By KATE BRUMBACK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Fulton County district attorney’s office opted not to put Fani Willis back on the witness stand Friday, avoiding the spectacle of more deeply personal testimony from the top prosecutor as she fights an effort to derail Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s armed forces have ordered an investigation into a video that purportedly depicted some of its troops carrying severed heads belonging to members of a rival paramilitary faction. In a Friday statement, the military denounced the “shocking content” of the video, which has recently gone viral on social media platforms in Sudan,
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Deliberations have resumed in the murder trial of a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy accused of pursuing a motorist and killing the man at his family’s home. Jason Meade, who is white, is charged with murder and reckless homicide in the December 2020 killing in Columbus of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr., who
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Another hotter-than-expected update on inflation is keeping U.S. stocks in check on Friday. The S&P 500 was down 0.1% in early trading after setting an all-time high the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was 164 points lower, or 0.4%, as of 9:37 a.m.
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A defense lawyer says the legal team of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan has appealed his convictions and sentences in three controversial legal cases. Khan was sentenced to 31 years in prison on charges of corruption, revealing official secrets and violation of marriage law. The
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, SCOTT McFETRIDGE and JOSH FUNK Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As Kansas City tries to recover after the mass shooting that turned a Super Bowl celebration into chaos, police are working with juvenile prosecutors to determine what happens next with the two young people in custody. A mother of two
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Friday morning, local Congressmen Raul Ruiz and Ken Calvert announced who they are supporting in the US Senate race. Ruiz said he is endorsing Congressman Adam Schiff. Schiff represents California’s 30th Congressional District, which covers West Hollywood to Pasadena and Echo Park to the Angeles National Forest. Rep. Raul Ruiz, who represents California’s 25th Congressional
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, was buried Friday in a Moscow suburb in a funeral that drew thousands of mourners amid a heavy police presence. Navalny, who was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism, died Feb. 16, according
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Prince Harry says he immediately arranged to go to London after his father, King Charles III, called to tell him he had cancer. Harry arrived from California less than 48 hours after Buckingham Palace announced on Feb. 5 that the king had cancer and had begun treatment. “I love my family. The
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ Associated Press Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47. The stunning news of Navalny’s death — less than a month
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer MUNICH (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has warned about the dangers of growing authoritarianism and isolationism. She used a speech Friday at an international security conference in Germany to repudiate Donald Trump’s worldview and his threats to renege on security guarantees for NATO allies should he return to
Continue ReadingSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Police in Sweden have found a human body inside the charred remains of a water park that was under construction at one of the country’s biggest amusement centers. A huge fire on Monday destroyed a large part of the Oceana water park that was scheduled to open this summer in Goteborg, Sweden’s
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States accelerated in January, the latest sign that some inflation pressures in the economy remain elevated. The producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — rose 0.3% from December to January after having fallen -0.1% from November
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau plans to test questions about sexual orientation and gender identity for its most comprehensive survey of American life. The test questions will be sent to 480,000 households. If the questions are approved, it will be the first time sexual orientation and gender identity questions are asked
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time Friday in blaming the reported death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government. “It is obvious that he was killed by Putin,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was visiting Germany
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau is thinking about how to ask about sex. People have opinions. Dozens of health officials, civil rights groups, individuals and businesses have weighed in about how the statistical agency should ask about sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time on its most comprehensive survey
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau is thinking about how to ask about sex. People have opinions. Dozens of health officials, civil rights groups, individuals and businesses have weighed in about how the statistical agency should ask about sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time on its most comprehensive survey
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Busines Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook on Saturday to almost all online platforms in the bloc, in the next phase of its crackdown on toxic social media content and dodgy ecommerce products that began last year by targeting the most popular services. The
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Trading on Wall Street was mixed early Friday as markets try to hold on to the thin gains made so far in what’s been an up-and-down week. Futures for the S&P 500 gained 0.1% before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — An accident at a supermarket construction site in the Italian city of Florence has killed a worker and left four others missing. The accident on Friday happened when a reinforced concrete beam toppled over a slab of a pre-fabricated building, which then collapsed. Local authorities said rescue
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