Jury awards $730K to Secret Service agent detained on duty
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal jury has awarded $730,000 to a Black Secret Service agent, finding that two white U.S. Park Police officers unlawfully detained him in 2015 as he waited to accompany a Cabinet secretary’s motorcade.
Key lawmaker quizzes airlines on delays, worker shortages
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key senator is asking six U.S. airlines to explain the high rates of delayed and canceled flights this summer, and she's asking whether there are labor shortages despite the airlines getting billions in federal aid to
Manitoba government dealing again with fallout from premier’s history comments
WINNIPEG — Manitoba's new minister for Indigenous relations has issued an apology as the government continues to deal with the fallout from Premier Brian Pallister's remarks on Canadian history. In a prepared statement, Alan Lagimodiere says he sincere...
Ammon Bundy asks judge to toss trespassing verdict, acquit
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy has asked a judge to throw out his conviction for trespassing at the Idaho Capitol and acquit him instead because he says the state's trespassing law should not be applied to public
Witness: Commissioner used arson money to buy campaign signs
ATLANTA (AP) — Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck improperly took money from the private insurer he led and used it to buy campaign signs when the Republican ran for office in 2018, a witness testified Friday in Beck’s trial.
Gladiator costume-clad rioter arrested; filmed melee for mom
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 while wearing a Roman gladiator costume and narrated the melee in videos for his mother has been arrested, authorities said.
UK reverses plan to open up travel to France due to variant
LONDON (AP) — The British government threw the holiday plans of tens of thousands of people into disarray Friday night when it reversed plans to open up travel from France because of concerns about a COVID-19 variant circulating in the
Biden: Social media platforms ‘killing people’ with misinfo
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that social media companies are “killing people” by failing to police misinformation on their platforms about COVID-19 vaccines.
New Merck pneumonia vaccine OK’d in US weeks after Pfizer’s
U.S. regulators have approved a new pneumonia vaccine from Merck, more than a month after OK'ing an improved version of rival Pfizer’s shot.
Company wants to appeal decision that rejected proposed Alberta open-pit coal mine
CALGARY — The company behind a proposed open-pit coal mine in Alberta's Rocky Mountains has filed a request to appeal a decision by a review panel that rejected the project as being not in the public interest. Benga Mining Limited filed