AP National News

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nissan says it’s aggressively pushing electric vehicles to take advantage of a new U.S. law that gives up to $7,500 in tax credits. President Joe Biden signed the landmark law last month. The tax credit can be used to defray the cost of purchasing an electric

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden says he doesn’t consider any Donald Trump supporter to be a threat to the country. Biden said Friday that when people voted for Trump, “they weren’t voting for attacking the Capitol. They weren’t voting for overruling the election. They were voting

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief says in a new report that North Korea has increased its repression of the rights and freedoms of its people and the U.N. Security Council should consider referring the country to the International Criminal Court for possible crimes against humanity. Secretary-General Antonio

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has called the U.N.’s top expert on the country’s human rights “a puppet” of the United States. The North’s Foreign Ministry warned Friday that it won’t tolerate an American-led plot to use the rights issue to overthrow its political system.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A man was detained Thursday night after he reportedly aimed a handgun at point-blank range toward Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández in what government ministers characterized as an assassination attempt. The man, who had not been identified, was detained seconds into the incident. Video from the scene broadcast on local

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Serena and Venus Williams have lost in the first round of doubles at the U.S. Open. They were eliminated by the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Thursday night. Arthur Ashe Stadium had never hosted a first-round doubles match

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Prosecutors in Peru have opened an investigation into the death of a Peruvian transgender man who died this month after being detained on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali. Peru’s Public Ministry said Wednesday that the probe by prosecutors who specialize in human rights will include

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Coast Guard Academy officials and a lawyer for several cadets are disputing each other’s accounts of what happened to seven students who were forced to leave the Connecticut campus by Aug. 19, after refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The New London academy said Thursday that

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Bernadette Demientieff said she cried when she learned of Democrat Mary Peltola’s win in Alaska’s U.S. House special election, making Peltola the first Alaska Native to be elected to Congress. “I feel a little bit of relief knowing that somebody will be down there that can

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gun-control advocates could have had one more victory in their very successful California legislative session. But a risky move supported by Gov. Gavin Newsom backfired on a bill to impose new limits on carrying concealed weapons after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down old rules. The

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden warned Thursday night that “equality and democracy are under assault” in the U.S. as he sounded an alarm about his predecessor, Donald Trump, and “MAGA Republican” adherents, labeling them an extremist threat to the nation and its future. Aiming to reframe

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeking information from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich about his communications with senior advisers to then-President Donald Trump in the days leading up to the 2021 attack on the Capitol. The committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson,

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor is suing the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, contesting its legal ability to force him to answer questions about it. The lawsuit filed Thursday by Doug Mastriano contends that the committee lacks House Republican appointees, and doesn’t comply with

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan government is again accusing its former oil czar of wrongdoing while he oversaw the country’s most important industry. This time, the government alleges Rafael Ramírez was involved in a multibillion embezzlement operation during the early 2010s that took advantage of a dual currency

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal prosecutor urged a judge on Thursday to order that a man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 be forcibly given anti-psychotic medication so his delusions could be quieted at least enough for him to finally be put on

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Anne Heche died without a will, and her 20-year-old son has filed court papers to control her estate. Homer Laffoon filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday requesting that he be allowed to administer his mother’s estate. The petition lists him and his 13-year-old brother as her

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer New COVID-19 boosters that target today’s most common omicron strains are set to begin soon. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed the tweaked shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna, the last step before a fall booster campaign. The shots contain half the original vaccine

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A hearing officer for a federal labor board has rebuffed Amazon’s attempt to scrap a historic union win at a warehouse on Staten Island, New York. Shortly after the labor win in April, Amazon filed more than two dozen objections with the National Labor Relations