Associated Press Marvel star Anthony Mackie swam with sharks in the Gulf of Mexico for the new National Geographic special “Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie” debuting Thursday. The actor loves boating and fishing and is a certified scuba diver who has swam with sharks around the world. New Orleans is his hometown and Mackie says
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) — Local and federal agencies say that a group of more than a hundred Haitian migrants arrived in a sailboat off the lower Florida Keys. The landing Monday morning comes as the Caribbean nation is struggling with a surge of gang violence that has killed several thousand people in recent years
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A county coroner says a counselor at Wisconsin’s youth prison has been declared brain-dead following a fight with an inmate. Lincoln County Coroner Valerie Caylor says Wednesday the man was declared brain-dead on Tuesday so the family could proceed with organ donation. State Department of Corrections officials identified him
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Maria Santana, CNN (CNN) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to 45 years in prison and given an $8 million fine by a US judge for drug trafficking offenses. He has previously denied the charges against him and at his sentencing on Wednesday insisted that he is innocent and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A jury has recommended that a former prison guard trainee be sentenced to death for his execution-style murders of five women inside a Florida bank five years ago. The jury voted 9-3 Wednesday to recommend that Zephen Xaver receive the death penalty for the Jan. 23, 2019, massacre at the SunTrust Bank in
Continue ReadingWEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Former “Jackass” star Bam Margera will spend six months on probation after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct Wednesday over an altercation at his home near Philadelphia. Margera, 44, had been charged with assaulting his brother and making threats to other family members during what the brother called a “frightening and
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Winter and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Adding to a growing list of school districts banning cell phones, the nation’s largest could be moving to do the same as early as January. Phone usage during the school day has not only become a distraction, but an addiction, David Banks, the chancellor of New
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine federal court has opened proceedings in the trial of three people suspected in the assassination attempt two years ago of then-Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, one of the country’s most powerful and divisive political figures in recent decades. On that day, Sept. 1, 2022, Fernández
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, as a legal case plays out. That’s according to a Bloomberg News report. Bloomberg says a copy of the opinion was briefly posted Wednesday on the court’s website. Bloomberg says
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in New York Wednesday to 45 years in prison for teaming up with some bribe-paying drug traffickers for over a decade to ensure over 400 tons of cocaine made it to the United States. Judge P. Kevin Castel sentenced
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) — Human rights experts working for the United Nations have accused Sudan’s warring parties of using starvation as a war weapon, amid mounting warnings about imminent famine in the African nation. In a statement Wednesday, they said both the military and the Rapid Support Forces “are using food as a weapon
Continue ReadingTIRANA, Albania (AP) — Two doctors and five other medical workers in Albania have been charged with abusing their posts by sending cancer patients for costly treatment elsewhere instead of providing free public care. Prosecutors allege that the workers with the public Oncology Hospital in the capital, Tirana, directed patients to private medical clinics where
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AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger has endorsed President Joe Biden. “I am proud to stand up here today as a conservative Republican, and endorsing Joe Biden,” Kinzinger said during a Georgia news conference. Biden thanked the Republican for his endorsement, now a prominent new ally in his
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced a debt restructuring deal with countries including India, France, Japan and China in a televised address to the nation. The agreement marks a key step in the country’s economic recovery after defaulting on debt repayment in 2022. Sri Lanka is in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (AP) — Dorothy Carr is fed up with how things are run in her hometown. It’s impossible to get a doctor’s appointment through Britain’s state-run health care system. Local buses have been canceled. There isn’t enough public housing. Like many others in Clacton-on-Sea — a town on England’s southeast coast where
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Sean Rowe, a 49-year-old bishop from western Pennsylvania, on Wednesday became the youngest person ever elected as leader of the Episcopal Church. He immediately issued a sobering call for the church, which has faced division and chronic membership loss, to confront an “existential crisis” that he compared with the steel industry collapse in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five people were charged Wednesday with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for the acquittal of defendants in one of the country’s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI announced Wednesday. Court documents made public reveal an
Continue ReadingCNN By Stephanie Busari, Lauren Kent, Nimi Princewill and Larry Madowo, CNN (CNN) — Kenyan President William Ruto said Wednesday that he will not sign a controversial finance bill, backing down in the face of mass protests that swept the country and reportedly left at least 23 people dead. “Having reflected on the continuing conversation
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security. The justices in a 6-3 vote on Wednesday threw out lower-court rulings that favored
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s government has ordered the dissolution of multiple extreme right and radical Muslim groups, four days before the first round of high-stakes legislative elections that may see a surge in support for political extremes. Snap national elections called by pro-business moderate President Emmanuel Macron have plunged the country into a
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