Month: June 2024

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Colombian military hospital would offer medical treatment to Palestinian children injured in the Israel-Hamas war under a plan from the South American country’s Foreign Ministry. The government of President Gustavo Petro announced the plan Thursday. Deputy Minister of Multilateral Affairs Elizabeth Taylor Jay told reporters the children would travel with

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria after becoming radicalized expressed remorse and wept in court as he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Abelhamid Al-Madioum cooperated with federal authorities ahead of Thursday’s open court hearing. Prosecutors factored into their

By SCOTT SONNER and MORGAN LEE Associated Press Dozens of hikers say they fell ill during trips to a popular Arizona tourist destination that features towering blue-green waterfalls deep in a gorge neighboring Grand Canyon National Park. Madelyn Melchiors, a 32-year-old veterinarian from Kingman, Arizona, said she was vomiting severely Monday evening and had a

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden is kicking off her husband’s outreach to older voters, an effort that will blend rallies and phone banks with social events like bingo nights and pickleball games. While President Joe Biden is in Italy attending the Group of Seven summit, the first lady will travel to four swing

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took 15 months to act on a whistleblower complaint about the Abbott Nutrition factory at the center 2022’s nationwide infant formula shortage. That’s according to an audit by the inspector general of Health and Human Services. It’s just the latest evidence that federal

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s chief of staff has argued to an influential group of CEOs that the Democratic incumbent’s emphasis on global alliances would help their businesses. That’s even as the group rolls out an effort to preserve tax cuts that former President Donald Trump signed into law.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a bystander killed during a 2021 police chase in Minneapolis is suing the city and alleging that dangerous pursuits are more common in areas of the city with predominantly Black residents. Relatives of Leneal Frazier are seeking unspecified damages for the 2021 accident. Their law firm announced the lawsuit

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court unanimously upheld access to a drug used in the majority of U.S. abortions on Thursday, though abortion opponents say the ruling won’t be the last word in the fight over mifepristone. The narrow decision came two years after the high court overturned the nationwide

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press FASANO, Italy (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that he will not use his presidential powers to lessen the eventual sentence that his son Hunter will receive for his federal felony conviction on gun crimes. Biden, following the conclusion of a news conference held at the Group of Seven

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has adopted a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control. The resolution was adopted Thursday by a vote of 14-0 with Russia abstaining. It

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The head of the Federal Aviation Administration has acknowledged his agency should have been more aware of problems at Boeing before a door plug blew off a 737 Max jet during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said on Thursday that the FAA was too

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer forced a vote on the matter Thursday to drive an election-year contrast on reproductive care. But all but two

LONDON (AP) — Author-activist Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction with “Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.” The book is a personal account of her plunge into the world of online misinformation. Its sister award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, went to U.S. writer V. V. Ganeshananthan for her novel

DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of wounding three sheriff’s deputies during a standoff at a home in Illinois possessed multiple firearms. The suspect also was wounded and underwent surgery at a hospital. The Ogle County Sheriff’s Office says a fixed-blade knife, pepper spray and ballistic armor were found after Wednesday’s shooting

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An Army health official told a panel investigating a mass shooting by a reservist experiencing a psychiatric crisis that there are health care differences for Army reservists that could limit the flow of information to commanders. Col. Mark Ochoa says Thursday that there are no Army

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden will nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero to replace Martin Gruenberg as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The announcement from the White House Thursday came after Gruenberg’s tenure became marred by allegations of workplace abuse that led to him to resign. Goldsmith

LIMESTONE, Tenn. (AP) — A zoo in Tennessee says an antelope choked on a squeezable food pouch and died over the weekend. Brights Zoo is a family-owned attraction in rural Limestone. It said in a social media post that the 7-year-old male sitatunga they named Lief died on Saturday. It said the cause was choking

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police say Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was seen driving at a “high rate of speed” just before he rear-ended another car on Interstate 70 in Maryland. A state police report said Fetterman was at fault in Sunday morning’s crash. Police say both cars were towed and Fetterman, his wife Gisele and

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal and advocacy group, is laying off employees. The union that represents  workers there says the organization is laying off more than 60 employees. The Southern Poverty Law Center did not confirm the number but issued a statement saying the organization “is undergoing an organizational

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Chinese “overconcentrated supply chains” pose a threat to U.S. jobs and recent investments meant to build up the U.S. green energy sector. Yellen spokes Thursday at the Economic Club of New York. The treasury secretary says there is particular concern that China’s

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator is defending prisoner swaps that free Americans wrongfully detained by foreign countries in exchange for the release of convicted criminals. Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, denies that the swaps incentivize additional arrests of U.S. citizens. He told

By ED WHITE Associated Press Wildlife experts have hit a dead end in their quest to determine how a gray wolf arrived in southern Michigan for the first time in more than 100 years. The wolf was killed in January by a hunter who told investigators that he had mistaken it for a coyote. It

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — People purporting to be pro-Palestinian activists have hurled red paint at the homes of top leaders at the Brooklyn Museum, including its Jewish director. Activists also splashed paint across the front of diplomatic buildings for Germany and the Palestinian Authority. The paint attacks early Wednesday have

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, including unjustified deadly force, according to a sweeping federal civil rights investigation of law enforcement in the nation’s fifth-largest city. The U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday says investigators

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A watchdog report says a Minnesota state agency’s inadequate oversight of a federal program that was meant to provide food to kids created the opportunities that led to the theft of $250 million in one of the country’s largest pandemic aid fraud cases. The Office of the

LONDON (AP) — A British coroner has criticized the U.S. government over a lack of training for diplomatic personnel at the conclusion of an inquest into a road accident in August 2019. A teenage motorcyclist was killed by a U.S. government employee. Northamptonshire coroner Anne Pember recorded at the end of a four-day inquiry on

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy submarine has arrived in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force as a fleet of Russian warships gather for planned military exercises in the Caribbean. U.S. Southern Command said the USS Helena, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, pulled into the waters near