Month: May 2024

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt. Opposition leader Christian Malanga was killed in a shootout

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — The estate of a 25-year-old dancer who died after eating a mislabeled cookie containing peanuts has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Connecticut says Órla Ruth Baxendale died Jan. 11 after eating a Florentine cookie sold by grocery retailer Stew Leonard’s and suffering an anaphylactic reaction. The

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution. The request to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Lara and Eric Trump both addressed North Carolina Republicans at the state’s GOP convention to tout changes at the Republican National Committee and former President Donald Trump’s race back to the White House. The Friday address highlighted fundraising increases and staff changes at the RNC that

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Highway bandits in Mexico made off of with over 40 tons of avocados. Federal prosecutors said Friday the avocados were stolen in two separate robberies in the western state of Michoacan, Mexico’s main producer of the fruit. In both cases, armed men stopped freight trucks carrying about 20 tons each, and

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America ELKO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada initiative that would amend the state Constitution to require that voters show photo ID at the polls can appear on the 2024 ballot as long as organizers collect enough signatures. That’s according to a state Supreme Court ruling issued Friday. Organizers will

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Bird flu has been detected in beef for the first time, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture says the meat from a single sickened dairy cow was not allowed to enter the nation’s food supply and beef remains safe to eat. The department made the announcement Friday. The virus has

ST. CLOUD, Fla. (AP) — The Diocese of Orlando is defending a Catholic priest accused of biting a woman who tried to grab Holy Communion wafers during Mass at a central Florida church. The confrontation occurred Sunday afternoon at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in St. Cloud. Police have forwarded a report to prosecutors accusing

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused Joe Biden and Donald Trump of trampling on personal liberties in response to the pandemic. Kennedy spoke Friday at the Libertarian’s Party’s convention in Washington as he looks to grow his base of support among Americans disaffected with the Republican and