Year: 2024

Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A team of prosecutors in Argentina has concluded that there are grounds for launching a criminal investigation into the highest authorities of Opus Dei in South America between 1983 and 2015. They argue they committed crimes of human trafficking and labor exploitation against at least 44 women recruited

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Local police in the cartel-dominated city of Culiacan, Mexico have been pulled off the streets after the army seized their guns. The move came just one day after about 1,500 residents of Culiacan, the capital of the northern state of Sinaloa, held a march demanding peace. The marchers were

Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo’s longest-serving mayor says he will leave office early to lead an offtrack betting agency. Byron Brown was offered the position of president and chief executive of the Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. and announced late Monday that he will accept it. The 66-year-old Democrat will be paid an

Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Justice Department announced Monday it plans to launch a review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, an attack by a white mob on a thriving Black district that is considered one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history. The review was launched

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has agreed to provide more help to hearing-impaired inmates as part of a settlement with federal investigators. The U.S. Department of Justice had been investigating the Department of Corrections after receiving complaints from inmates at facilities in Racine, Fond du Lac and Milwaukee. They

Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Military officials have released new video of a startling interaction between a Russian jet flying near Alaska and a U.S. plane sent to intercept it. In the video released Monday, the Russian fighter jet comes from behind the camera and swoops by the U.S. plane, just feet from the

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is criticizing the Biden administration’s response to widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, even as his supporters call for cuts to federal agencies that warn of weather disasters and deliver relief to hard-hit communities. As president, Trump delayed disaster aid for hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico and diverted

DETROIT (AP) — Jeep is recalling more than 194,000 plug-in hybrid SUVs worldwide because they can catch fire with the ignition turned off. In addition, Jeep is urging owners not to charge the SUVs and to park them outdoors and away from structures until they are repaired. The recall covers the Wrangler four by e

Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A convicted murderer who was run out of several Texas cities when he was released early from prison in 1993 pleaded guilty Monday to two new murder charges in a deal that allows him to serve life in prison and avoid the death penalty, over the objections of the

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is trying to expand his defamation lawsuit against Mississippi Auditor Shad White. Favre wants to include a book White wrote about the misspending of welfare money that was supposed to help some of the poorest people in the nation. White’s book, “Mississippi Swindle: Brett

Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lawyers for three former Memphis officers have rested their cases without calling them to testify in their defense against charges that they violated Tyre Nichols’ civil rights when he was fatally beaten after a 2023 traffic stop. Attorneys for Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith told jurors Monday

AP Science Writer Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it. It’s an unheard-of amount of water that stunned experts. It’s enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium 51,000 times or

AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Kris Kristofferson’s life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying U.S. Army captain who walked away from a West Point faculty gig to briefly become a janitor on his