Month: November 2021

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say a Palestinian teen has been fatally shot after stabbing two Israeli border police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israeli police said Wednesday that the officers were hospitalized, one in moderate condition and another with minor injuries. Private security and police officers shot the teen, identified by police as a

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A law enforcement task force has conducted searches of four western Colorado locations amid an ongoing investigation into allegations an elections clerk was involved in a security breach of elections equipment this year. Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein tells Colorado Politics that the FBI, the state attorney general’s office

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The fate of Julius Jones rests with Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt. Unless Stitt grants him clemency, Jones will be executed by lethal injection on Thursday. Numerous questions have raised doubts about Jones’ guilt and he has maintained his innocence throughout his nearly 20 years on death

NEW YORK (AP) — Two men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X are to be cleared after more than half a century. The New York Times reported Wednesday that prosecutors say authorities withheld evidence in the civil rights leader’s 1965 killing. The newspaper reports that Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam are being

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The defendant who fired the shotgun that killed Ahmaud Arbery has taken the stand in his murder trial, saying he wants to give his side of the story. Travis McMichael told Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley on Wednesday that he understands he’s not compelled to testify

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — India is experiencing its annual spike in air pollution, which relates in part to the burning of farm fields. On Wednesday, the concentration of tiny pollution particles was nearly 30 times above the level deemed safe. Besides smoke from burning fields, other sources of air pollution

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is demanding the release of two U.N. staffers detained earlier this month by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Wednesday that officials were given assurances by senior Houthi officials last week that the two men, both Yemenis, would be released, but they have not been freed.

By JEFFREY COLLINS and JAY REEVES Associated Press BRUNSWICK. Ga. (AP) — Race was always going to be at the forefront of the trial of three white men in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery. But a call by one defense attorney to kick two prominent Black pastors out of the courtroom added fresh agony

By PETER SMITH Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. Catholic bishops have overwhelmingly approved a document on Communion that stops short of calling for withholding the sacrament from politicians who support abortion rights, such as President Joe Biden. The measure does offer plenty of tacit justification for individual bishops to consider withholding Communion in such

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s fraud and extortion trial have accused prosecutors of again withholding pieces of evidence, including an alleged interrogation of Pope Francis. The allegation brought the pontiff’s own role in a flawed London property investment back before a Vatican city-state tribunal. The court’s