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By Nadine Schmidt Berlin (CNN) — A 98-year-old former Nazi concentration guard has been indicted on charges of aiding and abetting the murder of more than 3,300 people during the Holocaust, German authorities said on Friday. The man’s name was not made public by prosecutors, in accordance with German privacy laws. The public prosecutor in
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press A former top federal prosecutor who resigned from the investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe has been tapped to fill an open seat on the Connecticut State Supreme Court. Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont announced Nora Dannehy’s nomination on Friday, calling his former general counsel “a woman of integrity
Continue ReadingBy DOUG WILLIAMS Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — The woman injured when she was pushed onto the tracks at the Chambers Street subway station says she cannot afford surgery she now needs and that she’s afraid to take public transportation again. Xu Yanan, 34, moved from overseas and
Continue Reading By Amy Cassidy and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Ambassadors from Russia and Belarus have been invited back to the Nobel Prize banquet after being excluded last year because of the invasion of Ukraine, the Nobel Foundation said. Iran has also been invited to the December event in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, after being
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BLACKWELL and LAURA BARGFELD Associated Press HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The worst of Hurricane Idalia left residents of a region of tight-knit communities trying to find places to live as they rebuild — if they decide it’s even worth it — and waiting potentially weeks for electricity to be restored after winds
Continue ReadingRABAT, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan media reports say Algerian forces killed two men and detained a third after they strayed across Morocco’s maritime border with Algeria on water scooters. The French government says one of the victims was French, as was the detained man. The border has long been closed because of tensions between the
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has ordered more than 100 schools to keep some or all of their buildings closed when the new academic year begins next week because of concern that crumbling concrete threatens the safety of children and staff. The announcement has sent school administrators scrambling to
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green says the number of people listed as missing from Maui’s devastating wildfire could drop from nearly 400 to fewer than 100 when authorities provide an update Friday on efforts to locate them. Authorities have said at least 115 people
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD and RALPH D. RUSSO AP Sports Writers The Atlantic Coast Conference voted Friday to add Stanford, California and SMU next year, providing a landing spot for two more schools from the disintegrating Pac-12 and creating a fourth super conference in major college sports. The move provides the ACC a windfall of revenue
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD and RALPH D. RUSSO AP Sports Writers The Atlantic Coast Conference voted Friday to add Stanford, California and SMU next year, providing a landing spot for two more schools from the disintegrating Pac-12 and creating a fourth super conference in major college sports. The move provides the ACC a windfall of revenue
Continue ReadingALGOMA, Wis. (AP) — Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew’s possessions in its final resting spot miles from Wisconsin’s coastline. Wisconsin maritime historians Brendon Baillod and Robert Jaeck found the 156-year-old Trinidad in July off
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Stocks are wavering on Wall Street in midday trading Friday after the government reported that U.S. job growth increased at a healthy, but more moderate pace last month. The major indexes had been up as much as 0.8% in the early going following the release of the report, which
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts pizzeria owner has been sentenced to two years in prison for using over $660,000 in fraudulently obtained pandemic relief funds to buy an alpaca farm in Vermont. Federal prosecutors say in 2020, Dana McIntyre submitted a fraudulent application for a Paycheck Protection Program loan. He inflated information about employees
Continue ReadingBy DANA KOZLOV Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A mother desperate to find answers about her missing son refuses to let police sweep his case under the rug. It’s consumed her life for more than a year. She believes her family has given police all the information they need to
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Walgreens Boots Alliance on Friday said that CEO Rosalind Brewer has stepped down less than three years after taking the helm at the pharmacy chain. The retailer said in a release that its board and Brewer, who was reportedly one of only two Black women to lead
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Gabon’s opposition leader is accusing the family of the recently ousted president of engineering his removal from power as a way of retaining their control in the oil-rich Central African nation. Albert Ondo Ossa says in an interview with The Associated Press that the junta who
Continue ReadingBy Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — The Federal Trade Commission will allow pharmaceutical giant Amgen to move ahead with its acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, averting a trial set for September. In a news release Friday, the US antitrust regulator said it accepted a proposal from Amgen that would allow the $27.8 billion deal
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration says it still plans to finalize rules that would prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars this year, but the agency is running behind schedule. In April 2022, when the FDA initially announced that it was going to ban the popular
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The relationship between President Joe Biden’s White House and Eric Adams began breaking down in private months earlier than previously known – and long before the New York mayor started publicly blasting the president over the migrant crisis in his city. “There’s no leadership here,” Adams
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An energy infrastructure project bigger than the Hoover Dam is how Hunter Armistead describes the $10 billion venture his company will be overseeing during the next three years. As the chief executive of one of the world’s largest wind and solar development companies, Armistead said
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