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NYC Mayor Eric Adams gets April 2025 trial date as his lawyers fight to get bribery charge tossed

Nov. 02, 2024 10:44 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ federal corruption trial will begin next April, a judge ruled Friday, right in the thick of his promised reelection campaign. U.S. District Judge Dale E. Ho set the trial date as Adams returned to Manhattan federal court for a...

Embattled Republican candidate fights on in North Carolina governor's race

Nov. 01, 2024 12:59 PM EDT

ELLERBE, N.C. (AP) — Addressing over 100 supporters outside an ice cream stand that's shaped like a giant strawberry, North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson battered his Democratic rival for governor and the media, and said he'd keep fighting as their race neared its conclusion. ...

Ping! Harris and Trump are blowing up your phones with political texts in campaign's last days

Oct. 31, 2024 05:07 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the millions of Americans on the radar of the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns and those of their allies, the apocalypse is only a text message away. The very future of the republic is at stake, some of the texts say and many others imply. But you —...

Dominant Kurdish parties maintain their sway in the election for the parliament in the Iraqi region

Oct. 30, 2024 20:41 PM EDT

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Election results from the vote for the regional parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region show the two dominant Kurdish parties have maintained their hold while an opposition party has made inroads, officials said Wednesday. According to the...

France announces new investments in disputed Western Sahara

Oct. 29, 2024 19:01 PM EDT

A French delegation visiting Morocco with President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday unveiled investment plans in the disputed Western Sahara as part of a broader suite of agreements and partnerships between the two countries. Projects in Dakhla and the Guelmim-Oued Noun region are among...

Investigation finds Rhode Island governor played a role in awarding contract

Oct. 29, 2024 17:51 PM EDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A long-running investigation found Tuesday that the Rhode Island governor “personally and directly intervened” in the awarding of a multimillion-dollar state contract but that his actions were not criminal. The findings of the investigation from the...

Russian actors made fake video depicting mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed, FBI says

Oct. 25, 2024 20:52 PM EDT

YARDLEY, Pa. (AP) — Russian actors were behind a widely circulated video falsely depicting mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being destroyed in Pennsylvania, U.S. officials confirmed on Friday. The video had taken off on social media Thursday but was debunked within three hours by...

Federal judge dismisses RNC lawsuit over Michigan voter records

Oct. 22, 2024 19:54 PM EDT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A federal court in Michigan dismissed a lawsuit over voter records, dealing another blow this week to the Republican National Committee's efforts to target the battleground state over the voting process. The lawsuit accused the Secretary of State Jocelyn...

Former Georgia insurance commissioner, now a federal prisoner, surrenders law license

Oct. 22, 2024 13:06 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, now in federal prison, has surrendered his law license after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The Georgia Supreme Court, in a brief decision on Tuesday, accepted Oxendine's surrender,...

‘Notoriously slow:’ Lengthy investigations into California politicians leave voters in the dark

Oct. 21, 2024 15:43 PM EDT

A $1,044 outing at a glitzy Hollywood nightclub. A $1,316 meal at a Los Angeles steak and seafood restaurant. A $4,500 experience to see the L.A. Dodgers. Isaac Galvan paid for them all — with campaign cash, a state probe found. In his nine years on the Compton City Council,...