Month: November 2021

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister says he will lead his country’s army “from the battlefront” beginning Tuesday, a dramatic new step in a devastating yearlong war. Abiy Ahmed says that “this is a time when leading a country with martyrdom is needed.” With rival Tigray

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys made a final push to persuade the jury in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old Black man who was fatally shot last year while running in Georgia. The prosecution said Monday in closing arguments that three white men chased Arbery solely “because he was

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A formerly homeless man who ended up in a mental institution for more than two years because of mistaken identity is suing the state of Hawaii and various Honolulu police officers, public defenders and doctors. Joshua Spriestersbach’s attorneys say in the lawsuit filed in federal court

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Nine people have died after a fire swept through a nursing home in eastern Bulgaria on Monday. Officials say an old school building in the eastern village of Royak that was transformed into a nursing home caught fire at 6 p.m. while dozens of residents were preparing for dinner.  Fire inspector

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A former police detective in Missouri has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for repeatedly kicking a defenseless man during a 2019 arrest. Ellis Brown III was sentenced Monday. He was an officer in the St. Louis suburb of St. Ann when the incident occurred. A jury convicted

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Two Fox News Channel contributors have quit, saying “irresponsible” voices have drowned out the responsible on the network. Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, who put out a newsletter called The Dispatch, have both been occasional analysts at Fox since 2009. They cited Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot

By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Police say the suspect in a deadly Christmas parade crash in suburban Milwaukee was in a domestic disturbance just minutes before he killed five people and injured 48. Waukesha Police Chief Dan Thompson said Monday there is no evidence of terrorism

PRAGUE (AP) — Protesters are marching through the Czech capital of Prague to decry the government’s new restrictions on unvaccinated people. The protesters demanded “Freedom!” for the unvaccinated. They carried posters with pictures of politicians — including Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Health Minister Adam Vojtech — calling them traitors. But unlike recent rallies in

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Poet Robert Bly, who authored the men’s movement classic “Iron John,” has died. Bly spent most of his life in his native Minnesota and was an active poet for more than 50 years, winning the National Book Award in 1968 for a book of Vietnam War protest poems. Bly also translated the