By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A second shareholder advisory firm has come out against reinstating a pay package for Tesla CEO Elon Musk that was voided earlier this year by a Delaware judge. ISS late Thursday joined Glass Lewis in recommending against the package, recently valued by the company at $44.9
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accuses the Wall Street brokerage giant of racially discriminating against its Black financial advisers. The lawsuit alleges that African American advisers employed by Bank of America-owned Merrill received less compensation
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a felony, but he is not the first felon to run for the presidency. The Socialist Party candidate Eugene Debs ran from prison in 1920, although he had no chance of winning the race. Trump, on the other
Continue ReadingHENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina aquarium said in February that a stingray became pregnant with no male companion in its tank and now says the fish has a rare reproductive disease. Thursday’s statement from the Aquarium and Shark Lab in Hendersonville did not say what the disease is. It also did not comment
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee held a news conference Friday where he spoke publicly about the conviction and his White House bid. Following his conviction on Thursday, Trump angrily denounced the trial
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump launched into attacks on the judge in his criminal trial and continued to undermine New York’s criminal justice system Friday as he tried to repackage his conviction on 34 felony charges as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian military says militants enforcing a separatist lockdown in the country’s southeast attacked and killed five soldiers deployed to restore order. A military spokesman said six civilians were also killed by the militants during a shootout in Abia state’s Aba town. The Indigenous People of
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press SUMY REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia have exchanged prisoners of war, each sending back 75 POWs in the first such swap in the past three months. The Ukrainians were returned on several buses that drove into the northern Sumy region. As they disembarked, they shouted joyfully and called
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has announced he has switched his registration to independent. The move on Friday raises questions about his political plans since it could help his chances should he seek elected office again in a state that
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Police in riot gear surrounded arm-in-arm protesters Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to remove an encampment and barricades where pro-Palestinian demonstrations have blocked the main entrance to the campus this week. Many people were arrested, the university said. Campus, local and state police swarmed the protesters, and
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Police in riot gear surrounded arm-in-arm protesters Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to remove an encampment and barricades where pro-Palestinian demonstrations have blocked the main entrance to the campus this week. Many people were arrested, the university said. Campus, local and state police swarmed the protesters, and
Continue ReadingSANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — University of California, Santa Cruz, reports ‘many’ arrests at pro-Palestinian demonstration.
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN, MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN and ANITA SNOW Associated Press David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona’s record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave. His family found the 73-year-old lying on the ground, his lower body burned. Hom died at
Continue ReadingBy INDRAJIT SINGH Associated Press PATNA, India (AP) — Officials in India say a scorching heat wave has killed at least 14 people, including 10 election officials, with temperatures soaring up to 49.9 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of the country this week. The weeklong heat wave has forced schools to close at
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Nikki Carvajal and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current eight-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared,
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications. Friday’s ruling from the court is the latest decision to uphold Texas’ abortion ban,
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Family and friends of Jennifer Dulos are offering emotional testimony as her late husband’s former girlfriend is sentenced in Connecticut for helping to plan and cover up her killing. Michelle Troconis faces up to 50 years in prison when she is sentenced Friday. She was convicted of murder conspiracy and
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will likely look to cast the conviction and his campaign in a new light. The former president is expected to hold a news conference at Trump Tower
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran and Matt Holt, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a longtime moderate Democrat, announced on Friday that he is registering as an independent. Manchin announced last year that he would not run for reelection in the deep red state, creating an opportunity for Republicans to flip the Senate seat.
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The French interior minister says security authorities have foiled a plan to attack soccer events during the Paris Olympics. Gerald Darmanin said in a statement on Friday that an 18-year-old man from Chechnya was arrested on May 22 on suspicion of being behind a plan to attack soccer events that will be
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