By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on certain semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings ripping through communities nationwide. Once banned in the
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coaching changes in the Pac-12 are a given, but it is rare when it happens to three of the most recognizable programs in the conference. Such is the case with Southern California, Oregon, and Washington, which have new coaches on the sideline this season. The
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI on Friday arrested a Massachusetts man for threatening to blow up Arizona’s top election official following the 2020 election that saw former President Donald Trump lose in the state. James W. Clark, 38, of Falmouth made an initial court appearance in Boston to answer to
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A 41-year-old man pleaded not guilty today to robbing his acquaintance at gunpoint in a Palm Springs apartment. Billy Botley was charged with two felony counts for robbery and criminal threats of death or great bodily harm along with sentence-enhancing allegations for being armed, causing bodily harm, engaging in violent conduct, having a prior
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Alexandra Ferguson Minneapolis (CNN Business) — La inflación ha llegado a casi todos los rincones de la vida de los estadounidenses. En Queens, Nueva York, la propietaria de un taller de reparación de automóviles, Audra Fordin, dice que algunos clientes han optado por ahorrar dinero poniendo un parche a su llanta ponchada, solo para tener
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN When Samuel Garrett-Pate went to get a monkeypox vaccine a couple of weeks ago, it took hours in line, filling out paperwork, running home to get more paperwork and standing in line again at the Los Angeles County Public Health Department. In total, he says, it took him five hours to
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By Paradise Afshar and Steve Almasy, CNN Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday declared a state of emergency for the northeastern New Mexico city of Las Vegas due to flooding of a wildfire burn scar that is threatening the area’s drinking water supply. The scar from a fire that burned more than 340,000 acres has
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Dozens of people came together to commemorate Senior Airman Lee Talamantes at the Palm Springs Air Museum. It’s place he used to volunteer years ago. “It warms my heart that there are this many people that he has impacted and took the time out of the day to honor him. And being a close friend
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Two people were transported to the hospital after a multi-vehicle pile-up believed to have been caused by a drunk driver in Indian Wells. The crash happened Friday at around 1:45 p.m. over on Highway 111 at Club Drive A Cal Fire spokesperson confirmed four vehicles were involved in the collision. Photos of the collision show
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Wisconsin Elections Commission plans to meet next week to consider making a criminal referral against a Racine County man who ordered absentee ballots in the names of a top state lawmaker and other voters in what he says was an effort to expose vulnerabilities in Wisconsin’s voting system. In a
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings ripping through communities nationwide. Once banned in the U.S., the high-powered firearms are now widely blamed as the weapon of choice
Continue Reading CNN By Carlos Suarez, CNN The Miami-Dade County School Board has reversed course on its July 20 decision to reject new sexual education textbooks that they approved just three months ago over concerns that rejecting the curriculum would leave schools out of compliance with state requirements. On Thursday, the board voted 5-4 to bring back
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Al menos 47.300 casos fueron desestimados en los tribunales de inmigración de Estados Unidos en los primeros nueve meses del actual año fiscal debido a que el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés) no envió las notificaciones necesarias a las cortes, según un reporte publicado este
Continue Reading By Carlos Suarez, CNN The Miami-Dade County School Board has reversed course on its July 20 decision to reject new sexual education textbooks that they approved just three months ago over concerns that rejecting the curriculum would leave schools out of compliance with state requirements. On Thursday, the board voted 5-4 to bring back middle
Continue ReadingBy Virginia Langmaid, CNN A new piece of legislation introduced in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday would ban the use of lyrics from being used as evidence in legal claims. The bill, dubbed the Restoring Artistic Protection Act, aims to limit the extent to which an artist’s “creative or artistic expression” can be
Continue Reading By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press An investigative report looking at Sharon Hill Borough’s police policies and procedures in the wake of a police shooting that killed 8-year-old Fanta Bility last year was released late Friday— but all findings and recommendations were withheld from the public. Representatives of the small borough just north of the Philadelphia
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD and ROB GILLIES Associated Press IQALUIT, Nunavut (AP) — Pope Francis traveled to the edge of the Arctic on Friday to deliver an apology to the Inuit people for the “evil” of Canada’s residential schools, wrapping up his week-long “penitential pilgrimage” to Canada with a dramatic visit to the remote territory of
Continue Reading By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two Wisconsin residents are trying to show the state’s absentee ballot request system is ripe for fraud, the latest chapter in a two-year fight over election administration in the battleground state. Former President Donald Trump continues to insist he won Wisconsin even though Joe Biden defeated
Continue Reading By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico politicians joined with film stars to celebrate the legacy of the “Breaking Bad” TV series by installing statues Friday of mythical methamphetamine cookers Walter White and Jesse Pinkman at a convention center in Albuquerque. Local politicians, including Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, mixed with
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Intense summer thunderstorms that drenched parts of Las Vegas — causing water to cascade from casino ceilings and pool on the carpet of a stadium-sized sports betting area — were part of a broad regional monsoon pattern that may repeat through the weekend,
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