Month: April 2024

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Lawmakers in Georgia’s legislature have scuffled as the parliament started debating a divisive new law dubbed the foreign agent bill. Hours later, hundreds of people protested against the legislation outside the parliament in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The draft — proposed by the ruling party

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys with Wisconsin’s largest business lobbying group have asked the state Supreme Court =to strike down Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ use of a partial veto to lock in a school funding increase for the next 400 years. The Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Litigation Center filed the

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California has filed a lawsuit challenging a voter identification law passed at the polls this year in the city of Huntington Beach. The state’s Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday that the measure is in conflict with state law and could suppress voter participation. The

DALLAS (AP) — The pilots union at American Airlines says there’s been a significant spike in safety and maintenance issues at the airline. The union told its members over the weekend that American has increased the time between routine inspections on planes. The union also says American has ended overnight maintenance checks unless a plane

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, MICHAEL BALSAMO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it will close a women’s prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse. Bureau of

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife LaQuetta have been charged with endangering and abusing their teenage daughter. Charges filed Monday by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office allege the mayor repeatedly hit his daughter in the head with a broom, knocking her out. He

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A political prisoner in Belarus has shed light on the country’s brutal prison system by smuggling out her story written on pieces of toilet paper. Katsiaryna Novikava describes being repeatedly beaten by security forces after she was detained in June 2023 wearing only a nightshirt. She

By TERRY TANG Associated Press For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War. Films like “Full Metal Jacket” and “Apocalypse Now” typically only examined the price the U.S. and its soldiers paid. In the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Sympathizer,” it is

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — Jurors deciding whether to hold the state of New Hampshire accountable for alleged abuse at a youth detention center are hearing about how staff and administrators handled complaints. Virgil Bossom oversaw staff training and investigations at the Youth Development Center facility in the 1990s. He testified

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The retrial of a former Ohio sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the killing of a 23-year-old Black man is scheduled for this fall. The Oct. 31 trial date for Jason Meade was confirmed during a status conference held Monday. The judge also oversaw Meade’s first trial in which a jury

By JESSE BEDAYN, COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A couple who owned a Colorado funeral home where authorities last year discovered 190 decaying bodies were indicted on federal charges that they misspent nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds on vacations, cosmetic surgery, jewelry and other personal expenses, according