Month: October 2021

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Work has halted at all of the Kellogg Company’s U.S. cereal plants as roughly 1,400 workers went on strike. It wasn’t immediately clear how much the supply of Frosted Flakes or other iconic brands would be disrupted. The strike includes plants in Omaha, Nebraska; Battle Creek,

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Activists seeking compensation for Black people whose right to live in Britain came under question say they blocked from freely attending the governing Conservative Party’s annual conference despite being accredited for the event. Anthony Brown of the group Windrush Defenders said he was denied unfettered access to

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court says some supporters of former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory’s efforts to contest the 2016 gubernatorial election results can be sued for allegedly defaming voters. The decision announced on Tuesday paves the way for a trial court to hear arguments

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State University official personally delivered a doctorate degree to a New Jersey man in 2019, decades after he and his wife were sexually harassed by a professor when they were students. Jon Edwards says he stopped pursuing an advanced degree in history to protest the behavior of Harold

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s former chief of staff has been indicted in federal court for allegedly defrauding a state agency he led. The Maryland U.S. attorney announced the indictment against 52-year-old Roy McGrath on Tuesday. Prosecutors say McGrath devised a scheme through which the Maryland Environmental

By MICHAEL TARM and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has declined to dismiss a weapons charge against an Illinois man accused of shooting three people during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin last year. Prosecutors charged Kyle Rittenhouse with homicide and other crimes, including being a minor in possession

By PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN and ANNIE MA Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials at historically Black colleges thought they might finally have a pipeline for long-term funding from the federal government after the Biden administration included at least $45 billion for them in its multitrillion dollar economic package. That enthusiasm was short-lived after a

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRDO CASTLE, Slovenia (AP) — European Union leaders met for the first time Tuesday since the messy Western troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and France’s loss of a multi-billion dollar submarine deal with Australia. The EU argues that those events have exposed Europe’s need for more autonomy on defense. The dinner

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban leaders say they met with Iranian officials in the Afghan capital in an effort to boost trade relations key to filling the country’s cash-starved coffers as it teeters on the brink of economic collapse. A spokesman said Tuesday they met a day earlier with a