Month: August 2023

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A statue that depicts a felled Native American pulling an arrow from his torso is being returned to the Boston-area organization cofounded by Paul Revere that thought it had been destroyed decades ago. “Wounded Indian” sculpted in 1850 was a gift to the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A legal showdown over the derailed plea deal for Hunter Biden continued Tuesday as prosecutors asserted that an agreement on a gun charge is dead along with the rest of the deal as the case makes a major shift into a special counsel investigation. While the agreement

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was part of an unrealized plan to set off a bomb at a Pennsylvania music festival has been charged with involvement in the detonation of at least four other explosive devices. Federal and local agents searched the Bethlehem home of 53-year-old Robert Bowen Jr. this month.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The licenses of a southern Indiana funeral home and its director have been revoked following an investigation that found 31 decomposing bodies and 17 cremains stored at the facility. Attorney General Todd Rokita announced the action Tuesday against Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center in Jeffersonville and its owner, Randy Lankford.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his full support for the military following recent rhetorical attacks on senior security officials by his far-right political allies and divisive son. Thousands of military pilots and soldiers have vowed not to turn up for reserve duty in protest of Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Slugger Jon Singleton is back in the majors for the first time since 2015 after his career was derailed by several failed tests for marijuana. His final failed test was in 2018, one year before Major League Baseball removed marijuana from its banned substances list. He

PLYMOUTH, England (AP) — A schooner has set sail from Britain to retrace the voyage taken nearly 200 years ago by a young Charles Darwin that led to his theory of evolution. The Dutch ship Oosterschelde left Plymouth on Tuesday morning as a crowd cheered. The mission aims to inspire a new generation of naturalists

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea has denounced U.S.-led plans for an open U.N. Security Council meeting on its human rights record as only aimed at achieving Washington’s geopolitical ambitions. The North’s Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong called the United States a “declining” power on Tuesday and said

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Madonna ‘s rescheduled Celebration Tour will kick off in Brooklyn, New York, in a matter of months. In June, Madonna suffered what her manager called a “serious bacterial infection” that led to her hospitalization in an intensive care unit for several days. The North American

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in a New York. He admited that he helped a Russian oligarch seek dirt on a wealthy rival, in violation of U.S. sanctions on Russia. Charles McGonigal entered the plea on Tuesday.

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has approved a permanent injunction against the online Internet Archive from scanning and sharing copyrighted books already made available by publishers. The judge had already ruled in March that the Internet Archive had illegally offered free e-editions of 127 books in copyright,

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia agency says it will name a special prosecutor to consider whether the state’s Republican lieutenant governor should face criminal charges for efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state. Trump and 18 allies were indicted Monday. But Fulton County District Attorney was

By ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Their dreams of representing Indonesia in the 2023 Miss Universe pageant turned to nightmares when they were forced to undergo “body checks” in front of local organizers. Now seven contestants have filed complaints with the police, accusing the organizers of sexual harassment, their lawyer said Tuesday.

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A tour operator and a mountaineering official say that a Japanese climber is presumed dead after he and his partner fell about 70 meters (230 feet) while climbing a never-scaled mountain in northern Pakistan. They said Wednesday that the second climber, who is also Japanese, was injured.

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A man who set a fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Illinois has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. A judge went slightly above the sentencing guidelines but below the possible maximum prison term of 20 years. Tyler Massengill admits using a homemade explosive to set a fire

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Researchers in heavily drilled Pennsylvania are adding to a body of evidence suggesting links between the natural gas industry and certain health problems. In the reports released Tuesday evening, University of Pittsburgh researchers found what they called significant associations between gas industry activity and two ailments:

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer ESPN and host Sage Steele have settled a lawsuit she filed after being disciplined for comments she made about the company’s policy requiring employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Steele posted on social media Tuesday that she is leaving the Bristol, Connecticut-based company, where she has worked since 2007.