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By DEEPA BHARATH and PETER SMITH Associated Press ANAHEIM, California (AP) — The new president of the Southern Baptist Convention said Wednesday he will accelerate sex abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Texas pastor Bart Barber’s first priority: to assemble a panel of people — Southern Baptist leaders and experts — to shepherd
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN A portion of a Washington, DC, street will memorialize murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, with a sign in his honor unveiled Wednesday in front of the Saudi embassy in the city. The unveiling of “Jamal Khashoggi Way,” a stretch of New Hampshire Avenue between Virginia Avenue NW and F Street
Continue Reading EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) — Officials on Wednesday identified the two police officers who were killed in a shootout the day before while investigating a possible stabbing at a suburban Los Angeles motel. The suspect also died at the scene. The city of El Monte said in an Instagram post the officers were Corporal Michael
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Shawna Mizelle, CNN John Hinckley Jr. has been freed from all court restrictions, marking the end of years of government oversight nearly four decades after he shot and wounded then-President Ronald Reagan. “After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!” Hinckley tweeted Wednesday afternoon. Earlier this month, US
Continue ReadingCNN By Paul Vercammen, CNN Five friends’ celebrated photo taken every five years at the same California lake is out for the world to see despite one man’s recent cancer scare. They took photo No. 9 on Wednesday, 40 years after they shot the first in 1982 at a prefabricated cabin at Copco Lake along
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN A lawyer for one of the Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy released a 9-page document on Wednesday that outlines a plan to occupy key congressional buildings connected to the US Capitol and the Supreme Court on January 6, 2021, and to distribute a list of demands calling
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge this week gave final approval to a lawsuit settlement that commits the city of Los Angeles to sheltering or housing thousands of homeless residents within five years. In approving the deal reached in April, U.S. District Judge David Carter wrote Tuesday that the
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By JOHN LEICESTER and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy has thanked President Joe Biden for approving another $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine, the largest single tranche of weapons and equipment since the war began. The aid will include anti-ship missile launchers, howitzers and more rounds for
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By JOHN LEICESTER and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy has thanked President Joe Biden for approving another $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine, the largest single tranche of weapons and equipment since the war began. The aid will include anti-ship missile launchers, howitzers and more rounds for
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By LINDSEY TANNER and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers COVID-19 shots for U.S. infants, toddlers and preschoolers moved a step closer Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisers gave a thumbs-up to vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer for the littlest kids. The outside experts voted unanimously that the benefits of the shots outweigh any
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By Mick Krever, CNN Two Americans fighting alongside Ukrainian forces north of Kharkiv have been missing for nearly a week and there are fears that they may have been captured by Russian forces, according to their families and a fellow fighter. The men are Alexander John-Robert Drueke, 39, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Andy Tai Ngoc
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday convicted a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol together to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden delivered the verdict from the bench after hearing two
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A commission formed to study the government structure in Portland, Oregon, has voted by a supermajority to send a sweeping slate of reforms to voters in November. Portland is the last major city governed by a city commission, a system wherein four commissioners and the mayor are elected by all voters
Continue Reading By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — John Hinckley Jr. has been freed from court oversight. The development Wednesday ended decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals after Hinckley shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981. U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman had announced Hinckley’s pending released earlier this
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand The man who was captured parading through the US Capitol with a large Confederate flag during the January 6, 2021 riot, was — along with his son — found guilty by a federal judge on Wednesday of obstructing an official proceeding, a felony. Kevin Seefried, with his wife, son Hunter and son’s
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing to require that future airplanes produce lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions before they can be certified. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that its proposal would cover planes under development, including two Boeing models and one from Airbus. It would also apply to planes built after
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing to require that future airplanes produce lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions before they can be certified. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that its proposal would cover planes under development, including two Boeing models and one from Airbus. It would also apply to planes built after
Continue ReadingBy Michael Warren, CNN The campaign of Herschel Walker publicly acknowledged this week that the Republican Senate candidate has a second son with a woman who was not his wife. The Georgia GOP nominee’s admission follows a Tuesday report in the Daily Beast that Walker fathered a son more than a decade ago. The Beast
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday in an aggressive move to tackle white-hot inflation that is plaguing the economy, frustrating consumers and stifling the Biden administration. It’s the largest rate hike since 1994, and will affect millions of American businesses
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Two beloved El Monte police officers who were killed Tuesday were “essentially ambushed while trying to keep a family safe,” said El Monte Mayor Jessica Ancona. The officers responded to a call about a possible stabbing at an El Monte motel. The officers were identified on Wednesday as Corporal Michael Paredes, a 22-year veteran, and
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