Month: February 2024

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump railed against the judge who slapped him with a $355 million fine in his New York civil fraud trial and went after the long list of prosecutors with cases against him as he campaigned in Michigan Saturday night

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. George Santos alleged in a lawsuit filed Saturday that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel deceived him into making videos on the Cameo app that were used to ridicule the disgraced New York Republican on the show. The lawsuit filed in U.S. district court for the southern district of New

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says Foreign Secretary David Cameron will visit the Falkland Islands this week to show they are a “valued part of the British family.” The trip comes amid renewed calls by Argentina for negotiations over the contested South Atlantic archipelago. Argentina’s newly elected President Javier Milei has

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been released on parole from a Bangkok hospital where he spent six months serving time for corruption-related offenses. The telecoms billionaire was toppled in a 2006 coup but voluntarily returned from self-exile to Thailand in August last year and reported

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — On the witness stand last year, Donald Trump proclaimed: “I have a lot of cash.” After Friday’s eye-popping penalty in his New York civil fraud trial, he’s going to need it — and maybe more. A judge ordered the former president to fork over $355

By CLAUDIA LAUER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop Saturday, hawking new Trump-branded sneakers at “Sneaker Con,” a gathering that bills itself as the “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth.” Trump was met with loud

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff was in the first row on Saturday. The husband of Vice President Kamala Harris was courtside for the HBCU Classic at the NBA’s All-Star weekend in Indianapolis, taking in a college game between Virginia Union and Winston-Salem State. He spoke earlier Saturday

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former CBS executive Les Moonves has agreed to pay $11,250 to settle a complaint from the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. Moonves was accused of interfering with a 2017 police investigation of a sexual assault complaint against him. Documents show he acknowledged working with an LAPD captain to illegally obtain information

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The family of Chicago Bears great Steve McMichael says he has contracted another infection and was undergoing a blood transfusion days after being admitted into intensive care at a suburban Chicago hospital. The family said the 66-year-old McMichael — who went public with an ALS diagnosis

WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) — Two young citizen-soldiers who became close friends after enlisting in the Army Reserve were remembered at funerals in southeast Georgia on Saturday, nearly three weeks after they died in a drone attack while deployed to the Middle East. A service for 24-year-old Sgt. Kennedy Sanders was held in the packed 1,200-seat

MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has met with newly elected Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo and discussed regional migration, security and the economy in the Central American nation. The meeting Saturday in Germany at the Munich Security Conference comes days after the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Rioting has broken out between two rival groups of Eritreans in the Netherlands, according to police. Officers used tear gas in an attempt to quell the unrest in The Hague as rioters torched police cars and a bus on Saturday night. Images from the scene show vehicles in flames and

By The Associated Press Following the death of chief Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny in a remote Arctic prison, Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an outpouring of anger from Western leaders. But he doesn’t seem to be paying any attention to the global outrage — and he still faces virtually no opposition at home as

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — East Carolina sophomore Parker Byrd appeared in Friday’s season-opening win against Rider with a prosthetic leg after having part of his right leg amputated following a 2022 boating accident. The school said Byrd is believed to be the first NCAA Division I baseball player to play in a game with a

FALLS CITY, Texas (AP) — An earthquake of 4.7 magnitude that struck early Saturday morning near a small Texas city, one of several that have occurred in the area in recent days, could be felt dozens of miles away, including in San Antonio. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries from the

By KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press For the mother of Alexei Navalny — the Russian opposition leader who died at age 47 in an Arctic penal colony — the journey to recover her son’s body was an odyssey with no clear destination. In the end, she didn’t get what she came for. Lyudmila Navalnaya, 69,

By BEN FINLEY ASSOCIATED PRESS NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic — not a tyrant. And yet the nation once again commemorated the first U.S. president on Monday, 292 years after