Martha Ackmann

Jason Gale | Bloomberg News (TNS) The loss of taste and smell — hallmarks of a coronavirus infection early in the pandemic — became a stubborn blight for many long COVID-19 sufferers, but new research shows that the sensory problems…
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By KATE BRUMBACK | Associated Press ATLANTA — When rapper Young Thug goes to trial later this month on gang and racketeering charges, prosecutors will be allowed to use rap lyrics as evidence against him, a judge ruled Thursday. Fulton…
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By Larry Neumeister | Associated Press NEW YORK — A jury awarded more than $1.2 million to Robert De Niro’s former personal assistant Thursday, finding one of his companies responsible for subjecting her to a toxic work environment. While…
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Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Street fights erupted between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Los Angeles’ Museum of Tolerance after a private screening of video showing the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants.…
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By Emily Wagster Pettus, Michael Goldberg and Ayanna Alexander | Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — People in Mississippi’s largest county are demanding answers about why some polling places ran out of ballots and voters had to wait for them…
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By Christopher Weber | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A California man who has spent 25 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was exonerated and ordered released by a judge on Thursday after prosecutors agreed he had been wrongly…
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By Michael Kunzelman | Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. — A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore was convicted on Thursday of charges that she lied about the finances of a side business to improperly access retirement funds during…
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By Jon Gambrell | Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israeli troops have pushed into Gaza City along a key coastal road on the Mediterranean Sea as part of their war on Hamas, according to satellite images from earlier this week…
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Citibank illegally discriminated against Armenian Americans for years by singling them out on credit card applications based on their surnames, a federal regulator alleged on Wednesday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that…
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New York (CNN) — A tentative five-year labor deal has been reached between the Culinary union and Caesars Entertainment to avert a potential strike at its nine casinos along the Las Vegas Strip, although nine other casinos still face…
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