By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the Arizona rancher’s daughter who became a voice of moderate conservatism as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, was memorialized by President Joe Biden on Tuesday as a pioneer in the legal world who inspired generations of women. Biden and Chief
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that his country’s military is well positioned to meet Moscow’s goals in Ukraine. During a meeting with top military brass on Tuesday, Putin said Russia has seized the momentum on the battlefield after repelling a 6-month Ukrainian counteroffensive. He declared that “our troops are holding the
Continue ReadingWAUPACA, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say an eastern Wisconsin man faces homicide charges for an alleged drunken driving crash last weekend that killed four siblings. Forty-seven-year-old Scott Farmer, of Neenah, is charged with four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle in Saturday night’s deadly crash in Weyauwega, about 100 miles northwest
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin’s tourism rocket — designed to vault paying customers on brief trips to the edge of space — successfully launched Tuesday morning on an uncrewed science mission. The New Shepard rocket lifted off at 11:43 a.m. ET from Blue Origin’s facilities on a private ranch
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press A woman who bought a vase for $3.99 at a Virginia thrift store recently sold it for $107,000. Jessica Vincent said he bought it at a Goodwill outside Richmond and thought it would look nice in her house. But she soon learned the vase was extremely rare. It came from
Continue ReadingYORK, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania death row inmate who spent more than two decades locked up has been released from prison following the dismissal of murder charges in two 1998 killings that he blamed on his brother, who died in prison. Noel Montalvo, who turned 59 Tuesday, was freed Monday after York County
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine’s military wants to mobilize up to 500,000 more troops to fight Russia’s invasion. But Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he has asked them to spell out their plans in detail on what is “a very sensitive matter.” Only then will Zelenskyy decide
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says parliament members from French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist majority and a conservative party have found agreement on a divisive immigration bill. The proposed law is meant to strengthen the country’s ability to expel foreigners who are considered undesirable. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin praised it “an important text which
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Jeff Bezos’ space company successfully launched a rocket carrying experiments on Tuesday, its first flight since engine trouble caused a crash more than a year ago. The New Shepard rocket soared from West Texas, lifting a capsule full of tests, many of which were aboard the failed Blue Origin
Continue ReadingBy FABIANO MAISONNAVE, Associated Press and RUBENS VALENTE, Agencia Publica Associated Press JACI-PARANA, Brazil (AP) — Meat processing giant JBS SA and three other slaughterhouses are facing lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in environmental damages for allegedly purchasing cattle raised illegally in a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon. The lawsuits, filed December 5 to
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A federal scientific agency says the lone remaining offshore wind project in New Jersey with preliminary approval is likely to “adversely affect” whales and other marine mammals, but not seriously harm or kill them. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the Atlantic Shores project,
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Members of a union representing German train drivers have voted overwhelmingly to stage open-ended strikes in a bitter dispute with the main national railway operator over working hours and pay. The GDL union said Tuesday that 97% of members who voted in a ballot authorized fully fledged
Continue ReadingBy BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Residents in Guinea’s capital on Tuesday struggled with rising costs of transportation after authorities closed gas stations in the aftermath of a major explosion that left several dead, hundreds injured and could disrupt the supply of gas across the West African nation. The fire on Monday
Continue ReadingCNN Impact Your World (CNN) — The rise in anti-Muslim acts is undeniable and unnerving. Three Palestinian college students were shot in Vermont, and when a six-year-old was stabbed in Chicago, his mother couldn’t attend his funeral because she’d been stabbed, too. In Georgia, a middle school teacher was arrested after he allegedly threatened to
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Hackers accessed Xfinity customers’ personal information by exploiting a vulnerability in software used by the company, the Comcast-owned telecommunications business announced this week. In a Monday notice to customers, Xfinity said there was unauthorized access to internal systems as a result of this vulnerability — which was previously announced by software
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Security Council members are in intense negotiations on an Arab-sponsored resolution to spur desperately needed humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza during some kind of a halt in the fighting, trying to avoid another veto by the United States. The vote was postponed from Monday.
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new prime minister, Donald Tusk, says his pro-European Union government has appointed new heads of state security, intelligence and anti-corruption offices. Two of the new appointees are women. The appointments replace officials who had served under the previous right-wing, Euro-sceptic government. Tusk told a news conference on Tuesday that he
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday. It comes at a time when many states and towns
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an Arizona native and consistent voice of moderate conservatism as the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, is being memorialized in funeral services Tuesday. President Joe Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts are scheduled to speak at the funeral held
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that his country’s military is well positioned to meet Moscow’s goals in Ukraine. During a meeting with top military brass on Tuesday, Putin said Russia has seized the momentum on the battlefield after repelling a 6-month Ukrainian counteroffensive. He declared that “our troops are holding the
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