Associated Press NAIROBI (AP) — Western envoys in Kenya have raised concerns over reports of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances and urged for swift investigations as the country takes up its seat in the United Nations Human Rights Council. In a joint statement on Thursday, the nine ambassadors and high commissioners said they “will support
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With just days before the presidential election, Latino voters are facing a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the artificial intelligence age: chatbots generating unfounded claims in Spanish about voting rights. AI models are producing a stream of election-related falsehoods in
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit against a white Minnesota state trooper who shot and killed a Black man during a 2023 traffic stop. The judge has ruled that the trooper’s actions did not violate the law. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel granted Trooper Ryan Londregan’s motion to dismiss
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer Quentin Tarantino’s handwritten script for “Pulp Fiction” is the stuff of moviemaking legend. And now it’s going to be preserved by the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. The script is one of many new acquisitions to the vast academy collection, the largest film-related collection in the world, the organization announced Thursday. Other
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Prosecutors in Finland have filed charges over alleged war crimes in 2014 by a combatant who fought against Ukrainian forces in a Russian-backed separatist region of Ukraine.The National Prosecution Authority did not identify the suspect while announcing the five charges Thursday in a statement, but Finnish media outlets as Russian
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge has charged the country’s detained former central bank governor with illicit enrichment and issued an arrest warrant. The warrant issued for Riad Salameh on Thursday is the second in less than two months. Salameh was charged by the judge over an apartment that was rented in France
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The late Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio’s first and only female House speaker, has been eulogized at the Ohio Statehouse for blazing trails for women with grit, grace and a guiding spirit. Davidson died Friday at 97. Her memorial service Thursday attracted one current and three former governors, sitting congressional
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — School resource officers Chase Boyd and Brandon King ran toward the sound of gunfire, rounding a corner inside a Winder, Georgia, high school to find a hallway shrouded in dust and smoke – and through the haze, the silhouette of a shooter. “The reason he is still alive is
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A Paris commercial court has lifted a ban that had prevented Israeli defense companies from exhibiting weapons used by its military in the Mideast conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon at the upcoming Euronaval trade show. The decision, made on Wednesday night, came just days before the international naval defense exhibition opens in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DENVER (AP) — A national campaign is backing ballot measures in six states to end partisan primaries. The current system gives the most active members of both major parties an outsize role in picking political leaders. The $70 million effort to replace traditional primaries with either nonpartisan ones or ranked choice voting is
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — An appeals court in Slovakia has upheld a lower court ruling that found former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and given him a suspended sentence. But the regional court in the eastern city of Presov has lowered the original suspended sentence from two years to one, dismissed a fine
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A Republican committeeman has asked a judge to stop early voting in Missouri’s third-largest county until it allows “watchers” or challengers” to observe the polls. The county’s election director and Republican secretary of state say early voting will continue in St. Charles County until a judge issues a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) — As voters in nine states determine whether to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitutions, opponents are using parental rights and anti-transgender messages to try to undermine support for the ballot proposals. The measures do not mention gender-affirming surgeries. Legal experts say changing existing parental notification and consent laws regarding
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Comedian-actor Bill Burr will host the first post-election “Saturday Night Live” with musical guest guitarist, producer and vocalist Mk.gee. Charli XCX is also coming up. Burr, on tour with his “Bill Burr Live” show and who will join Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk on Broadway this spring on a revival of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan economist known for his work defending human rights has been detained after criticizing the government in remarks posted on social media during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the North African kingdom. Morocco’s state news agency says prosecutors apprehended Fouad Abdelmoumni in Casablanca on Wednesday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Donald Trump is planning to cast his vote on Election Day despite having previously said he was going to vote early. In a radio interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade that aired last week, Trump had said that he intended to vote early — something Kilmeade
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four voters and a Hispanic civil rights group sued Iowa’s top election official, alleging he infringed upon their rights when he directed election workers to challenge some voters’ ballots in an attempt to keep ineligible noncitizens from illegally voting. The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa filed a
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The story has been corrected to note that the material was no longer radioactive. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Fire Department determined there was no hazardous material exposure after empty containers of hazardous material fell off a shipping company vehicle on Wednesday. Jeffrey Hoelscher, a spokesman for the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on senior members of the armed wing of a Mexican drug cartel that operates on border territories in and around Chihuahua, Mexico. Five Mexican citizens and two companies linked to La Linea, a violent Mexico-based drug trafficking organization that smuggles fentanyl and other synthetic
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — With just days until Election Day, investigators in Oregon have shared new details about a man they say is responsible for three recent fires at ballot drop boxes which damaged hundreds of ballots – and are warning he may continue his attacks. Investigators have not identified the suspect,
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