MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers looking to take part in a national redistricting battle could vote Friday on a plan to alter state’s congressional primaries if the courts allow Republican state officials to switch to more advantageous U.S. House maps ahead of the November midterm elections. The Alabama legislation, which needs only a final […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge is set to decide Friday if news outlets can continue to film, photograph and livestream the high-profile murder case against the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Tyler Robinson’s attorneys argue potential jurors could be biased by slanted stories and online comments that depict the […]
EDGEWOOD, N.M. (AP) — The only person ever charged in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay, whose case became a symbol of the nationwide crisis of violence against Native Americans, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in federal court. Under the conditions of a plea agreement, Preston Henry Tolth, 26, faces […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Thursday that instructions received by immigration enforcement officers to make civil immigrant arrests without warrants do not meet probable cause standards and should not used as guidance. In continuing a preliminary injunction she issued in December, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell in Washington, D.C., said that “when […]
A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday during a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Instructure, the company behind the learning management system Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A major federal raid around a park near downtown Los Angeles long known for rampant drug use and homeless encampments came just as voting kicked off for mayor in a city where public safety concerns continue to vex residents. During a difficult first term framed by the most destructive wildfire in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday went on an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls “American flag blue.” But he did more than just see it — he drove across it and answered questions from reporters who were […]
The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan sided with The Authors […]
OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the immigration detention center known as “ Alligator Alcatraz ” always was meant to be temporary. His comments came on the same day that The New York Times reported state and federal officials were in early talks about shutting down the facility in the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury Thursday found the city of Los Angeles was not liable in the killing of a 14-year-old girl who was hit by a police officer’s stray bullet during a shootout while Christmas shopping in 2021 with her mother. The ruling came after a nearly monthlong trial in the wrongful death […]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s border czar has threatened to “ flood the zone ” with immigration agents if New York passes bills to limit local coordination with the federal government’s crackdown. New York seems ready to do so anyway. “I don’t take well to threats,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is not looking at imminent military action against Havana despite President Donald Trump’s repeated threats that “Cuba is next” and that American warships deployed in the Middle East for the Iran conflict could return by way of the island, U.S. officials say. The officials involved in preliminary discussions with […]
NEW YORK (AP) — People who buy luxurious second homes in New York City, but live most of the year elsewhere, would have to pay a new tax on the properties under a tentative agreement — an initiative to appease Mayor Zohran Mamdani and liberal voters who launched him into office with chants of “tax […]
Newly released data suggests that someone intentionally cut off the fuel to both engines of a China Eastern Airlines jet and there was a struggle over the controls before the plane slammed into a mountain in 2022, killing all 132 people aboard. In response to a public records request, the National Transportation Safety Board released […]
As storm chaser Ashton Lemley picked his way through a tornado-ravaged Mississippi trailer park, he heard the unmistakable meow of a kitten pierce the predawn darkness. The homes were flattened just hours earlier as storms spawned at least three tornadoes across the bottom half of Mississippi, injuring a dozen at the trailer park in the […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man who sprayed vinegar at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis pleaded guilty to assault Thursday in federal court after reaching a deal with prosecutors. Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, is awaiting sentencing. Kazmierczak, dressed in bright orange jail clothing, gave only a fragmentary explanation Thursday of […]
Weeks before Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a decrepit Manhattan jail in 2019, he was found on the floor of his cell, alive but with marks on his neck. He was placed on suicide watch, but later made a startling allegation to the guard watching over him: Epstein said his cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, had tried […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former sheriff’s deputy was found guilty of reckless homicide on Thursday for shooting a Black man who was bringing sandwiches to his grandmother’s house. The killing of Casey Goodson Jr. by Jason Meade in December 2020 had provoked outrage in Ohio. The jurors said they couldn’t agree on the more […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Kodak Black was arrested this week on a drug trafficking charge in central Florida in his latest run-in with law enforcement. The rapper, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was booked into the Orange County Jail on Wednesday on a felony charge of trafficking MDMA, the synthetic drug also known […]
Thirty former Ohio State football players, including some former NFL players, have agreed to join a federal lawsuit against the university over the sexual abuse of student athletes decades ago by a team doctor, a lawyer in the case said Thursday. The lawyer, Rocky Ratliff, said in an interview that the men came forward some […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support. The department told The Associated Press on Thursday that the revocations would begin Friday and be focused on those who owe $100,000 or more. That would apply to about […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said in a Thursday social media post that goods from the European Union would face higher tariff rates if the 27-member bloc fails to approve last year’s trade framework by July 4. Trump made the announcement after what he described as a “great call” with European Commission President Ursula […]
French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and his social platform X for child sexual abuse images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by the platform’s artificial intelligence system, Grok. The Paris public prosecutor’s office said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into X on charges including complicity […]
