By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has lost a second court case against a new rival party led by former President Jacob Zuma. A judge in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in the eastern city of Durban dismissed the ANC’s case alleging copyright infringement against
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that was struck down by lower courts. The justices acted Monday. The justices had previously intervened to keep the regulation in effect during the legal fight. Ghost guns
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the Biden administration overstepped a 1968 federal law by imposing new regulations on the makers of “ghost guns,” mail-order kits that allow people to build untraceable guns at home. Ghost guns are kits that a user can purchase online to
Continue ReadingBy TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press Their childhood memories are vivid: warnings against drinking or cooking with tap water, enduring long lines for cases of water, washing from buckets filled with heated, bottled water. But the children of the Flint water crisis — set in motion April 25, 2014, when the city began drawing water from
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in history, prosecutors will present a criminal case against a former American president to a jury Monday as they accuse Donald Trump of a hush money scheme aimed at preventing damaging stories about his
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press Lana Vierra misses the swing set at her Lahaina home, which was reduced to ashes in the wildfires that swept through her community last summer. “Multiple generations went through there playing in my front yard,” she said. “Just with the animals and the turtles and the deer and goats that
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press Lana Vierra misses the swing set at her Lahaina home, which was reduced to ashes in the wildfires that swept through her community last summer. “Multiple generations went through there playing in my front yard,” she said. “Just with the animals and the turtles and the deer and goats that
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Lake sturgeon don’t need Endangered Species Act protections, federal wildlife officials announced Monday, saying that stocking programs have helped the prehistoric fish return to areas where they had vanished. The decision ends the Arizona-based Center of Biological Diversity’s petition filed in May 2018 asking the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers A tipline set up 26 years ago to combat online child exploitation is “enormously valuable” but hasn’t lived up to its potential. That’s what a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory released on Monday has found. The report says CyberTipline needs technological and other improvements
Continue ReadingBy Eugenia Yosef and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other ministers have sharply criticized reports of plans by the United States to sanction an Israeli military unit for alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The allegations are said to implicate members of the Netzah
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Opening statements in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial are set to begin Monday morning, setting the stage for weeks of unsavory and salacious testimony about the former president’s personal life and placing his legal troubles at the center of his closely contested campaign against President Joe Biden. A panel of
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Opening statements in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial are set to begin Monday morning, setting the stage for weeks of unsavory and salacious testimony about the former president’s personal life and placing his legal troubles at the center of his closely contested campaign against President Joe Biden. A panel of
Continue ReadingPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces killed eleven militants in two raids targeting their hideouts in the volatile northwest region bordering Afghanistan. Ten militants were killed in the first raid in Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, it said in a statement Monday. This came a day after gunmen shot
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top court has rejected appeals by two losing presidential candidates who demanded a revote, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud in the February polls. The General Elections Commission had certified a landslide victory for president-elect Prabowo Subianto, but his two rivals alleged that
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says the NATO member would be ready to host the nuclear weapons of the military alliances’s other members in response to Russia’s moving its nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus. President Andrzej Duda made the comments in an interview published Monday in the Fakt tabloid. He was responding to Belarus
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prosecutors in Britain say a former researcher working in the U.K. Parliament and another man have been charged with spying for China. Police said Christopher Berry, 32, and Christopher Cash, 29, were charged with “providing prejudicial information to a foreign state, China.” They will appear at Westminster
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Attorneys for two brothers who were sentenced to die in a quadruple killing known as the “Wichita massacre” will argue for a formal resentencing hearing in the latest in a long series of appeals. How the sentencing was handled has long been a point of contention because brothers Jonathan and
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street was poised to kick of the week with gains as investors focused on the latest deluge of corporate earnings. U.S. futures were higher early Monday, with the contracts for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average both up 0.5% before the bell. The
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge has ruled that social media platform X must block every user in the world from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church, extending the prohibition beyond users in Australia. Last week, X announced it would fight in court Australian orders
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Heavy rainstorms that swept across southern China over the weekend have killed at least four people in riverside cities. A search continues for 10 others missing. The official Xinhua news agency says the deaths occurred in Zhaoqing city and Shaoguan city in Guangdong province. Footage on state broadcaster CCTV showed rescuers in
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