AP National News

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to require essential nonresident travelers crossing U.S. land borders, such as truck drivers and emergency response officials, to be fully vaccinated beginning on Jan. 22.  A senior administration official said the requirement brings the rules for essential travelers in line with those that

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Tech giant Apple is suing Israel’s NSO Group, seeking to block the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company from breaking into Apple’s products, like the iPhone. Apple said in a complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in California that NSO Group’s spyware, called Pegasus, had been used

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Lucy McBath isn’t going away, even as Republicans try to draw district lines to pry back a slice of the American suburbs from congressional Democrats. McBath is a gun control activist who in 2018 wrested away Newt Gingrich’s old suburban Atlanta U.S. House district from the

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A jury has ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay more than $25 million in damages over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. After a nearly monthlong civil trial, the jury deadlocked on two key claims

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press A 39-year-old rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what authorities determined were serious flaws with the prosecution. Anthony Broadwater was cleared by a judge in Onondaga County, New York on Monday of raping Sebold when she was a

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, plan to help a local food kitchen prepare Thanksgiving meals for the needy before they leave town like millions of other Americans. The Bidens are resuming their tradition of spending the holiday on tiny Nantucket island in Massachusetts. Vice President

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus’ oldest newspaper has been banned on the 115th anniversary of its founding, the latest move in a relentless government crackdown on independent media in the ex-Soviet nation. The Nasha Niva newspaper was outlawed as extremist Tuesday by the Central District court in Minsk, which acted

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are mixed in choppy trading on Wall Street Tuesday, keeping the major indexes hovering near their recent all-time highs. Losses in big technology stocks and a mix of companies that rely on consumer spending tempered gains elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 rose

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to three extremist organizations, including the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers as well as their leaders. It’s an attempt by lawmakers to uncover the plotting and execution of the deadly attack. The subpoenas

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has vacated two death sentences for a prison inmate convicted of fatally stabbing a mother and daughter more than 30 years ago. Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Paula Skahan signed an order Tuesday freeing Pervis Payne from death row. The judge took action

NEW YORK (AP) — The United Nations’ top envoy for Libya is resigning weeks ahead of presidential elections seen as critical to the country’s stability after nearly a decade of chaos. U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday that Jan Kubis decided to step down. He held the job for just 10 months. The presidential vote

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s prime minister says the country has reached an agreement with Azerbaijan to establish a hotline between their defense chiefs after last week’s deadly clashes on their border. Nikol Pashinyan said during an online news conference Tuesday that contacts between Armenian and Azerbaijani officials should become

By CLAUDIA LAUER and VANESSA A. ALVAREZ Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia parents who don’t speak English say they’ve long been excluded from parts of their children’s education because of language barriers, an issue that’s only been exacerbated by the pandemic and the return to in-person learning. Parents told The Associated Press stories of

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A jury has awarded millions of dollars in damages against white nationalist leaders for violence that erupted during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. After a nearly monthlong civil trial, a jury in U.S. District Court in  deadlocked on two key claims

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Seminole Tribe of Florida on Tuesday moved to appeal a federal judge’s decision to block its deal with the state to expand gambling and online sports betting throughout Florida. The Seminole Tribe’s filing Tuesday came after a ruling from U.S. District Court

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press The suspect in a Christmas parade crash in suburban Milwaukee that killed five people is due in court where five homicide charges were expected to be filed, a crime that can carry the stiffest penalty possible under Wisconsin law — mandatory life in prison. Other lesser charges were also expected

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s interior minister says that every delay in resolving the diplomatic crisis with Gulf nations threatens to affect the lives of more Lebanese already reeling from a massive economic crisis. Bassam Mawlawi tells The Associated Press that resolving the crisis begins with the resignation of the

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean court has increased the prison sentence for six former soldiers convicted in the 1973 kidnapping, torture and murder of folk singer Víctor Jara, as well as that of a government official. The Court of Appeals said Tuesday the six should spent 25 years in prison rather than the 18-year

MIAMI (AP) — An attorney for the family of Brian Laundrie says he fatally shot himself in the head. Attorney Steve Bertolino said in a statement that Laundrie’s parents have been informed that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head, and the manner of death was suicide. Laundrie’s skeletal remains found

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma has denied a death row inmate’s request for a stay of execution. Judge Stephen Friot on Tuesday denied the request from inmate Bigler Stouffer II. The 79-year-old Stouffer is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Dec. 9. He was