Month: July 2022

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — Rock singer Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins says he’ll perform a charity livestream show to benefit the victims of the the Fourth of July parade shooting in suburban Chicago that killed seven people and wounded more than 30. Corgan is a 20-year resident of Highland Park, where the shooting

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.; White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha. __ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Preempted by coverage of the British Open. __ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.; Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser; Amos Hochstein, senior advisor

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — It launched as the new president’s ambitious plan for rebuilding America — a $2.3 trillion domestic infrastructure investment coupled with a $1.8 trillion plan to bolster U.S. families with support for health care, child care, college costs, unseen in generations. Totaling more than $4 trillion when

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — There are few corners of the globe where the echoes of mariachi music have yet to reach, filling street corners with the sounds of the blasting trumpets and strumming guitars that form the backbone of Mexico’s traditional genre. Now, all that festive fever is being

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A lawyer on Friday emailed the Indiana state’s attorney general asking him to stop spreading false or misleading information about an Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion in June on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. Attorney Kathleen DeLaney sent the “cease and desist” letter

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, the Kremlin is expanding its information war throughout Eastern Europe, spreading propaganda and disinformation blaming NATO and the West for its Ukraine invasion. In Bulgaria, a senior official says Russia was paying influential journalists and political analysts for posting pro-Russian

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Milwaukee moved another step closer to hosting the 2024 Republican National Convention when a site selection committee unanimously recommended the event be held there rather than Nashville. The Republican National Committee would still need to approve the location at its meeting Aug. 2-5 in Chicago. Nashville

By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with a series of deadly robberies at Southern California 7-Eleven stores. They also linked the men to additional crimes in the region. Two people were killed and three wounded during a five-hour spate of armed robberies

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to throw out Roe v. Wade last month and an Ohio 10-year-old who was forced to leave the state in order to obtain an abortion after police say a man raped her are focusing new attention on state abortion restrictions that

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers are searching for the grandmother of a toddler found alone and abandoned for two days in a locked car on a rural Alaska road after the vehicle got stuck. The search for 69-year-old Mary Dawn Wilson is concentrated around the community of Healy. The car was found abandoned

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, was captured Friday by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning to drug trafficking, Mexico’s navy said.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A journalist has settled a lawsuit arguing she was treated unfairly when she lost her job at a North Carolina newspaper amid a plagiarism investigation. Former News & Observer reporter Anne Blythe reached a settlement with the paper’s former top editor, according to a statement Thursday from Blythe’s lawyer. Terms were

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into the Maryland State Police to determine if the agency engaged in racially discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. Friday’s announcement from federal prosecutors follows a series of complaints from Black troopers about harassment and mistreatment by fellow white officers. Those concerns

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than 100,000 monkeypox vaccine doses are being sent to states in the next few days, and several million more are on order in the months ahead, U.S. health officials said Friday. They also acknowledged the vaccine supply hasn’t kept up with the demand seen

By MARK PRATT Associated Press The company that makes some of the world’s most iconic board games including Scrabble, Monopoly, and Clue is developing a new one based on Wordle, the obsessively popular digital word-guessing game. Hasbro Inc. and The New York Times — which purchased Wordle earlier this year — announced Thursday that Wordle:

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The flagship school of North Carolina’s university system announced Friday that it has reached a settlement with the journalist who ultimately shunned the school in an extended dispute over tenure to join a historically Black university. News outlets report the chairman of the Board of Trustees at The University of

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala has repatriated its first victim from the failed smuggling attempt that left 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America dead last month in San Antonio, Texas. The body of 13-year-old Pascual Melvin Guachiac Sipac arrived around midday Friday in Guatemala’s capital. Twenty-one Guatemalans were

NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — A wayward dolphin has been swimming in a Connecticut river after making its way upstream from Long Island Sound. The dolphin was first spotted Thursday morning by fishermen along the Thames River, jumping around near the Norwich Marina. Eventually, the animal rescue team at Mystic Aquarium was notified. They have been

HAVEN DALEY OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Two neglected tigers rescued from a long-shuttered roadside tourist attraction in Oklahoma are beginning new lives more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away at California’s Oakland Zoo after receiving much-needed medical treatment. The female tigers, now named Lola and Mia, were rescued in June from an Oklahoma attraction that

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday blocked a freight railroad strike that would disrupt shipments of all kinds of goods for at least 60 days by naming a board of arbitrators to intervene in the contract dispute. The widely expected move will keep 115,000 rail workers