TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a state law banning the open carrying of firearms, calling the law incompatible with the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The First District Court of Appeal issued its ruling in a case stemming from the July 4, 2022, arrest of a man […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Justice Department attorney accused of hurling a sandwich at a federal agent in the nation’s capital — a confrontation captured in a viral video — pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor assault charge. Prosecutors charged Sean Charles Dunn with a misdemeanor last week after a grand jury refused […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic nomination on a platform of making the city more affordable, is now calling on soccer’s global governing body to make it cheaper for New Yorkers to attend the World Cup. In a petition released Wednesday, Mamdani demanded FIFA reverse its […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man who killed John Lennon outside the former Beatle’s Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 14th time, according to New York prison officials. Mark David Chapman, 70, appeared before a parole board on Aug 27, and the decision was recently posted online by the state […]
HOUSTON (AP) — A professor at Texas A&M University was fired and others were removed from their positions after a video surfaced in which a student confronted the instructor over her teaching of issues related to gender identity in a class on children’s literature. The firing of Melissa McCoul, a senior lecturer in the English […]
Bensenville, Ill. (AP) — Federal agents carried out seizures nationwide of illegal vaping products Wednesday as the Trump administration moved to crack down on products that are regularly used by teens in the U.S. after being smuggled in from China. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison wrested the title of the world’s richest man from longtime holder Elon Musk early Wednesday, according to wealth tracker Bloomberg, as stock in his software giant rocketed more than a third in a stunning few minutes of trading. A college dropout, the 81-year-old Ellison is now worth […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Data from President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement operation in Washington shows that more than 40% of the arrests made in its first 30 days were immigration related. Trump has portrayed the operation as focused on crime. The data, analyzed by The Associated Press, underscores that the administration continued to advance its […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three high-ranking FBI officials were fired last month in a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who knew better but caved to political pressure from the Trump administration so he could keep his own position, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that seeks reinstatement of the agents. The complaint […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville law enforcement officers violated the civil rights of a 22-year-old Black college student when they pulled him from his car and beat him during a traffic stop, according to a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Jacksonville on Wednesday. A video showing a Jacksonville Sheriff’s officer punching and dragging […]
Federal investigators have zeroed in on flaws in the pool deck as the preliminary cause of the 2021 collapse of a 12-story Florida beachfront condominium that killed 98 people. The National Institute of Standards and Technology said in a report Wednesday that the Champlain Towers South pool deck began falling down at least seven minutes […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Three Division I college basketball players have had their eligibility permanently revoked after the NCAA found that they bet on their own games at Fresno State and San Jose State. The NCAA Committee on Infractions on Wednesday released findings from an enforcement investigation that uncovered violations by Mykell Robinson, Steven Vasquez and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lyme disease can cause serious harm, but so can bogus tests and treatments. The complexity of diagnosing the tick-borne disease has given rise to an entire industry of unapproved tests and unproven alternative treatments that experts say should be avoided, including lasers, herbal remedies and electromagnets “It really is a buyer-beware situation,” […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided appeals court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally remove and replace the director of the U.S. Copyright Office. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted 2-1 to temporarily block Trump’s Republican administration from firing Shira […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s emergency order over the nation’s capital, which federalized its police force and launched a surge of law enforcement into the city, is set to expire overnight Wednesday after Congress failed to extend it. But the clash between Republicans and the heavily Democratic district over its autonomy was only set […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jason Esteves of Atlanta resigned from his Georgia state Senate seat Wednesday, the first of many candidates who will face that choice as they pursue statewide office in 2026. “One thing has become clear from my time in the Senate: the challenges Georgia is facing require bold solutions and […]
Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday. Planet-warming emissions from 180 major cement, oil and gas producers contributed significantly to all of the heat events considered in the study, which was published in the journal Nature and examined a set of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump couldn’t stand to cede the spotlight in 2020 as the Washington Nationals opened their pandemic-shortened season at home against the New York Yankees by having Dr. Anthony Fauci throw the first pitch. ″I think I’m doing that on Aug. 15 at Yankee Stadium,” the president said shortly before Fauci […]
It sounded like freedom, like a world of possibility beyond the orphanage walls. Maria Pires was getting adopted. At 11, she saw herself escaping the violence of the Sao Paulo orphanage, leaving Brazil for America. A single man in his 40s, Floyd Sykes III, came to meet her. He signed paperwork and brought Maria home. […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that elevated the importance of conservation, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing. The rule was a key part of efforts under former President Joe Biden to refocus […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee on Wednesday approved the nomination of White House economic adviser Stephen Miran to the Fed’s board of governors, setting up a likely approval by the full Senate, which would make Miran the third Trump appointee to the seven-member board. The White House has pushed for an expedited Senate approval […]
It sounded like freedom, like a world of possibility beyond the orphanage walls. Maria Pires was getting adopted. At 11 years old, she saw herself escaping the chaos and violence of the Sao Paulo orphanage, where she’d been sexually assaulted by a staff member. She saw herself leaving Brazil for America, trading abandonment for belonging. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor unions representing millions of educators and school employees are suing President Donald Trump’s administration over its immigration crackdown, saying arrests near school campuses are terrorizing children and their teachers, leading some students to drop out. At the start of Trump’s second term, his Republican administration said it would allow immigration arrests […]
Amazon’s Zoox on Wednesday launched its robotaxi service in Las Vegas, offering free rides through parts of the entertainment mecca for anyone willing to gamble on the safety of a driverless vehicle. The Las Vegas debut of Zoox’s long-planned ride-hailing service reflects Amazon-owned robotaxi maker’s confidence in the safety of its boxy vehicles after two […]
