Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican president-elect. Investigators were told of the plan to kill Trump by Farhad
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Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The longtime leader of the Texas Democratic Party is stepping down. Gilberto Hinojosa’s announcement Friday comes after another election cycle of lopsided defeats for Texas Democrats. The party also saw voters this week make a dramatic swing toward the GOP on the heavily Hispanic southern border. Hinojosa has been
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, he will be accompanied by a crew of longtime friends and aides and newfound, splashy allies. The Republican president-elect has barely begun naming key figures in his administration, but he has kept a rotation of associates with him on and
Continue Reading Associated Press GABORONE, Botswana. (AP) — Thousands of people from around Botswana have attended the inauguration of their country’s new president, Duma Boko. He called for unity Friday after an election that brought an end to the former ruling party’s 58 years in power. His Umbrella for Democratic Change, a coalition of Botswana National Front
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A relatively trouble-free presidential election was good news for those working to restore faith in the system. Less encouraging was a flood of misinformation that sought to undermine trust in voting and sow chaos, something experts say is likely to get worse in the years ahead. The most significant test
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — The Pompeii archaeological park plans to limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day and introduce personalized tickets starting next week in a bid to cope with over-tourism and protect the world heritage site, officials said Friday. The move comes after what authorities called a record summer that saw over 4 million people
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change of heart more than two years after the author’s near-fatal stabbing, but because of what amounts to some missing paperwork. Earlier this week, a court in
Continue Reading Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s President Michael Higgins has dissolved parliament to clear the way for a Nov. 29 election that will determine who controls government. Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris, who had to call for an election by March, had announced the date on Wednesday. A historic coalition government led by Harris’ Fine
Continue Reading Associated Press A crowd of mourners lit torches and intoned a military chant to honor a Ukrainian medic and a soldier who fell in love while on the frontlines of the war and died together in a Russian shelling attack. Their funerals took place Friday at Kyiv’s crematorium. Valentyna Nahorna, whose call sign was Valkyrie,
Continue Reading Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — In Morocco, politicians and activists are questioning limitations imposed on preachers regarding what they may say about war in the Middle East during sermons. Parliamentarian Nabila Mounib this week complained that imams were curtailed in how they can speak about the plight of Palestinians and call for religious struggle
Continue Reading Russian media reported that authorities are seeking a six-year prison term for a pediatrician accused of criticizing the war in Ukraine in front of one of her patients and his mother. The case against Dr. Nadezhda Buyanova is one of hundreds launched against Russians after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
Continue Reading LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A top official of the Pakistan Cricket Board declined to confirm media reports that India has decided against playing any games in host and arch-rival Pakistan during next year’s Champions Trophy. PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi told reporters in Lahore, “My view is if there’s any problems, they (India) should tell us
Continue Reading Associated Press Elwood Edwards, who voiced America Online’s ever-present “You’ve got mail” greeting, has died. He was 74. He died Tuesday at his home in New Bern, North Carolina, said his daughter Heather Edwards. The cause was complications from a stroke late last year, she said. Edwards taped his AOL greeting in 1989 into a
Continue Reading Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman starring in “Deadpool & Wolverine” and the return of Apple TV+’s dark comedy “Bad Sisters” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases. James Patterson’s psychologist detective Alex Cross finally has his own thriller TV show, “Cross” coming to Prime Video starring Aldis Hodge, and the Hulu original docuseries
Continue Reading HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Rafael has weakened into a tropical storm as it swirls through the Gulf of Mexico where it is expected to break apart after plowing through Cuba, knocking out the country’s power grid and collapsing hundreds of houses. On Friday night, the tropical storm was located 240 miles (390 kms) north of
Continue Reading Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — The ranked choice voting process in Maine will now determine the winner of a key congressional race. Ballots from across Maine’s 2nd Congressional District are being transported to the state capital, where they’ll be re-scanned into a computer next week. Republican challenger Austin Theriault’s campaign voiced support for the
Continue Reading Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Tens of thousands of activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have rallied in the nation’s capital. They marched through major streets in Dhaka on Friday demonstrating their desire for an election. The country is currently being run by an interim government headed by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus. He
Continue Reading Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Police say they have arrested a 23-year-old man suspected of shooting at least eight vehicles on a busy North Carolina highway as well as several area homes in recent days, in attacks that wounded a motorist. Andrew Thomas Graney was arrested Thursday at a home in Raleigh. A district
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The union that represents thousands of Philadelphia mass transit system workers has agreed to delay a potential strike, saying progress was being made in ongoing contract talks. Transport Workers Union Local 234 members had voted last week to authorize a strike once their one-year contract with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority expired
Continue Reading Associated Press Extreme weather in Mexico is contributing to undocumented migration and return between Mexico and the United States. A study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed daily weather data along with survey responses from 48,313 people from 1992 to 2018. Researchers focused on 84 agricultural communities
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