By MARK THIESSEN Associated Presss ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that will keep Republican Tara Sweeney off the ballot for the August special election in Alaska’s U.S. House race. In a brief written order Saturday, the high court said it affirmed the decision of the Alaska
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By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles FC has reached a deal with Welsh forward Gareth Bale to move to Major League Soccer after his departure from Real Madrid, a person close to the deal told The Associated Press. The person spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity because the details
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MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government has approved a package of emergency economic measures worth more than 9 billion euros ($9.5 billion) to try to temper the economic fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that the war has produced “extraordinary uncertainty” in the Spanish economy
Continue Reading by FABIANO MAISONNAVE RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high deforestation rates in the Amazon. He’s promised to reserve land where people can legally harvest rubber, acai and other non-wood forest products, and to limit the expansion of
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated families Saturday and urged them to shun “selfish” decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican rally a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion. Francis didn’t refer to the ruling or explicitly mention abortion
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story 2022-06-24 (CTV Network) — As inflation rates soar to the highest they’ve been in Canada in forty years, nearly half of Canadians say that right now, they’re doing worse financially than they were at this time last year. A further third say they expect
Continue ReadingBy Michael Lee Click here for updates on this story 2022-06-24 (CTV Network) — Miners working in a gold field in Yukon have uncovered what is being called the “most complete” mummified woolly mammoth found to date in North America, officials announced on Friday. A joint statement from the Government of Yukon and Tr’ondek Hwech’in
Continue Reading By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan court has tossed out an agreement that made it easier to prosecute bribery involving the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. The ruling announced late Friday favors a former cabinet official accused of corruption. And it adds to a series of moves reversing efforts to
Continue Reading By LEAH WILLINGHAM and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) — A Texas group that helps women pay for abortions halted its efforts Saturday while evaluating its legal risk under a strict state ban. Mississippi’s only abortion clinic continued to see patients while awaiting a 10-day notice that will trigger a ban. Elected
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — President Joe Biden is out to sustain the global alliance punishing Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as he embarks on a five-day trip to Europe as the 4-month-old war shows no sign of abating and its aftershocks to global food and energy supplies
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles police officer who died of neck injuries suffered during training had been beaten by fellow officers in an exercise meant to “simulate a mob,” according to a wrongful-death claim filed against the city by his mother. Houston Tipping, 32, was hurt May 26 at the police academy and
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Queen Margrethe has opened a new museum that tells the story of the generations of refugees who have shaped Danish society. The story of the museum, which was inaugurated Saturday, starts with the Germans who fled the Soviet advance during World War II. “Flugt
Continue Reading By MARIA SANMINIATELLI and KARL RITTER Associated Press OSLO, Norway (AP) — A gunman opened fire in Oslo’s nightlife district early Saturday, killing two people and leaving more than 20 wounded in what the Norwegian security service called an “Islamist terror act” during the capital’s annual LGBTQ Pride festival. Investigators said the suspect, identified as
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN The US Supreme Court handed down a bevy of decisions this week that will affect Americans across the country. The rulings from the nation’s highest court range from topics such as gun rights to Miranda rights. The most notable ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade and upended constitutional protections on abortion,
Continue ReadingCNN, WJLA, KABC, KGAN, KPHO, KTVK, WPRI, M. SULLIVAN: ISACC DAVIS, KPHO/KTVK By Maegan Vazquez, Jasmine Wright and Devan Cole, CNN In her first interview since Roe v. Wade was overturned on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash that she never believed former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks, whom she voted
Continue ReadingBy Matt Woods Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A corrections officer at the St. Louis City Justice Center was injured after two inmates assaulted him, police said. One of the inmates had a homemade sharp object and cut the 36-year-old officer, police said. The inmates are 32 and 40
Continue ReadingBy Tony Garcia Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Metro Homicide detectives were called to three, separate, deadly shootings overnight in downtown and West Nashville. According to police, the first shooting took place around 10:40 p.m. on Friday, outside Double Dogs restaurant on Charlotte Pike. One man was killed in
Continue ReadingBy Anna Muckenfuss Click here for updates on this story SHEPHERD, Michigan (WNEM) — A Sumner man is in custody and is facing multiple felony charges following a home invasion where police say he robbed the homeowner at gunpoint. Joseph Ryan Kadlek was arrested around 5:00 a.m. Saturday morning according to the Shepherd Police Department.
Continue ReadingBy Jamarlo Phillips Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — A Paulding County mother has been arrested after three young children died and several others were injured in a house fire Friday night. According to police, a neighbor called 911 just before 9:30 p.m. Friday after a domestic disturbance and noticing
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN Phoebe Bridgers vented her frustration at America’s high court during her Glastonbury Festival set on Friday night after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. “I’m having the sh—iest day,” said the American singer-songwriter, 27, referring to the ruling that holds there is no longer a federal constitutional right to
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