Month: June 2023

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s watchdog says “a combination of negligence and misconduct” enabled financier Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New York City while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday cited the

MILAN (AP) — A still-life fresco recently discovered in the Pompeii archaeological site features a flatbread with colorful toppings that looks like a pizza, which was only believed to have been invented many centuries later. But experts said Tuesday that the image is probably actually a focaccia topped with fruit. Key ingredients associated with pizza

LONDON (AP) — Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi says he’s taking a break from touring “for the foreseeable future” as he seeks to “adjust to the impact” of Tourette’s syndrome. His announcement follows his Saturday performance at the Glastonbury Festival where he appeared to lose his voice and the crowd carried him through his songs. Capaldi,

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting higher as Wall Street’s lull continues following a strong start to the year. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in early trading. It’s been generally edging lower since a five-week rally carried it to its highest level in more than a year

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court has ruled that international prosecutors should resume investigating alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela by security forces under President Nicolás Maduro because the country’s own probe has fallen short. The court had suspended an investigation into alleged wrongdoing including use of

By GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Medical officials and an opposition war monitor say a Russian airstrike struck a military post of an al-Qaida-linked group in northwest Syria killing at least six militants. Tuesday’s airstrike on the Jabal al-Zawiya area in the northwestern province of Idlib came two days after another airstrike

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press A candidate who nearly became Buffalo’s first female mayor is competing for a council seat against a woman thrust into prominence after her son survived a racist mass shooting. Democrats India Walton and Zeneta Everhart consider themselves political allies but are both vying for a seat on Buffalo’s Common Council.

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders have reached an agreement on how to spend the state’s tax dollars over the next year. The agreement announced late Monday would spend about $311 billion. The budget covers a nearly $32 billion budget deficit through a combination

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Farmers markets gave people something they desperately sought during the pandemic: A place to shop outdoors, and at the same time support smaller, often local businesses. The markets are now building on that goodwill as the customers that became regulars and the vendors who set

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is facing a cliffhanger vote next month that will test its global climate and environmental credentials, after its parliament was again deadlocked on pushing a nature restoration bill onwards. The legislature’s environment committee emerged deadlocked at 44-44 on the plan to beef up the

WASHINGTON (AP) — An audio recording from a meeting in which former President Donald Trump discusses a “highly confidential” document with an interviewer appears to undermine his later claim that he didn’t have such documents, only magazine and newspaper clippings. The recording, from a July 2021 interview Trump gave at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York City is set to hear arguments Tuesday over whether the state criminal hush money prosecution of former President Donald Trump can be moved to federal court. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein will preside over the hearing. He’s unlikely to immediately rule. Trump’s lawyers sought to move

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Local officials and researchers say hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and United Nations suspended food aid. The U.N. and the U.S. first paused food aid to the region in March after the

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s former health secretary has told an official inquiry that the U.K. was ill-prepared for a pandemic partly because government resources had been diverted away from pandemic planning to brace for a possibly chaotic no-deal Brexit. Matt Hancock also said officials had to scramble to source protective