Month: June 2023

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Las Vegas high school student has been sentenced to 16-plus years in Nevada state prison for attacking a female teacher…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that requires people…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The leader of an armed civilian movement that once drove a drug cartel…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press The Canadian wildfires that have shrouded much of the nation in smoky haze are making it much harder for American…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Body cameras have proliferated in law enforcement agencies in the U.S. over the past…

By JUAN LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas grand jury declined to indict rap superstar Travis Scott in a criminal investigation of a…

By RIO YAMAT The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Scorching heat across the U.S. already has caused more than a dozen deaths in Texas alone and…

BY DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff has been indicted on federal public corruption charges for…

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police have identified a young girl whose remains were found in a construction-site dumpster in Toronto more than a year…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge has ordered the Missouri attorney general’s office to pay $242,000 in legal fees for violations of the…

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts delivered Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s claims that absolute presidential immunity and free speech…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators have approved a gene therapy for the most common form of hemophilia.…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors say a man accused in a deadly movie theater shooting in New Mexico’s largest city is a danger to the…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has spiked again, increasing by 9% since last…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Thousands of people have gathered outside the cathedral in North…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — While three Muslim council members were away to observe the Eid al-Adha holiday, the Minneapolis City Council narrowly voted to…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that the 12-year conflict in Syria has pushed 90%…

By The Associated Press Federal health officials have notified Congress of a data breach that could involve the information of more than 100,000…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer The Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Murphy vs. NCAA ushered in a new era of legalized sports betting in the U.S.,…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Real Madrid’s Luka Modric and former Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren have been charged in Croatia with allegedly giving…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Google says it will remove links to Canadian news on its platforms across Canada after a new law that forces digital giants…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press The fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old outside Paris this week has set off widespread disorder in French…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — From a block party in New York City to a movie screening outside of Denver, groups across the U.S.…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor says the state will keep allowing residents to change official…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for…

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO members have reached a tentative agreement to ask Secretary-General Jens…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Thursday with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and prominent European…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Mossad spy service says its agents inside Iran have seized the head of an Iranian hit squad who planned to kill…