ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former health-care worker who illegally accessed the medical records of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she died was sentenced last week to two years in prison. Trent Russell, 34, of Bellevue, Neb., who at the time worked as a transplant coordinator for the Washington Regional Transplant Community and [...]
A federal judge has struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens. The program, lauded as one of the biggest presidential actions to help immigrant families in years, allowed undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to apply for [...]
Federal health officials last week called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed that some dairy workers had signs of infection, even when they didn’t report feeling sick. Farmworkers in close contact with infected animals should be tested and offered treatment even if they show no symptoms, [...]
DETROIT (AP) — About 1,100 workers at the Stellantis Jeep factory in Toledo are facing layoffs early next year as the company takes further steps to cut high inventory at dealerships. Stellantis said that the Toledo South plant, which makes the Jeep Gladiator midsize pickup truck, will go from two daily shifts to one as [...]
PRAGUE (AP) — European nations boosted their defenses in response to the annexation of the Crimea Peninsula in 2014 and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a London-based think tank said, but much remains to be done for them to be ready to face threats from Russia. That’s the conclusion of a report from [...]
PHOENIX — Sponsorship deals were far from Jonny Bottorff’s mind when he transferred to Northern Arizona University on a football scholarship. As money-making opportunities for college athletes have boomed since then, the offensive lineman has earned a few hundred dollars through name, image and likeness deals, but nothing that has changed his life. Bottorff, 23, [...]
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A judge has blocked a Georgia county from approving zoning to allow larger homes in a small island community of black slave descendants. The state’s highest court will have to decide whether residents can challenge, by referendum, zoning changes they fear will lead to unaffordable tax increases. The few dozen black [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse have agreed to pay more than $102 million in cleanup costs to settle a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department, officials said. The settlement does not cover any damages for rebuilding the bridge, officials said in a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said it is launching a broad investigation into the state of competition in air travel, including the effect of mergers and joint ventures between airlines. The investigation is being handled by the Justice Department’s antitrust division and the Transportation Department. The administration has successfully blocked three airline deals in [...]