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Associated Press Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has nominated state Supreme Court Justice Raheem L. Mullins to become the next chief justice. Lamont on Thursday called Mullins a fair, sensible and empathetic jurist with experience serving in all three levels of the state court system. If confirmed by the General Assembly next year, Mullins will replace

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal agents in Puerto Rico say they have seized $6 million worth of cocaine and arrested two men from the Dominican Republic in waters south of the U.S. territory. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday that more than 660 pounds of cocaine were found aboard a boat traveling

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prominent civil rights lawyer Ben Crump is advertising on players’ outfits at the U.S. Open Grand Slam tennis tournament this week by placing his firm’s name on sponsor patches worn during matches. “Ben Crump Law” appeared on a sleeve of the shirt worn by the Czech Republic’s Tomas Machac

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is defending his government’s decision to give special fast-track citizenship to Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov. Durov is now under preliminary charges in France over alleged criminal activity on his popular platform. Macron also said he was unaware that Durov was coming to France before his

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a new book, former President Donald Trump threatens to imprison Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg if the tech mogul does anything akin to his 2020 donations that helped fund local election offices. Trump made the threats in a new book he published called “Save America.” In the book he

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is restarting an immigration program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to come to the United States. The administration said Thursday that it’s now including “additional vetting” of their U.S.-based financial sponsors following fraud concerns. The Department of Homeland Security had suspended the program

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Investigators say an inmate found dead at a maximum-security prison in Wisconsin was strangled in his cell. Sheriff’s deputies were called to the Green Bay Correctional Institution on Tuesday evening for a report of an inmate who wasn’t breathing and found 19-year-old Micah Laureano dead at the scene. An initial investigation

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A film project has earned former Boston Celtics forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis a temporary reprieve from the start of his three-year prison term for a fraud conviction. Judge Valerie E. Caproni on Wednesday said Davis can wait until October to start serving his three-year, four-month stint for defrauding

Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Jurors in the first criminal trial linked to New Hampshire’s sprawling child abuse scandal have begun deliberations in the case of a former youth detention center worker charged with repeatedly raping a teenage girl two decades ago. Sixty-two-year-old Victor Malavet is one of nine men charged in connection with

Associated Press The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a Jewish family had the free-speech right to blanket their yard with signs decrying hate and racism after their next-door neighbor hurled an antisemitic slur at them during a property dispute 10 years ago. The court ruled Simon and Toby Galapo were exercising their rights under

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Not even a presidential election is likely to slow the wave of fantasy novels that has been building the past few years. This fall’s most anticipated releases include Brandon Sanderson’s “Wind and Truth,” Jeff VanderMeer’s “Absolution,” Alan Moore’s “The Great When,” Cecy Robson’s “Bloodguard” and Kerri Maniscalco’s “Throne