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Month: December 2023

2022 federal elections in the US not tainted by foreign interference, officials say

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A declassified U.S. government report says foreign hackers did not change vote totals or otherwise compromise the integrity of federal elections last year in the United States. The report does identify multiple instances in which hackers linked to Iran, China and Russia connected to election infrastructure, scanned

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Mining company agrees with court decision ordering Guatemala to grant property rights to community

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Solway Investment Group, a Switzerland-based mining company with interests in Guatemala, says it agrees with a regional court’s decision requiring the Guatemalan government to recognize the property rights of an Indigenous community. The company, which was not a party to the case, stressed Monday that the

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The late Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, honored as trailblazer

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, was remembered Monday as a trailblazer who never lost sight of how the high court’s decisions affected all Americans. O’Connor, an Arizona native who was an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism for more

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Marvel, Disney drop actor Jonathan Majors after he’s convicted of assaulting his former girlfriend

By JENNIFER PELTZ. JAKE COYLE and JAKE OFFENHARTZAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney Co. have dropped actor Jonathan Majors after his conviction on charges of assaulting his former girlfriend during a confrontation in New York City earlier this year. A Manhattan jury convicted the Marvel star Monday of one

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