Michael Biesecker

The cargo ship Laodicea sails through the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 7, 2022. An Associated Press investigation shows the ship, owned by the Syrian government, is part of an extensive Russian-run smuggling operation that has been hauling stolen Ukrainian grain from ports in occupied Crimea to customers in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Yoruk Isik)

Russia smuggling Ukrainian grain to help pay for Putin鈥檚 war

October 3, 2022 at 7:07 a.m.

When the bulk cargo ship Laodicea docked in Lebanon last summer, Ukrainian diplomats said the vessel was carrying grain stolen by Russia and urged Lebanese officials to impound the ship.

Stella Maris yacht belonging to Rashid Sardarov is docked in Nice, France, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. The boat is believed to be owned by Sardarov, a Russian billionaire oil and gas magnate not yet among the Kremlin-aligned oligarchs sanctioned by the United States and its allies in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The European Union began moving this week to seize at least two superyachts owned by Russians close to Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Colleen Barry)

Fleeing sanctions, oligarchs seek safe ports for superyachts

March 6, 2022 at 12:31 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The massive superyacht Dilbar stretches one-and-a-half football fields in length, about as long as a World War I dreadnought. It boasts two helipads, berths for more than...

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Ashli Babbitt a martyr? Her past tells a more complex story.

January 3, 2022 at 7:28 a.m.

The first time Celeste Norris laid eyes on Ashli Babbitt, the future insurrectionist had just rammed her vehicle three times with an SUV and was pounding on the window, challenging...

Small crack in pipeline may have delayed oil spill detection

October 7, 2021 at 6:34 p.m.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Video of the ruptured pipeline that spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off Southern California shows a thin crack along the top...

Records show fervent Trump fans fueled U.S. Capitol takeover

January 11, 2021 at 7:25 a.m.

The insurrectionist mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol at the president抖阴ap behest last week was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters, including Republican Party officials, GOP political donors, far-right...

Amy Coney Barrett was trustee at private school with anti-gay policies

October 21, 2020 at 8:53 a.m.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served for nearly three years on the board of private Christian schools that effectively barred admission to children of same-sex parents and made it...

Amy Coney Barrett tied to faith group ex-members say subjugates women

September 29, 2020 at 7:47 a.m.

President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court has close ties to a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the "head” of the family...

High court front-runner hailed by right, feared by left

September 22, 2020 at 5:01 p.m.

A front-runner to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a federal appellate judge who has established herself as a reliable conservative...

U.S. Supreme Court front-runner hailed by right, feared by left

September 21, 2020 at 10:46 a.m.

A front-runner to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a federal appellate judge who has established herself as a reliable conservative...

HHS cancelling ventilator contracts, says stockpile is full

September 2, 2020 at 7:40 a.m.

The Trump administration is canceling some of its remaining orders for ventilators, after rushing to sign nearly $3 billion in emergency contracts as the COVID-19 pandemic surged in the spring.

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