Month: August 2022

DALLAS (AP) — A man who evaded arrest for over 12 years after being accused of fatally shooting his two teen daughters in a taxi parked near a Dallas-area hotel is set to go on trial this week. Testimony is scheduled to start Tuesday in the capital murder trial of 65-year-old Yaser Said. He is

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Authorities investigating the apparent drowning death of a senator in Paraguay say signs point to an accidental fall followed by drowning, but emphasize the investigation remains open as they await the results of a toxicology report. Paraguayan authorities found the body of Sen. Zulma Ramona Gómez Cáceres, 61, in the

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer When two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict Deshaun Watson on criminal complaints stemming from allegations of sexual assault or harassment by 24 women, it didn’t clear the three-time Pro Bowl quarterback from facing consequences from the NFL. Watson and the Cleveland Browns found out the severity

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poles are marking the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a doomed revolt against Nazi German forces during World War II. Some made comparisons between the wartime Polish resistance to that of Ukrainians under attack by Russia today. People in Warsaw observed a minute of silence Monday as a siren wailed

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim live with a complex form of post-traumatic stress disorder and a constant fear that followers of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will kill them, a psychiatrist testified Monday at Jones’ defamation trial. Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis,

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will soon be signing into law a major bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector. The back story of how the legislation is reaching his desk after more than 18 months reveals the complexities of bipartisanship, even when all sides agree on the

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli government’s investigation into the use of powerful eavesdropping technology by the police found that they only used it after securing a judicial warrant. But the investigators said the flood of information exceeded the limits of police authority. The probe was launched after Calcalist, a local

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A judge has blocked enforcement of a 1931 Michigan ban on abortion. It came just hours after the state Court of Appeals said county prosecutors were not covered by a May order and could enforce the prohibition following the fall of Roe v. Wade.

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A small enclave of slave descendants on the Georgia coast has settled a lawsuit that claimed discrimination in government services was eroding their community. Hogg Hummock on Sapelo Island is one of the few remaining Gullah-Geechee communities in the Southeast U.S. Island residents and landowners since

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts bill aimed at recasting the state’s gun laws in the wake of last month’s Supreme Court ruling making it harder for states to limit access to firearms was approved by lawmakers Monday. Democratic leaders — who have pledged to draft tougher legislation when they come

By REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Another round of rainstorms are hitting flooded Kentucky mountain communities. The rain fell Monday as more bodies emerged from the sodden landscape, and the governor warned that high winds could bring another threat — falling trees and utility poles. Gov. Andy Beshear said the death toll

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Since Brittney Griner last appeared in her trial for cannabis possession, the question of her fate has expanded from a tiny, cramped courtroom on Moscow’s outskirts to the highest level of Russia-U.S. diplomacy. The WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist returns to court on Tuesday, a

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A trial is starting in South Carolina where lawyers for several death row prisoners are arguing the electric chair – as well as the newly established, but so far unused, firing squad – are cruel and unusual punishments. South Carolina hasn’t executed anyone since 2011 because

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Calvin Harris and a host of his musical friends, the four-part docuseries “My Life as a Rolling Stone” which takes an individual approach to each iconic band member, and Ron Howard tackles the riveting story of the 2018 rescue of a boys’

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development is providing $2.8 billion in fresh funding for homeless services organizations across the country. The fresh funding, announced Monday, will be allocated via competitive bids through HUD’s Continuum of Care Program, the largest source of federal grant support to housing

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Five weeks ago, senior Biden administration aides gathered for their regular Thursday morning meeting about passing a bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector, worried that it could be in peril. After 18 months, the bipartisan effort to provide $52 billion for semiconductors was getting close

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In soccer-mad England, which sees itself as the home of the world’s game, women and girls finally have a team full of heroes who look like them. Some 7,000 singing, dancing, flag-waving fans — many of them mothers and daughters — jammed into central London’s Trafalgar Square

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — An alleged migrant smuggler has been killed by police near the Mexico-Guatemala border after the driver of the pickup truck he was traveling in ignored police officers’ order to stop. The Chiapas state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that five migrants, whose nationalities were

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina State Board of Elections has unanimously voted to recognize the Green Party as a new political party, reversing its previous decision to reject the party’s petition while the board investigated the signature sheets for fraud. The board’s legal counsel announced Monday

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Frank continues to weaken well off Mexico’s Pacific coast after reaching hurricane strength over the weekend. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Frank’s maximum sustained winds had slowed to 45 mph (75 kph) by Monday night. It was moving northwest at 9 mph (15 kph). It was located 630

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gave the dire warning at the opening of the long-delayed high-level meeting to review the landmark 50-year-old treaty aimed at preventing the spread of

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Some roads in and out of Death Valley National Park have been closed after they were inundated over the weekend with mud and debris from flash floods that also hit western Nevada and northern Arizona hard. Officials on Sunday provided no estimate on when the roads around Death

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says the Philippines has no plan to rejoin the International Criminal Court, a decision that supports his predecessor’s stance but rejects the wishes of human rights activists. Former President Rodrigo Duterte withdrew the Philippines from The Hague-based court in 2019 in a move rights activists

By JOHN FLESHER, CHRISTINA LARSON and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press GLEN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Concealed behind trees near Lake Michigan, two scientists remotely manipulated a robotic owl on the forest floor. As the intruder flapped its wings and hooted, a merlin guarding its nest in a nearby pine sounded distress calls. The small falcon

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says an army helicopter flying in a rescue and relief mission in the country’s flood-stricken southwest has lost contact with a regional control tower and is missing. The fate of its six-member crew, including a top commander, was not immediately known. The helicopter was part of aid efforts in the

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is challenging a subpoena to testify before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others broke any laws when they tried to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Georgia. Graham’s lawyers wrote in a court filing Friday the South Carolina Republican

AITKIN, Minn. (AP) — A trial in Minnesota is expected to decide whether a woman’s human rights were violated when a pharmacist denied her request in 2019 to fill a prescription for emergency contraception. Andrea Anderson, a mother of five from McGregor, sued under the Minnesota Human Rights Act after the pharmacist refused to accommodate