Month: April 2023

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Bolshoi Theater has removed a ballet dedicated to dancer Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire, citing a new Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBT rights. Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin said Wednesday that the ballet “Nureyev” has been pulled because of the new legislation, according to the Interfax

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Tennessee lawmakers who faced expulsion votes after participating in gun protests will visit the White House on Monday. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says President Joe Biden was “proud” and “appreciative” to see the three state representatives calling for stronger gun restrictions. The expulsion votes added a

By TERRY CHEA and JANIE HAR Associated Press ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — A California city voted Tuesday to audit its troubled police department after racist text messages sent by officers were made public earlier this month. Officials have named 17 officers who sent text messages, including the president of the Antioch police union. But a

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has denied a motion to move the trial of a woman accused of killing and dismembering a man in Green Bay. Twenty-five-year-old Taylor Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of 25-year-old Shad Thyrion in February 2022.

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota state senators are sending to Republican Gov. Doug Burgum a veto-proof bill that would ban abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest. It would be one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Supporters say the bill would further

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The owner of a Philadelphia building that caught fire and collapsed last summer, killing a city firefighter and injuring five other people, has been indicted along with another man on charges they set the blaze. Federal prosecutors made the announcement Wednesday. Al-Ashraf Khalil and Isaam Jaghama, both 29-year-old city residents, are charged

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Filming on the Western movie “Rust” could resume this week in Montana, the production company said Wednesday, in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during a rehearsal with actor Alec Baldwin on the original production in New Mexico. Baldwin will continue his

By JOSH BOAK, SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press ACCOKEEK, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden lambasted Republicans’ emerging trade-off plans to raise the nation’s debt limit only in exchange for spending cuts and other policy concessions on Wednesday, declaring that GOP lawmakers are threatening a historic default on U.S. obligations “unless I

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A contingent of Statehouse Republicans in Ohio has pressed forward with plans to make it harder to amend the state’s constitution. The effort is aimed most immediately at thwarting an abortion rights amendment in the works for this fall. Identical resolutions cleared Senate and House

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s high court is holding a Republican-majority county in contempt over its commissioners allowing a third party to copy voting-machine data. It was part of a failed effort to locate fraud that might overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat. The state Supreme Court ruled

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A transgender woman says in a federal lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted, frequently ridiculed and subjected to other cruel and unusual punishment when she was held at a men’s jail in Baltimore. The lawsuit filed Tuesday also says Chelsea Gilliam had been receiving hormone therapy for

by LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled a sweeping package Wednesday that would raise the nation’s debt limit by $1.5 trillion into next year while imposing a long list of Republican priorities, including new spending caps, work requirements for recipients of government aid and others that

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ron DeSantis has yet to enter the 2024 presidential race, but former President Donald Trump is aiming to drum up support in the Florida governor’s backyard. Trump already has the backing of more than one-third of the Republicans in Florida’s congressional delegation. Endorsements rarely have a

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area man linked to an anti-government group and arrested just before the fall election has pleaded guilty to gun-related charges. Timothy Teagan had attended various rallies with an AR-style rifle while dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, clothing favored by the Boogaloo Boys, a group bracing for a U.S. civil war. Teagan

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A proposed change to next year’s Montana U.S. Senate primary that was aimed at undermining Democratic Sen. Jon Tester’s reelection chances is likely dead. A legislative committee shelved the GOP-backed measure Wednesday. Some Republican lawmakers urged on by a GOP lobbyist wanted to alter the 2024

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — The driver of a car that hit a group of Southern California high school students, killing one and injuring three, has been arrested for investigation of murder and other crimes, including an earlier stabbing. The students were struck on a sidewalk Tuesday near Westlake High School in the city of

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of aggravated menacing. The count stems from allegations that he threatened and pointed a gun at a woman in Cincinnati earlier this year. Mixon made his initial court appearance Wednesday. Bond was set at $10,000. He has been