Month: June 2023

MATADOR, Texas (AP) — A line of severe storms produced multiple tornadoes Wednesday evening on the Rolling Plains in Texas, killing at least three people and causing significant damage around the northern town of Matador. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported that the storms also produced softball-size hail and wind gusts topping 100 mph (161 kph) in

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s online safety watchdog has issued a legal notice to Twitter demanding an explanation of what the social media giant is doing to tackle a surge in online hate since Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought the platform. On Thursday, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Authorities in Honduras began to hand over to relatives the hacked, burned corpses of 46 women killed in the worst riot at a women’s prison in recent memory. Some of the bodies were so badly burned they need genetic testing or dental studies to identify, said

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington in June was expected to reduce India’s dependence on Moscow for arms, economic ties and technology as New Delhi and Washington try to strengthen the Quad partnership, which also includes Japan and Australia, to contain growing aggression from China.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday struck down Florida rules championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis restricting Medicaid coverage for gender dysphoria treatments for potentially thousands of transgender people. “Gender identity is real” and the state has admitted it, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle wrote in a 54-page ruling. He said a Florida

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to impeach President Joe Biden, hard-right House Republicans forced a vote Thursday that would send the matter to congressional committees in a clear demonstration of the challenge that Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces in controlling the majority party. The ability of single lawmaker, Rep. Lauren Boebert,

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealanders this week have been debating a thorny health care issue — whether ethnicity should be a factor in determining when patients get surgery. In the country’s largest city, Auckland, clinicians in some hospitals have been using an algorithm to adjust where patients sit

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer When I told friends and family I was reporting on the first chicken meat grown from animal cells, their first comment was “Eww.” Their second comment was: “How does it taste?” The short answer (you’ve probably heard this sentence before in other contexts): Tastes like chicken. The longer answer,

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Without immigration, the white population in the U.S. would have declined last year. Immigration also propelled the expansion of the Asian population, which was the fastest-growing race or ethnic group last year in the U.S., while births outpacing deaths helped propel growth in Hispanic, Black, tribal and Hawaiian populations. Population

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Climate activist Vanessa Nakate has urged rich countries to cancel the debt and grant climate finance to developpng countries so they are no longer forced to pay for a crisis they did not create. Nakate spoke Thursday in front of world leaders, heads of

By GEOFF MULVIHILL, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press A year after the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, 25 million women of childbearing age now live in states where the law makes abortions harder to get. Saturday is the one year anniversary of the court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

By GEOFF MULVIHILL, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press One year ago Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness. Twenty-five million women of childbearing age now live in states where the law makes abortions harder to get than

By Michael Liedtke AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft on Thursday will try to gain clearance to complete a $69 billion takeover of video game maker Activision Blizzard in a legal showdown with U.S. regulators that will reshape a pastime that’s bigger than the movie and music industries combined. The battle will pit

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A year on from the floods in Pakistan that killed at least 1,700 people, destroyed millions of homes, wiped out swathes of farmland, and caused billions of dollars in economic losses, the country still hasn’t fully recovered. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, residents had to rely on contaminated water,

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Last summer’s flooding in Pakistan killed at least 1,700 people, destroyed millions of homes, wiped out swaths of farmland, and caused billions of dollars in economic losses. All in a matter of months. At one point, a third of the country was underwater. Pakistani leaders and many

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — As an international search determined the implosion of a vessel setting out for the underwater wreckage of the Titanic, a man who was one of the submersible company’s first customers characterized a dive he made to the site two years ago as a suicide mission. “You have

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers are continuing to spar in the case of a one-time adviser to former President Donald Trump who is facing possible disbarment in California for developing a dubious legal strategy that was aimed at keeping Trump in power following the 2020 election. Attorney John Eastman

By JIM VERTUNO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton, the wife of Attorney General Ken Paxton, is barred from voting in the impeachment trial that could lead to her husband’s permanent removal from office, the Republican-controlled Senate decided Wednesday night. The rule settles a question that

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it has begun turning over evidence to former President Donald Trump as his lawyers prepare a defense to charges that he illegally retained classified documents. The evidence includes transcripts of grand jury testimony taken in both Washington and Florida, copies of closed-circuit television footage obtained by the government

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say a 20-year-old man is facing multiple charges in connection with a hit-and-run collision that injured four pedestrians, two critically, outside Guaranteed Rate Field, the home of the Chicago White Sox. Police said Wednesday night that Condelarious Garcia of Chicago faces four felony counts each of failure to report an

QUNICY, Wash. (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting two people and wounding several others at a Washington music festival Saturday told police he was high on psychedelic mushrooms and believed the world was ending, according to court documents. U.S. Army Spc. James Kelly, of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, is facing two counts of first-degree

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia election officials say they would need six to nine months to install new software and hardware to update the state’s voting system. They also say there are still technical problems to resolve. They’re pushing back against calls to update the system before the 2024 election cycle.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The PGA Tour said Wednesday that it would appear next month before a Senate subcommittee whose leader asked executives from the tour, Saudi golf interests and LIV Golf to testify as Congress investigates the business deal that upended the sport. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., announced that the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press A federal appeals court says a government agency cannot enforce anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination employment rules against a Texas company owned by a conservative Christian. The Tuesday ruling by a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes in a lawsuit that Braidwood Management filed to protect itself from the possibility it would

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former Indiana congressman should serve three years in prison for an insider trading conviction. Prosecutors made their arguments prior to the July 11 sentencing of 64-year-old Steve Buyer of Noblesville, Indiana. Buyer was convicted in March of making illegal trades while working

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Thousands of residents in Oklahoma and Louisiana remain without electricity as work crews continue to repair power lines damaged by weekend storms. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, less than 92,000 customers remained without power on Wednesday. Three tornadoes northeast of the city caused extensive damage Sunday, including downed trees and hundreds of snapped

By MARK THIESSEN and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has halted a lower court ruling that would have shut down southeast Alaska’s chinook salmon troll fishery for the summer to protect endangered orca whales that eat the fish. Wednesday’s ruling from a three-judge 9th Circuit Court panel means the

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers on Wednesday officially passed amended versions of the two bills — relating to guns, and abortion and gender-affirming care, respectively — that were at the center of a six-week Republican walkout. Their final passage — coming the week after Republicans stopped their

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Goldman Sachs investment banker has been convicted of insider trading and obstruction of justice charges. The conviction of Brijesh Goel Wednesday in Manhattan federal court capped a weeklong trial. The jury returned its verdict in less than a day. Sentencing was set for Oct. 19. Prosecutors said Goel worked

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by journalists who sought to require her office to respond to public record requests. A state panel agreed Wednesday to pay more than $100,000 in attorney fees to settle the cases. Reynolds settled the

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s Supreme Court has ruled that a firearms expert who testified at a murder trial shouldn’t have been allowed to offer an unqualified opinion that bullets recovered from a crime scene came from the suspect’s gun. The court ruled 4-3 this week in an appeal by

DENVER (AP) — Seventeen former Major League Baseball scouts who say they were discriminated against because of their age sued the league, its teams and Commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver. The former scouts allege violations of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a story published March 1, 2022, about an investigation into attorney John Eastman, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Eastman had retired a dean of the Chapman University law school in 2021. Eastman was dean of the school from 2007 to 2010. Eastman was a professor when he retired in

Associated Press WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — A wild animal trainer featured in the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” has been convicted of wildlife trafficking in Virginia, the attorney general’s office announced Tuesday. Bhagavan “Doc” Antle was accused of illegally buying endangered lion cubs in Frederick County, Virginia, for display and profit at his South Carolina