Month: July 2023

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has disclosed some of the previously blacked-out portions of a warrant application it submitted last year to gain authorization to search former President Donald Trump’s Florida property for classified documents. Key portions of the document had already been made public, but media organizations including

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The combat boots and dog tags that Alan Alda wore when he portrayed the wisecracking surgeon Hawkeye on the beloved television series “M-A-S-H” meant so much to him that when the show ended 40 years ago, he kept them. But he’s now ready to let them go

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama on the same day that a man with guns in his van was arrested near the property, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in revealing new details

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 16 people, including three children, were killed by a leak of a toxic nitrate gas being used by illegal miners to process gold in an informal settlement, police and local government authorities said Wednesday. Emergency services initially announced that as many as

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Three environmental activists have been arrested at Wimbledon after running onto one of the courts and disrupting two matches by throwing orange confetti and puzzle pieces onto the grass. A pair of protesters from an organization that wants the British government to stop new oil,

TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) — A violent drug cartel is suspected of leaving a severed human leg hanging from a pedestrian bridge in the city of Toluca, just west of Mexico City. The trunk of the body was left on the street below the bridge, along with handwritten signs from the Familia Michoacana cartel. The grisly

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The state of Nevada has reached a $285 million settlement with Walgreens regarding the pharmacy chain’s role in the opioid epidemic, the state’s top lawyer announced Wednesday. The last in a series of multiyear settlements with pharmaceutical companies, retailers and others, it pushes Nevada’s total anticipated payments stemming from opioid claims

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Country music star Toby Keith was back on stage over the Fourth of July weekend with his first shows since revealing last summer that he had been fighting stomach cancer. Hundreds attended the native Oklahoman’s pop-up concerts Friday and Saturday night in Norman, where he lives, The Oklahoman reports. He performed

SHINGOBEE BAY, Minn. (AP) — Two scrappy eagles are free to resume their apparent long-running dispute after quick-thinking deputies helped separate the brawling pair that had become entangled with each other in a Minnesota lake. Cass County deputies John Murray and Todd Wolter were on Leech Lake on Monday when they found two adult eagles

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge is recommending that the U.S. Supreme Court approve a settlement among three Western states over the management of one of North America’s longest rivers. The special master outlined his recommendation in a report filed Monday, calling the agreement fair, reasonable and consistent

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken says a multinational force is needed to help Haiti’s National Police as he echoed recent appeals made by U.N. officials who warn that the country’s insecurity is worsening. Blinken briefly spoke about Haiti and other issues on Wednesday during

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A member of the “Central Park Five” has won the Democratic primary for a seat on the New York City Council representing Central Harlem. The win all but assures Yusef Salaam of eventual victory. Ranked choice voting tallies Wednesday show him with nearly 64% of