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CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of “doctor of litter-ature” on a cat named Max who has become a beloved member of its community. Vermont State University’s Castleton campus is honoring the feline ahead of students’ graduation Saturday for his friendliness. The school says in a Facebook post that
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say South Sudan is close to securing a $13 billion loan from a company in the United Arab Emirates, despite the oil-rich country’s difficulties in managing debts backed by its oil reserves. The panel of experts says in a report to the U.N.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department renewed a global security warning Friday for Americans overseas, adding to it that LGBTQ people and events in particular face an “increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence.” The alert is a standard renewal of travel advice telling Americans to exercise increased caution against possible attacks by violent extremist groups while
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The trial of a woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend is finishing its third week. The highly anticipated trial in Massachusetts involves a woman accused of striking her officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank. Karen
Continue ReadingSANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chileans are bundling up for their coldest autumn in more than 70 years mere days after sunning in T-shirts — a dramatic change of wardrobe brought on this week by a sudden cold front gripping portions of South America unaccustomed to bitter wind chills this time of year. Temperatures broke records
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest teachers union on Friday turned up the pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom, announcing a public campaign aimed at blocking part of his plan to balance the budget because they say it “would wreak havoc on funding for our schools.” Newsom says his plan —
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in “9 to 5” and the nasty TV director in “Tootsie,” has died. He was 92. Coleman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, his daughter, Quincy Coleman, said
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) — After 73 years and a long fight with the Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who was wounded in combat finally got his Purple Heart. The U.S. Army notified 96-year-old Earl Meyer last month that it had granted him the medal,
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republican lawmakers have failed to pass a proposal to make it harder to amend the state constitution. The GOP-led Legislature adjourned Friday without passing the legislation. Some Republicans had hoped to put the measure on the August ballot, so voters could enact the higher
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has renewed a global security warning for Americans overseas and added to it that LGBTQ people and events in particular face an “increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence.” The alert issued Friday is a standard renewal of travel advice telling Americans to exercise increased caution against possible attacks
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When an upside-down U.S. flag flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, it was largely seen in connection with the false claim by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters that the 2020 election had been marred by fraud. The revelation
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press Federal wildlife officials have declared a rare lizard in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas an endangered species. The Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday that future energy development, sand mining and climate change could lead to extinction of the dunes sagebrush lizard in one of the world’s most lucrative
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says he’s accepting an invitation from Fox News for his running mate to participate in a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. But his announcement Friday came after Harris already had accepted a different invitation from CBS News instead. And President Joe Biden’s
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Meteorologists say exceptional windstorms that may leave some Houston residents without power for weeks left damage in their wake comparable to that caused by a hurricane. Janice Maldonado, a National Weather Service meteorologist, says the storms that barreled through Houston Thursday are the most significant in the area since Hurricane
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin says Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election and the 2021 Capitol insurrection after a report about an upside-down American flag outside his home. The upside-down flag is a symbol associated with ex-President Donald Trump’s
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge plans to rule next week on a grand jury indictment against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust,” after hearing arguments Friday that the proceedings were unfair to the defendant. The indictment in January charged Baldwin with
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s attorney general told supporters he skirted the state’s campaign finance laws by inviting another Republican to run against him as a token candidate in next month’s primary so he could raise more money for the general election. The Daily Montanan obtained the recording and
Continue ReadingBy GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A group of volunteers working to save people from the floods in southern Brazil have claimed they were misled into participating in an operation to remove several thousand firearms from the airport of Rio Grande do Sul state’s capital Porto Alegre. Nicolas Vedovatto, a 26-year-old
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of a former Army sergeant convicted of murder in the shooting death of a Black Lives Matter protestor was a case of the Republican pushing a limited executive power to its absolute limit to get a desired outcome in a
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, voted overwhelmingly against joining the United Auto Workers on Friday, a setback in the union’s drive to organize plants in the historically nonunion South. The workers voted 56% against the union, according to tallies released
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