Associated Press Whether a 2-year-old beaver named Nibi gets to stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby or must be released into the wild as winter approaches in Massachusetts has ended up in court — and caused such an uproar that even the governor has weighed in. “To literally see
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An 18-year-old Columbia man was charged this week with six felonies for a January home invasion robbery.
Continue Reading Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has called Israel’s ban on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres entering the country a political statement by its foreign minister and stressed that the world body’s contacts with Israel will continue “because they have to.” A U.N. spokesman told reporters Wednesday that Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz deeming
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four men are dead and two others are recovering from wounds after gunmen burst into a Mexican drug rehab center and opened fire. Officials in the north-central state of Guanajuato said Wednesday that the killings occurred late Tuesday in the city of Salamanca. There was no immediate information on the conditions
Continue Reading AP Technology Writer OpenAI says it has raised $6.6 billion in venture capital investments as part of a broader shift by the ChatGPT maker away from its nonprofit roots. Led by venture capital firm Thrive Capital, the funding round is backed by tech giants Microsoft, Nvidia and SoftBank. That’s according to a source familiar with
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump laid the groundwork to try to overturn the 2020 election even before he lost, knowingly pushed false claims of voter fraud and “resorted to crimes” in his failed bid to cling to power, according to a court filing unsealed Wednesday that offers new evidence from the landmark criminal
Continue Reading Canadian figure skater Nikolaj Sorensen has been suspended for at least six years for sexual maltreatment. The Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner announced the suspension Wednesday. The ban is a result of an investigation into an allegation that Sorensen sexually assaulted an American figure skating coach and former skater in Hartford, Connecticut, in 2012.
Continue Reading Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — U.S. authorities have charged five Chinese nationals with lying and trying to cover their tracks. It comes more than a year after they were confronted in the dark near a remote Michigan military site where thousands of people had gathered for drills. The five were University of Michigan students at
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By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed, John Fritze, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole, Holmes Lybrand and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors laid out their most extensive case to date against former President Donald Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election in a sweeping legal brief that was unsealed Wednesday by a federal judge
Continue Reading Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials have approved a $2.75 million settlement to resolve a federal investigation into discriminatory hiring practices affecting 48 Black and female applicants to the Maryland State Police. The settlement was approved Wednesday by the Maryland Board of Public Works and will include changes to how applicants are tested.
Continue Reading Associated Press John Savage says he checked on his grandparents in their bedroom as Hurricane Helene roared outside. Just minutes later, he says they were killed by a tree that fell and crushed their bedroom. Marcia and Jerry Savage are two of the more than 150 people killed because of the storm and its aftermath.
Continue Reading Associated Press Falling trees and raging floods from Hurricane Helene killed more than 150 people when it struck Florida late last week and then plowed through the Southeast as one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. People died in six states: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Among them were two
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say an Arizona man has been sentenced to 20 months in federal prison in connection with an arson case at Grand Canyon National Park. A U.S. District Court judge in Phoenix on Tuesday also sentenced 21-year-old Dahntay Dunbar to five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay more than
Continue Reading Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An anti-corruption agency in Haiti has accused three members of the country’s transitional presidential council of bribery in a scathing report that threatens to destabilize the country’s fragile political stability. The Unit for Combating Corruption says that Smith Augustin, Emmanuel Vertilaire and Louis Gérald Gilles are accused
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a man who was left permanently disabled after he was shot in the head during a road rage encounter in New Jersey, allegedly by an off-duty New York City police officer, has filed a lawsuit arguing that the officer was an alcoholic who should not have
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes sees himself turning the corner amid a slow start to the season, at least by his standards. The fact that the Chiefs are 4-0 despite his subpar play has made it a little easier to handle. The two-time league MVP has thrown for just 909
Continue Reading Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When the issue of gun violence came up at the vice presidential debate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had a personal story to tell: His teenage son, Gus, had been at a sports center last year when a shooting took place. Gus Walz was at volleyball practice at the Jimmy Lee
Continue Reading AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The massive port workers’ strike that has shut down all the major dockyards on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. and the Gulf coast is highlighting a fear held by many workers: Eventually, we will be replaced by machines. The International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents the approximately 45,000
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has announced that it would ban the import of goods from a Chinese steel manufacturer and a Chinese maker of artificial sweetener. The agency on Wednesday accused the companies of being involved in the use of forced labor from China’s far-west region of Xinjiang. The
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Additional charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams are “possible” and it’s “likely” there will be additional defendants charged as part of the alleged scheme in the federal corruption case, a prosecutor said Wednesday at a court hearing. Federal prosecutor Hagan Scotten said they have evidence that
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