Month: May 2023

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors watching Donald Trump’s video deposition Thursday heard the former president deride a woman accusing him of rape as a “nut job” and “mentally sick,” and an expert estimated that Trump could have caused nearly $3 million in damage to the accuser’s

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Questions mounted Thursday about why an Oklahoma sex offender who authorities say shot to death his wife, her three children and their two friends and then killed himself was freed from prison despite facing new sex charges in a separate case. Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said each victim had

By LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro tried to convert a country with few weapons into one where firearm ownership and lack of regulation meant personal freedom. The right-wing Bolsonaro echoed aspects of American conservativism and he was the first Brazilian presidential candidate to campaign on a pro-gun platform. Now,

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine and Russia are pressing their wartime rhetoric. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed confidence Thursday that Vladimir Putin will be convicted of war crimes, while the Kremlin alleged the U.S. was behind an assassination attempt against the Russian president. The country’s leaders have personally attacked

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia has settled with Kroger for $68 million over its role in distributing highly addictive prescription painkillers into the U.S. state that has lost more lives to opioid overdoses per capita than any other. That brings West Virginia’s total opioid litigation dollars up to more

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News is opposing a renewed effort by three news organizations to unseal documents related to its recently settled defamation lawsuit, saying it would do nothing but “gratify private spite or promote public scandal.” The Associated Press, The New York Times and National Public Radio

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The choking death of a man in the New York subway was setting off powerful reactions Thursday, with some calling it a homicide and others defending the passenger’s actions as defense against disorder. New York has become one of the nation’s safest

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats pressured Republicans on the debt ceiling impasse Thursday, focused in a hearing on what they say will be painful reductions in government services if a bill recently passed by the House becomes law. No one expects that the House bill, which would importantly increase the

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling Thursday as Wall Street’s worries about the U.S. banking system crank even higher. The S&P 500 was 0.7% lower in early trading as several market-moving forces swirled, from the latest rate increase by the European Central Bank to a report indicating more