Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Ratan Tata, one of India’s most influential business leaders, was cremated after a state funeral in the country’s financial capital on Thursday. The veteran industrialist, former chairman of a $100 billion conglomerate Tata Group, died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday night at the age of 86. India’s Home
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Two former corrections officers in Alabama have agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges in the death of a mentally ill inmate. Heather Lasha Craig and Bailey Clark Ganey agreed to the plea deals separately. Court documents say the incarcerated man, Tony Mitchell, died of hypothermia and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RAMSEYTOWN, N.C. (AP) — National Guard members who deployed to western North Carolina are still carrying out aid missions nearly two weeks after Hurricane Helene. Much of their humanitarian work involves delivering aid or checking in with mountain communities cut off from the outside world by storm-damaged roads. Priorities for those in impacted
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Hmong Minnesotans were among those who watched as Gov. Tim Walz was catapulted onto the Democratic presidential ticket with Vice President Kamala Harris two months ago. They have watched him crisscross the country and earlier this week debate Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance. Hmong lawmakers and community activists say Walz has built a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s corrections chief says the department is expected to unveil a new process for executing inmates by the end of the year. The announcement signals a pending end to the yearslong pause that was put in place after a blistering report revealed that the state had conducted several executions
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee election officials are disputing a judge’s ruling that restored the voting rights of four people who can’t have guns under their specific felony offenses. The motion filed by the state last week shows the impact of a new Tennessee policy that gun rights are a prerequisite to casting
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs wants to go to trial on sex trafficking charges next spring, lawyers for the jailed hip-hop mogul told a judge on Wednesday. His preference for a trial in April or May was mentioned in a joint letter in which his lawyers and prosecutors advised a judge
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Rudy Giuliani’s son is trying to stop two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against his father from taking the elder Giuliani’s four New York Yankees World Series rings. Andrew Giuliani says in court documents filed Tuesday in New York that he is actually the rightful owner of the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tourism in Orlando is coming to a standstill ahead of Hurricane Milton’s expected hit as a major storm in Florida. At least three major theme parks and the airport were set to cease operations on Wednesday. Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando will shut down Wednesday afternoon while SeaWorld
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with several dozen legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast’s head looked like. That’s because many of the fossils of these creatures are headless shells that were
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The attorney for a Minnesota woman has told the state Supreme Court that the woman’s misdemeanor conviction for going topless in public should be overturned because female breasts are not defined as “private parts” by the state’s indecent exposure statute. Eloisa Plancarte was convicted for exposing her breasts at a
Continue ReadingTHESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek officials say a group of 11 Romanian pilgrims visiting Greece’s Orthodox monastic community of Mount Athos are in hospital with food poisoning after eating wild mushrooms during a hike. Authorities on the semi-autonomous community in northern Greece say none of the men’s lives were in danger. They are being treated
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed former British diplomat Tom Fletcher as the U.N.’s new humanitarian chief. Fletcher, who is currently principal of Hertford College, Oxford and vice chair of Oxford University’s Conference of Colleges, succeeds fellow Briton Martin Griffiths who stepped down for health reasons as undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press South Dakota’s top elections official has removed 273 people from the state’s voter rolls as general election voting is underway. Her office later said the move rectified a paperwork error on the state’s behalf. Those people had inadvertently been registered to vote due to human error by state Department of Public Safety employees
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s attorney general testified before a state commission during a hearing that could lead to action against his law license. At issue is his aggressive defense of a law allowing the state’s first Republican governor in 16 years to directly fill judicial vacancies. The law was part of a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Saudi Arabia was defeated for a seat in the U.N.’s premier human rights body Wednesday after a campaign by rights groups urging the world body’s members to reject its bid. The 193-member General Assembly elected 18 new members Wednesday to serve on the 47-nation Human Rights Council. The Geneva-based
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Nazi-looted Claude Monet pastel has been returned to descendants of the man who owned it when it was seized in Austria decades ago. The pastel was sold off to support the Third Reich, but the family got the artwork back Wednesday at the FBI field office in New
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Milton is expected to unleash its greatest force over hundreds of thousands of immigrants who don’t speak English. Most are Latin Americans who have been harvesting the fields along Florida’s I-4 corridor. They’ve also been washing dishes in restaurants, cleaning hotel rooms and working construction. For the Spanish speakers
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Muni Long is out for revenge, but believes it won’t be accomplished through bitterness or malice, but through success. “Revenge,” the follow-up to her 2022 debut, picks up where the Grammy winner left off, fueled by the massive success of “Made for Me,” the viral, tenderhearted ballad which reached
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Jury selection has begun in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, once the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history. Madigan is charged in a multimillion-dollar racketeering and bribery scheme that included the state’s largest utility, ComEd. Federal prosecutors allege that the Chicago Democrat used his power
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