Month: November 2022

By The Associated Press World Cup host nation Qatar said Tuesday it will count emissions produced from daily flights ferrying fans during the tournament between the Gulf emirates toward the event’s overall carbon footprint. Qatar has claimed the upcoming tournament will be “carbon neutral,” but environmental experts have questioned its accounting. Qatar’s environment minister Sheikh

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the police department in Massachusetts’ second largest city routinely uses excessive force or discriminates against residents based on race or gender. The U.S. attorney’s office in Boston announced the civil investigation Tuesday into the Worcester Police Department. Worcester has roughly 200,000 residents, and Census Bureau statistics show

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of text messages sent from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s city-issued iPhone are missing from the public record. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that Wheeler’s phone often used a text message setting that makes it impossible for archiving software to capture the messages. The outlet reports that Wheeler was frequently reminded to

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Republican challenger to Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada is conceding that he lost the election and won’t contest the result. GOP candidate Adam Laxalt said Tuesday that any challenge of the results would not alter the ultimate outcome. But in Twitter and email

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $37 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine. The funding request comes as lawmakers begin their post-election session. The request also includes $9.25 billion to combat a possible COVID-19 winter surge. The latest funding request for Ukraine is

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A police commander at the scene of the Uvalde massacre was informed that children were alive in a classroom with the gunman more than 30 minutes before officers breached the room. A dispatcher can be heard on audio recordings obtained by CNN telling the acting city police chief that there were

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A small business lobbying group has filed suit to block the Treasury Department’s upcoming requirement that tens of millions of small businesses register with the government as part of an effort to prevent the criminal abuse of anonymous shell companies. The National Small Business Association argues that