Month: June 2022

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has convened a political conference where he’s expected to review state affairs and possibly address relations with Washington and Seoul amid his revived nuclear brinkmanship. State media said the meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee may last

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — In video testimony played for jurors Wednesday at a civil trial, Bill Cosby denies sexually abusing a teenage girl at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s. Asked by an attorney for Judy Huth, who is suing Cosby, whether he had tried to put his

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is a Democratic fortress, but Tuesday’s primary election may have revealed some cracks. Gov. Gavin Newsom and other top-tier Democrats emerged safely from contested statewide races in which they will be strongly favored this fall, and the Legislature appears on track to stay

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The leader of the Mexican megachurch La Luz del Mundo was sentenced Wednesday to more than 16 years in a California prison for sexually abusing young female followers who said he made them his sex slaves. Naasón Joaquín García, 53, abruptly pleaded guilty last week in

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The non-profit group Ocean Cleanup has installed a huge, steel-mesh screen on a heavily polluted river outside Guatemala City, in a bid to stop plastics and other debris before they reach the ocean. The Las Vacas river is strewn with mounds of trash deposited by fluctuating river currents. As the rainy

By DIANE JEANTET and FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian authorities have begun using helicopters to search for a British journalist and Indigenous official missing for three days in a remote area of the Amazon rainforest. Amazonas state civil police said Wednesdy they have identified a suspect. But the state’s