By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A top Ukrainian official says its troops have established a beachhead on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River near Kherson, an important advance in overcoming one of Russia’s most significant strategic barriers in the war. The head of the president’s office provided no details but
Continue ReadingDHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — Electoral authorities in Bangladesh have announced that the country’s expected parliamentary elections will be held on Jan. 7. But the opposition is reiterating its vow to boycott the polls unless the government hands power to a nonpartisan caretaker administration. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has pledged free and fair elections, but the Bangladesh
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A petition referendum effort is being launched to establish abortion rights in Nebraska, following on the heels of similar successful efforts in other reds states. Documents released by the Nebraska Secretary of State’s office Wednesday show a coalition of civil rights and advocacy groups is
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Anthony Farrer’s lifestyle was as flashy as the luxury wristwatches he sold in Beverly Hills. His watch consignment business, The Timepiece Gentleman, had a storefront on the city’s fabled Rodeo Drive. His red Lamborghini and his Ducati motorcycles sat outside his lavish rental in Santa Monica. He made frequent
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Porter is strutting off in an entirely new sonic direction on his fifth album. The Broadway, runway and TV star has pivoted to dance music. “Black Mona Lisa” sees Porter embrace club, house and old-school disco over 12 tracks, creating a warm, welcoming space
Continue ReadingSYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge rejected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s request to have an upstate New York man convicted of sending her threatening voicemails pay $65,000 for her Georgia home’s security fence. Joseph Morelli pleaded guilty in February to threatening the Republican congresswoman in several calls in 2022 to her Washington, D.C., office.
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Lockdowns at two of Wisconsin’s oldest and most understaffed prisons are being eased. The effort announced Tuesday by Gov. Tony Evers comes less than a month after inmates filed a federal lawsuit alleging that current conditions at the Waupun prison amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden asked a judge on Wednesday to approve subpoenas for documents from Donald Trump and former Justice Department officials, claiming the former president applied political pressure to a criminal investigation of him. Biden’s attorneys allege there were “certain instances that appear to suggest incessant, improper, and
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden asked a judge on Wednesday to approve subpoenas for documents from Donald Trump and former Justice Department officials, claiming the former president applied political pressure to a criminal investigation of him. Biden’s attorneys allege there were “certain instances that appear to suggest incessant, improper, and
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Donald Trump is asking for a mistrial in his civil fraud case alleging the judge who will decide the case is biased against him. Trump’s attorneys filed a motion Wednesday, saying “ the evidence of apparent and actual bias is tangible and overwhelming.” The motion cites Judge
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Myanmar army battalion based near the Chinese border has reportedly surrendered to an alliance of ethnic armed groups that launched a surprise offensive last month in the country’s northeast. A spokesperson for the alliance says 127 soldiers and 134 family members gave themselves up. The surrender
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Authorities says a 13-year-old Texas boy convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a Sonic Drive-In employee has been sentenced to 12 years incarceration. Amy Pardo of the Johnson County Attorney’s office says a judge issued the sentence Tuesday following days of evidentiary hearings. Authorities have
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — All five of Matthew Perry’s “Friends” co-stars are sharing more remembrances of the star in their first personal social media posts since the actor’s death last month. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer each posted heartfelt notes about Perry, who died Oct. 28, on Instagram.
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Perry’s “Friends” co-stars are sharing more remembrances of the star in their first personal social media posts since the actor’s death last month. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer posted heartfelt notes about Perry, who died Oct. 28, on Instagram. The posts on Tuesday and Wednesday were
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Jury deliberations have begun in the murder trial of a Texas woman charged in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna “Mo” Wilson. Kaitlin Armstrong faces up to life in prison if convicted in Wilson’s May 2022 killing. Investigators say Armstrong gunned down
Continue ReadingBy SARAH BRUMFIELD, ERIK VERDUZCO and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A video circulating on social media shows a North Carolina police officer repeatedly striking a Black woman during an arrest while several other officers hold her down, and although the department contends that the officer was “intentional” about where he hit
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB AND ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Security and judicial officials say Lebanon’s military tribunal has released a man accused of killing an Irish United Nations peacekeeper almost a year ago on bail. Lebanon’s military tribunal in June charged Mohamad Ayyad and four others with the killing of Pvt. Seán Rooney,
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Voting on a tentative contract agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers union that ended a six-week strike against the company appears too close to call after the latest tallies at several GM factories were announced Wednesday. The union hasn’t posted final vote totals
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is signaling that she’s willing to put her name forward for NATO’s top job when it falls vacant next year. Kallas, who has led the small Baltic nation as its first female head of government since January 2021, was at the Politico Defence Summit in Washington.
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has ruled that a company must pay compensation to five Iranian victims of chemical weapons attacks by Iraq in the 1980s after the company did not show up in court to defend itself against claims it supplied raw materials for poison gas. The court in The Hague
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