Month: June 2022

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Sen. James Lankford has won the GOP primary outright in his race for reelection to another six-year term in the U.S. Senate. Lankford defeated Tulsa pastor Jackson Lahmeyer and Joan Farr of Broken Arrow in Tuesday’s primary. Lankford will be a heavy favorite to

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is accusing Russia of becoming “a terrorist” state carrying out “daily terrorist acts” and is urged Russia’s expulsion from the United Nations. In a virtual address to the U.N. Security Council, Zelenskyy urged the U.N. to establish an international tribunal to

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico police say they raided the island’s largest hydroponic marijuana greenhouse, with nearly 2,000 plants being grown in a former addiction treatment center. Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa said officers discovered the greenhouse Tuesday in the northern town of Carolina, just east of the capital of San Juan,

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The midterm primary season entered a new, more volatile phase on Tuesday as voters participate in the first elections since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision revoking a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion jolted the nation’s politics. In Colorado’s Republican U.S. Senate primary, voters are choosing between

By ERIC GAY, PAUL J. WEBER and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones as authorities began the grim task Tuesday of identifying 51 people who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning in the

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — While Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged to make California a sanctuary for women seeking abortions, his administration won’t spend public money to help people from other states travel to California for the procedure. Newsom’s decision, included in a budget agreement reached over the weekend, surprised abortion

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Polls are closing across much of Illinois as Republicans choose a nominee to take on Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker this fall. Pritzker is a billionaire who has spent millions trying to get the rival he wants to increase his advantage. A GOP front-runner is state Sen. Darren

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — New capital murder indictments have been returned against a convicted murderer from the Dallas-area who authorities say is responsible for four additional deaths. A Collin County grand jury indicted Billy Chemirmir on Tuesday on single capital murder counts in each of the 2017 deaths of four women. The 50-year-old accused serial

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Polls have begun closing as six states are holding congressional primary elections, primary runoffs or special elections on Tuesday. Many of the Republican races will test former President Donald Trump’s national influence. Others could provide the first hints of how voters are reacting to the Supreme Court’s