NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein arrived at a Manhattan courthouse Wednesday, his first appearance since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by an appeals court last week. Weinstein, wearing a navy blue suit, was seated in a wheelchair pushed by a court officer as he entered the preliminary hearing in Manhattan. Weinstein’s defense lawyer,
Continue ReadingBy ERIK VERDUZCO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to travel to North Carolina on Thursday to meet with the family members of four officers killed earlier this week in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016. The president is scheduled to visit Wilmington across
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL WARREN and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia may soon have its first national park. Republicans and Democrats in the state’s Congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday to protect some of the ancestral lands of the Muscogee tribe from development. The proposed Ocmulgee Mounds Park and Preserve in the center of present-day
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein arrived at a Manhattan courthouse Wednesday, his first appearance since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by an appeals court last week. Weinstein, wearing a navy blue suit, was seated in a wheelchair pushed by a court officer as he entered the preliminary hearing in Manhattan. Weinstein’s defense lawyer,
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press More than 100 people, most identifying themselves as Columbia University faculty and staff, marched and chanted near the school’s New York campus Wednesday. They marched on the eastern side of the campus by Hamilton Hall, where, hours earlier, New York police burst in to break up a demonstration by protesters who
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press As companies around the country roll out plans to honor May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a new report out Wednesday suggests members of those communities are paying more attention than ever to representation. Nielsen data found that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in
Continue ReadingBy Casey Tolan, Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard and Curt Devine, CNN Budapest, Hungary (CNN) — At a conference center plastered with slogans like “Let’s drain the swamp,” Republican after Republican endorsed harsh immigration policies, crackdowns on LGBTQ rights, and a battle against “woke ideology.” The scene could have been any recent GOP event – except
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah public schools have been rushing to prepare students and teachers as the state starts cracking down Wednesday on any school found not enforcing new bathroom restrictions for transgender people. Residents and visitors are required under state law to use bathrooms and changing rooms in
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed new sanctions on hundreds of firms and people tied to Russia’s weapons development program, more than a dozen Chinese firms accused of helping Russia find workarounds to sanctions and individuals tied to the death of Russian dissident Alexey Navalny.
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler and Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — The United States imposed sanctions on more than a dozen companies in China and Hong Kong for their support of Russia’s war in Ukraine as part of a tranche of nearly 300 new sanctions unveiled Wednesday. The move comes after repeated warnings from top US officials,
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s chief rabbi says that Warsaw’s main synagogue was attacked with firebombs during the night by an unknown perpetrator, but sustained minimal damage and nobody was hurt. Poland’s political leaders strongly denounced the arson attack. Poland’s President Andrzej Duda wrote on X that he condemned “the
Continue ReadingBy ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press One child was killed and another injured when a bounce house was swept up by wind in Casa Grande, Arizona, in what local authorities called “a tragic accident.” Saturday’s fatality occurred after a strong gust sent the inflatable toy house “airborne into the neighboring lot” with several children playing
Continue ReadingBy BABA AHMED and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A humanitarian crisis is worsening in northeastern Mali where armed groups linked to Islamic State have besieged towns leaving residents including some 80,000 children vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. The town of Ménaka, in northeastern Mali, has been under siege for four months,
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials have approved more than $3 million in compensation for a man who spent more than 31 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murder. Gov. Wes Moore apologized to Gary Washington during a Board of Public Works meeting on Wednesday where the compensation
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Festival season is officially over, and as hundreds of thousands of visitors head out of the Coachella Valley, many of them are leaving a lot of things behind. So what happens to the junk people get rid of at Stagecoach and Coachella? In order to find that answer, all you have to do is ask
Continue ReadingMOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin school district said a person it described as an active shooter was outside a middle school in Mount Horeb on Wednesday but the threat was “neutralized” and no one was injured inside the building. There was no immediate report of any shots fired, though authorities said without giving
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio Treasurer and three-time U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel has been threatened with jail time for violating the terms of his divorce agreement. An Ashland County Common Pleas Court magistrate found both Mandel and his ex-wife, Ilana Mandel, in contempt of court last week
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — For five days, the shouts of student protesters and supporters rang out from Northwestern University’s Deering Meadow as they joined demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war unfolding on college campuses nationwide. But the meadow on the suburban Chicago campus fell silent hours after student organizers and the school
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO, ETHAN SWOPE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dueling groups of protesters clashed overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, shoving, kicking and beating each other with sticks after pro-Israel demonstrators tried to pull down barricades surrounding a pro-Palestinian encampment. Hours earlier, police burst into
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The beginning of the Change Healthcare cyberattack happened when hackers entered a server that lacked multifactor authentication. That’s according to UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty. He told U.S. senators in a hearing on Wednesday that his company was still trying to understand why the server did not have the additional
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