Month: May 2023

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A volunteer police officer responding to a report of a bee swarm was hospitalized after getting stung multiple times on his face and collapsing onto the street in a Los Angeles neighborhood. A TV news helicopter recorded dramatic video of the attack Monday afternoon in the Encino area as the man

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer An animal rights group says a Virginia farm that raised chickens for Tyson Foods mistreated the animals. But Tyson says it cut ties with the farm in January after it uncovered animal welfare issues there on its own. The Animal Outlook group says it had an investigator working undercover

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report says Myanmar’s military has imported at least $1 billion worth of weapons and related material from Russia, China and other countries since its February 2021 coup, which it has used to carry out atrocities against civilians. Tom Andrews is the U.N.

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Work requirements for federal aid programs have emerged as a sticking point in ongoing negotiations over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, and President Joe Biden has signaled openness to a possible compromise even as many in his party have balked. Legislation passed by the House in

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives has been called more than 80 times in the past decade-plus about classified materials found in the papers of former members of Congress and other U.S. officials. That tally cited in newly released congressional testimony underscores the weaknesses in how the government tracks and

NEW YORK (AP) — A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible that is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts has sold for $38 million in New York. The auction house Sotheby’s says the Codex Sassoon was purchased by former U.S. Ambassador to Romania Alfred H. Moses and donated to ANU Museum of the Jewish People in

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the country’s National Assembly just as it was forging ahead with impeachment proceedings to remove the conservative leader from office over alleged mismanagement. In disbanding the assembly, the president, who denies any wrongdoing, made first use of the Ecuador presidency’s nuclear option under the constitution in

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As more Southern states pass new restrictions on abortion, Virginia is poised to become an outlier in the region for its relatively permissive laws. That could set up Virginia as a destination for women seeking abortions and raise questions about providers’

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota says it settled its lawsuit against e-cigarette maker Juul Labs and tobacco giant Altria for $60.5 million. Attorney General Keith Ellison said Wednesday that it works out to two to four times more per-capita than any other state that sued Juul over youth vaping

By CURT ANDERSON and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press Democrat Donna Deegan’s decisive win over a Republican in the open Jacksonville mayor’s race will make her the first woman to hold the job in the Florida city’s history, sparking a flicker of hope for a besieged Democratic Party that has few levers of power in a

ATLANTA (AP) — A former state House member and a former South Fulton city council member are heading to a runoff in Georgia House District 68. Former councilman Mark Baker won nearly a third of the vote in a five-candidate field on Tuesday. Running close behind was Derrick Jackson. He held the seat for three