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Month: August 2023

Georgia court’s apparent error in early publishing of charges gives Trump opening to attack case

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Donald Trump and his allies are already seizing on a document briefly posted on the Georgia court’s website suggesting the former president was charged hours before the grand jury handed down his indictment over efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. The apparent error gives Trump an opening to

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Who is Fani Willis, the Atlanta prosecutor leading Trump election subversion case?

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Washington (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has reemerged in the spotlight after her office charged 19 co-defendants, including Donald Trump, regarding efforts by the former president and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The indictments are a culmination of an investigation that has lasted more

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Political leader in Ecuador is killed less than a week after presidential candidate’s assassination

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — The unprecedented violence shaking Ecuador claimed the life of another political leader Monday, bringing the number of politics-related slayings within the last four weeks to three, including that of a presidential candidate. The fatal shooting of Pedro Briones, a local leader of Revolución Ciudadana, the

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California aims to introduce more anglers to native warm-water tolerant sunfish as planet heats up

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — California’s only native sunfish, the Sacramento perch, survived catastrophic floods in the 1860s and was so abundant that it was a regular staple in San Francisco’s markets before invasive species decimated its population. Today it is relegated to mostly isolated lakes, reservoirs and ponds with few

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California aims to introduce more anglers to native warm-water tolerant sunfish as planet heats up

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — California’s only native sunfish, the Sacramento perch, survived catastrophic floods in the 1860s and was so abundant that it was a regular staple in San Francisco’s markets before invasive species decimated its population. Today it is relegated to mostly isolated lakes, reservoirs and ponds with few

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Arraignment set for Mar-a-Lago property manager in Trump’s classified documents case

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — The property manager of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is set for an arraignment Tuesday in Florida in a case accusing the former president of illegally hoarding classified documents. The hearing was postponed last week because the property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, had not secured a Florida-based attorney. Trump waived his

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Health of Latino children worse in states with anti-immigrant attitudes and policies, new study says

By Edith Bracho-Sanchez (CNN) — Latino children who live in states with harsher laws that apply to immigrants and systemic prejudice against them are more likely to experience mental health or chronic physical health conditions, according to a new study. For the study, published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics, researchers used nationally representative data of 17,855 Latino

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South Korea’s Yoon calls for strong security cooperation with US, Japan ahead of Camp David summit

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president has called for deeper security cooperation with the U.S. and Japan to address North Korea’s nuclear threat, saying his upcoming summit with the U.S. and Japanese leaders at Camp David will “set a new milestone in trilateral cooperation.” President Yoon Suk Yeol

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