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Month: August 2023

Florida students and professors say a new law censors academic freedom. They’re suing to stop it

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press College students and professors in Florida are suing over a new law that they say censors academic freedom. They filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court. The new statute outlaws spending on diversity programs, curbs professors’ tenure security and prohibits the teaching of “identity politics.” The lawsuit was filed by

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North Korea asserts US soldier bolted into North after being disillusioned with American society

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea asserted Wednesday that a U.S. soldier who bolted into the North across the heavily armed Korean border last month did so after being disillusioned with the inequality of American society and racial discrimination in its Army. It was North Korea’s first official confirmation

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UN chief urges deployment of police special forces and military support to combat gangs in Haiti

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is urging the international community to deploy a multinational force comprising “police special forces and military support units” to Haiti to combat gangs with sophisticated weapons and restore security to the impoverished Caribbean nation. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a 12-page

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Mobile morgue arrives to assist in identification of 99 confirmed dead in Maui wildfires

By CLAIRE RUSH, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii officials are working painstakingly to identify the 99 people confirmed killed in wildfires that ravaged Maui. A mobile morgue arrived Tuesday to help in that process, even as teams intensified the search for more dead in neighborhoods reduced to

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Georgia clerk says ‘mishap’ caused erroneous release of list of Trump charges

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The clerk of the Fulton County, Georgia, court system has acknowledged accidentally releasing what appeared to be a list of criminal charges against Donald Trump before he was actually indicted. In a statement released Tuesday, the clerk’s office also sought to deflect blame amid mounting criticism from Republicans who

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Special prosecutor will examine actions of Georgia’s lieutenant governor in Trump election meddling

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia agency says it will name a special prosecutor to consider whether the state’s Republican lieutenant governor should face criminal charges for efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state. Trump and 18 allies were indicted Monday. But Fulton County District Attorney was

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