Associated Press Former AP correspondent in Chile, Eva Vergara, who covered stories including the first protests against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and revealed key information about abuses by members of the Catholic Church, died on Tuesday. She was 68. Her son said Vergara, who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, died at home.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Toy maker MGA Entertainment must pay $71.5 million in damages for infringing on the name and likeliness of teen pop group OMG Girlz with one of its popular lines of dolls, a federal jury has decided. Monday’s verdict hands a win to OMG Girlz — as well as Xscape singer Tameka
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Around 2,000 hotel workers went on strike Tuesday at the world’s largest Hilton hotel and the biggest hotel in Hawaii. The workers at the Hilton Hawaiian Village are now among the more than 4,000 hotel workers striking at Hilton, Hyatt, and Marriott hotels in Honolulu, San Diego and San Francisco.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s new president is signaling to world leaders that he wants to open what he’s calling a “constructive” chapter in his country’s international relations. But he’s making clear that everyone else, including the United States, needs to do their part. Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says legislators should ignore “myths” from opponents who want to block efforts by him and some other Republicans to phase out the state’s income tax. Reeves says Tuesday that erasing the tax will help the state reach its economic potential. Mississippi has long been one
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ‘ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A jury is deliberating the fate of a former Houston police officer accused of being responsible for the 2019 deaths of a couple during a raid. The ensuing investigation revealed systemic corruption problems within the police department’s narcotics unit. Jurors deliberated about three hours Tuesday in the case of Gerald
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas inmate who was beaten by a police officer in the back of a patrol car has sued the former officer and his police chief. Attorneys for Billy Lee Coram filed the lawsuit on Tuesday against former Jonesboro police officer Joseph Harris, Chief Rick Elliott and the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — There was a time when the city of Birmingham, Alabama, earned the nickname “Bombingham,” renowned for senseless violence and its strength in confronting the racial hatred that fueled it. But days after Birmingham endured its third mass shooting of 2024, officials and residents are voicing a new strain of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Mexican ice cream shop chain and a local pharmacy used as investments by drug traffickers. Mexican drug cartels often use the proceeds from international drug trafficking to establish businesses, pouring cash into anything from fraudulent timeshare operations to restaurants to launder money.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who authorities say staked out Donald Trump for 12 hours on his golf course in Florida and wrote of his desire to kill him was indicted Tuesday on an attempted assassination charge. Ryan Wesley Routh had been initially charged with two federal firearms offenses. The upgraded charges contained
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian judge has suspended the preventive arrest of one of the country’s most popular country music stars in connection with a money laundering investigation. That’s according to a court source with access to the ruling. A court staffer in the state of Pernambuco confirmed Tuesday that local
Continue ReadingMore than a decade after retiring from football, Brett Favre says he has Parkinson’s disease. Favre told a congressional hearing Tuesday that he had been recently diagnosed. There are nearly 90,000 new Parkinson’s cases each year in the U.S. Parkinson’s is a neurologic disease that robs people of control over their movements. It typically starts
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump is again criticizing the Biden administration’s financial support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. This time he appeared to praise Russia’s military record from defeating Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler during World War II and French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte during an invasion. He argues a defeat may
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says new mothers and their children in the Sudanese region of South Darfur are experiencing one of the “worst” health emergencies in the world, one of the consequences of the violence that has engulfed the country since April 2023. Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF,
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An accused drug dealer has been arrested in the killings of two confidential police informants whose bodies were stashed in trash bags and dumped in a northeastern Indiana river. Authorities say the 29-year-old man was expected to be formally charged Wednesday with murder. He was arrested Monday in Richmond, Indiana, 73
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson says his campaign has hired a law firm to help investigate a CNN report stating he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board — something he denies. Tuesday’s announcement comes as more North Carolina Republicans disturbed by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Another storm system is taking aim at Florida. Helene became a hurricane Wednesday after rapidly strengthening in the Caribbean Sea and moving north along Mexico’s coast on a path toward the U.S. Helene’s center was near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday. It is forecast to grow stronger and
Continue ReadingAP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — One year since House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was booted from office after Congress voted to fund the federal government, the new House Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself courting, but so far avoiding, a similar fate. Johnson is preparing to lead the House on Wednesday in passing legislation to fund
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will make his long-awaited visit to Africa next month. He will travel to Germany and Angola from Oct. 10-15. Biden had promised during a summit of African leaders in Washington in late 2022 to visit Africa the following year. It was part of
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