements in full

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Regents at Western New Mexico University threw their support behind President Joseph Shepard on Friday as he faces scrutiny over spending on overseas trips and his wife’s use of a university credit card. At a regular meeting of regents held on campus in Silver City,

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors say they have returned two more pieces of art to the heirs of a Jewish Holocaust victim. They are fighting in court to recover a third from a Chicago Museum. The pieces are among around 80 watercolor and pencil works by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele, collected

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers broke into its corporate email system and accessed accounts of members of the company’s leadership team, as well as those of cybersecurity and legal employees. In a blog post Friday, Microsoft said the intrusion began in late November and was discovered

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has reinstated Illinois basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr., who had been suspended from the team since he was charged with rape in Kansas. U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Lawless found that the university had violated Shannon’s civil rights. The judge noted that Shannon

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Gov. Doug Burgum, R-N.D.; Quentin Fulks, a top member of President Joe Biden’s campaign team; Jon Finer, deputy national security adviser. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate; Gov. Chris Sununu, R-N.H.; Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation”

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — As many as 121 unmarked graves in a former Black cemetery have been discovered at a U.S. Air Force base in Florida, military officials confirmed. A non-intrusive archaeological survey performed over the past two years at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa identified 58 probable graves and 63 possible graves, base

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Months before Donald Trump’s defiant turn as a witness at his New York civil fraud trial, the former president came face-to-face with the state attorney general who is suing him when he sat for a deposition last year at her Manhattan office. Video made public

NEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are appealing a judge’s ruling that is blocking their planned merger. The airlines said Friday they have filed a notice of appeal with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Earlier this week, a federal judge in Boston ruled that JetBlue’s proposal to buy Spirit for $3.8

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer on Friday renewed a mistrial request in a New York defamation case against the former president, saying that an advice columnist who accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1990s spoiled her civil case by deleting emails from strangers who threatened her

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Health officials are warning people in Southern California to avoid eating raw oysters imported from many parts of Mexico believed to be carrying the norovirus. The California Department of Public Health says raw oysters harvested from several locations on the Baja California peninsula and the mainland state of Sonora are believed

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Guild members of the Los Angeles Times have participated in a one-day walkout to protest imminent layoffs. The job action Friday is the first newsroom union work stoppage in the newspaper’s 143-year history. Guild members chanted and waved signs that read, “Don’t Cut Our Future,” during a rally at a local

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says an Oklahoma hospital did not violate federal law after doctors told a woman with a nonviable pregnancy to wait in the parking lot until her condition worsened enough to qualify for an abortion.  Jaci Statton filed a complaint with the department

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally spoke Friday after a glaring, nearly four-week gap in direct communication during which fundamental differences have come into focus over a possible pathway to Palestinian statehood once the fighting in Gaza ends. Biden and

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A group of people and businesses who say they are owed money by Rudy Giuliani gathered virtually for the first hearing since he declared bankruptcy last month. The Chapter 11 declaration has allowed Giuliani to avoid paying $148 million to two election workers whom he was

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man who died in a Texas prison decades ago has been identified as the person who abducted and stabbed three Indiana girls and left them in a cornfield nearly 50 years ago, police said, citing DNA evidence. The girls, ages 11, 13 and 14, survived the attack, but “a clear suspect”

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the consolidation of local police and firefighter pension systems, a rare victory in a yearslong battle to find an answer to the state’s besieged retirement accounts. The court’s unanimous opinion Friday rejected claims by three dozen working and retired