Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In 1882 the U.S. Navy shelled a southwest Alaska Tlingit village and then burned what was left of the homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions were so severe that winter, elders sacrificed their own lives so children could eat. On Saturday the Navy apologized during a ceremony in Angoon
Continue ReadingAssociated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The first time electricity went off at night, Linda Vidal went into panic mode. The 52-year-old Ecuadorian woman has relied on an electricity-powered oxygen concentrator to breathe properly since she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and a chronic respiratory disease. Despite her condition, Vidal is one of an estimated
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer Beyoncé has spoken at a Houston rally for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, telling the crowd: “I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother.” Beyoncé arrived onstage late Friday with her Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland. “Imagine our daughters growing up seeing what’s possible
Continue ReadingSUPAI, Ariz. (AP) — The Havasupai Tribe is set to receive federal emergency aid to repair damage caused by severe flooding this summer. President Joe Biden on Friday approved a disaster declaration. The tribe’s reservation at the southwest corner of Grand Canyon National Park is one of the most remote in the continental U.S. It’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Top U.N. officials say more than 600 million women and girls are now affected by war. That’s a 50% increase from a decade ago. The officials say women fear the world has forgotten them amid an escalating backlash against women’s rights and gender equality. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s yearlong war with Hamas. Microsoft said Friday it has “ended the employment of some individuals in accordance with internal policy” but declined to provide details. The event happened during lunchtime Thursday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAVEEN VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden has done something that no other sitting U.S. president has: He apologized for the systemic abuse generations of Indigenous children endured at the hands of the federal government. Biden told a crowd of Indigenous people gathered at the Gila River Indian Community near Phoenix that
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Potential jurors’ own subway-riding experiences have come into focus in the case against a white U.S. Marine Corps veteran charged with killing a troubled Black man on a subway train. Jury selection continued Friday, but no jurors have yet been chosen in the case against Daniel Penny. The 25-year-old
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines is suing the cybersecurity firm that has been blamed for causing a global technology outage this summer. Delta filed a lawsuit Friday in Georgia against CrowdStrike, saying the company caused it to lose more than $500 million because of thousands of canceled flights. Delta says CrowdStrike cut corners by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina voters will cast ballots for president in the Nov. 5 general election, but with less fanfare than when they helped kick off the presidential campaign season in February with a pair of first-in-the-South primaries. Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris will compete for the state’s nine electoral
Continue ReadingERIE, Pa. (AP) — A group of Pennsylvania nuns says a conservative political organizer posted “false and misleading information” about them by claiming no one lives at their home in Erie and making vague threats to consult his lawyers about them. The Benedictine Sisters of Erie put out a news release this week in response
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; independent Dan Osborn, a Nebraska Senate candidate; entrepreneur Mark Cuban. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Vance; former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.; Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The district attorney of Los Angeles County has recommended resentencing for Erik and Lyle Menendez who were convicted for killing their parents in 1989 and may now have a pathway to freedom after spending 34 years behind bars. The shotgun killings of Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Authorities say an election worker was assaulted by a man over a cap worn by supporters of former President Donald Trump at an early voting site in San Antonio. An affidavit says Jesse Lutzenberger was arrested for assaulting an elderly person Thursday as the clerk was escorting him out of a polling site
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus says news reports that quoted him saying the North Carolina Legislature should consider allocating the state’s presidential electors to Donald Trump before the votes are counted were taken out of context. The comments made by Representative Andy Harris of Maryland during a Republican Party dinner there
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin elections officials are reporting a nearly 40% increase in early in-person absentee voting over 2020. Early in-person absentee voting began Tuesday in the battleground state. The Wisconsin Elections Commission announced that as of Friday morning 292,702 people had voted early in-person compared with 209,665 as of the morning of Friday,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana voters will decide which presidential candidates will receive their eight electoral votes in the Nov. 5 election. Also on the ballot are races for the U.S. House and a pair of statewide ballot measures. The state has been reliably Republican in presidential contests since 2000. Four of the state’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is looking to continue his winning streak in Oklahoma as he competes with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for the state’s seven electoral votes. Oklahoma voters will also decide races for Congress, the state Legislature and will consider an effort to amend the state constitution to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A makeshift aquarium that popped up this summer in a puddle beneath a leaky New York City fire hydrant is no more. City workers have paved over the Bed-Stuy goldfish aquarium days after fire officials fixed the leak. The pond’s disappearance comes to the dismay of area residents who
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court in the battleground state of Georgia has declined a request for expedited review of an appeal of a judge’s order that county election officials must vote to certify results by the legal deadline. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled this month that those officials cannot
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