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By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge in Phoenix on Monday blocked a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children and that abortion rights groups said put providers at risk of prosecution for a variety of crimes. U.S. District Judge Douglas Rayes said in his written
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Federal judge blocks Arizona law giving rights to unborn children for being too vague, at request of abortion backers.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man is in custody after police say he admitted hanging a man and killing another man as part of a “purge” that he claimed was directed by a higher power. KSL-TV reports 28-year-old Christian Taele was arrested after police responding to a report of an assault found the
Continue Reading By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed to a request from environmental groups to study increasing critical habitat designations in Alaska waters for one of the rarest species in the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries estimates there are about 30 North Pacific right whales left
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CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first glimpse of how the James Webb Space Telescope will change the way people see the universe has arrived. President Joe Biden has released one of Webb’s first images, and it’s “the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date,” according to NASA. The image shows
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Days after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination, his party vowed to use its victory in a parliamentary election to achieve his unfinished goals, including strengthening the military and revising the country’s pacifist, postwar constitution. While the comfortable majority secured Sunday by the governing Liberal Democratic
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Concession workers at Dodger Stadium have voted to authorize a strike days ahead of MLB’s All-Star Game festivities in Los Angeles. Workers employed by concessionaire Compass Group and its subsidiary Levy Restaurants voted 99% to authorize a strike, which could begin at any time, according to Unite Here Local 11. The
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, Katherine Dillinger and Paul LeBlanc, CNN US health officials are urgently working on a plan to allow second Covid-19 boosters for all adults, a senior White House official confirmed to CNN on Monday. The US Food and Drug Administration is making it a high priority, the official said. Second boosters have been
Continue Reading RENO A 70-year-old Nevada man has been charged in the 1982 killing of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class in California after detectives solved the case using DNA evidence, authorities said. Robert John Lanoue, of Reno, Nevada, was charged last week in the killing of Anne Pham. Pham disappeared while
Continue Reading By DIANE JEANTET and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The killing of a leftist party official allegedly by a supporter of Brazil’s president is raising fears of an increasingly violent campaign ahead of October’s highly polarized elections. Police say a federal prison guard shot a local official for the Workers’ Party
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says it will start monitoring the war in Ukraine and conflicts in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Africa’s central Sahel region for violations against children, including killings, injuries, recruitment, rape and other forms of sexual violence. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report Monday
Continue Reading CNN By Stella Chan and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A Team USA Olympic medal winner says a man attacked her outside a Los Angeles restaurant, hurling a metal object at her and fracturing her eye socket. Kim Glass, a 2008 volleyball silver medalist, posted a video to social media describing her ordeal. The footage shows her
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un grupo de turistas que practicaba senderismo en las montañas Tian Shan de Kirguistán sobrevivió el viernes a una enorme avalancha que les pasó por encima. Uno de los excursionistas, el británico Harry Shimmin, logró captar en video el momento en que la nieve se desprendía de la cima de una
Continue Reading By Stella Chan and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A Team USA Olympic medal winner says a man attacked her outside a Los Angeles restaurant, hurling a metal object at her and fracturing her eye socket. Kim Glass, a 2008 volleyball silver medalist, posted a video to social media describing her ordeal. The footage shows her right
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Evictions in the greater Phoenix area have returned to pre-pandemic levels. The latest data from the Maricopa County Justice Court shows that landlords filed 5,792 evictions in June, compared with 5,669 in June 2019, before the pandemic began. Maricopa County had among the highest levels of evictions in the United States before
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Forestry officials in Oregon said Monday that an invasive beetle known for decimating ash trees throughout North America and Europe was recently discovered west of Portland. The Oregon Department of Forestry said the iridescent green emerald ash borer is considered the most destructive forest pest in North America and had been
Continue Reading LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A trial began Monday for a former police officer charged with murder in a man’s death during a 2020 struggle with officers in Las Cruces, New Mexico. A prosecutor said Officer Christopher Smelser didn’t properly use a chokehold that gradually ended the life of Antonio Valenzuela, who fled on foot
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe, CNN A growing chorus of voices is urging Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to drop a murder charge against a bodega clerk who fatally stabbed a man who had gone behind the counter and pushed him. The bodega clerk, Jose Alba, 61, was working at the Blue Moon Convenient Store in Upper
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