AP National News

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The trial hasn’t even started and yet issues of race are at the forefront of the case in which three white men are charged with murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery. The family of the slain 25-year-old Black man was rattled Wednesday when the jury

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) — Skeletal remains found in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park are believed to be those of a 27-year-old man from West Germany who disappeared during a mountaineering trip nearly 40 years ago. Park officials said Thursday a hiker found human remains in the Skeleton Gulch area in August 2020,

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — The trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged in the killing a 12-year-old Colorado girl has ended with jurors unable to reach verdicts on the most serious charges against him. Jurors on Thursday found Steve Pankey guilty of false reporting but could not reach agreement on murder and kidnapping

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy says it fired the two senior officers of a nuclear-powered attack submarine that was damaged in an underwater collision last month in the South China Sea. Also removed from his position was the sailor who served as a senior enlisted adviser to the commander and the executive officer. The actions

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s state news agency says the country’s top general has ordered the release of four government ministers detained during a coup last week. A lawyer for the four now-deposed ministers say they have yet to be freed. The announcement comes as the country’s top generals and former

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Just weeks before Honduras holds presidential elections, an independent candidate who was one of the first to publicly accuse President Juan Orlando Hernández’s brother of ties to drug trafficking, has been arrested on money laundering charges. Santos Rodríguez Orellana, a former army captain, was arrested Thursday

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is to hold a snap election for a new parliament and government on Jan. 30. Portugal’s president on Thursday announced he is dissolving parliament, following the minority Socialist government’s defeat in a key vote on the country’s spending plans. The announcement was widely expected. The

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says a new project trumpeted by U.S. President Joe Biden in which companies underpin development of low-carbon technologies through their buying power amounts to a “big transformation.” The “First Movers Coalition,” spearheaded by the U.S. government and the World Economic Forum, aims

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is rescinding a policy that would have simplified the process of changing the gender listing on a driver’s license. The Sun Herald reports Thursday the Department of Public Safety reversed course after only a few days. The Driver Service Bureau director issued a memo last week saying people could change

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A woman has been charged with child endangerment in the August fire deaths of her five young children, who she allegedly left in a southwest Illinois apartment without adult supervision. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 34-year-old Sabrina Dunigan of East St. Louis is charged in St. Clair County

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A longtime friend says she was with a Las Vegas woman minutes before she was killed in a crash that authorities say former Raiders player Henry Ruggs III caused. Authorities say he was driving 156 mph with a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit in Nevada.

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian analyst who provided information for a dossier of research used during the Trump-Russia investigation has been charged with lying to the FBI when questioned about his work. A grand jury indictment issued in federal court in Virginia charges Igor Danchenko with five counts of false

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A group of migrants trying to walk across southern Mexico have pelted officers of Mexico’s National Guard with a hail of rocks, apparently injuring at least one guardsman. The guards were tailing the migrant march Thursday, when a small group of a few dozen male

By MIKE CATALINI TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s longtime state Senate president, Democrat Steve Sweeney lost reelection, falling to a Republican newcomer who spent little money and underscoring Democratic woes in the Biden era. Edward Durr, a furniture company truck driver and political newcomer, defeated Sweeney in New Jersey’s 3rd Legislative District. Sweeney’s defeat

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s next astronaut flight is off until at least next week as more bad weather looms. Flight surgeons, meanwhile, are continuing to monitor the “minor medical issue” affecting one of the four astronauts awaiting liftoff at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA says the astronaut

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska attorney general’s office investigation has identified 258 victims who made credible allegations of sexual abuse against 57 Catholic church officials in the state going back decades. In many cases, high-ranking church leaders knew about the abuse but didn’t report it to the authorities. Attorney

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The trial hasn’t even started and yet issues of race are at the forefront of the case in which three white men are charged with murder for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery. The family of the slain 25-year-old Black man was rattled Wednesday when the jury

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. economy rebounds from the ongoing pandemic, many women are choosing to sit out the labor force. The pandemic has laid bare the disproportionate burdens many women shoulder in caring for children or aging parents, as well as highlighted the

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — A tiny house in a Boston suburb has sold after about a month on the market for far less than the original asking price of almost $450,000. Coldwell Banker Realty’s Hans Brings Results agency says the roughly 250-square-foot home in Newton sold on Monday for $315,000. The home is on a

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two civil rights groups have filed a federal court challenge against a Tennessee law that bars transgender athletes from playing public high school or middle school sports aligned with their gender identity. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit Thursday