Month: September 2022

By BILL BARROW and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The shadow of Donald Trump’s tampering with the 2020 election in Georgia lands differently for the various Republicans running for office in 2022. Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has little choice but to defend his decision to defy the former president. Burt Jones,

By KEN RITTER and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — In four decades of writing about the Las Vegas underworld and government corruption, investigative reporter Jeff German took on plenty of powerful and dangerous people. The hard-bitten newsman was once punched by an organized crime associate and received veiled threats from mobsters. Nothing

By JOSH BOAK, AAMER MADHANI and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants to put the spotlight on a rare bipartisan down payment on U.S. manufacturing when he visits Ohio on Friday for the groundbreaking of a new Intel computer chip facility. Biden heads to suburban Columbus to take a victory

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Kay dumped heavy rains on a sparsely populated peninsula on Mexico’s Pacific coast as it weakened while curling out to sea, and it was expected to bring rain to southernmost California by the weekend. The eye of Kay came ashore as a hurricane near Mexico’s Bahia Asuncion in Baja

By LARRY NEUMEISTER, JENNIFER PELTZ and CARRIE ANTLFINGER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hours before dawn on March 1, 2003, the U.S. scored its most thrilling victory yet against the plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks — the capture of a disheveled Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, hauled away by intelligence agents from a hideout in

DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — The husband and wife allegedly killed by a sheriff’s deputy in Northern California were a retired civil engineer and a nurse, their relatives and former co-workers said Thursday. Benison Tran, 57, and his wife, Maria Tran, 42, were fatally shot inside their Dublin home Wednesday. Four other relatives who were in

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Elton John has paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II at his final concert in Toronto, saying he was inspired by her and is sad she is gone. John noted she led the United Kingdom through some of its greatest and darkest moments with grace and decency and

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks rose Friday, cheered by gains on Wall Street as the Federal Reserve chairman assured markets over expected interest rate increases. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.6% in afternoon trading to 28,242.31. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.7% to 6,894.20. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped 2.6%

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The family of a West Virginia man is seeking answers after authorities fatally shot him at a funeral. Loved ones say that after Jason Owens placed his father’s casket in a hearse, members of a fugitive task force called out his name and shot him Aug.

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A string of high-profile killings rattling Memphis this week has touched off new calls for tougher sentencing laws. Both Democratic and Republican officials have noted that the suspects in the killing of a jogger and a string of shootings would still would have been in prison if