The missionary group, which included five children, was kidnapped by the “400 Mawozo” gang on Saturday after visiting an orphanage near the capital Port-au-Prince.
While one sailor has been charged with setting the fire, the more than 400-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, lists three dozen officers and sailors whose failings either directly led to the ship’s loss or contributed to it.
As part of the settlement, Facebook also agreed in the settlement announced Tuesday to train its employees in anti-discrimination rules and to conduct more widespread advertising and recruitment for job opportunities in its permanent labor certification program.
Federal agents conducted “law enforcement activity” on Tuesday at a Washington house owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Circuit Judge Clifton Newman issued the decision after hearing attorneys describe how Murdaugh used portions of $3.4 million in insurance payments to pay off his father, personal credit card bills and checks to himself.
The ACLU and an attorney for the family says the 10-year-old girl’s rights were violated when she was detained and questioned without her mom. She was then handcuffed and brought to jail without being charged with a crime, the ACLU said.
The USDA says the industry has succeeded in reducing the level of salmonella contamination found in poultry plants in recent years, but that hasn’t translated into the reduction in illnesses the agency wants to see.
The agency is preparing to OK getting a different brand of booster shot than the one a person initially received. The New York Times reported the FDA might note that getting the same vaccine as a booster is preferable, but it is not planning to recommend one shot over the other.
Award-winning country singer Travis Tritt is canceling some shows on his tour at venues that have COVID-19 vaccination policies or mask mandates in place.
Elijah Lewis, 5, was first reported missing to authorities on Thursday. A waterfront home in Merrimack, N.H., was his last known location, and authorities said he was last seen there some six months ago.
Officials say a 4-year-old boy who fell off a 70-foot cliff at Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky suffered a few scratches and bruises, but walked away without any severe injuries.
Some members of the 51-member New York City Council have called for years for the statue to be removed from the room where they conduct business because Jefferson was a slaveholder. The Public Design Commission held off on approving a plan to send the statue to the New-York Historical Society as a long-term loan after some participants at a virtual public hearing said it should be moved to a different room in City Hall instead.
Police have released the name of a third suspect wanted in a shooting that wounded two adults and three teenagers outside a high school football game in Alabama.
Officials with the National Advocates for Pregnant Women on Monday condemned the sentencing of 21-year-old Brittney Poolaw earlier this month in Comanche County. Poolaw was charged with first-degree manslaughter and sentenced to four years in prison. An autopsy of Poolaw’s fetus showed it tested positive for methamphetamine.
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG
The committee asserts that Bannon has no legal standing to rebuff it — even as Trump’s lawyer has argued his information is protected by executive privilege.
The maps that overhaul how Texas’ nearly 30 million residents are sorted into political districts bookends a highly charged year in the state over voting rights.
Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit to block the release of documents to the Jan. 6 committee, challenging President Joe Biden’s decision.
A Los Angeles judge on Monday approved the request of the rapper, producer and fashion designer to legally change his name from Kanye Omari West to just Ye, with no middle or last name. The petition filed Aug. 24 cited “personal reasons.”
A veteran of the Vietnam War, Colin Powell rose to the rank of four-star general and in 1989 became the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan are charged with murder and other crimes in Arbery’s death on Feb. 23, 2020, just outside the port city of Brunswick.
Vanessa Bryant says in court papers she has suffered “severe emotional distress" after first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant.
The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Benjamin Dictor, said Trump was questioned on a variety of topics, including comments he’s made at campaign rallies in which he appeared to encourage security personnel to treat protesters harshly.
Microsoft has confirmed that executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee but dropped the matter after he told them he would stop.
Earlier this month, NATO withdrew the accreditation of eight Russian officials to deny them access to its Brussels headquarters, saying it believes they have been secretly working as intelligence officers. NATO also halved the size of Moscow’s team at its headquarters from 20 to 10. Moscow has dismissed the accusations as baseless, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced Moscow’s response Monday.
The Justice Department asked the high court Monday to lift an order imposed by a conservative federal appeals court that has allowed Texas to continue enforcing the nation’s strictest curbs on abortion through a novel law that was written to make it hard to challenge in the federal court system. The department had announced its intentions last Friday.
Michael Regan, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said it is taking a series of actions to limit pollution from a cluster of long-lasting chemicals known as PFAS that are increasingly turning up in public drinking water systems, private wells and even food.
Biden and his fellow Democrats are struggling to bridge intraparty divides by month’s end to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a larger social services package. The president hopes to nail down both before Air Force lifts off for Europe on Oct. 28 for a pair of world leader summits, including the most ambitious climate change meeting in years.
