Month: May 2024

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JILL COLVIN, MICHELLE L. PRICE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts marks the end of his historic hush money trial but the fight over the case is far from over. Now comes the sentencing and the prospect of a prison

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial. It is the first time a former president was ever tried or convicted in a criminal case, and is the first of Trump’s four indictments to reach trial. At the heart of the

By MARCO DI MARCO Associated Press GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Lava continues to spurt from a volcano in southwestern Iceland but the activity has calmed significantly from when it erupted. Scientists say the eruption on Wednesday was the fifth and most powerful since the volcanic system near Grindavik reawakened in December after 800 years, gushing

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of people with felony convictions. But he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state. That’s because Florida defers to

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Police in Colorado say a man’s sturdy necklace probably saved his life by blocking a bullet fired at his neck. The bullet lodged in the almost half-inch-wide, silver-colored, metal chain during the shooting Tuesday night in Commerce City, a suburb north of Denver. Commerce City police say the shooting happened

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, have slumped after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The conference finals and Bronny James’ decision to remain in the draft are far from the only things dominating NBA conversations lately. In fact, both have been trumped by the drama surrounding where fans will be able to watch games for at least the next decade. The NBA media

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American officials say the U.S. and Britain have struck 13 Houthi targets in several locations in Yemen in response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. According to the officials, American and

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and former U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly is stepping down and returning to Indiana. President Joe Biden nominated Donnelly for the position in 2021 and he was confirmed as ambassador to the Holy See in 2022. In a post on the social platform X on Thursday, his office

By SPENCER RIPCHIK Associated Press SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Saratoga Race Course is getting ready to be the center of the horse racing world when the Belmont Stakes comes to town. It will be the venerable racing city’s first Triple Crown race. But in many ways, Saratoga Springs, New York, has been hosting front-page

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press The real politicking in South Africa may start after the election results are announced as the country faces the possibility of no outright winner. Early results Thursday showed the ruling African National Congress at well below 50% of the national vote as counting continued, reinforcing pre-election analysis that it may

AZUSA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say an 81-year-old man who investigators alleged had terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with a slingshot has died, just days after his arrest. Police say the man was found dead Wednesday evening at a home in Azusa, east of Los Angeles. The medical examiner’s office ruled the death

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire won’t be getting his license back any time soon. But authorities haven’t decided yet how long the suspension will last. A jury in 2022 found Volodymyr Zhukovskyy not guilty

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nearly a dozen politicians have taken to the debate stage in Hungary’s capital to make their pitch to Hungarian voters ahead of European Parliament elections. Before the debate in Budapest on Thursday, protesters outside the venue demonstrated against the public broadcaster that is hosting the event,

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Police and Army investigators are seeking the public’s help in solving the killing of a 23-year-old Army soldier from Fort Campbell, Kentucky who was found dead in neighboring Tennessee. Police say Private First Class Katia Dueñas Aguilar was found dead on May 18 at a home in nearby Clarksville, Tennessee. Her

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho jury has convicted Chad Daybell of murder in the deaths of his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children. Thursday’s verdict marks the end of a years-long investigation that included bizarre claims of zombie children, apocalyptic prophesies and illicit affairs. Now the jury will

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and other leaders from the city announced their support of Mary Waters in her challenge of Democratic U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar in Michigan’s August primary. Waters is a Detroit City Council member who had been seen as a long shot candidate

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors say a St. Paul, Minnesota, police officer was justified when he fatally shot a man who shot him first. The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office released the results of the investigation Thursday. It concluded the use of deadly force by Officer Michael Tschida against Brandon DaleShaun Keys

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Three power conferences have joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in urging a Tallahassee court to keep the league’s TV deals with ESPN private. The Big Ten, the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference filed a joint request in Leon County Circuit Court this week supporting the ACC’s claim that the documents

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman who pleaded guilty to helping her mother kill a pregnant teenager in 2019 before the baby was cut from her womb with a butcher knife has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Twenty-nine-year-old Desiree Figueroa was sentenced Thursday by a Cook County judge. She pleaded guilty to murder

By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The NCAA and a coalition of states suing the organization have announced a proposed settlement of a lawsuit that would allow athletes to play immediately no matter how many times they transfer. Under the agreement, a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in West

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a man was stabbed in both legs with a machete in New York’s Times Square. A spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said the stabbing happened around 1 p.m. Thursday. Three people have been arrested. The victim has been hospitalized and is listed in stable condition. Police did

DALLAS (AP) — Crews in Texas are trying to restore power across the storm-battered state ahead of severe weather that could bring more damaging winds and hail. Electricity is back on for about 80% of the more than 1 million homes and businesses that lost power after storms on Tuesday tore off roofs and uprooted

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Reports of a rare nervous system disorder are “more common than expected” in older U.S. adults who got the new RSV vaccines. That’s according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday that is similar to what the organization said in February.

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — UFC is set to unveil a new glove designed in large part to stunt eye pokes that often render fighters unable to continue. The global MMA leader made the redesigned gloves mandatory, starting with Saturday’s UFC 302 card in New Jersey. The gloves are

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly’s tribute to Iran’s late president Ebrahim Raisi was snubbed by Western and East European nations amid protests against honoring a leader who was reviled for his crackdown on opponents. The assembly’s tribute was no surprise. It is a longstanding practice that

By MARK AMBROGI Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Boston Celtics great Larry Bird addressed a public ceremony for the official opening of the Larry Bird Museum inside the Terre Haute Convention Center. Bird wondered why he has to keep talking on stage in front of thousands of people. He says “it’s because of

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press The National Transportation Safety Board is now leading the investigation into a massive explosion that blew out much of the ground floor of an apartment building in Ohio this week. Tuesday’s blast in Youngstown killed a bank employee and injured at least 7 other people. The NTSB said pipeline and

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Welsh couple who dined out on pricey meals and then bolted when the bill came is now paying the price. Bernard and Ann McDonagh were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for racking up nearly $1,500 in restaurant tabs and bolting without paying. They had previously pleaded

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York accents of court reporters reading testimony. A juror’s facial expression. And tea leaves — plenty of tea leaves. Jury deliberation meant tense, ultimately boring hours of waiting for lawyers, journalists and others at the Manhattan courtroom where former President Donald Trump’s hush

By COLLEEN LONG and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by American border officials exceeded a new daily threshold. And President Joe Biden expected

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press An Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, where he also allegedly pushed an Associated Press photographer over a wall. Benjamen Scott Burlew disappeared for several months after missing court appearances in Washington, D.C., last year. He

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito. Roberts’ response came in a letter to the senators Thursday, a day after Alito