CNN By Brynn Gingras, Mark Morales and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann has now been charged with murder in the deaths of all four women who became known as the “Gilgo Four” after their remains were discovered by investigators on Long Island in 2010. Heuermann is charged with second-degree murder in
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Arizona hired San Jose State’s Brent Brennan to be the Wildcats’ next head coach on Tuesday, replacing Jedd Fisch about 48 hours after he left for Washington. Brennan, 50, agreed to a five-year contract with Arizona, a person with direct knowledge of the deal told The Associated
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lawyer for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny says that Russian authorities have charged her with participating in an extremist group. The same charges were brought against three other lawyers who represented Navalny and were jailed in October in a move his allies had decried as
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection began in a New York courtroom Tuesday after a judge denied Donald Trump’s request that a defamation trial stemming from a columnist’s claims that he sexually abused her in the 1990s be suspended on Thursday so he could attend the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official said Tuesday that he is increasingly confident that inflation will continue falling this year back to the Fed’s 2% target level, after two years of accelerating price spikes that hurt millions of American households. The official, Christopher Waller, an influential member
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs has withdrawn his lawsuit against Diageo as part of a settlement with the London-based spirits giant. Combs and Diageo “have now agreed to resolve all disputes between them,” the two parties said in a statement released Tuesday. Diageo is now the sole owner
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s only overseas adoption agency says it is “winding down” its facilitation of international adoptions after a government agency raised concerns over fabricated documents and procedures that obscured children’s origins abroad. Danish International Adoption mediated adoptions in the Philippines, India, South Africa, Thailand, Taiwan and
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HONOLULU (AP) — Camilo Villegas was laughing about the time he was disqualified from Kapalua 13 years ago on his birthday. That was long before he was married, had his first child and then lost his daughter to brain cancer. He has been through a lot. So has Chris
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO and DAVID COLLINS Associated Press RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A New York architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings was accused Tuesday in the death of a fourth woman, a Connecticut mother of two who vanished in 2007 and whose remains were found more than three
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Nikki Haley said Tuesday that she wouldn’t participate in the next Republican presidential debate unless former President Donald Trump takes part in it, leaving Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the only candidate committed to Thursday’s event. “We’ve had five great debates in this campaign,” Haley
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang has arrived in Ireland for talks with the Irish leader on China’s relations with the European Union and other global and bilateral issues. Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar will host a lunch and bilateral meeting with Li on Wednesday. Li is a close
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official said he’s increasingly confident that inflation will continue falling this year back to the Fed’s 2% target level, after two years of accelerating price spikes that hurt millions of American households. The official, Christopher Waller, an influential member of the Fed’s
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan authorities will allow cargo flights from Tanzania after its neighbor threatened to ban Kenya Airways passenger flights to Tanzania’s commercial capital. The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority says its Kenyan counterpart has given approval to operate cargo flights between the East African countries. Kenya’s foreign affairs minister says the matter is
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY and LEWIS JOLY Associated Press SAINT-PAUL, Reunion (AP) — Mauritius has lifted its highest storm alert and eased a nationwide curfew after a cyclone battered the Indian Ocean island. It caused heavy flooding and extensive damage in the capital city and in other parts of the country. The nearby French island of
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck remember one of their first times at the Sundance Film Festival. It was the 20th anniversary in 2004. Now, they laughed, they’re the old ones. The “Captain Marvel” filmmakers are back with the 1980s Oakland-set “Freaky Tales,” which kicks off the 40th edition of
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to spend $2.4 billion to care for the massive influx of migrants who have overwhelmed New York City’s homeless shelters. The migrant spending plan, which would include shelter services, legal assistance and more, came as part of a $233 billion
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the Islamic law requirement that a woman wait three months before remarriage. Khan denies the charge. His lawyer, Intisar Panjutha, says the case is part
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Tuesday he’s ending his presidential campaign following a dismal showing in Monday night’s Iowa caucuses, which were dominated by former President Donald Trump. Hutchinson finished sixth in the caucuses, according to the Iowa GOP, capturing only 191 votes. Since launching his campaign
Continue ReadingBy ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against Greece in the shooting of a Syrian man during a coast guard’s pursuit of a migrant smuggling boat near a Greek island about a decade ago. In a ruling announced Tuesday, the court, based in Strasbourg, France,
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The leaders of Hungary and Slovakia say they agree on the need to rework a European Union plan to provide financial assistance to Ukraine. That common ground could be a potential boon to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who last month blocked EU efforts to approve
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