Trial of Salman Rushdie’s assailant will remain in the New York county where the stabbing happened
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — An appellate court on Friday denied a request to move the trial of the New Jersey man charged with attacking author Salman Rushdie with a knife in 2022, clearing the way for the
US budget deficit tops $1.8 trillion in fiscal 2024, third-largest on record
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. budget deficit grew to $1.833 trillion for fiscal 2024, the highest outside of the COVID-19 era, as interest on the federal debt topped $1 trillion for the first time
Trump compares jailed Capitol rioters to Japanese internment during World War II
Former President Donald Trump on Friday compared the people jailed on charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to the more than 120,000 people of Japanese origin incarcerated on U.S. soil during World
Trump couldn’t pronounce ‘Assyrians.’ The community is happy to be in the spotlight
PHOENIX (AP) — It was Donald Trump’s mispronunciation that first caught attention. “Also, we have many Asur-Asians in our room,” Trump said at a weekend rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona. “We have some incredible people in our
Judge unseals heavily redacted trove of evidence in Trump’s 2020 election interference case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case made public Friday a heavily redacted trove of documents that provide a small glimpse into the evidence prosecutors will present if the case ever goes
North Carolina early voters, still recovering from Helene, top turnout in 2020
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More North Carolina residents turned out to cast ballots on the first day of early voting this year than in 2020, even as residents from the mountainous western portion of the state continued
Charges dismissed against deaf Black man who police punched and shocked with a Taser
PHOENIX (AP) — All charges have been dismissed against a deaf Black man who was repeatedly punched and shocked with a Taser by Phoenix police officers responding to a call that a man had committed an assault
Condemned South Carolina inmate chooses to die by lethal injection
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A condemned South Carolina inmate chose Friday to be executed by lethal injection, instead of by firing squad or electrocution, for killing a store clerk in 1999. State prison officials had told Richard
The FAA is opening a new review of safety at Boeing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it will open a three-month review of Boeing’s compliance with safety regulations, continuing the agency’s closer oversight of the company since a panel blew off a jetliner during
Trump hotel attracted would-be judges, ambassadors, pardon-seekers, House Democrats say
NEW YORK (AP) — Judges seeking appointments to the federal bench. Wealthy Republicans hoping for ambassadorships. Criminals who wanted pardons. They were among the big spenders at Donald Trump ’s Washington, D.C., hotel while he was president.
