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By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A bankruptcy judge has approved a proposal by the Boy Scouts of America to set up an $850 million fund to compensate tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as youngsters by scout leaders. But the judge on Thursday also rejected two

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Lt. Gov. Kate Marshall is resigning from her position to take a job in President Joe Biden’s administration. The lieutenant governor said Thursday she has accepted a position as senior advisor to governors in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The outgoing head of the U.N. women’s agency is hoping that in five years the $40 billion recently pledged to promote gender equality will lead to many more women in leadership positions, a reduction of violence against women, and the more than 40 million women

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in isolation. His communications director, Phillip Waller, says Wicker tested positive Thursday morning. Wicker sought a test because of mild symptoms. Waller says the 70-year-old is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, is in good health and is being

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors want a video of Kyle Rittenhouse accepted into evidence that they say shows him talking about wanting to shoot people, footage taken about two weeks before Rittenhouse fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third. Rittenhouse is scheduled to stand trial on Nov. 1 on a host of charges A hearing

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Workers at a General Motors plant in Mexico have voted to end a collective bargaining contract negotiated by an old guard union accused of intimidation tactics in earlier votes. It was an early display of the effectiveness of labor mechanisms negotiated under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement. Nearly 6,000 workers at the

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are asking the public for information about a Hungarian man whose vehicle was found at Grand Canyon National Park. The family of 45-year-old Gabor Berczi-Tomcsanyi reported him missing to Las Vegas police. Authorities determined he recently traveled to the Grand Canyon as part of a larger trip

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A white Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on federal hate crimes charges. Nicole Poole Franklin had already been sentenced to up to 25 years on

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations secretary-general says humanitarian conditions in Ethiopia are “hellish” as the nine-month Tigray conflict spreads in Africa’s second most populous country. Antonio Guterres told reporters Thursday that the spread of the fighting “has ensnared even more people in its horror.” Thousands of people have

MIAMI (AP) — A former University of Miami football player has been arrested in connection with the 2006 fatal shooting of his teammate Bryan Pata. Miami-Dade police say 35-year-old Rashaun Jones was arrested Thursday in Marion County on a first-degree murder warrant by Miami-Dade police and the U.S. Marshals Service. Officials didn’t immediately release details

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on European nations to shoulder the responsibility for Afghans fleeing the Taliban and warned that his country won’t become Europe’s “refugee warehouse.” In a televised address Thursday, Erdogan also said his government would “if necessary” engage in talks with a government that could be