Month: May 2023

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s national championship football team is declining an invitation to visit the White House. According to a statement released by the Georgia athletic association, the Bulldogs will not be able to attend a June 12 event with other college teams at the White House described by President Joe Biden and first

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has thrown out key sections of Marilyn Manson’s lawsuit against his former fiancee, “Westworld” actor Evan Rachel Wood. Manson’s suit claimed Wood fabricated public allegations that he sexually and physically abused her during their relationship and encouraged other women to do the

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian naval guard shot and killed a colleague and two civilians Tuesday as he tried to enter a synagogue on the island of Djerba during an annual Jewish pilgrimage, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said. The attacker was slain by security guards, and 10 people

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal agency is proposing a nearly $3.4 million fine for an energy company over a 2021 oil pipeline spill that fouled Southern California beaches. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration says Amplify Energy Corp. ignored 83 alarms and failed to shut down the offshore pipeline to San Pedro Bay

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who was driving his Tesla at least 116 mph before crashing into a house and killing two people in 2021 has been sentenced to 27 years in prison. The man was sentenced Monday in Pinellas County court. He pleaded guilty in March to two counts of vehicular

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two mountain climbers missing in Alaska likely triggered a small avalanche, and officials said Tuesday the projected path of their suspected fall would end at a heavily crevassed glacier. “That is the area we are focusing our aerial search efforts in the days to come,” Denali

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say an 18-year-old accused of firing the shot that wounded an employee outside a middle school building in northeast Las Vegas is facing multiple felonies. Authorities identified the suspect Tuesday as Jessie Rios and said the gunfire on Monday came from off-campus. It wasn’t clear if Rios had an attorney

By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As a Republican in the Texas Capitol, Sam Harless turned heads: He voted in favor of a stricter gun law. In doing so, the Houston state representative helped advance a bill in the Texas House that would raise the purchase age for

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has announced plans to file a series of lawsuits on behalf of people he says suffered child sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests and other clergy in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The planned civil claims come after Maryland lawmakers recently

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, TARA COPP and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden predicts the U.S.-Mexico border will be “chaotic for a while” when pandemic-related restrictions end. He spoke Tuesday as 550 active-duty troops began arriving at the border and migrants weighed whether or when to cross. The restrictions have been

By BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Nearly half of the U.S. West has emerged from drought this spring, but the welcome wet conditions haven’t entirely replenished the region, scientists said Tuesday. Hydrologists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said deep snowpack across much of the West will bring short-term relief, but the

DENVER (AP) — A student who shot two administrators at a Denver high school in March before later killing himself had been seen with a gun there in the weeks before, according to one of them. Wayne Mason is one of the two deans who was shot at East High School. In his first public

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A GOP candidate has roiled the primary race for Kentucky governor with a comment that if she’s elected, “we will not have transgenders in our school system,” angering LGBTQ advocates in a state that has enacted laws limiting the rights of transgender youth. Former U.N. Ambassador

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has denied rapper Tory Lanez a new trial. Lanez was convicted of three felonies in December for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion and wounding her. On Tuesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Herriford rejected a defense motion for a new trial.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers say California will pay a $24 million civil rights settlement to the family of a man who died in police custody after screaming “I can’t breathe.” Multiple officers had restrained him as they tried to take a blood sample following his arrest. Seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s opposition-led National Assembly has voted to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Guillermo Lasso over embezzlement allegations, while his defense team argues that the procedure violates the legislative body’s own rules. The vote to move forward with the impeachment process required a majority of lawmakers present, and 88 of

By CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The Bolivian general who captured Argentine-Cuban guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara has been buried. The ceremony Sunday for Prado _ considered a hero to some and a pariah to others _ was shunned by Bolivia’s leftist national government in a gesture that has angered his

By ED KOMENDA Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a law to protect minors seeking gender-affirming care from the intervention of estranged parents. The new law that Inslee signed Tuesday is part of a wave of legislation in Democratic-led states intended to give refuge amid a conservative movement in

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is putting new restrictions into place at its southern border to try to to stop migrants from crossing illegally and encourage them instead to apply for asylum online through a new process. The changes come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have

By KATHIA MARTÍNEZ Associated Press BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama (AP) — The long wooden boats packed with migrants in orange life jackets arrived one after another, pushed down the Tuquesa river by outboard motors. By day’s end, authorities had registered some 2,000 migrants at this remote riverside outpost on the edge of the Darien jungle that

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. nuclear regulators have issued a license for a multibillion-dollar complex in New Mexico to temporarily store tons of spent fuel from commercial nuclear power plants around the nation. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced the decision Tuesday. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently stirred internal strife after announcing last week that it will force its millions of members to pick new usernames. Now the question is whether that the change will escalate into all-out warfare that could include players

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials say a passenger on a Caribbean cruise has been arrested after a hidden camera with video of dozens of people, including children, was discovered in a public restroom. Court documents show Jeremy Froias was arrested last Wednesday in Puerto Rico and charged with video voyeurism and attempted possession

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota is on the verge of banning non-essential uses of “forever chemicals.” And lawmakers say they are naming the legislation after a woman who spent the last months of her life campaigning for restrictions that will be some of the toughest in the country. Legislators,

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) — The late pop superstar Prince is being honored in Minnesota as the state renames a seven-mile stretch of highway that runs past his Paisley Park recording studios. Minnesota Gov. Tim Waz used purple ink on Tuesday to sign the bill that dedicates the roadway

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Teachers will have to write monthly checks if they want to stay in their union instead of having dues automatically deducted from their paycheck. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Tuesday taking aim at the teachers unions, as well as other education legislation. The anti-union

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee nurse who was convicted of homicide last year after a medication error killed a patient is seeking to have her license restored. RaDonda Vaught was in Chancery Court in Nashville on Tuesday to appeal a 2021 state Board of Nursing decision to revoke

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lachlan Murdoch says Fox paid $787 million to settle a lawsuit on its reporting to avoid a divisive trial and lengthy appeals process. The Fox Corp. chief executive also says a Delaware judge “severely limited” Fox’s defenses against claims by Dominion Voting Systems, which he

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Two transgender children, their families and allied health care providers are challenging a Montana law that would ben gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Missoula argues that the law set to be implemented Oct. 1 only affects transgender people and