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Trump’s CNN remarks allowed in accuser E. Jean Carroll’s expanded lawsuit
The New York author who won a $5 million sexual abuse trial against Donald Trump was allowed to expand an earlier defamation lawsuit to add remarks he made about her on a CNN town hall and seek at least $10 million more in damages. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on...
Mexican president picks veteran diplomat to be next foreign minister
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president on Tuesday named Alicia Bárcena, the country’s current ambassador to Chile, as the next foreign relations secretary, replacing Marcelo Ebrard who resigned to pursue the presidential nomination. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador noted the solid background of the Harvard-educated Bárcena, who served for almost 14...
Minibus slams into parked pickup killing 15 in Southern Egypt
CAIRO — A speeding minibus slammed into a pickup parked on the side of a desert road in Southern Egypt on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people, authorities said. The fatal crash occurred on the eastern bank of the Nile River near the Egyptian town of al-Saff, roughly 34 miles...
Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he illegally kept classified documentsVideo
MIAMI — Donald Trump became the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as he pleaded not guilty in a Miami courtroom Tuesday to dozens of felony counts accusing him of hoarding classified documents and refusing government demands to give them back. The history-making court date, centered...
Relatives fight for custody of Indigenous kids who survived Amazon plane crash
BOGOTA, Colombia — A custody battle has broken out among relatives of four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and 40 harrowing days alone in the Amazon rainforest in an extraordinary showing of youthful resilience that captivated people around the world. The siblings, ranging in age from 1 to...
Buttigieg, other officials to visit collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the site in Philadelphia on Tuesday where an out-of-control tractor-trailer hauling gasoline flipped over on an Interstate 95 off-ramp, caught fire and destroyed a section of the East Coast’s main north-south highway. One body was pulled from the wreckage. Buttigieg was...
German curator on a mission to return silver heirlooms stolen from Jewish families by the Nazis
MUNICH — Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it. The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the Nazis stole from Jewish families during...
Panic, yelling as tour boat capsizes inside Erie Canal water tunnel in western New York
LOCKPORT, N.Y. — A passenger thrown from a boat that flipped over with 29 people aboard during a tour of a dimly lit cavern system said he fought to breathe in the chilly water under the capsized craft. The flat-bottomed boat carrying local hospitality workers capsized Monday during a tour...
What to expect when Trump appears in federal court in Miami to face felony charges
Donald Trump makes his first appearance in a Miami federal court on Tuesday facing 37 counts related to the mishandling and retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Here’s a look at the charges, the special counsel’s investigation and how Trump’s case differs from those of other politicians known...
U.S. lawmakers ask Biden Administration to punish South Africa for alleged support for Russia
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers wants the Biden Administration to punish South Africa for what they call its support for Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine by relocating an important trade meeting to another country, according to a letter published Tuesday in The New York...
Playground slides doused with pool acid, injuring 2 children
LONGMEADOW, Mass. — Two children suffered what were described as “burn-like injuries” after playing on slides that had been doused with acid at a Massachusetts park, authorities said. Police and firefighters responded to Bliss Park in Longmeadow on Sunday morning for a report of a suspicious substance on the playground...
Transgender, nonbinary people are often sidelined at Pride; this year is different
HARTFORD, Conn. — Kara Murphy, a transgender woman helping to organize the Union County Pride in a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, is heartened to see Pride celebrations across the country, big and small, shining a spotlight on transgender rights this year. “When we look and see who’s standing up...
Lower house of Japan’s parliament passes bill to promote LGBTQ+ awareness, but not guarantee rights
TOKYO — The powerful lower house of Japan’s parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to promote understanding of LGBTQ+ issues amid protests by activists that last-minute revisions by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s conservative party favored opponents of sexual equality instead of guaranteeing equal rights. The passage followed only a few...
Russian missile attack on Ukraine kills at least 11 in Zelenskyy’s hometown
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in a central Ukrainian city overnight, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than two dozen in a warehouse and an apartment building, regional officials said Tuesday. The devastation in Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown, come as Ukrainian forces are...
Beijing criticizes new U.S. sanctions on companies over pilot training, weapons development
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China on Tuesday criticized new sanctions imposed by the U.S. on companies believed to be involved in training Chinese military pilots and aiding weapons development. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin urged Washington to “stop abusing export control measures” to hobble Chinese companies. “The United States has...
Police find 3 dead and 3 other people struck by van in U.K. city of Nottingham
LONDON — A man was arrested on suspicion of murder in the English city of Nottingham on Tuesday after three people were found dead in the street and three others were hit and injured by a van in related early-morning incidents, police said. “This is an horrific and tragic incident...
10 wounded in Denver mass shooting after Nuggets win and suspect taken into custody, police say
DENVER — Ten people were wounded in a mass shooting early Tuesday in Denver in an area where basketball fans had been celebrating the Nuggets first NBA title win, police said, and a suspect was taken into custody. The shooting happened about 12:30 a.m. — about 3½ hours after the...
Trump arrives at Miami court for historic appearance over charges he hoarded secret documents
MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Miami to surrender to authorities ahead of a historic court appearance on charges that he illegally hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He was expected to face a magistrate judge, kickstarting a legal process...
2 active-duty Marines plead guilty to Capitol riot charges
Two men who were active-duty members of the Marines Corps when they stormed the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty on Monday to riot-related criminal charges. Joshua Abate and Dodge Dale Hellonen are scheduled to be sentenced in September by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes. Both pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count...
54-year-old man dies after eating raw oysters from suburban St. Louis stand
MANCHESTER, Mo. — A 54-year-old man died after eating raw oysters from a seafood stand in the St. Louis suburb of Manchester, health officials announced. Officials are urging the public to dispose of any oysters purchased recently from the business. The culprit in Thursday’s death is the Vibrio bacteria, which...
Utah woman accused of killing husband then writing grief book for kids denied bailVideo
PARK CITY, Utah — A Utah mother of three who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death, and was later accused of fatally poisoning him, will remain in jail for the duration of her trial on murder and drug charges, a judge said Monday. Kouri...
New York firefighter drowns while trying to rescue daughter at Jersey Shore beach, authorities sayVideo
NEW YORK — A New York City firefighter lost his life while trying to save his daughter, who became distressed while swimming at a New Jersey beach, authorities said. FDNY firefighter Mark Batista of Teaneck, N.J., died Friday morning, WNBC-TV reported. The 39-year-old reportedly went into the water at Sylvania...
1 dead after tour boat capsizes in Erie Canal water tunnel cave in New York
LOCKPORT, N.Y. — One person was killed and multiple people were sent to local hospitals after a boat capsized Monday during a tour of an underground cavern system built to carry water from the Erie Canal beneath the western New York city of Lockport, officials said. Police and fire crews...
The Great Grift: How billions in covid-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted
WASHINGTON — Much of the theft was brazen, even simple. Fraudsters used the Social Security numbers of dead people and federal prisoners to get unemployment checks. Cheaters collected those benefits in multiple states. And federal loan applicants weren’t cross-checked against a Treasury Department database that would have raised red flags...
Biden to undergo root canal, will miss collegiate athletics event at White House
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is undergoing a root canal after experiencing some dental pain — a procedure that will take him out of commission for at least one public event Monday. Biden’s personal physician, Kevin O’Connor, said in a memo released by the White House that Biden reported the...
