Month: June 2022

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — The search for an Indigenous expert and a journalist who disappeared in a remote area of Brazil’s Amazon continued Monday following the discovery of a backpack, laptop and other personal belongings submerged in a river. The items were taken by Federal Police officers by

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A new state report says fatal drug overdoses rose nearly 15% in Kentucky last year. The report says the increased use of fentanyl was a common contributor to the record death toll. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that was identified in nearly 73% of 2021

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Four Republican candidates for New York governor are set to face off in a televised debate Monday night. The field includes U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, businessman Harry Wilson and Andrew Giuliani, the son of New York City’s former mayor. It’s

More than 100 million Americans are being warned to stay indoors if possible as a heat wave settles over states stretching through parts of the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas. The National Weather Service Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, said Monday that a combination of heat advisories, excessive

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were dismantling his false claims of 2020 election fraud ahead of Jan. 6, but the defeated president seemed “detached from reality” and clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power, the

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says a Vermont compounding pharmacy has agreed to stop producing adulterated and misbranded drugs. The Justice Department announced on Monday that Edge Pharma of Colchester and its owners and operators had signed a consent decree on Friday. The civil agreement requires Edge Pharma to take specific remedial

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has cleared a key hurdle for its plan to launch a gigantic, futuristic rocketship into orbit from Texas. The Federal Aviation Administration concluded an environmental review Monday of Elon Musk’s Starship base. The agency saw no significant environmental concerns, but is requiring more

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Democratic presidential candidate and New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is getting involved in a New York congressional primary that’s pitted two veteran lawmakers against each other. But Yang is not backing U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler or U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the primary race for New York’s heavily

By CLAUDIA LAUER The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia prosecutors asked a judge on Monday to hold a Virginia man in contempt of court over video that shows him meeting with top leaders of two-far right extremist groups in Washington D.C. the day before the Jan. 6 riot. The request from Philadelphia District Attorney

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed a bill creating a commission to study establishing a national museum on the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. The eight-member commission that will be created by the new law will also study whether such a museum