Month: April 2023

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The former head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board has pleaded guilty to bribery. Rick Johnson admits he accepted at least $110,000 in exchange for approving applications for the lucrative business. Johnson’s appearance Tuesday in federal court in Grand Rapids was a

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — Many loyal Republicans in the state that kicks off the presidential nominating season are searching for a White House hopeful other than Donald Trump. There’s less consensus on what that alternative should look like. Should a potential successor to Trump be just

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is slipping Tuesday after a torrent of companies gave mixed earnings reports for the first three months of the year. The S&P 500 was 0.7% lower in morning trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 98 points, or 0.3%, at 33,777, as

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has apologized to residents of the northern province of Groningen who have suffered for years from earthquakes caused by gas extraction that damaged thousands of homes and ruined lives. Rutte’s apology Tuesday and a pledge to fund a generation-long program

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has gotten his highest-profile backing from a Senate Republican. Montana Sen. Steve Daines, chief of the Senate’s GOP fundraising arm, announced his endorsement of Trump on Monday night in a podcast hosted by Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. It’s Trump’s first

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY and SERGIO RODRIGO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Agriculture Minister Luis Planas has requested emergency funds from the European Union to support farmers and ranchers amid extreme drought conditions in the country’s agricultural heartlands. Planas wrote to the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, on Monday to plead for aid for

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The granddaughter of late Latino labor activist Cesar Chavez is moving from President Joe Biden’s White House staff to take another high-profile position at the helm of his 2024 reelection campaign. For the past few years, Julie Chavez Rodriguez has run the White House Office of Intergovernmental

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense minister has hosted his counterparts from Iran, Syria and Turkey for talks as part of the Kremlin’s efforts to help broker a rapprochement between the Turkish and Syrian governments. The Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday’s talks focused on “practical steps to strengthen security in the

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden has informed Russia that five employees with the Russian Embassy in Stockholm have been asked to leave the country, saying they are suspected of spying. Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said Tuesday that their activities are “incompatible” with their diplomatic status. The move comes nearly two weeks after neighboring Norway said it

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say a Russian missile has hit a museum building in the north of the country, killing at least two and wounding 10 other people. The attack was part of a relentless barrage that comes as Ukraine is gathering its forces for a planned counteroffensive.

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Court papers say Prince William quietly received “a very large sum of money” in a 2020 phone hacking settlement with the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The documents were aired Tuesday in one of his brother Prince Harry’s lawsuits against the British newspaper arm