AP National News

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A teacher has resigned from a North Carolina charter school after telling Black students in her class that they would be her “field slaves” if not for the Constitution. One parent says that comment was one of many such incidents at the school. Winterville Charter

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Searching for flights on Google just got “greener.” The tech giant on Wednesday debuted a new tool on Google Flights that tells users which flights in a search result have lower carbon emissions. Flights with significantly lower emissions are highlighted in green indicating what

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Court documents unsealed Wednesday allege an Alaska man threatened to hire an assassin to kill U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. In a separate threat left in a voice message at Murkowski’s Washington office, the caller asked if the Alaska Republican knew what a .50 caliber shell does

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s attorney general says he has asked the state’s Government Accountability Board to review questions about whether Gov. Kristi Noem improperly interfered in a state agency’s evaluation of her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license. The board, which was created in 2017 to review allegations of misconduct

RALEIGH, NC (AP) — A local governing board in North Carolina has formally apologized for the mob lynching of a Black boy unlawfully taken from a jail in 1921. Now a century later, the Board of Commissioners in Chatham County, North Carolina, issued its apology Tuesday, calling it a step toward community healing. It said

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is poised to sue government contractors and other companies who receive U.S. government grants if they fail to report breaches of their cyber systems. That’s according to the Justice Department’s No. 2 official. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said the department is prepared to

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Activists in Nicaragua say one member of an Indigenous community has been killed and three others are missing after assailants shot at them on the country’s Caribbean coast. The director of the Del Río Foundation suggested Wednesday it was the latest attack by settlers who have invaded indigenous lands. Foundation director

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press When whistleblower Frances Haugen on Tuesday revealed internal Facebook studies of the harms its Instagram service can cause, particularly for teenagers, she reinforced concerns about the popular photo-sharing app. But what can parents do? Trying to get your kids to quit Instagram might be a lost cause.

By JAMEY KEATEN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press ZURICH (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to hold a virtual meeting before year’s end amid rising tensions. The agreement in principle for the talks was disclosed after White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and senior Chinese foreign policy adviser

SILVER CITY, N,M. (AP) — New Mexico authorities say a man on probation has been charged in the fatal beating of his wife with an ax after authorities used data from his ankle monitor to find her body in a national forest where the couple had gone to cut firewood. State police say Armando Zamora

By LISA MASCARO, JOSH BOAK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has given Democrats a new offer to extend the federal debt ceiling through an emergency short-term extension. The Senate has gone into recess so lawmakers can discuss the proposal, delaying a procedural vote on a House-passed bill

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Health care giant Kaiser Permanente has put more than 2,200 employees nationwide on unpaid leave for choosing not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. That’s a little over 1% of its workforce. The company says the employees have until Dec. 1 to get vaccinated and those who choose not to will

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks have closed slightly higher on Wall Street as investors recovered from nearly a week of high volatility. Major indexes recouped early losses after the market turned around when Senator Mitch McConnell offered Democrats a short-term extension of the debt ceiling, temporarily relieving some uncertainty

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Toy companies are racing to get their toys onto store shelves ahead of the holidays as they face a severe supply-network crunch. Toymakers are feverishly trying to find containers to ship their goods while searching for new alternative routes and ports. Some are flying in

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Martine Moïse, the widow of Haiti’s assassinated president, has traveled to her homeland to answer questions behind closed doors from a judge overseeing the murder case. Surrounded by heavy security, Moïse entered the courthouse in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, emerging almost three hours later.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A barge company responsible for a Mississippi River oil spill that damaged Louisiana shoreline habitat in 2008 has agreed to pay $2.1 million in damages and buy and preserve a wildlife area just miles from downtown New Orleans. News outlets report the U.S. Justice Department on Monday announced the settlement, which

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the jail brawl trial of Florida school massacre suspect Nikolas Cruz took a turn when attorneys argued over whether he should be allowed to draw using colored pencils. The 23-year-old Cruz received the pencils from his attorneys Wednesday after he became upset.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico passed a milestone of sorts in September when the airport at the country’s biggest coastal resort, Cancun, surpassed pre-pandemic levels of passengers. The Airports of the Southeast group that runs the terminal at the Caribbean coast resort said it handled 1.66 million passengers in Cancun in September. That’s 4.4% percent

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and GRANT SCHULTE OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A summer of labor unrest at U.S. food manufacturers has stretched into fall. Around 1,400 workers at Kellogg Co.’s U.S. cereal plants walked off the job this week. In Kentucky, a strike by 420 workers against Heaven Hill Distillery is in its fourth week. The