Month: March 2023

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A unsealed federal warrant says agents found bomb-making materials at the apartment of an alleged gunman charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago last year. The Chicago Tribune says the warrant unsealed Thursday indicates commercial components used for explosions and a timer

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina legislative leaders have announced an agreement to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of additional low-income adults through the Affordable Care Act. The deal marks a milestone for Republicans, most of whom opposed the idea for a decade until recently. North Carolina has

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence isn’t saying whether he’d back Donald Trump if Trump were to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. Pence is widely expected to seek the nomination himself, and he’s suggesting that Trump’s leadership style isn’t what the Republican Party needs

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two Memphis Fire Department emergency medical technicians who were fired and had their licenses suspended for failing to give aid to Tyre Nichols for 19 minutes while he struggled with injuries from being brutally beaten by police, did not check his vital signs or perform other

By BEN FINLEY and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olivia Duke said she’s been trapped in her home in the snow-plastered mountains east of Los Angeles for so long that by Thursday the only food she had left was oatmeal. Snow plows have created a wall of ice between her driveway and

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has approved summary language in a petition to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s state constitution. Republican Attorney General Dave Yost determined that the summary is a fair and truthful representation of the proposed change to Ohio law. Yost said Thursday that a certification of the summary

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police ticketed a man feeding homeless residents outside a public library, provoking outrage from a charitable group and plans to challenge a longstanding city ordinance. The city enacted rules in 2012 regulating those who provide free food outdoors to those in need. But Nick Cooper of Food Not Bombs said Thursday

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces shot dead a teenage boy in the north of the occupied West Bank, the latest in a flare-up of bloody violence that has raged for months. The ministry says the 15-year-old was wounded with a live bullet in the back and died at hospital. Another teenager

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Republican lawmaker has apologized after asking earlier this week if “hanging by a tree” could be added to the state’s execution methods. Rep. Paul Sherrell, who is white, first made the remark on Tuesday as a separate lawmaker was introducing legislation to include the

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The medical director of anti-abortion pregnancy centers is asking the Arizona Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision on abortion. The decision concluded abortion doctors couldn’t be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law. The law bans the procedure in nearly all cases. Dr. Eric Hazelrigg is seeking

By CARLA BRIDI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s economy contracted in the fourth quarter for the first time in over a year, according to data released Thursday by the country’s statistics institute. That represented the continuation of a downturn that is expected to complicate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s

By LISA MASCARO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday it is launching an investigation into embattled Republican Rep. George Santos, the New York congressman whose lies and embellishments about his resume and personal life have drawn deep scrutiny. The investigation appears to be far reaching. It

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — RJ Phipps was hiking up Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington over the weekend with his wife when he took out his camera to shoot a snowboarder and skier. Within seconds, Phipps watched as the two men were nearly engulfed by an avalanche. He caught it all on

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara and three other men have pleaded not guilty in Nevada to charges they beat a man unconscious at a Las Vegas Strip nightclub before the NFL’s 2022 Pro Bowl. Kamara appeared along with Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Chris Lammons and

By JOSH FUNK and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Residents who say they’re still suffering from illnesses nearly a month after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in Ohio confronted the railroad’s operator Thursday at a town forum, demanding to know whether they’d be relocated from homes they’re afraid to live in. “It’s not safe here,”

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Students and staff are removing countless flowers that have been placed at key campus sites in honor of three students killed at Michigan State University. The flowers will be turned into mulch for the eventual planting of a memorial tree. For nearly three weeks, flowers and signs of remembrance have

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Cindy McCain has been appointed head of the U.N. World Food Program, the world’s largest humanitarian organization which aims to help nearly 150 million people confronting conflicts, disasters and climate change impacts this year. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Food and Agriculture Organization

By COLLEEN LONG, MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told Senate Democrats that he’ll sign a bill overriding the District of Columbia’s effort to overhaul how the city prosecutes and punishes crime. A resolution that would block the changes has passed the Republican-controlled House with

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have identified the Buffalo firefighter who died in an explosive four-alarm fire as Jason Arno, a 37-year-old married father.  Arno’s body was recovered from a commercial building in downtown Buffalo on Wednesday, several hours after he was reported missing following an emergency evacuation order.  City

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Researchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures on what is internationally known as Easter Island. The statue is relatively small at 1.6 meters (5.2 feet), as compared with some of the other