MILAN (AP) — Milan prosecutors have identified six suspects who allegedly aided the escape from Italian custody of a Russian national a day after a court ruled in favor of extraditing him to the United States to face sanctions-busting charges. The son of the governor of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia was arrested as he
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a Belgian involved in procuring electronics for the Russian military, his companies and a group of Belarusian firms and people tied to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Treasury on Tuesday announced the sanctions. Belgium-based Hans De Geetere faces the sanctions, two
Continue ReadingBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A judge has again issued an arrest warrant for the owner of a former Vermont firearms training center, ruling that he failed to bring his property into compliance and is in contempt of court. The town of Pawlet had attempted unsuccessfully to get owner Daniel Banyai to remove structures he built
Continue ReadingBy CNN Impact Your World (CNN) — Nearly two years after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, civilians remaining inside the country and those who’ve left their homes still need humanitarian aid. Some 5.9 million refugees from the war-torn nation have fled across Europe while an estimated 3.7 million are internally displaced, according to UN data. “The war in Ukraine
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The interior ministers of Britain and Rwanda have signed a treaty that aims to revive a plan to send asylum-seekers to the East African country that has been blocked by U.K. courts. British Home Secretary James Cleverly said the legally binding agreement signed on Tuesday with his
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare punitive move against Israel, the State Department said Tuesday it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of recent attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the step after warning Israel
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia state senators are advancing a new congressional map that would maintain a 9-5 GOP edge in the state’s delegation. The Senate voted 32-22 to pass the plan, which seeks a wholesale reconfiguration of a suburban Atlanta district now represented by Democrat Lucy McBath. It goes to
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a new policy Tuesday to prevent extremist Israeli settlers responsible for violence in the West Bank from coming to the United States. “Today, the State Department is implementing a new visa restriction policy targeting individuals believed to have been involved in undermining
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry won’t seek reelection to the U.S. House next year after all. McHenry presided temporarily over the House for three intense weeks this fall while Republicans struggled to elect a permanent speaker after Kevin McCarthy’s ouster. McHenry’s decision not to seek
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Volunteers and city workers have removed mementos, signs and other items that accumulated at the sites of the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history. The effort Tuesday comes as wet, wintry weather sets in and marks a new chapter in the area’s recovery from the Oct.
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Officials in Nigeria say at least 85 civilians were killed when a military drone mistakenly targeted a religious gathering in the country’s northwest. At least 66 people were injured in the attack Sunday in Kaduna state. Nigeria’s army chief visited the affected village Tuesday and apologized
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson and Jack Forrest, CNN GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, an ally of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the Financial Services Committee chairman, will not seek reelection, but plans to finish out his term, McHenry announced Tuesday. “I believe there is a season for everything and—for me—this season has
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Special Operations Command said Tuesday it has identified the eight service members lost when their Osprey crashed off the coast of Japan last week and was now focused on recovering all of their bodies and the aircraft debris. The CV-22B Osprey crashed
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Special Operations Command said Tuesday it has identified the eight service members lost when their Osprey crashed off the coast of Japan last week and was now focused on recovering all of their bodies and the aircraft debris. The CV-22B Osprey crashed
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the social network X, has shared a video in which Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei says equality should never come before freedom. It’s a sign of how some notable conservatives are closely watching the incoming libertarian head of state. Milei replied saying, “We need to
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Body camera video of a deputy who was fired and arrested in South Carolina shows him punching a man several times in the head after a car chase. The man is knocked briefly unconscious and the officer asks after handcuffing him if he enjoyed his nap.
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the chamber will vote next week on authorizing its impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. He said Tuesday that the House “has no choice” when faced with questions from the White House about the probe’s legitimacy. Johnson and the Republican leadership team
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — JetBlue says it needs to buy Spirit Airlines to compete with bigger airlines in a post-Covid travel world. That’s the case a JetBlue lawyer made Tuesday during closing arguments in a trial over the government’s lawsuit to block JetBlue from buying Spirit. The Justice Department argues that
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said Tuesday that its troops had entered Gaza’s second-largest city as intensified bombardment sent streams of ambulances and cars racing to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians, including children, in a bloody new phase of the war. The
Continue ReadingBy John King, CNN Las Vegas (CNN) — Antonio Munoz remembers admiring Ronald Reagan as a child, in a Las Vegas very different than it is today. “When I was born here it was very small,” Munoz said. “The communities were kind of segregated. You had your Hispanics on one side of town, your African
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