Month: June 2023

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer American Airlines and JetBlue said Friday they should be allowed to keep selling tickets on each other’s flights in the Northeast and link their frequent-flyer programs despite losing an antitrust trial over their partnership. The Justice Department said if the airlines get their wish, travelers would miss out on

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles police sergeant and five officers broke department policy when they opened fire last year on an armed man who refused to follow officers’ commands, killing him, a police commission found. The Board of Police Commissioners voted on May 23 to approve a Los Angeles Police Department internal investigation

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Democratic Party of Oregon says it will send a half-million dollars to the U.S. Marshals Service to conform with a request from the U.S. Department of Justice. The party had received the campaign donation from a former executive at the disgraced cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Oregon

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has settled with Walgreens for $500 million over the pharmacy chain’s role in distributing highly addictive prescription painkillers. The agreement was signed in March, and state officials confirmed that a confidentiality provision on the agreement was lifted Friday. The settlement is in addition to $274 million in settlements

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — NorthWestern Energy will resume construction of a natural gas power plant along Montana’s Yellowstone River following a two-month delay. The move comes after a judge revived a pollution permit for the project despite lingering concerns over its climate changing carbon dioxide emissions. Judge Michael Moses cited

By ED WHITE Associated Press Robert Holmes Bell, a retired federal judge who presided over a trial that included a rare death sentence in Michigan, has died at age 79. Bell was a U.S. district judge for 30 years after serving as a prosecutor and judge in the Lansing area. None of Bell’s cases was

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associates Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan appeals court has disobeyed a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights by ordering the release of three former high-ranking military officers convicted of crimes against humanity. In March, the regional human rights court halted the release of the prisoners “to prevent

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian government appointee looking into allegations of Chinese interference in Canada is stepping down from his role, citing the highly partisan atmosphere around his work. Former Governor General David Johnston said in a letter Friday to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that his leadership of the government’s probe into the purported

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada has taken a dramatic, but not immediate, step toward limiting the amount of Colorado River water used in the most populous part of the nation’s most arid state, after lawmakers gave Las Vegas-area water managers the levers to limit flows to single-family homes. Gov. Joe