Month: February 2023

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A onetime al-Qaida courier has been released after serving more than 16 years at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and enduring torture at clandestine overseas CIA sites. The Pentagon has announced the release of Pakistan citizen Majid Khan, who grew up in Baltimore. Khan is now in

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former University of Mississippi chancellor says Republican Gov. Tate Reeves spoke privately with him years ago about the benefits of expanding Medicaid to people in low-wage jobs. Dr. Dan Jones spoke Thursday at a news conference organized by Democratic state lawmakers. Jones says

By ILAN BEN ZION and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister says the country expects to fully normalize ties with Sudan sometime later this year. Eli Cohen spoke on Thursday, after returning from a lightning diplomatic mission to the Sudanese capital. In Khartoum, he held high-level meetings with Sudan’s ruling general,

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore grandmother faces criminal charges for failing to secure the gun that her 9-year-old grandson was carrying when he fatally shot a teenage girl last summer, officials announced Thursday, saying the indictment should serve as a warning about the importance of safe firearm storage. Nykayla Strawder,

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press The former principal of the Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher was not aware of reports that the student had a gun before the shooting occurred. That’s according to her lawyer who provided a brief statement to reporters on Thursday. Briana Foster Newton was principal at Richneck

By LEA SKENE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The protracted legal odyssey of Adnan Syed, whose murder case rose to prominence through the hit podcast “Serial,” marked its latest development Thursday when a Maryland appeals court considered whether the victim’s family experienced improper treatment when a Baltimore court overturned Syed’s conviction last year, allowing

HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) — Police in Oregon say an active shooter situation is taking place in Hood River. The city’s police department said on Facebook at about 12:40 p.m. Thursday that the situation was going on “right now” near a Dairy Queen. Police said officers were evacuating residents from the area and that people

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man has been charged with murder in the killing of a man who had accused him of stalking after the defendant allegedly had an affair with the victim’s wife. Hillsboro police say they arrested Steven Milner on Tuesday in the killing of 56-year-old Kenneth Fandrich, an Intel contractor who

CAIRO (AP) — The United States has asked the Sudanese government to re-arrest a man convicted of killing a U.S. diplomat in the country 15 years ago. In a statement, the State Department said Thursday that the Jan. 30 release of Abdel-Raouf Abu Zaid was based on untrue assertions that the American victim’s family had

By ZEKE MILLER, COLLEEN LONG and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is a man who writes down his thoughts. And some of those handwritten musings over his decades of public service are now a part of a special counsel’s investigation into the handling of classified documents. It isn’t clear yet