SYDNEY (AP) — A police officer who shocked a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a Taser was found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court. A jury found Kristian James Samuel White guilty Wednesday after 20 hours of deliberation. Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother who had dementia, was refusing to put down the steak knife she
Continue ReadingAssociated Press President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya is a physician and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and is a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates. He promoted the idea of herd immunity during the pandemic, arguing that people at low risk
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers filed a legal claim Tuesday against New York City, alleging that he is receiving substandard medical treatment in unhygienic conditions while in custody at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex. The notice of claim, which is the first step in filing a lawsuit against the city, accuses the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Turkish security forces reportedly arrested the three Uzbek suspects in the killing of a rabbi in the United Arab Emirates as they left an airport in Istanbul. That’s according to Turkish media reports on Wednesday. The arrests in Turkey of the three Uzbeks suspected of killing Israeli-Moldovan
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is turning to two officials with experience navigating not only Washington but the key issues of income taxes and tariffs as he fills out his economic team. Trump on Tuesday announced he has chosen international trade attorney Jamieson Greer to be his U.S. trade
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — In 2006, after a bruising monthlong war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted for a resolution to end the conflict and pave the way for lasting security along the border. But while relative calm stood for nearly two decades, Resolution 1701’s terms
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Seuk Kim took off from Maryland last weekend with three small dogs aboard his plane, it was the latest of many volunteer flights he had made to rescue animals in need. After realizing a childhood dream of becoming a pilot, Kim transported cats and dogs from disaster areas,
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro says that his country will impose visa requirements on British citizens. The announcement Tuesday comes after the United Kingdom removed Colombia from a list of countries whose nationals can visit Britain without tourist visas. Earlier on Tuesday, the United Kingdom announced that Colombian citizens will no longer
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration kept President-elect Donald Trump’s administration closely apprised of its efforts to broker the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah that took effect early Wednesday. Trump’s team, meanwhile, was quick to spike the football and claim that the prospect of the Republican president’s return to power pushed the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two Massachusetts communities have reached deals with their striking teachers unions, ending the last of three teachers strikes in communities north of Boston. The Marblehead School Committee and the Beverly School Committee announced Tuesday that they’ve each reached tentative agreements and that employees will be returning to work with schools
Continue ReadingAssociated Press President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses to help make crucial decisions in tracking, detaining and
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rocker Marilyn Manson has agreed to drop a lawsuit against his former fiancée, “Westworld” actor Evan Rachel Wood, and to pay her attorneys’ fees, lawyers for both sides said Tuesday. The move comes 18 months after a Los Angeles County judge threw out much of the 2022 suit
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the world-first law. The major parties backed the bill that would make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram
Continue ReadingAP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto appears on a timetable to decide on where to sign either before or during baseball’s winter meetings in Dallas, which start Sunday and run until Dec. 12. Soto met with the New York Yankees, New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of obese Americans would get access to popular weekly injectables that would help them shed pounds quickly if a $ 35 billion proposal from the Biden administration is blessed by President-elect Donald Trump. The rule, unveiled Tuesday by the Health and Human Services Department, would require Medicare and Medicaid
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska has moved closer to allowing medical marijuana. Lancaster County District Judge Susan Strong ruled Tuesday that there weren’t enough questionable signatures to invalidate the petitions that put the question before voters. The decision was a victory for advocates of medical marijuana. Opponents are likely to appeal it to
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration has launched its own new service for the city and its residents. The administration, in a news release, says the project is staffed by city employees who will produce and air a regular “news magazine” on the city’s official YouTube channel. It adds that segments
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A senior official in President Joe Biden’s administration who oversaw its contentious efforts to address climate change by curbing drilling and mining on federal lands has been named the next president of a prominent environmental group. The Wilderness Society announced Tuesday that U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A ceasefire has taken effect between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah. The agreement calls for a two-month initial halt in fighting and would require Hezbollah to end its armed presence in a broad swath of southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops would return to their side of the border. More than 3,800
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s attorney general has expanded an opioid-related lawsuit to target another big pharmacy benefit manager that he claims contributed to the state’s deadly addiction crisis. OptumRx has been added as a new defendant in the suit that was filed two months ago, Attorney General Russell Coleman said Tuesday. His
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