BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers slightly changed the format of its second public meeting on the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline after complaints about the first night. The Corps held two meetings in Bismarck, on Wednesday and Thursday. Pipeline opponents criticized the private nature of oral comments being given Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Three federal judges in North Dakota have dismissed a lawsuit brought by Republican district officials who alleged that the consideration of race was unconstitutional in the creation of state House subdistricts that included ones encompassing tribal nations. The two GOP district officials filed their lawsuit last
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Record-breaking rain produced floods in a vast swath of Italy’s Tuscany region as Storm Ciarán pushed into the country overnight, trapping residents in their homes, inundating hospitals and overturning cars. At least six people in Italy and one person in Albania were killed on Friday, bringing the
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Any question about Trent Williams’ value to San Francisco’s offense was dispelled by what the 49ers have done in his absence. With Williams hampered by injuries the last three games, the Niners have gone from one of the most prolific offenses to a struggling one. That’s one reason
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether a Trump era-ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, violates federal law. The justices will hear arguments early next year over a regulation put in place by the
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed to take up a challenge to the federal ban on bump stocks, devices that essentially allow shooters to fire semiautomatic rifles more rapidly, discharging potentially hundreds of bullets per minute. Federal appeals courts have split on the legality of the ban. The decision to
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities have convicted the chief editor of a prominent independent regional newspaper of “discrediting the Republic of Belarus” and sentenced him to four years in prison. It is the latest in a series of crackdowns against dissent in the country. Authorities accused Aliaksandr Mantsevich, chief
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The on-air outburst of grief by Salman al-Bashir seemed to channel the mood of all Gaza. From the crowded halls of Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, al-Bashir was reporting late Thursday on the stream of wounded and dead Palestinians
Continue ReadingHOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — A third suspect has surrendered to police in connection with a shooting investigation in Holyoke, Massachusetts last month. A pregnant woman on a bus was hit by gunfire and delivered a baby that later died. According to the Hampden District Attorney’s office, 28-year-old Kermith Alvarez of Holyoke turned himself into authorities
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday his family “deserves to be supported just like every American family” in response to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s previous comments on gay marriage. “I will admit it’s a little bit difficult driving the family minivan to drop our kids off at daycare passing the
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE and PATRICIA LUNA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s President Gabriel Boric faces a deeply polarized country, rising crime and a divisive upcoming vote on a new constitution. But his life is like a dream while attending the Pan American Games in his country’s capital. Boric drew loud applause at the
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina city is paying a $500,000 settlement to a man whose treatment by a police officer during what turned out to be a false arrest led to days of protests. An attorney for Travis Price says the city of Rock Hill defamed Price by
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have given audiences thrilling, terrifying front-row seats to incredible feats of human ambition in their documentary work. From Alex Honnold’s white-knuckle climb up Yosemite’s El Capitan in the Oscar-winning “Free Solo” to “The Rescue,” their understanding of the personalities capable of such
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado prosecutor told jurors Friday a police officer who stopped Elijah McClain, put the 23-year-old Black man in a neck hold and then abandoned him as his condition deteriorated should be convicted of manslaughter in his 2019 death. Aurora Officer Nathan Woodyard is
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A government agency in Jamaica found that security forces were not wearing body cameras when they fatally shot or injured more than 100 people in the Caribbean island this year. The Independent Commission of Investigation said Thursday that only one body camera was worn during the 106 incidents reported
Continue ReadingBy Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — Pablo Escobar’s notorious “cocaine hippos” are facing a cull, according to a statement from Colombia’s minister of environment and sustainable development Thursday. The herd, which the Colombian government said currently stands at 169 animals, has rapidly reproduced from the original population of one male and three females the drug
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s Cabinet has approved her proposal to make the prime minister’s office directly elected by voters in a bid to make Italy’s governments more stable and lasting. The Cabinet on Friday gave the go-ahead to efforts to change Italy’s post-war Constitution to allow voters
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s intelligence chief has resigned after less than a year in the post saying he wanted to avoid possible further embargos against the Balkan nation. Alesksandar Vulin has fostered closer ties with Russia and has been under sanctions by the United States since July. The U.S.
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran and Aaron Pellish, CNN Indicted Rep. George Santos says he plans to run for his seat in 2024 even if he’s expelled from Congress and insisted that fabricating large parts of his life story would not have any impact on voters next year. In a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Foran and Aaron Pellish, CNN Indicted Rep. George Santos says he plans to run for his seat in 2024 even if he’s expelled from Congress and insisted that fabricating large parts of his life story would not have any impact on voters next year. In a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Manu Raju
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