Month: June 2023

By ERIC TUCKER, JILL COLVIN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents, according to an indictment unsealed Friday that alleges that he described a Pentagon “plan of attack” and shared a classified map related to a military

By JAKE BLEIBERG, PAUL J. WEBER and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas businessman at the center of the scandal that led to the historic impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton was charged Friday with making false statements to mortgage lenders to obtain $172 million in loans. The federal indictment

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rep. George Santos wants to protect family members by asking the courts to keep his bond cosigners secret as he fights criminal charges, his lawyer told a Long Island federal judge Friday as he asked her to reverse a magistrate judge’s decision to make the names

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Virginia man who told his wife — and a federal jury — that he had “fun” at the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for attacking police as he stormed the building. Markus Maly’s prison sentence is significantly lower than

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that he attempted to extort money from the missing teen’s mother. Van der Sloot was extradited to the United States on Thursday from Peru, where

By JILL COLVIN and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In March, when Donald Trump became the first former president in U.S. history indicted on criminal charges, his reelection campaign saw a huge surge in donations. Even political rivals rushed to support him. There was no dent in his front-runner status after

By JAKE BLEIBERG and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas businessman at the center of the scandal that led to the historic impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton has been charged with eight counts of making false statements. The indictment of real estate developer Nate Paul on Friday is

By JEFF McMURRAY and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s transit agencies are asking Democrats who control the state’s government to rescue them like Democrats in New York recently did. It’s proving to be a much tougher sell in California. The nation’s most populous state is far more automobile-reliant than much of

By JAMEY KEATEN and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drone attacks in southwestern Russia are exposing the vulnerabilities in the country’s air defense systems as President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine increasingly affects Russian soil. . The region’s governor said Friday, The governor of Russia’s Voronezh region said Friday that a drone

By ERIC TUCKER, JILL COLVIN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump ‘s historic criminal case on felony charges of mishandling classified documents is set to unfold in Florida and will at least initially be overseen by a federal judge who issued rulings favorable to him last year and expressed repeated

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has long been known as a mecca for high-quality marijuana, but that reputation has come with a downside. Illegal growers offer huge amounts of cash to lease or buy land and then leave behind pollution, garbage and a drained water table. A bill passed by

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — NorthWestern Energy will resume construction of a natural gas power plant along Montana’s Yellowstone River following a two-month delay. The move comes after a judge revived a pollution permit for the project despite lingering concerns over its climate changing carbon dioxide emissions. Judge Michael Moses cited