Month: June 2022

BRAWLEY, Calif. (AP) — Officials say a Marine Corps aircraft carrying five Marines has crashed in the Southern California desert. Marine Maj. Mason Englehart says the MV-22B Osprey belonged to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing based at Camp Pendleton and went down at 12:25 p.m. Wednesday during training in a remote area near the community

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Senate primary on Wednesday, narrowly defeating former hedge fund CEO David McCormick after a dayslong statewide recount buffeted by litigation that reached the nation’s highest court. The recount determined

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Ballot printing errors have delayed election results for Montana’s new congressional seat. The problems have forced a small northwestern county to count votes by hand in the unexpectedly close Republican primary race between former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and former state Sen. Al “Doc” Olszewski.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says a federally threatened species of orchid that hasn’t been confirmed in the state since 1902 has been found. Department botanists confirmed that a population of small whorled pogonia has been documented on Winooski Valley Park District conservation land in Chittenden County. To protect

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Television viewers will find nearly blanket prime-time coverage of a Congressional hearing Thursday on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That’s with the exception of Fox News Channel. The top-rated cable channel said it will cover the first in a series of House Select Committee public

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Video testimony played for jurors at a civil trial shows Bill Cosby denying sexually abusing a teenage girl at the Playboy Mansion in the mid-1970s. The 12 minutes of clips played Wednesday for Los Angeles County jurors represent the first time Cosby’s voice has

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities have urged a town to evacuate after a wildifire erupted in a hilly area of southern Spain. Three firefighters were injured combating the blaze Wednesday, one of them with burns over 25% of his body. The blaze broke out an area of Andalusia around an hour’s drive northwest of the

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter plans to offer Elon Musk access to its “firehose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets in an effort to push forward the Tesla billionaire’s agreed-to $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform, according to multiple news reports. Lawyers involved in the deal would

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A masked woman in a hooded shirt set a fire at a planned abortion clinic in Wyoming, according to newly released police video, and federal authorities have offered a $5,000 reward for tips leading to her arrest. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives offered the reward Wednesday. The

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — After walking along rural highways in southern Mexico for two days, Venezuelan Wilber Pires spent what was supposed to be a day of rest for several thousand migrants traveling in a caravan, asking for help to buy medicine for his daughter. Two-year-old Valesca Pires was

By STEVE PEOPLES and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Democrats are defending their record on crime a day after an election for district attorney in California exposed lingering vulnerabilities. Voters in San Francisco voted to oust progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who had embraced calls to seek alternatives to incarceration and hold

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer A group of U.S. senators led by Vermont independent Bernie Sanders is lending its support to workers at two CNH Industrial plants in Wisconsin and Iowa who have been on strike for better pay and benefits for more than a month. The senators wrote a letter urging the company

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a wide-ranging gun control bill in response to recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. The bill would raise the age limit for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle and prohibit the sale of ammunition magazines of more than 15 rounds. The

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a Florida police officer has died after a crash with a shooting suspect. Police say the crash occurred early Wednesday in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital city. Officials say a 37-year-old man had shot three family members at his home and fled in his vehicle. A sheriff’s deputy first spotted the

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has accused three U.S. companies of sending China blueprints and technical drawings for satellite and rocket technology and other defense prototypes. The Commerce Department leveled the allegations as it blocked the three companies from exporting items to foreign countries for 180 days. That punishment,

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nomination of Michael Barr, President Joe Biden’s choice to be the top regulator on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, was approved by a congressional committee and sent on the full Senate. Barr, who served as a top Treasury Department official in the Obama administration,

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan prosecutor says he will announce Thursday whether charges will be filed in the death of Patrick Lyoya. He’s the Black man who was on the ground when he was shot in the back of the head by a Michigan police officer in April. Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker

By ALAN SUDERMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press The prestigious Brookings Institution placed its president, retired four-star Marine Gen. John Allen, on administrative leave Wednesday amid a federal investigation into his role in an illegal lobbying campaign on behalf of the wealthy Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. Brookings’ announcement came a day after The Associated

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, his namesake son and his daughter Ivanka have agreed to answer questions under oath next month in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices. That’s unless their lawyers persuade the state’s highest court to step in. A Manhattan

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was delivering her third on-camera goodbye to a departing staffer in less than 24 hours when she quipped to reporters, “I promise we will have a press shop.” She added, “Not everyone is leaving.” It’s a dynamic playing out across

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A union representing housekeeping workers at Atlantic City’s casinos says four of the resorts are not complying with a COVID-related requirement that hotel rooms be cleaned daily. Local 54 of the Unite Here union said Wednesday that state officials need to enforce an order issued

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China and Russia defended their vetoes of a strongly backed U.S. resolution that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea, speaking at a first of its kind General Assembly meeting Wednesday. The debate was held under new rules requiring the General Assembly to

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow has announced that he plans to step down next year. Bacow said in a statement Wednesday to the Ivy League university’s community that there is never a good time to step aside. But he says that the time seems right and that he would like to