Month: July 2022

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Monday they have declined to bring charges against nine people associated with CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” who were arrested in a building in the U.S. Capitol complex last month. The decision, made by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, comes after prosecutors

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Towering waves on Hawaii’s south shores crashed into homes and businesses, spilled across highways and toppled tables at a wedding reception over the weekend. The National Weather Service says the large waves came from a combination of a southern swell that peaked Saturday evening, unusually high tides

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Key Republicans are warming up to passing a bill that provides roughly $52 billion in incentives for the semiconductor industry. Three weeks ago, the computer chips bill looked like it could be in trouble despite having significant bipartisan support. That’s when Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has invited dozens of diplomats to the presidential palace to present claims regarding supposed vulnerabilities of the country’s electronic voting system, which electoral authorities have already debunked repeatedly. The far-right leader didn’t present any evidence for his claims, which have drawn criticism

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and MARC LEVY The Associated Press A man firing a rifle killed shoppers at an Indiana mall’s food court. A gunfight at a Houston home killed four people. A stand-up act by the comedian Craig Robinson in North Carolina didn’t even begin before club-goers fled from a man with a gun.

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has ordered a mental evaluation for a man police say had planned a mass shooting of people leaving a rap concert in downtown Memphis. Elijah Hyman went before a Shelby County judge on 30 charges of attempted murder and 30 more counts of

Russia’s parliament has moved to tighten already stringent restrictions on the discussion of LGBTQ rights and relationships. A draft bill calls for broadening a 2013 ban on discussing non-traditional sexual relations to minors. It’s widely referred to as the “gay propaganda” bill. The new, broader bill would ban public discussion of LGBTQ relationships in a

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal investigators say evidence indicates that a helicopter that crashed in New Mexico after helping fight a wildfire over the weekend descended at a fast rate. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that the agency has completed its initial documentation of the

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Republican nominee for Colorado governor is naming an election denier as her running mate. Heidi Ganahl on Monday announced that Navy veteran Danny Moore would be her running mate and become the state’s lieutenant governor if she wins. Moore last year was removed as chairman of

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press The Uvalde, Texas, gunman gave off so many warning signs that he was obsessed with violence and notoriety in the months leading up to the attack that teens who knew him began calling him “school shooter.” He was once bullied as a fourth-grader in one of the same classrooms where

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A new report found that a California woman who was fatally mauled by a grizzly bear in Montana last summer was the victim of a rare predatory attack by bear that had learned to seek out human food. The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee’s Board of

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Groups challenging Georgia’s 2021 voting law are asking a federal judge to block a ban on giving water and food to voters standing in line. The state is defending the ban. It says that it prevents concerns about illegal campaigning or vote buying, while preserving order around

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi abortion clinic at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade has been sold and will not reopen even if it’s allowed to do so by a state court, its owner told The Associated Press on Monday. Diane

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy says a midshipman from Texas has died after falling over a waterfall in Chile. The academy says Midshipman 2nd Class Luke Gabriel Bird of New Braunfels, Texas, was participating in a semester abroad program at Chile’s Arturo Prat Naval Academy. The 21-year-old junior was hiking with a

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Many OB-GYNs, including some who perform abortions, are celebrating a decision that allows them to avoid traveling to Texas for certifying board exams. Some feared gathering en masse would make them vulnerable to violence. Others who are pregnant themselves worried about developing complications and being forced to seek care

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The outgoing director of the Bureau of Prisons has been subpoenaed to testify before a Senate committee examining abuse and corruption in the beleaguered federal agency. Michael Carvajal was served a subpoena to appear at a hearing later this month. The subpoena was

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Republican Party has rejected adding language to their platform to allow an abortion to save the life of the mother. KMVT-TV reported that a majority of the roughly 700 delegates from around the state rejected the change to the party’s existing platform during its three-day convention that wrapped

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The National Rifle Association has issued a stinging rebuke after Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial hopeful Tim Michels’ campaign falsely claimed the gun advocacy group had endorsed him. Michels is locked in a three-way primary with former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and state Rep. Tim Ramthun. An NRA

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police are looking for a man they say raped a woman on a subway platform while holding her boyfriend at gunpoint. This is the third reported sexual assault since October on a Philadelphia-area commuter train or train station. The rape happened at about 4:30 a.m. Monday on the platform of the

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A judge has scheduled sentencing this week for a former Minneapolis police officer convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Thomas Lane was one of three other officers at the scene in 2020 when then-Officer Derek Chauvin pinned Floyd’s neck to the pavement with his knee for more than 9

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Officials say that a 3-year-old was among the six people killed in last week’s Montana pileup that happened when a dust storm caused blackout conditions on Interstate 90. The Montana Department of Justice says three of the six people who died in Friday’s crash were

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s little in contemporary movies quite like the arrival of a new Jordan Peele film. They tend to descend ominously and mysteriously, a little like an unknown object from above that casts an expanding, darkening shadow the closer it comes. “Nope,” the writer-director’s third film,

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will spend $1.3 billion to develop advanced satellites that will be able to better track hypersonic missile threats. The Pentagon on Monday announced two new contracts that will put the detection and tracking systems in orbit by 2025. Derek Tournear, director of the Space

ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady has arrived in Washington for her highest-profile event since Russian troops invaded her country five months ago. Olena Zelenska launched a U.S. trip Monday that will include a session with first lady Jill Biden. Blue and yellow Ukrainian flags flew alongside American ones on Pennsylvania

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police say they have arrested an Oakland man for allegedly reporting a false bomb threat over the weekend prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people from the San Francisco International Airport’s international terminal. Police said Monday that 53-year-old Terry Addison was charged with reporting a false bomb threat and

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers have have halted their search for a missing woman whose 2-year-old grandchild was found alone last week in a locked car stuck in mud on a rural road. Authorities believe the child was alone in the car for two days. The Alaska Department of Public Safety said Saturday

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors plan to charge a Los Angeles man in connection with three murders across Southern California as part of a deadly string of robberies last week at a half-dozen 7-Elevens and a doughnut shop. Investigators have linked 20-year-old Malik Patt to the fatal shooting of a

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina-based insurance magnate whose convictions on corruption-related counts were overturned by a federal appeals court has been released from prison. The U.S. prison system says Greg E. Lindberg was let out of a minimum-security prison in Alabama late last week. It was the day after a judge agreed to