Month: June 2023

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue, his wife and three other people have been indicted in connection with the theft and sale of human body parts, federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced Wednesday. Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, stole dissected portions of cadavers that were donated to

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks swung to a mixed close on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve hinted it may raise interest rates two more times this year. The S&P 500 ended less than 0.1% higher Wednesday after pinballing from a modest gain before the Fed’s announcement to a

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The troubled son of Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols has been sentenced to prison in Nevada for kidnapping and armed robbery in a February 2020 attack on a man in the Las Vegas area. Joshua Nichols, now 40 years old, and a co-defendant were sentenced

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top elections official who has faced GOP criticism for how she ran the battleground state’s last presidential election is pushing for officials to vote on her future as she nears the end of her term. Meagan Wolfe, the nonpartisan administrator of the Wisconsin

By CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — As a prominent 10-meter diver, Diego Balleza is used to wearing small swimsuits that show off his body. Now, desperate because of a lack of financial resources ahead of next year’s Paris Olympics, the Mexican is making a leap to a different platform in which he

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press KALAMATA, Greece (AP) — A fishing boat crammed to the gunwales with migrants trying to reach Europe capsized and sank Wednesday off the coast of Greece, authorities said, leaving at least 79 dead and many more missing in one of the worst disasters of its kind this

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of people have demonstrated across Poland against the country’s restrictive abortion law after a woman who was five months pregnant died of sepsis. It was the latest such death since a tightening of the law. The protesters vented their fury on Wednesday against the governing

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday after having raised it 10 straight times to combat high inflation. But in a surprise move, the Fed signaled that it may raise rates twice more this year, beginning as soon as next month. The Fed’s

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Jurors in federal court have awarded $25.6 million to a former Starbucks regional manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished after the high-profile arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia location in 2018. Shannon Phillips won $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan tribunal has convicted newspaper founder and editor José Rubén Zamora of money laundering, concluding a trial press freedom groups decried as a political persecution aimed at silencing a critical voice. Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei, and specifically his justice system, have been criticized internationally