AP National News

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to second-degree murder and other charges in the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, with his mother saying afterward that none of them would look her in the eye in court. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for Donald Trump want to ban from his upcoming civil rape trial the “Access Hollywood” tape in which the former president boasts graphically about how celebrities can molest women. The lawyers asked in a Manhattan federal court filing Thursday to block references to the 2005

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three years ago, YiJie Ye was on a routine delivery run in Brooklyn on his motorized scooter when he was in a crash with another vehicle. The collision left the father of three injured and unable to work, but soon he was back on the

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has finished efforts to recover the remnants of the large balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina, and analysis of the debris so far reinforces conclusions that it was a Chinese spy balloon, U.S. officials said Friday.

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer A federal judge has ruled the PGA Tour can require documents and depositions from the Saudi Arabia wealth fund and its leader. It’s part of the antitrust lawsuit by LIV Golf against the PGA Tour. LIV Golf attorneys had argued the Public Investment Fund and Yasir al-Rumayyan should be

By KWIYEON HA and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Former leaders from Australia, Britain and Belgium have called for a tougher international approach to China to reduce the possibility of war over Taiwan and respond to human rights violations. Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison linked human rights violations in China with security

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Europe’s youngest country, Kosovo, on Friday launched festivities for the 15th anniversary of its independence from neighboring Serbia with a military parade, wreath-laying ceremonies and a special Parliament session. But the celebrations are overcast by revived tension with Serbia, despite yearslong Western efforts

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona’s reputation as one of soccer’s elite is in danger because of a scandal of its own making. Spanish soccer is reeling this week as a state prosecutor probes Barcelona’s payment of millions of dollars over several years to a company that belonged to the vice

By JOHN RABY Associated Press Floodwaters in West Virginia forced some high school students to hunker down for the night in an impromptu slumber party complete with pizza, board games and football tosses in the gymnasium. All schools in Lincoln County, in the southern part of the state, were dismissed two hours early on Thursday

By KARL RITTER Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Western allies Friday to quicken their military support for Ukraine, warning at a major international security conference that delays would play into Russia’s hand as the invasion approaches its first anniversary. “There is no alternative to speed, because it’s speed that life

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling again on Wall Street Friday, and the S&P 500 is on track for its first back-to-back weekly drop since the turn of the year. Wall Street’s benchmark index was 0.8% lower in early trading, a day after sliding to its worst loss

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top prosecutor in Jamaica has ruled that Prime Minister Andrew Holness won’t face charges over possible conflict of interest in contracts awarded to a construction company in 2007-2009 while he was education minister. Jamaica’s director of public corruption issued the ruling Thursday after reviewing a report on the

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A powerful storm over the North Sea hit northern Europe and led to dozens of train and ferry cancellations Friday in northern Denmark and southern Norway as the Danish Meteorological Institute forecast hurricane-force wind gusts. The storm, named Otto, was set to move east over Sweden and the Baltic Sea. In

WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Two weeks after Tropical Cyclone Cheneso devastated Madagascar, killing 30 people, the Indian Ocean island nation and its neighbors are bracing for a more powerful Cyclone Freddy. Meteo France has described Freddy as an “intense tropical cyclone” and a “particularly powerful and compact tropical system, generating extreme

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters in Iran have marched through the streets of multiple cities overnight in the most widespread demonstrations in weeks amid the monthslong unrest that’s gripped the Islamic Republic. That’s according to what online videos purported to show Friday. The demonstrations marked 40 days since

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street is poised to extend its slide Friday, one day after U.S. markets suffered their biggest drop in a month on an inflation reading that came in hotter than expected. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials slid 0.5% and the S&P 500 dipped 0.7%. Oil

LONDON (AP) — A former security guard at the British Embassy in Berlin has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for putting U.K. diplomats at “maximum risk” by selling secret information to Russia. David Ballantyne Smith admitted spying but claimed he was driven by depression and a desire to “teach the embassy

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the newest members of the House Intelligence Committee was herself once an officer running spies for the CIA. Abigail Spanberger spent almost a decade as a CIA operations officer. Now, she’s a third-term Democratic congresswoman from Virginia who was just named to one of two

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Five former Memphis police officers are making their first court appearance Friday on murder and other charges in the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III, Justin Smith and their lawyers are expected to appear before