Month: June 2022

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his support Tuesday for his chamber’s emerging bipartisan gun agreement, boosting momentum for modest but notable election-year action by Congress on an issue that’s deadlocked lawmakers for three decades. The Kentucky Republican said he hoped an outline of the accord, released

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court says state courts can keep juror identities secret even if they provide no reasoning for the decision. Tuesday’s ruling rejected a challenge from a southern Arizona journalist who argued that the right to observe trials included access to the names of jurors who

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For tens of millions of Americans who see abortion as wrong, it’s gone this way for a half-century: One woman swayed to reconsider as dozens of others follow through. One clinic’s doors closed only to see desperate patients go elsewhere. One law passed, another overturned.

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (AP) — Police say a north suburban Chicago man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the drowning deaths of his three young children. Round Lake Beach Police Chief Gilbert said at a news conference Tuesday that 35-year-old Jason E. Karels was arrested after leading police on a

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski again had a plane in the air, only this time Chris Hemsworth was at the wheel. They were shooting “Spiderhead,” a science-fiction prison thriller based on a George Saunders story, along the coast of Australia. The film is set

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A U.S. House committee has approved legislation that would put voluntary questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on federal demographic surveys. Under the bill that the Committee on Oversight and Reform sent to the House floor on Tuesday, federal agencies that collect demographic data through surveys would have to

EATONTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia prisoner has been found guilty of murder in the killings of two guards during an escape from a prison bus five years ago. A jury deliberated about 90 minutes Monday evening before convicting Ricky Dubose in the June 2017 shooting deaths of Sgt. Christopher Monica and Sgt. Curtis Billue.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A reality show inspired by Netflix’s hit series “Squid Game” is coming to the streaming service, but with less dire consequences for contestants. In the South Korean-produced drama, players’ lives were at stake. With “Squid Game: The Challenge,”  Netflix says the “worst fate” is going home without winning. The 10-episode competition

By JULIE WALKER and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — UPS has unveiled a battery-powered, four-wheeled cycle to more efficiently haul cargo in some of the world’s most congested streets and to reduce its carbon footprint. The company unveiled the tiny delivery vehicles Tuesday in New York City. It said a trial run

UNION GROVE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say multiple people have been killed in a fiery head-on crash involving two semi-tractor trailers in southeastern Wisconsin. The Racine County Sheriff’s Office said an initial investigation revealed that a semi was pulling was a flatbed trailer on state Highway 11 east of Union Grove when it crossed the

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court has rejected former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid testifying in the state attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices, clearing the way for his deposition next month. The state’s Court of Appeals said Tuesday there was no “substantial constitutional question” that would

A Cuban man charged in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme is being held as a flight risk after officials said he tried to flee the U.S. on a Jet Ski. Court records show that a federal judge in Miami ordered 54-year-old Ernesto Cruz Graveran to be detained pending trial Monday. According to a criminal

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican Party is launching a nine-city “election integrity” tour hitting battleground Wisconsin’s most liberal cities, events that feature a conservative former state Supreme Court justice and that come less than two months before the state’s August primary. The events, which kick off Wednesday, are drawing

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer charged with causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history defended himself at the start of his trial, telling jurors he was falsely accused and the victim of a witch hunt. Just after a prosecutor in an opening statement

MOSCOW (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner will remain in Russian custody through at least July 2, Russian state-run news agency Tass reported Tuesday. The 31-year-old American basketball player has been held in Russia since February when she was detained at a Moscow airport after authorities there claimed she was carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A shootout between police and gunmen in central Mexico has left ten suspects dead and four wounded. Prosecutors in the State of Mexico said three detectives were also wounded in the gun battle. Their injuries were apparently not life-threatening. The shooting occurred Tuesday about 80 miles (130 kilometers) southwest of Mexico

DUNCANVILLE, Texas (AP) — Police have revealed the identity of the man with a handgun they fatally shot at a Dallas-area gymnasium where about 150 children were attending a day camp. In a Tuesday statement, Duncanville police say 42-year-old Brandon Keith Ned of Dallas was the man they killed in a Monday morning gunfight at

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Hundreds of Baptists have been meeting at an open-air amphitheater in Havana on recent Sundays. That’s because their church was severely damaged by an explosion at the neighboring Hotel Saratoga just over a month ago. The blast killed 46 people, though those in the church itself were

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran appears to be readying for a space launch as satellite images showed a rocket on a rural desert launch pad, just as tensions remain high over Tehran’s nuclear program. The images Tuesday from Maxar Technologies showed a launch pad at Imam Khomeini Spaceport

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fisher-Price and U.S. product safety regulators are telling parents not to let their infants fall asleep in the company’s rockers after 13 infants died in the devices between 2009 and 2021. The deaths happened when the babies fell asleep in Fisher Price’s Infant-to-Toddler and Newborn-to-Toddler rockers.