Month: July 2023

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Families of transgender children are suing to block a new Missouri law banning gender-affirming health care for minors. Lawyers for the families, doctors and LGBTQ+ rights groups on Tuesday sued to block the law from taking effect Aug. 28. The law will prohibit minors from getting

By PAOLA FLORES and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is interested in obtaining Iranian drone technology to protect its borders and combat smuggling and drug trafficking, the Andean country’s Defense Minister Edmundo Novillo confirmed Tuesday, a day after Argentina demanded information on the opaque agreement sealed between Iran and Bolivia

BOSTON (AP) — A nearly 500-year-old manuscript signed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés in 1527 has been returned to the Archivo General de la Nación de México – Mexico’s national archives in Mexico City. U.S. officials said the manuscript is a payment order signed by Cortés on April 27, 1527, authorizing the purchase of

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A gynecologist who sexually abused vulnerable and trusting patients for over two decades at prestigious New York hospitals cried before he was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison by a federal judge who called his crimes unprecedented. The sentence for Robert Hadden, 64, was a

By WALTER BERRY and TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Longtime Phoenix residents know that sweltering Julys are to be expected, but no one could have predicted the brutal heat wave that has enveloped the country’s fifth largest city this summer. Phoenix this month shattered its record for consecutive days in which the temperature

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — West Africa has recorded over 1,800 terrorist attacks in the first six months of the year resulting in nearly 4,600 deaths with dire humanitarian consequences. And a top regional official says that’s just “a snippet of the horrendous impact of insecurity.” Omar Touray told the

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado police officer on trial for putting a handcuffed woman in a parked police vehicle that was hit by a freight train says she didn’t realize that another officer had parked it on the tracks. Jordan Steinke testified Tuesday that she didn’t notice the tracks

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An unfunded proposal by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to pay for plane tickets in the winter to warmer climates for homeless people has caused a stir in Alaska’s biggest city. Last year, eight people died of exposure in Anchorage, which is a record for the city.

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Two key Vatican investigators have begun an audit in Peru’s capital of a secretive Roman Catholic society with chapters across South America and in the U.S. following allegations that its founder sexually molested young recruits. Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu questioned the society’s

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday vacated the military conviction of Bowe Bergdahl, a former U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to desertion after he left his post and was captured in Afghanistan and tortured by the Taliban. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton