Month: March 2023

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t critics, political foes or their bosses that united Fox News stars Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham when they gathered via text message for a gripe session shortly after the 2020 election. It was their own network’s news division. “They’re pathetic,” Carlson

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican supermajority Senate followed a growing national trend of GOP opposition to health care for transgender youth by passing a bill that would ban certain treatments and therapies, while approving a significant change to add exceptions for mental health. The Senate version of the

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests were jailed Saturday for 4 1/2 months for failing to provide authorities with information on the group under a national security law. Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and

BEIJING (AP) — China on Saturday named Li Qiang, a close confidant of top leader Xi Jinping, as the country’s next premier nominally in charge of the world’s second-largest economy now facing some of its worst prospects in years. Li was nominated by Xi and appointed to the position at Saturday morning’s session of the

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill addressing child marriage in West Virginia has passed the state Senate. The Senate easily passed the bill after it was changed to prohibit anyone younger than 16 from getting married. It now goes to the House of Delegates, which previously passed its own version.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Three women in Texas are being sued for wrongful death by a man who claims they helped his now-ex-wife obtain medication for an abortion. It’s another test of state-enforced bans since the U.S. Supreme court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision. In a lawsuit filed late Thursday in Galveston County, Marcus

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify Monday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating hush-money payments made on the former president’s behalf, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. They were not authorized to

PEÑITAS, Texas (AP) — Two sisters from Texas and a friend are missing in Mexico after they crossed the border last month to sell clothes at a flea market, U.S. authorities said Friday. The abduction of four Americans in Mexico that was caught on video last week received an avalanche of attention and was resolved

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.; Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio; Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board; Dr. Richard Besser, CEO and president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. __ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.; Sheila Bair, former chair of

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Not one but two volcanoes on the same island in Alaska’s Aleutian chain were rocked by earthquakes on Friday, prompting concerns about a possible eruption. Elevated earthquake activity was reported at both Tanaga and Takawangha volcanoes on uninhabited Tanaga Island, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from Anchorage.

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is sticking with a blue-and-white color scheme for the exterior of the replacement Air Force One aircraft, the first of which is expected to be delivered in four years. The Air Force said late Friday that the light blue on the new model of

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former Indiana congressman has been convicted of insider trading charges. The verdict against Steve Buyer was returned Friday by a Manhattan federal court jury that had heard evidence presented during a two-week trial. The Republican lawyer and Persian Gulf War veteran once chaired the House

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A judge has ruled that data from wells drilled by ConocoPhillips Alaska on federal lands on Alaska’s North Slope can remain confidential for now. That includes data from wells on federal leases that are part of a major oil project the company is pursuing called Willow.

GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man has been charged with fatally beating an elderly man he believed had stalked his young daughter in the past. A criminal complaint filed Friday says 27-year-old Levi Axtell killed 77-year-old Lawrence V. Scully Wednesday in Scully’s home in Grand Marais. Axtell is charged with second-degree intentional murder.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — No Labels has secured access to the ballot in Oregon. The group could shake up the 2024 presidential race with a bipartisan “unity ticket.” Oregon on Friday became at least the third state to approve No Labels as a political party, joining Arizona and Colorado. No Labels says it is seeking

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts sports fans raced to their cell phones Friday to begin placing bets as the state allowed online sports wagering just days ahead of tipoff of the NCAA Tournament next week. The move comes a little over a month since the state began allowing in-person sports betting

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The blonds are back. Puerto Rico on Friday broke the Guinness World record for the most hair dyed. A total of 192 men went blond to support the U.S. territory’s team that is vying to win the World Baseball Classic after finishing twice as

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump’s lawyer tried to buy the silence of a porn actress who said she had a sexual encounter with the Republican during his days as a reality TV star. More than six years later, New

By ANDREW SELSKY and MIKE CORDER Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon was taking a major step Friday in its pioneering of legalized psilocybin therapy with the graduation of the first students trained in accompanying patients tripping on psychedelic mushrooms, although a company’s bankruptcy has left another group on the same path adrift. The

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press The family of a meteorologist killed in a North Carolina helicopter crash is suing a maintenance facility and the company that owned and operated the aircraft. The complaint filed in Mecklenburg County Court claims the helicopter was running on contaminated fuel, which can lead to engine failure, and that the

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — U.S. government regulators have stopped allowing a large part of the Keystone oil pipeline to operate at higher-than-normal pressures following a massive oil spill in northeastern Kansas in December. The order this week from the U.S. Department of Transportation covers 1,220 miles of the Keystone pipeline

By MARTHA MENDOZA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — More than 9,000 California residents were under evacuation orders Friday as a new atmospheric river brought heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds, swelling rivers and creeks and flooding several major highways and small rural communities. In Santa Cruz County, a creek

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury deliberations in the trial of three men accused of murdering rising rap star XXXTentacion will be entering a fourth day. The 12-member Florida panel deliberated for about five hours Friday without reaching a verdict. They have deliberated about 10 hours since getting the case late Wednesday. Michael Boatwright, Dedrick