Month: December 2023

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A deputy U.S. Marshal was charged in the United Kingdom on Thursday with entering an aircraft while drunk, after being arrested on allegations of misconduct aboard a flight from New York, London police said. Michael Brereton, 39, was arrested when he landed at Heathrow Airport. The flight

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Greek official says construction of the 1.9 billion euro ($2.05 billion) section of an electricity cable that will connect the power grids of Greece and Cyprus is slated to begin in the new year. The renamed Great Sea Interconnector will eventually extend to also connect Israel’s power grid. Greece’s Independent

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two former students are suing Sarah Lawrence College. They argue that the New York school failed to protect them from Lawrence “Larry” Ray as the ex-convict moved into his daughter’s housing on campus and began grooming her friends for abuse. The plaintiffs allege in their lawsuit

ROME (AP) — Activists have poured mud and chocolate milk on the façade of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice in their latest climate protest. Police quickly detained the six activists after the Thursday protest. There was no immediate word of any permanent damage to the Byzantine basilica, which is an iconic symbol of Venice.The activists

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is facing a $68 billion budget deficit. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office said Thursday that most of the deficit comes from lower than expected tax revenues this year. California delayed its tax filing deadline to November this year because a series of damaging storms. That

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian melodrama’s official recognition as a global cultural treasure is getting trumpeted with La Scala’s season premiere of Verdi’s “Don Carlo.” The start of the Milan opera house’s 2023-24 season Thursday will serve as an unofficial national celebration of the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO including Italian lyric

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Defense Minister Margarita Robles says the government filed a complaint to the United States after discovering that Spanish intelligence agents had allegedly leaked secret information to the U.S. Robles says the complaint was conveyed at the time, but she insists the case did not affect the core of the relations between

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One of the largest labor organizations in the United States wants the federal government to wrest workplace safety oversight from South Carolina regulators. Service Employees International Union accuses state officials of failing to protect service employees in a Dec. 7 petition to the U.S.

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is appealing a ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution as he runs out of opportunities to delay or even derail an upcoming trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020