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By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in an Arizona county that was plagued with issues during Tuesday’s primaries have fired their elections director and said he is no longer employed. Pinal County officials had promised swift changes during a Wednesday news conference where they did not assign blame directly on Elections Director
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is urging American conservatives to “take back the institutions,” stick to hardline stances on gay rights and immigration and fight for the pivotal next U.S. presidential election. The far-right leader received loud cheers and standing ovations Thursday at the Conservative Political
Continue Reading By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Police in Minnesota are responding to a possible shooting at the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis. Bloomington police confirmed on Twitter that they were working “an active incident” with numerous officers on the scene. They gave no other details. Mall of America spokesman
Continue Reading By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, currently bidding to return to the job he held between 2003-2010, received on Thursday the endorsement of moderate candidate André Janones. The move could put the leftist leader closer to an outright victory against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in
Continue Reading By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The attorney who represented Mystikal on rape and kidnapping charges that were dropped in late 2020 said Thursday that he is once more representing the 51-year-old rapper — and is confident that he will again be cleared. Joel Pearce said he met Thursday with Michael Tyler
Continue Reading By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Roses brought to honor love on that Valentine’s Day in 2018 lay withered, their dried and cracked petals scattered across classroom floors still smeared with the blood of victims gunned down by a former student more than four years earlier. Bullet holes pocked walls, and
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Xavier Prep football put everybody on notice last year, earning a share of the DEL title, finishing 4-1 in league play. This season, the Saints won’t surprise anyone. Xavier is one of the top teams in the valley with the hopes of competing for a championship and making a deep run in the playoffs. “The
Continue Reading By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Albert Woodfox, a former inmate who spent decades in isolation at a Louisiana prison and then became an advocate for prison reforms after he was released, died Thursday of complications from COVID-19. In a statement, his family says the 75-year-old died at a hospital in New
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PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed a prominent Arizona election attorney for a position as a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Roopali Desai was confirmed Thursday on a 67-29 vote, drawing bipartisan support after Arizona’s two Democratic senators, Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema, touted her when President Joe Biden
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed a prominent Arizona election attorney for a position as a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Roopali Desai was confirmed Thursday on a 67-29 vote, drawing bipartisan support after Arizona’s two Democratic senators, Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema, touted her when President Joe Biden
Continue Reading OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada says it is sending military trainers to the United Kingdom to teach Ukrainians how to fight invading Russian forces. Defense Minister Anita Anand said Wednesday that up to 225 members of the Canadian Armed Forces will eventually be based in the U.K. for an initial period of four months, said
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Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — El nuevo ministro de Economía, Desarrollo Productivo y Agricultura de Argentina, Sergio Massa, asumió este miércoles en el cargo y presentó un programa de medidas económicas para intentar hacer frente a la crisis cambiaria y financiera que está afectando al país. Massa no solo toma las riendas de la cartera
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By Hannah Sarisohn and Dave Alsup, CNN Police are searching for suspects after gunshots were fired into a crowded store in the Mall of America on Thursday, authorities said. “Fortunately, at this time, it doesn’t appear that anyone was injured,” Bloomington Police Department Chief Booker Hodges said at a news conference. The store was “full
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more than $4 million in compensatory damages, a jury decided Thursday, capping a stunning and dramatic case that showcased for the public the real-world harm inflicted by viral conspiracy theories.
Continue Reading By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Demolition is scheduled to begin this week on a once-opulent downtown Anchorage movie theater designed by the architect of Hollywood’s famed Pantages Theater. The 4th Avenue Theatre, with nearly 1,000 seats, opened in 1947. The art deco theater became the centerpiece of the downtown historic district.
Continue Reading By CNN Staff Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s 1200 building has been sealed since the massacre on February 14, 2018. On Thursday, jurors in the sentencing phase of the school shooter’s trial walked through the undisturbed scene, where the blood of the victims still stains classroom floors. Bullet holes also mark the walls of the
Continue ReadingCNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more than $4 million in compensatory damages, a jury decided Thursday, capping a stunning and dramatic case that showcased for the public the real-world harm inflicted by viral conspiracy
Continue Reading CNN, WLKY, WDRB, KATU, WAVE By Theresa Waldrop, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Sonia Moghe and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Four current and former Louisville police officers involved in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor’s home — including detectives who worked on the search warrant and the ex-officer accused of firing blindly into her home — have been
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise victory for Republicans, the Senate on Thursday voted to overturn a Biden administration rule requiring rigorous environmental review of major infrastructure projects such as highways, pipelines and oil wells — a victory enabled in part by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Manchin,
Continue Reading By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are considering reshaping their economic bill’s proposed taxes on the wealthy and huge corporations, and possibly adding billions for the West’s historic drought. They are discussing their options as the Senate aims toward initial votes as early as Saturday on the legislation. Democrats running the 50-50
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