By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Supreme Court code of conduct agreed to by all nine justices does not appear to impose any significant new requirements on them. The code leaves compliance to the justices themselves and does not create any other means of enforcement. The Supreme Court disclosed the code
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A British convert to Islam who was convicted in Turkey of being part of the Islamic State group was sentenced to eight years in prison in Britain on Monday after he pleaded guilty to terrorism charges. Aine Leslie Davis was deported from Turkey in August 2022 and detained on arrival at London’s
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Western countries are calling on Russia to end domestic repression of dissident voices and to end its war in Ukraine, as Russia came under a regular review at the U.N.’s top human rights body. A delegation from Moscow defended Russia’s right to ensure law and order by
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. returned to court Monday as something of a character witness for his father’s real estate empire, waxing exuberantly about the former president’s “incredible vision” as a developer and his company’s portfolio of “great, iconic projects” at the New York
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former mayor says that a powerful and feared gang leader in Haiti who was once a math and physics teacher was killed in a neighborhood within a sprawling seaside slum that he controlled for years. Former mayor Esaïe Beauchard told Radio Galaxie FM Monday that
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s ruling party appears to have dodged the possible large-scale desertions of disappointed hopeful candidates in the run-up to the country’s 2024 elections. Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced on Monday that he would not leave President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party. Ebrard had wanted the party’s nomination for
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press In September, the award-winning author and academic Ibram X. Kendi and Boston University acknowledged that they were laying off most of the staff at the research center he runs. The news prompted former colleagues to publicly question the BU Center for Antiracist Research’s ability to deliver on the promises it
Continue ReadingRUSTON, La. (AP) — A knife attack at Louisiana Tech University in the north Louisiana city of Ruston left four women injured. Three of them were seriously hurt and were hospitalized in Shreveport. Two were in critical condition. The university said a 23-year-old student was captured within minutes of the attack. Ruston Police Chief Steve
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A hiker who was unprepared for conditions at over 13,000 feet up in the Colorado Rockies was rescued when searchers followed footprints in freshly fallen snow to find them “alive but very hypothermic,” rescuers said. “When inclement weather moved in the hiker found themself unprepared; out of water, with
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — With his country mired in economic doldrums and his party trailing in the polls as an election nears, U.K. leader Rishi Sunak rolled the dice and shook up his government on Monday, appointing former Prime Minister David Cameron to the post of foreign secretary. The move —
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors brought forward a string of law enforcement officials Monday to provide context around video that’s at the crux of their case against David DePape, the man accused of attacking former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband at the couple’s San Francisco home last year. DePape
Continue ReadingGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A 19-year-old Michigan man accused of wanting to inspire violence against Jewish people has pleaded guilty to making threats over social media. Seann Pietila has been in custody since June. The FBI says he used Instagram to spread neo-Nazi ideology, discuss plans to kill people and compliment mass shooters. In
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The special counsel’s office is pushing back against Donald Trump using his Washington, DC, federal criminal trial as a spectacle, after Trump’s lawyers told the court this weekend he’d support cameras in the courtroom. Trump’s bid to open his DC federal criminal trial to cameras is “a transparent effort
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Head lice have been constant, if unwanted, human companions for as long as our species has been around. Evidence of this ancient connection includes a 10,000-year-old louse found on human remains at an archaeological site in Brazil and an inscription on a 3,700-year-old ivory lice comb that might be
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors brought forward a string of law enforcement officials Monday to provide context around video that’s at the crux of their case against David DePape, the man accused of attacking former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband at the couple’s San Francisco home last year. DePape
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Exxon Mobil is drilling for lithium in Arkansas and expects to begin production of the critical material for electric vehicles by 2027. Exxon on Monday announced the project and said by 2030 it expects to produce enough lithium to supply the manufacturing needs of more
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer Hyundai has joined Honda and Toyota in raising factory worker wages after the United Auto Workers union reached new contract agreements with Detroit automakers. Hyundai said Monday that it will raise factory worker pay 25% by 2028. That matches the general wage increase won by the UAW during that
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER and BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One of the highest ranking leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has died. M. Russell Ballard was 95. Ballard was acting president of a top governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the church’s second-highest leadership
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The reports from Russian state news agencies that Moscow’s troops were relocating from the Dnieper River in Ukraine appeared to be a major development Monday — for about 10 minutes until the usually authoritative media withdrew the news. The next hours saw a flurry of claims
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US forces came under attack at least four more times by Iran-backed groups in Syria after the US military carried out air strikes on targets associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard corps on Sunday, a US official told CNN. All four of the attacks came after
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