By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main security agency and obtained access to personal files of over 8,600 staffers of the KGB, the security service that still goes under its Soviet name. The authorities have not commented on
Continue ReadingFORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Officials say Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana to help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business. The Journal Gazette reports that the planned data center in Fort Wayne was announced in January, but Google and Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office disclosed
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents. The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday reverses a lower court ruling from 2021 that blocked the
Continue ReadingCLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket. Authorities say Friday that 31-year-old Noor Noel Kestou was arrested Saturday. He was brought back
Continue ReadingSEWARD, Neb. (AP) — A former Nebraska deputy has been jailed after a grand jury indicted him on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a man in October. Lancaster County Attorney Pat Condon on Friday announced the indictment of former Seward County Deputy Anthony Gann. Gann is jailed on $100,000 bond
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife activists and others are calling on a boycott of Wyoming tourism as Yellowstone National Park opens for its busy summer season. The reason is the state’s laws that give people wide leeway to people to kill wolves with little oversight in most of the state.
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide. The lawsuits claimed that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold their homes. HomeServices
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Nikola Jokic moved LeBron James out of the way as they battled for a rebound, grabbed the ball, got fouled and scored off the putback. And all James could do was turn his palms skyward, as if to ask “what else can I do?” That sequence in the third
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli drone strike on a car in the eastern part of the country has killed two people. The strike came after Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group carried out an attack along the border that killed an Israeli civilian. Meanwhile, Egypt has sent a high-level delegation
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore publishing company has filed a class action claim arguing the owner and manager of the massive container ship that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month should have to pay damages to businesses impacted by the collapse. The claim was filed Thursday on behalf of American Publishing LLC.
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it or even children’s social transitioning. Teachers and social workers who support LGBTQ+ rights worry that they will be disciplined or fired for helping kids who are exploring their
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Thousands of Spanish journalists have come out in support of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his wife following Sánchez’s announceement that he was considering his future as premier after a court opened preliminary proceedings against his wife on corruption allegations. Sánchez, who is to announce his future Monday, blamed the probe
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money trial dug Friday into assertions of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and his efforts to protect Trump from negative stories during the 2016 election. David Pecker returned to the witness stand for the fourth day as defense attorneys tried to poke holes
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There is a buzz around the opening of WNBA training camps with the arrival of Caitlin Clark, the rest of her heralded rookie class and major offseason free agency moves that included former All-Stars Nneka Ogwumike and Skylar Diggins-Smith landing in Seattle. In addition to
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is back. The 75-year-old monarch will resume some public duties next week following a three-month break to focus on his treatment and recuperation after he was diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer, Buckingham Palace said Friday. Charles will mark the milestone by visiting
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Friday a $6 billion long-term military aid package for Ukraine — the largest to date — which will allow the US to purchase new equipment produced by the American defense industry for the Ukrainian military. “This is the largest security assistance package
Continue ReadingBy ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Attorneys for more than two dozen Iowa and Iowa State athletes who were ensnared in a state gambling sting have filed a civil lawsuit seeking unspecified monetary damages from the state and its public safety and criminal investigation agencies for violating the athletes’ constitutional rights and damaging their
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT BADENDIECK Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — The Netherlands’ outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte is in Turkey, seeking support from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his bid for the seat of NATO secretary general. The incumbent NATO chief, Jens Stoltenberg, is nearing the end of his term. Rutte on Friday spoke at a joint
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