Month: May 2023

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A police officer remarkably escaped injury Monday when a car careened across a highway at 120 mph while he conducted a traffic stop. Dashcam video of the crash released Tuesday by Fairfax County Police shows a black BMW sedan driven by a teenager coming within inches

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations announced Tuesday night that its premier prize for press freedom has been awarded to three imprisoned Iranian female journalists “for their commitment to truth and accountability.” The winners are Niloufar Hamedi who broke the news that 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died last September while being held by the morality

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A New Jersey mayor who was blocked from attending a White House celebration this week with President Joe Biden to belatedly mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan called Tuesday for the administration to end the federal “watch list” that he said illegally targets Muslims and others.

By JUAN LOZANO and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — Authorities near Houston say they have caught a man suspected of killing five of his neighbors, including a 9-year-old boy, with an AR-style rifle after the family confronted him late at night about firing rounds in his yard. Francisco Oropeza, 38, was arrested

SEATTLE (AP) — University of Washington officials say a retired Seattle doctor has died while climbing Mount Everest. University officials said on Twitter Tuesday that Dr. Jonathan Sugarman died Monday on the mountain. He was climbing as part of an expedition arranged by Washington state-based International Mountain Guides. The company said on its website that

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader has unveiled plans to eliminate most directly elected seats on local district councils, the last major political representative bodies chosen by the public. The planned electoral changes are widely seen as part of Beijing’s increasing control over the former British colony, which was

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press A New Mexico man, overwhelmed by guilt, borrowed a cellphone to call 911 and confess to the 2008 killing of his former landlord and he also told police where the body was buried, authorities said Tuesday. Police said Tony Ray Peralta, 37, of Roswell, was booked into the Chaves

By MIKE CORDER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Authorities in the U.S. and Europe arrested nearly 300 people, confiscated over $53 million, and seized a dark web marketplace as part of an international crackdown on drug trafficking that officials say was the largest operation of its kind. The operation targeting

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge has ruled that the state law banning abortion clinics cannot take effect on Wednesday as scheduled amid a lawsuit filed by the state’s largest abortion provider. Judge Andrew Stone on Tuesday granted a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementing a law

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer In an about-face, Twitter says it has restored free access to a key tool for verified government and “publicly owned” services so they can tweet weather, transit and other alerts. The move comes after New York City’s transit agency said earlier this week it would no longer use the

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill that would require tech giants such as Google and Meta to pay for news content has cleared another hurdle. The bill, authored by Democratic Assemblymember from Oakland, would require tech companies to share advertising revenue drawn from reported content with those news outlets. Supporters,

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An autopsy report says Cash App founder Bob Lee died during surgery from stab wounds that pierced his heart and a lung. The report released Tuesday by the San Francisco Medical Examiner says Lee had alcohol and drugs in his system. A medical examiner concluded

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press HENRYETTA, Okla. (AP) — As law enforcement officials went silent Tuesday while investigating what led to the killing of seven people in rural Oklahoma, family members of those slain recalled the domineering nature of one of the dead, who was a registered sex offender. Since announcing the bodies were found