Year: 2024

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt, who was a Spokane lawyer with limited political experience when he ousted Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley as part of a stunning GOP wave that shifted national politics to the right in 1994, has died. He was 79. Nethercutt died

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea early on Wednesday, after saying the two countries want to cooperate closely to overcome U.S.-led sanctions in the face of intensifying confrontations with Washington. Putin was met at Pyongyang’s airport by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say activities of armed groups in the volatile Central African Republic have increased, complicating a security landscape that has seen a spillover of the conflict in neighboring Sudan. The panel of experts cite confirmed reports of air raids by the Sudanese military around

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint as President Joe Biden was visiting Los Angeles for a fundraising event over the weekend, officials said. The agent was returning from work Saturday night when he was accosted in a residential community in Tustin, about an

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AND CLAIRE SAVAGE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other accommodations

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have cleared an entrenched pro-Palestinian encampment at California State University, Los Angeles, just days after demonstrators occupied and trashed a building. Officers issued a dispersal order on Monday and about seven remaining protesters left voluntarily, a campus spokesperson said. There were no arrests. Officials say it will likely take several

LONDON (AP) — Actor Ian McKellen said Tuesday he is looking forward to returning to work after he toppled off a London stage mid-performance and was hospitalized. McKellen, 85, said he was “hugely indebted” to medics who treated him after the tumble on Monday night during a performance of “Player Kings” at London’s Noel Coward

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The city of Los Angeles will pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit it filed against a local journalist and a technology watchdog group last year for posting the photos and information of hundreds of undercover police officers online. The journalist’s attorney says the settlement will cover

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has met with an Israeli lawyer who has publicly described being sexually assaulted while held hostage in Gaza. Harris said Monday that the story left her fearing more such accounts “will only increase as more hostages are released.” The vice presient hosted an

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A former nurse at an Oregon hospital is facing criminal charges that she harmed nearly four dozen patients by stealing fentanyl and replacing it with non-sterile tap water in intravenous drips. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Dani Marie Schofield pleaded not guilty on Friday to 44 counts of second-degree assault and was being

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked an Iowa law that would have allowed law enforcement in the state to file criminal charges against people with outstanding deportation orders or who previously had been denied entry to the U.S. U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Locher

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press A federal appellate panel says a Michigan state judge will have to decide whether to shut down a portion of an aging petroleum pipeline running beneath the Straits of Mackinac. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a lawsuit in state court in 2019 seeking to void a 1953 easement that

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z’s electrifying reunion with Alicia Keys on what appeared to be a live duet of “Empire State of Mind” at the Tony Awards was actually pre-taped, a show official who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly told The Associated Press. The appearance of the rapper in

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New leaders of The Washington Post are being haunted by their pasts, with ethical questions raised about their actions as journalists in London that illustrate very different press traditions in the United States and England. An extraordinary trio of stories over the weekend by The

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Officials say Maine’s shortage of public defenders allowed a man with a violent criminal history to be released on bail days before he went to his former girlfriend’s home where a man was killed, two houses burned to the ground and a standoff with police ensued.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto locking in a school funding increase for the next 400 years. The Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Litigation Center filed a lawsuit in April arguing the governor exceeded his authority. The plaintiffs asked the high court to

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A flashy Brooklyn preacher who played up connections to New York City’s mayor has been sentenced to nine years in prison for multiple frauds. Lamor Miller-Whitehead was sentenced Monday in Manhattan federal court. Judge Lorna G. Schofield said she didn’t see remorse from the Rolls Royce-driving

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Hoyt Garland Harwell, a longtime reporter for the Associated Press who covered key events in the American South, has died. He was 93. Harwell died June 12 at his home following an illness and his funeral was held Monday. Harwell worked at the AP for 42 years, including stints in Atlanta

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — George Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon home. Dozens of bottles of cherries and berries — impossibly preserved in storage

LAWRENCE, Massachusetts (AP) — Authorities say the pilot of small plane is dead after the crash of his aircraft into a Massachusetts river. The pilot was the only person onboard when the plane plunged into the Merrimack River near Lawrence on Monday afternoon. A fire official says a dive team was in the water and