AP National News

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Police say a suburban Chicago woman was run over and her 2-year-old son temporarily abducted by a thief who stole her SUV. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office says the woman had returned home Thursday afternoon to Libertyville with her two children and had taken one child inside when another vehicle drove

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of the troubled digital start-up Ozy Media pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal fraud charges accusing him of scheming to prop up his financially struggling company, which hemorrhaged millions of dollars before it shut down amid revelations of possibly deceptive business practices. Federal

BEIJING (AP) — China called for a cease-fire and peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in a vaguely worded proposal that analysts said was unlikely to deliver results. Beijing claims to have a neutral stance in the war that began one year ago. But it has also said it has a “no limits friendship” with

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s elections chief Lorenzo Cordova has slammed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s move to cut elections spending as an assault on democracy. The leftist president dismisses that criticism as elitist. López Obrador said Thursday he he’ll sign the changes into law, even though he expects court

By MICHAEL TARM and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected a call from prosecutors to keep R. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead telling the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer he would serve all but one of his 20 years on child sex convictions simultaneously with a

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday it test-fired long-range cruise missiles in waters off its eastern coast a day earlier, adding to a provocative streak in weapons demonstrations as its rivals step up military training. The launches, which were later confirmed by South Korea’s military, were intended

By JOHN SEEWER, MICHAEL RUBINKAM and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The crew operating a freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, didn’t get much warning before dozens of cars went off the tracks, and there is no indication that crew members did anything wrong, federal investigators said Thursday as

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The former police chief for the city of Oakland who was fired last week over the alleged cover-up of an officer’s misconduct has filed an appeal to what he says was his wrongful termination. LeRonne Armstrong’s attorney Will Edelman on Wednesday sent a letter to the city, officially beginning the process

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Russia launched a rescue ship on Friday for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride home sprang a dangerous leak while parked at the International Space Station. The new, empty Soyuz capsule should arrive at the orbiting lab on Sunday. The capsule leak in December was blamed

By CLAIRE RUSH, DREW CALLISTER and JIM SALTER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Winter storms sowed more chaos across the U.S. on Thursday, shutting down much of Oregon’s largest city with almost a foot of snow and paralyzing travel from parts of the Pacific Coast all the way to the northern Plains. The nearly

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has executed a man for murdering a woman in 1990 while he was a fugitive from prison. The governor’s office said Donald Dillbeck died Thursday at 6:13 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection. This was Florida’s first execution in nearly four years, and the third

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The sobbing father of a man convicted of killing eight people on a New York City bike path has apologized to victims and professed love for his son in the death penalty phase of the defendant’s trial. Habibulloh Saipov’s emotional testimony Thursday came in front of

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Milan designers took a more modest turn on the second day of Milan Fashion Week of mostly womenswear looks for next fall and winter. If the first day of shows bared skin, the second day offered options that allow women to dial up or dial down

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A teenager has been charged as an adult in the case of Madison Brooks, a Louisiana State University student who was allegedly raped then left on the side of a road where she was struck and killed by a car.  A grand jury indicted 17-year-old

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces additional fraud charges in a rewritten indictment that was unsealed in New York federal court. The new charges were included in an updated indictment unveiled Thursday. It wasn’t known when Bankman-Fried would return to Manhattan for an arraignment. He has already

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — The sandstorm being waged between New Jersey environmental officials and a defiant shore town bolstering its dunes without state permission is intensifying. The Department of Environmental Protection has fined North Wildwood over $12 million for unauthorized work along its beachfront, including the destruction of vegetated

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican National Committee has decided that the opening Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election season will take place in Milwaukee this August. The rough time and location were the only details finalized as a small group of RNC members met behind closed

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — One Russian soldier tells his mother that the young Ukrainians dead from his first firefight looked just like him. Another explains to his wife that he’s drunk because alcohol makes it easier to kill civilians. A third wants his girlfriend to know that in all the

By CLAIRE RUSH, DREW CALLISTER and JIM SALTER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Winter storms sowed more chaos across the U.S. on Thursday, shutting down much of Portland with almost a foot of snow and paralyzing travel from parts of the Pacific Coast all the way to the northern Plains. The nearly 11 inches

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s far-right government has granted approval for over 7,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, settlement backers and opponents said Thursday. The move defies growing international opposition to construction in the occupied territory. The announcement came just days after the U.N. Security Council passed