Month: September 2022

By MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press MACON, Ga. (AP) — When Tracie Revis climbs the Great Temple Mound, rising nine stories above the Ocmulgee River in the center of present-day Georgia, she walks in the steps of her Muscogean ancestors who were forcibly removed to Oklahoma 200 years ago. “This is lush, gorgeous land. The rivers

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday. Thomas Lane is already serving a 2 1/2-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights. When it

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A military exercise in Fiji involving the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand ends this week as the traditional allies counter China’s growing influence in the region. The U.S. Embassy in Fiji says the 11-day Exercise Cartwheel began on Sept. 12 and ends on Friday. U.S.

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to make the case to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly that Russia’s “naked aggression” in Ukraine is an affront to the heart of what the international body stands for as he looks to rally allies to stand firm in

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The campaign that could bring legalized sports betting to California is the most expensive ballot-initiative fight in U.S. history at about $400 million and counting, pitting wealthy Native American tribes against online gambling companies and less-affluent tribes over what’s expected to be a multibillion-dollar marketplace.

By ACACIA CORONADO and GISELA SALOMON Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Venezuelans have surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality stopped at the U.S. border in August after Mexicans. The trend of more Venezuelans is reflected in daily headlines. About 50 migrants that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew to the upscale

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is pushing ahead on an overhaul of a centuries-old election law in an effort to prevent future presidential candidates from trying to subvert the popular will. The legislation being debated Wednesday is a response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and former President Donald

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the National Archives and Records Administration will face an unusually contentious Senate confirmation hearing. Colleen Shogan will appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday morning. She was nominated just days before the FBI searched former President

By PIA SARKAR Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Leaders of two of the world’s most-watched nations — U.S. President Joe Biden and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — will be among those who have their say on the second day of the U.N. General Assembly’s first fully in-person meeting since the coronavirus pandemic began. But

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Mortgage rates have jumped, home sales have slumped and credit cards and auto loans have gotten pricier. Savings rates are slightly juicier, though. Yet many economists say they fear that a recession is inevitable in the coming months — and with it, job losses that could

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Last month, when Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke at an economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he issued a blunt warning: The Fed’s drive to curb inflation by aggressively raising interest rates, he said, would “bring some pain” for Americans. When the Fed ends its

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police say they have arrested a man who paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II near the city’s British Consulate for alleged sedition. Thousands of Hong Kong residents have lined up in recent days in front of the British Consulate and left floral tributes to the queen, who was sovereign

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Fiona threatened to strengthen into a Category 4 storm Wednesday as it lashed the Turks and Caicos Islands and was forecast to squeeze past Bermuda later this week. The storm was blamed for causing at least four direct deaths in its march through