Month: June 2023

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is considering legislation to cool down outside areas at schools. The bill is one of the many ways the state could fight dry, hot conditions it has faced in recent years. The goal is to require schools and districts to come up with

By DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press IMMOKALEE, Fla. (AP) — Across Florida, workers didn’t show up at construction sites and tomato fields, and scores of restaurants, shops and other small businesses never opened their doors. That’s because they were protesting a new state law that imposes restrictions on undocumented immigrants on Thursday, a day protest organizers

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer OSLO, Norway (AP) — The Biden administration is retaliating for Russia’s suspension of the New START nuclear treaty. The State Department announced Thursday it is revoking the visas of Russian nuclear inspectors, denying pending applications for new monitors and canceling standard clearances for Russian aircraft to enter U.S. airspace.

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican measure overturning President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation plan passed the Senate on Thursday and now awaits an expected veto. The vote was 52-46, with support from Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana as well as Arizona Sen.

The Associated Press DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — City documents released Wednesday show engineers and city officials visited a Davenport building nearly a dozen times in the months before it partially collapsed on Sunday. The most recent engineer’s report came out just days before the building crumbled, suggesting the west wall appeared “ready to fall imminently.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Airbnb is suing New York City over rules that the company says would make it much more difficult for people to turn their property into short-term rentals. Airbnb filed the lawsuit Thursday, and was joined by three of its hosts. Regulations that the city plans to begin enforcing next month would

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — In a story published June 1, 2023, about a new citation program to address low-level crimes in Baltimore, The Associated Press, relying on information from Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, erroneously reported that researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health received funding from his

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — People are celebrating Minnesota’s new law that restores voting rights to people who have left prison. Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon registered newly eligible voters Thursday. That’s the day the law went into effect. Simon is the state’s chief election official. He

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana and nine other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government Thursday to block sharp increases in national flood insurance rates that are slated to be phased in over the coming years, saying the steeper price could cost some people their homes. Dozens of local

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 90,000 hedge trimmers are being recalled because of a laceration hazard that has caused multiple injuries. That’s according to a notice posted Thursday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Chervon North America is recalling about 85,000 of its EGO Power+ Model HT2410 Cordless Brushless Hedge Trimmers sold in the

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — President Joe Biden quipped that he got “sandbagged” Thursday after he tripped and fell — but was uninjured — while onstage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation. Biden had been greeting the graduates in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the front of the stage with

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Fifteen months ago, Dev Shah spent a miserable five hours spelling outdoors in chilly, windy, damp conditions at a supersize regional competition in Orlando, Florida, only to fall short of his dream of returning to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. “Despondent is the right word,”

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Armie Hammer will not be charged after a long investigation of a woman’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her in 2017, Los Angeles prosecutors said. Hammer said on Instagram after a long public silence that “I look forward to beginning what will be a

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man accused of shooting a Black teenager will face a preliminary hearing in three months, attorneys agreed during a brief hearing Thursday, days after a judge ruled that court documents in the case will be sealed and kept from the public. Attorneys agreed

MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — Spirit Airlines and Air Canada have been dealing with technical issues that have delayed some of the airlines’ flights. Spirit said Thursday in an initial tweet that the technical issue it was dealing with impacted its website, app and airport kiosks. A tweet around noon EDT said that the network issue

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A federal jury in Florida has awarded $63.5 million to a pair of businessmen who claimed a city of Miami commissioner used his office to harass them after they supported the commissioner’s political opponent. Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo was found civilly liable Thursday of violating the First Amendment rights

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Stony Brook University in New York will receive $500 million from a philanthropic foundation started by a hedge fund billionaire who once taught math there. The gift was announced Thursday by the Simons Foundation. It will be delivered to Stony Brook over seven years and will

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER Associated Press COUNSELOR, N.M. (AP) — One of the top oil producing states in the U.S. is imposing a moratorium on new drilling on state trust land within a mile of schools. New Mexico Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard announced the pause Thursday after hearing from environmental

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago’s Ambassador Dennis Francis has been elected as the next president of the U.N. General Assembly. The 193-member world body has been at the forefront of the United Nations’ condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is a key venue for all countries

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BULBOACA, Moldova (AP) — The leaders of France and Germany have urged new municipal elections in northern Kosovo in the hopes that another ballot will quell a flare-up of ethnic tensions that have led to violent protests in the region. Speaking at a summit in Moldova on Thursday, French President

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has raised the gay pride flag over the Wisconsin Capitol in a sign of support for the LGBTQ+ community amid attacks from conservative lawmakers across the country. The flag went up during a ceremony Thursday and will fly throughout June. Evers has

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money with those apps for the long term because the funds might not be safe during a crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned Thursday. The alert comes several weeks after the failure of Silicon

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman facing federal conspiracy charges in the 2014 killing of her mother during a luxury vacation in Bali plans to plead guilty, her attorney said Thursday. The details of any plea agreement or potential penalties under discussion by Heather Mack and U.S. prosecutors remain unclear.

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors dropped murder charges Thursday against a man who spent nearly 21 years in prison for the fatal shooting of two Michigan hunters. Jeff Titus was released in February when authorities acknowledged that critical information in police files about another suspect — an Ohio serial killer —

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’d have to go back a generation — to 1988 — to find the last time a Republican candidate won a U.S. Senate race in heavily Democratic California. This time, the party might get an MVP on the ballot. Baseball legend Steve Garvey, who

WASHINGTON (AP) — The release of “Diablo IV” is right around the corner. Early access for the highly anticipated action role-playing video game begins Thursday night — ahead of next week’s official launch. “Diablo IV” marks the latest installment of Blizzard Entertainment’s “Diablo” series, which began in 1996, and arrives more than a decade after