Month: June 2023

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pop star Kesha and producer Dr. Luke have settled nearly a decade of suits and countersuits over her accusation that he drugged and raped her and his claim that she made it up and defamed him, they announced Thursday, with the singer saying that “only God

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A suspect in a crash that killed five young women in Minneapolis has been charged with 10 state counts of criminal vehicular homicide as well as federal firearms and drug charges. The federal charges against 27-year-old Derrick John Thompson could result in a penalty of life in

By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press Three Native American tribes have devoted decades to returning their ancestral land in Washington to the days before they became the most radioactively contaminated site in the nation’s nuclear weapons complex. But the Yakama Nation, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and Nez Perce Tribe have been left out

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Adnan Syed, whose protracted legal odyssey was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial,” is asking Maryland’s highest court to deny a petition to expand the rights of crime victims in post-conviction proceedings. Syed, who was convicted in 2000 of killing his high school ex-girlfriend, regained his freedom

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The two people who bailed Rep. George Santos out of federal custody have been revealed to be his father and his aunt, a detail the Republican fought to keep secret as he faces criminal charges and swirling questions about his finances. Gercino dos Santos Jr. and

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Israel is inching toward apartheid and drifting further away from the hopes of creating a Palestinian state. Ban spoke to The Associated Press at the end of a three-day visit to the region, which coincides with a

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press “Yellowstone” fans or those curious about what all the fuss is about can now catch how the saga of a wealthy rancher family began, migrating west in “1883.” The series, which streamed exclusively on Paramount+, is now airing Sundays on the Paramount cable network. It stars Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw,

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has collected DNA samples from more than 200 families following last week’s sinking of an overcrowded smuggling vessel off Greece that left more than 500 migrants missing, including scores of Pakistanis. A Foreign Ministry spokesperson told reporters on Thursday that the families had approached the authorities themselves, saying they suspect their

By HOLLY RAMER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — About an hour and a half into its voyage, a missing submersible on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic lost communications. It would take another nine hours before the Canadian research icebreaker Polar Prince, which was supporting the Titan,