Month: September 2022

By ERIC TUCKER and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative activist Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has agreed to participate in a voluntary interview with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, her lawyer said Wednesday. Attorney Mark Paoletta said Thomas is “eager to answer the

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed legislation to overhaul the rules for certifying the results of a presidential election as lawmakers accelerate their response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Donald Trump’s failed attempt to remain in power. The bill is similar to bipartisan legislation moving through

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and his company could face a range of stiff penalties if a court sides with New York’s attorney general in a sprawling fraud lawsuit filed against the former president Wednesday. For now, the Republican isn’t at risk of going to jail. The lawsuit brought by Attorney

By ERIC TUCKER, NOMAAN MERCHANT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stark repudiation of Donald Trump’s legal arguments, a federal appeals court on Wednesday permitted the Justice Department to resume its use of classified records seized from the former president’s Florida estate as part of its ongoing criminal investigation. The ruling

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates combined characteristic optimism with sobering questions about persistent gender inequality and hunger at an event the Gateses’ foundation convened on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. The annual Goalkeepers events focus on reaching global development goals set in 2015

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court won’t reinstate the conviction of a former Michigan State University gymnastics coach who was accused of lying to investigators about campus sports doctor Larry Nassar. The state’s highest court declined to take an appeal from the attorney general’s office. Prosecutors had widened their

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it hasn’t exported any weapons supplies to Russia during the war in Ukraine and has no plans to do so in the future. A North Korean military official described recent U.S. intelligence reports of weapons transfers as an attempt to tarnish North

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say four former correctional officers at a Georgia prison have been sentenced for their roles in the beating of a handcuffed inmate and the subsequent cover-up. The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson sentenced Sgt. Patrick Sharpe to four years in prison; Lt.