Month: March 2023

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Missouri’s attorney general says he will issue an emergency regulation that at least temporarily puts strict limits on transgender medical treatment for youth. The planned rule comes as legislators in that state and many others seek bans or other restrictions on the treatment. Doctors and advocates for the transgender

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout had dreamed of this moment, along with millions of fans throughout Japan and the United States: the two biggest stars on the planet, longtime teammates, facing each other at 60 feet, 6 inches, the world title at stake. Of course, the

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The effort to recall Democratic New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has failed, following an official count of petition signatures released by the Louisiana governor’s office Tuesday. Although the petition sheets contained over 67,000 signatures, most where declared invalid by the registrar. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that only 27,243 of

EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — A Mexican man has pleaded guilty to coordinating a smuggling effort that left 13 people dead when their overloaded SUV was struck by a big-rig after crossing the border into California two years ago. Authorities say Jose Cruz Noguez entered pleas Tuesday to federal charges of conspiracy and smuggling migrants

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A report issued on the eve of the first major U.N. conference on water in over 45 years says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lacks access to basic sanitation. The U.N. World Water Development Report 2023,

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom that matches their gender identity, the first of several states expected to enact such bans this year amid a flood of bills nationwide targeting the

SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. (AP) — Marine animal welfare officials say eight dolphins have died after they became stranded on a beach in New Jersey. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center said on Facebook Tuesday morning that a pod of eight dolphins known as “common dolphins” had become stranded in Sea Isle City and that staff

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press FORT SILL, Okla. (AP) — A group of 65 Ukrainian soldiers are wrapping up their training on the Patriot surface-to-air missile system in Oklahoma. The soldiers have been training at the historic Fort Sill Army Post. Army public affairs officer Col. Martin O’Donnell says the Ukrainian troops will depart for

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) — A judge reduced the prison sentence from 55 to 30 years for an Alabama man convicted of murder when a police officer shot his friend. LaKeith Smith was 15 when a police officer shot and killed his friend when the teens were caught burglarizing homes in

BONIFAY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say suspended Alabama freshman defensive back Tony Mitchell drove over 141 mph while trying to evade deputies before his arrest on drug charges in the Florida Panhandle last week. The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office says Mitchell and his passenger were arrested last Wednesday and charged with possession of marijuana with

MONTREAL (AP) — Family and friends of the presumed victims of a deadly fire in Old Montreal are facing an agonizing wait as a recovery team works to enter the charred shell of the building where two bodies have been found and five people remain missing. Yukun Zeng said Tuesday that the wait to hear

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida deputy accused of using a Taser stun gun on a man and taking his cell phone while the man was trying to video-record a family member’s arrest faces misdemeanor charges. The Broward Sheriff’s Office says Deputy Carlos Ferrufino turned himself in Tuesday morning at the county’s main

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Abortion-rights supporters filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block Wyoming’s new abortion pill ban from taking effect. A group hoping to open what would be the state’s second clinic offering abortions filed the amended lawsuit days after Republican Gov. Mark Gordon signed what is the nation’s first explicit ban

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana couple faces charges of murder and tampering with evidence in the 2019 disappearance and death of a 6-year-old girl on the Crow Indian Reservation, according to court documents. Mildred Alexis Old Crow was physically assaulted and left in a bathtub to drown before her

PARIS (AP) — French journalist Olivier Dubois has been welcomed home by President Emmanuel Macron, one day after he was released in Mali. Dubois was held hostage by Islamic extremists for nearly two years. He was kidnapped in April 2021 from northern Mali, a region of the country wracked by jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One Black lawmaker and nine white ones have been chosen to work on final versions of bills that could expand the territory of a state-run police department inside Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city. The Black lawmaker is Democratic Rep. Earle Banks of Jackson. He told The

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press As he mulls a 2024 presidential bid, former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called for “common sense and compassionate solutions” to reform entitlement programs and the nation’s debt burden, suggesting changes to Social Security and Medicare programs hurtling toward insolvency, particularly for younger generations, without naming specific recommendations. “What

NEW YORK (AP) — A former judge has decided the First Amendment protection for journalists should not keep prosecutors from seeing most evidence gathered in a probe of people connected to Project Veritas. Barbara Jones told U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in a report Tuesday that she recommended letting prosecutors view most of the over

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For 40 years, former President Donald Trump has navigated countless legal investigations without ever facing criminal charges. That record may soon come to an end. Trump could be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury as soon as this week, potentially charged with falsifying business records connected

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the state’s lead prosecutors who helped convict Derek Chauvin of murder in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd has been appointed as a judge in Hennepin County. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that Matt Frank will be a remarkable judge in Hennepin County. Frank is an experienced attorney

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The former Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has pleaded guilty to committing $150,000 in COVID-19 relief fraud. Court records show that Joseph Harding, a 35-year-old Republican, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Gainesville federal court to wire fraud, money laundering and making false statements in connection

By DÉBORA REY and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A steakhouse in the trendy Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo was mobbed by hundreds of frenzied soccer fans late Monday night when word spread that Lionel Messi was inside having dinner. People rushed to the exclusive Don Julio restaurant eager to get

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A strong late-season Pacific storm is bringing wind, rain and snow to saturated California as the first full day of spring shows little change from an extraordinary winter. The storm is focusing most of its energy Tuesday from central California southward, bringing threats of flooding and mountain snowfall that forecasters say

By MARK STEVENSON and ARMANDO SOLÍS Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains of central Mexico dropped 22%, and the number of trees lost in their favored wintering ground more than tripled compared to last year. The director of Mexico’s nature reserves said Monday that frost and

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Debate that began Tuesday on a Nebraska bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors, which led one lawmaker to stage an epic weekslong filibuster, quickly grew contentious, with supporters and opponents angrily voicing their frustration and admonishing each other for a lack of collegiality. Sen.

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The tax-cutting trend is going full force in states even as some are raising concerns about a slowing economy. The Missouri House on Tuesday became the latest legislative chamber to endorse a $1 billion tax-cutting plan. It needs another vote to advance to the

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A lawyer says a 15-year-old arrested in a fatal shooting outside a Dallas-area high school will remain in custody. The shooting Monday on a high school campus in the suburb of Arlington left one student dead and another injured. The early-morning gunfire prompted officials at Lamar High School to lock the

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a portion of the state’s near total ban on abortion, ruling women have a right to abortion when pregnancy risks their health, not just in a medical emergency. It was a narrow win for abortion rights advocates since

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s largest power provider is set to build a new natural gas plant in the state for the first time in nearly 15 years. State utility regulators last week gave NV Energy approval to start construction on two gas turbines north of Las Vegas. The Public

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The failures of two U.S. banks this month meant losses for U.S. public-sector pension systems that invested in them. Experts don’t see the holdings in Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank as especially risky for the funds, which provide retirement incomes for teachers, firefighters and other public workers. But there

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it, according to a new study. The COVID-19 pandemic likely drove part of the increase, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote

By MARK PRATT Associated Press A federal jury has ruled in favor of three men who said in a lawsuit that the former mayor of their small town in Haiti subjected them or their relatives to a campaign of political persecution that included a killing, attempted killings and torture. The jury in U.S. District Court

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman charged with conspiracy and murder in connection with the deaths of her two children and her new husband’s late wife will no longer face the death penalty, a judge ruled Tuesday. Lori Vallow Daybell is scheduled to stand trial starting April 3. Both she and Chad Daybell — her