Month: December 2022

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man who shot Lady Gaga’s dog walker and stole her French bulldogs last year has taken a plea deal and was sentenced to 21 years in prison. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office says James Howard Jackson pleaded no contest Monday to one count of

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in northern Mexico have blamed private hospitals for contaminated anesthetics that caused a meningitis outbreak that has killed 22 people and sickened at least 71. Prosecutors in Durango state said Monday they have issued seven arrest warrants for the owners or directors of four private hospitals where the outbreak occurred

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ top elections official has resigned. Secretary of State John Scott said Monday he would step down after an intense year of trying to reassure election skeptics, navigating the rocky launch of new voting laws and overseeing a limited audit of the 2020 election. The Republican

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow unleashed another massive missile barrage in Ukraine on Monday, striking homes and buildings and killing civilians, hours after the Kremlin claimed Ukrainian drones struck two air bases deep inside Russian territory. The unprecedented attack in Russia threatened a major escalation of the nine-month war because

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks closed lower on Wall Street and Treasury yields rose after surprisingly strong economic reports highlighted the Federal Reserve’s difficult fight against inflation. The S&P 500 fell 1.8% Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.4% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gave back 1.9%. Small-company stocks

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The 11-year-old nephew of a Black woman fatally shot by a white Texas police officer says his aunt had a gun but didn’t raise it to point at the officer. Zion Carr was 8 when then-officer Aaron Dean killed Atatiana Jefferson in 2019. Now 11,

By ADAM BEAM and SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are returning to work for a special session on gas prices. State lawmakers met on Monday to swear in new members and elect leaders for the 2023 legislative session. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has also called lawmakers into a special session

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government now says at least 270 people died in a massacre last week in the country’s east it blamed on M23 rebels. But the rebel’s chairman is disputing the figure and accusing the government of using false information given by a local tribal militia

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis says it will toughen its trespassing policies as part of a settlement with the family of a boy who was severely injured when a man with a history of causing disturbances at the mall threw him from a