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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The yearslong case against six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting a bogus certificate that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election has been dismissed, a judge ruled Thursday. The dismissal marks the latest setback in swing states’ efforts to prosecute fake electors who tried to keep Trump in the White House after he lost to Joe Biden in 2020. […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man used a screwdriver to fatally stab his wife and their 7-year-old daughter inside a Minnesota daycare Wednesday morning before killing himself, according to a search warrant released Thursday. The Hennepin County search warrant obtained by The Associated Press identified the man as Nathan Brown, 41. It says he stabbed his wife, 41-year-old Kristen Brown, and their daughter, Evie Brown, inside the daycare that Kristen Brown […]

By Leika Kihara and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Japan may conduct joint yen intervention “at any time” and signal the chance of faster-than-expected interest rate hikes to stem the currency’s falls, said Tokyo’s former top currency diplomat Mitsuhiro Furusawa. The yen is “clearly too weak” at current levels and hurting the economy by boosting import costs, Furusawa said, adding that Tokyo and Washington could step in again […]

Aug 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has allowed the Navy to build ships overseas and ordered it to abandon a complex system for launching jet fighters from its aircraft carriers and instead return to using steam catapults, the White House said on Thursday. Trump signed a national security memorandum directing the change, which would require the fourth vessel in the Gerald R. Ford class of aircraft carriers to […]

BRASILIA, Aug 13 (Reuters) – The Brazilian government has opened a process that could result in the adoption of reciprocal measures against the United States in response to tariffs recently imposed by Washington on the country’s goods, it said in a Thursday statement.  The U.S. government announced tariffs of 25% last month on some Brazilian goods, alleging unfair trade practices, as well as 12.5% tariffs on goods from dozens of nations, […]

By Renju Jose SYDNEY, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday that the AUKUS defence pact remained “full steam ahead” after an overnight phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, and said he had urged him to fully exempt Australia from all tariffs. Albanese said both leaders agreed that AUKUS, a defence pact between Australia, the U.S. and Britain that will deliver nuclear-powered submarines to […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Chilean government transferred nearly 300 high-risk inmates to a sprawling new prison on Thursday, as hard-line President José Antonio Kast seeks to regain momentum on his core campaign pledge to combat organized crime. Kast traveled to the recently opened La Laguna Prison, among Chile’s biggest, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Chile’s capital of Santiago, to oversee the transfer, which his government described […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Fireworks burst over Pakistan’s capital at midnight as jubilant crowds poured into streets across the country to mark the 79th anniversary of independence, waving national flags and chanting “Long Live Pakistan.” Women and children joined the late-night celebrations as roads and public spaces filled with people dressed in green and white. In Islamabad, crowds gathered along major roads as fireworks illuminated the night sky. Pakistan emerged as […]

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Lindsay Clancy searched online about hallucinations, psychosis and the side effects of several drugs she was prescribed in the weeks before she strangled her three young children in January 2023, according to an analysis of her phone data presented at Thursday’s murder trial in Massachusetts. Clancy looked up suicide methods, bipolar disorder and insomnia at the end of December 2022 and, in January, went in search […]