Politics

Five European countries will extend ban on Ukraine’s grain

By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press

The declaration said they support continuing to allow Ukraine’s grain to move through their borders by road, rail and river to destinations where it is needed but will keep the import ban to their countries through 2023.

Judge upholds the $5 million verdict against Trump in E. Jean Carroll’s sex abuse and defamation case

By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said Wednesday the jury's May award of compensatory and punitive damages to writer E. Jean Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation in the civil case was reasonable.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologizes for a previous ban on LGBTQ+ people in the military

By Sylvia Hui, Associated Press

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by saying that a previous ban on LGBTQ+ people serving in the U.K. military was “an appalling failure of the British state.”…

Federal judge rejects Trump’s bid to move hush-money criminal case, keeping it in New York state court

By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press

U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein's decision Wednesday sets the stage for Trump to stand trial in state court in Manhattan as early as next spring, overlapping with the 2024 presidential primary season.

Louisiana youths held in an old death row building suffer heat, isolation, advocates say

By Kevin McGill, Associated Press

Advocates for juveniles held in a former death row building at a Louisiana prison say the youths are suffering through dangerous heat and psychologically damaging isolation in their prison cells with little or no mental health care, schooling or water.

South Africa says Putin will skip a Johannesburg summit next month because of his ICC arrest warrant

By Gerald Imray, Associated Press

The decision means South Africa will not have to face the dilemma of whether it should act on an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against the Russian leader.

DEA official resigns amid reports of previous Big Pharma consulting work

By Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, Associated Press

Louis Milione’s four years of consulting for Big Pharma preceded his 2021 return to the DEA to serve as Administrator Anne Milgram’s top deputy, renewing concerns in the agency and beyond about the revolving door between government and industry and…

WATCH: White House holds briefing amid hearing on the IRS investigation of Hunter Biden

By Associated Press

GOP lawmakers have summoned IRS whistleblowers to testify publicly for the first time about claims the Justice Department improperly interfered with a tax investigation into Biden’s son Hunter.

WATCH: IRS employees share claims about Hunter Biden probe with House panel

By Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press

Lawmakers were hearing from the two IRS agents assigned to Hunter Biden case, which looked into his failure to pay taxes.

WATCH: Israeli President Herzog addresses joint meeting of Congress

By Farnoush Amiri, Zeke Miller, Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press

While lawmakers repeatedly rose to their feet in thundering applause of Herzog's recounting of Israel's founding, a handful of leading young progressive Democrats boycotted his speech.