News

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis man has been charged with trying to intimidate the judge presiding over the manslaughter trial of the former officer charged in Daunte Wright’s death.The Star Tribune reports Cortez A. Rice was charged last week with tampering with a judicial officer, a felony. Rice allegedly went into a condominium building where

By DASHA LITVINOVA, AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak in a video call Tuesday. Tensions between the U.S. and Russia have escalated over a Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border that’s seen as a sign of a

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro has canceled its New Year’s Eve party due to renewed COVID-19 fears. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes announced the decision on social media on Saturday. Paes had previously promised the biggest New Year’s Eve party ever, with multiple firework displays and artists performing on a dozen stages across

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police say at least 21 people died after a bus carrying choir members to a wedding plunged into a river in Kenya on Saturday. Mwingi East Sub-County Police Commander Joseph Yakan said the driver tried to steer the bus past a flooded bridge, but the strong current swept the vehicle into

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police shot a Palestinian after an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed and wounded near Damascus Gate just outside Jerusalem’s Old City. The crowded area is often the scene of demonstrations and clashes. The Magen David Adom emergency service said it treated an ultra-Orthodox man in his 20s, saying he was in

By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate who survived an execution attempt and died years later of natural causes was laid to rest in a grave dug by family and friends. A defense attorney says Doyle Lee Hamm was buried Friday afternoon beside his parents, siblings and other relatives at

By KATHLEEN FOODY and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge has imposed a combined $1 million bond for the parents of the Michigan teen charged with killing four students at Oxford High School, hours after police said they were caught hiding in a commercial building. James and Jennifer Crumbley entered not

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Winter has started out weird in the United States. It’s been flip flop weather in much of the country with the Pacific Northwest getting record rainfall while Denver and the Rockies still are waiting for their first significant snowfall of the season. Meteorologists say a stuck jet stream, the

By ILIANA MIER Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly priest as he arrived for a meeting in Athens with the head of the country’s Orthodox church. The priest shouted: “Pope, you are a heretic!” three times as Francis arrived at the residence of the head of Greece’s Orthodox