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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Australian man who pleaded guilty to securities fraud for cheating investors in his cryptocurrency fund of over $50 million has been sentenced to over seven years in prison. U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni imposed the sentence Wednesday on 24-year-old Stefan He Qin after saying

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A man previously described by U.S. authorities as the world’s most prolific purveyor of child pornography has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison. Eric Eoin Marques was arrested in Ireland in 2013. The 36-year-old created and operated computer servers on the dark web that

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration says federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves in the western U.S. after Republican-led states made it much easier to kill the predators. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday that the region’s wolves face new potential perils, after

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press/Report for America NAMBÉ, N.M. (AP) — Tesla has sidestepped car dealership laws by setting up shop on Native American land for the first time. The move in New Mexico could be a model for Tesla’s efforts to sell in other states that require car companies to sell through dealerships. The

By MICHAEL TARM Associated Press YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Lawyers say once powerful former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse have reached a tentative out-of-court settlement over Hastert’s refusal to pay $1.8 million in exchange for the man’s silence. The lawyers would not release details of

By AAMER MADHANI and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced that the United States is forming a new Indo-Pacific security alliance with Britain and Australia that will allow for greater sharing of defense capabilities — including helping equip Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. It’s a move that could deepen a

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate who admitted to a long-unsolved killing while serving time for robbery says he confessed to the crime because his conscience was nagging him. DeAngelo Thomas says he felt relief when he penned his admission from his Missouri prison cell. “Just like a weight lifted on my shoulder,” he

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s “build back” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society. The prodigious effort to tax the rich and shift money into projects and programs would touch the lives of nearly every American. As

NEW YORK (AP) — Jaap van Zweden will leave the New York Philharmonic at the end of the 2023-24 season after six years as music director, the shortest tenure of anyone in a half-century. Van Zweden cited the coronavirus pandemic as causing him to change priorities. He informed the orchestra at the end of a

BY AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s southern separatists have imposed emergency measures in an effort to put down growing protests over dire living conditions in areas they control. The Southern Transitional Council says the emergency measures have gone into immediate effect. Protests have erupted earlier this week in Aden and other

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press The U.S. Treasury Department is issuing a new report that details the high expense and low wages for child care. This problem makes it harder for parents to work and save money. The Biden administration aims to fix the problem in its budget plan. An average family with just one