Month: November 2023

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation Wednesday into alleged civil rights violations by police in a majority Black Mississippi city, stepping in following accusations that officers used excessive force and arrested people without justification. The federal probe will focus on numerous reports from

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville district attorney is calling on the Tennessee legislature to make it easier to commit someone to a mental institution. The move follows the Tuesday arrest of 29-year-old Shaquille Taylor in the shooting of an 18-year-old Belmont University student. Taylor was previously charged with three

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Authorities in Brazil have arrested two people to foil an alleged attack, which the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said was planned by Lebanese militia Hezbollah. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, that the thwarted attack on

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press A Russian news agency is reporting that the country is preparing to send a battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war to the front lines in their homeland to fight on Moscow’s side in the war. RIA Novosti reports the POWs swore allegiance to Russia when they joined the battalion, which

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended members of his campaign staff while addressing a room full of reporters for the first time since federal agents raided the home of his chief fundraiser last week. Adams said Wednesday that his staff closely followed the city’s fundraising

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic governors across the country are sending a joint letter to leaders in Congress calling for additional funds for security at places of worship. The call comes as concerns rise over potential threats against Jewish and Muslim communities motivated by the Israel-Hamas war. Other national leaders,

By The Associated Press Hundreds of Azerbaijani soldiers have paraded through the capital city of the Karabakh region that came under full control of Azerbaijan in September after a lightning rout of ethnic Armenian forces. Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said in an address at the parade in Khankendi on Wednesday that “we showed the whole

By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal jury convicted two longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors Wednesday of leaking confidential information to defense attorneys as part of a bribery conspiracy that prosecutors say imperiled high-profile cases and the lives of overseas drug informants. The Manhattan jury found John

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota iron foundry has been violating air emissions laws for at least five years, but the state agency responsible for enforcing air permits didn’t take action against the company. That’s according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency tested the air along