Month: June 2023

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden will go before a judge next month to formally strike a plea agreement with prosecutors on tax and gun charges that will likely spare President Joe Biden’s son time behind bars, according to court documents posted Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika must still approve

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a gynecologist should face at least 25 years in prison for assaulting a “staggering number of victims” during a quarter-century career as a serial sexual predator disguised as a doctor at prestigious Manhattan hospitals. Their presentence submission in Manhattan federal court late Tuesday

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon religious leader convicted multiple times of sexually abusing a former church member when she was a child has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Michael Sperou was sentenced Tuesday for two counts of unlawful sexual penetration. Prosecutors declined to bring charges against Sperou in 1997

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday increased the amount of biofuels that must be blended into the nation’s fuel supplies over the next three years, but held production totals steady for corn-based ethanol, disappointing the biofuel industry and farm advocates. Michael Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran Associated Press journalist Jack Stokes has died. Stokes was the news cooperative’s steadfast supporter and spent the last years of his decades-long career before his retirement as its spokesman. He was 73. Stokes was an avid cyclist and athlete. His longtime partner, Lorene Bradshaw, says

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The Afghanistan team’s status for the 2024 Paris Olympics has been put in question by the IOC over growing frustration with the Taliban blocking access to sport for women and girls. The International Olympic Committee says it “continues to be extremely concerned” about the sports situation

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents on a social media platform pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal felony charges. Twenty-one-year-old Jack Teixeira entered a not-guilty plea during a hearing in Worcester’s federal court days after he was indicted by a grand jury

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Afghanistan is warning the country’s Taliban rulers that international recognition as the country’s legitimate government will remain “nearly impossible” unless they lift severe restrictions on women and girls’ education and employment. Roza Otunbayeva told the Security Council on Wednesday that the