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By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has found that a Kansas Highway Patrol practice known as the “Kansas Two-Step” violates motorists’ constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and targets motorists traveling from states where marijuana is legal. Senior U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil also notified the patrol in her ruling
Continue ReadingBy W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — USC quarterback Caleb Williams stood behind the lectern at the Heisman Trophy ceremony in December and delivered a speech, reminding his co-finalists that he might have won the hardware, but they were the ones playing in the College Football Playoffs. “Guess you can’t win ’em all,”
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida man has pleaded guilty to participating in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Court records show that 47-year-old Anthony Sargent pleaded guilty in District of Columbia federal court to a felony count of civil disorder along with six misdemeanor charges. He faces up to five years
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French police are investigating a violent armed robbery that targeted Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma at his home. The Paris prosecutor’s office said the player was targeted overnight Thursday to Friday. The prosecutor’s office and the French capital’s police force refused to release details about the attack that French media said took
Continue ReadingLUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — A ferry carrying traffic across Lake Michigan has suspended trips indefinitely after a mechanical failure of its ramping system. Lake Michigan Carferry, which owns and operates the S.S. Badger from Ludington, Michigan, to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, said Friday it has “engaged a quick-response team of Great Lakes partners to repair the issue
Continue ReadingFAIRMONT, Okla. (AP) — A storm packing winds over 80 mph have blown through northern Oklahoma, derailing a train, bringing down trees and pushing planes around at an Air Force base. BNSF Railway has told The Associated Press that 29 rail cars derailed during the storm early Friday near the town of Fairmont. BNSF says
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court Friday said it will reconsider its March ruling that Tesla CEO Elon Muskunlawfully threatened to take away employees’ stock options in a 2018 Twitter post amid an organizing effort by the United Auto Workers union. Three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department has told Texas that a floating barrier of wrecking ball-sized buoys the state put on the Rio Grande violates federal law and raises humanitarian concerns for migrants crossing from Mexico. The Biden administration told Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in a letter obtained
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday downplayed the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, saying it was not an insurrection but rather a “protest” that “ended up devolving, you know, in a way that was unfortunate, of course.” DeSantis, speaking in an
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A former Republican legislative candidate who traveled to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally has been charged with federal crimes for his role in the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. Federal prosecutors say 39-year-old Matthew Brackley of Waldoboro, Maine, entered the Capitol and asked for the location of House Speaker Nancy
Continue ReadingBy Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team in Georgia is continuing its efforts to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from pursuing her 2020 election interference investigation, as possible indictments in the state loom. In a new, 650-page filing in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Trump’s lawyers stepped
Continue ReadingCNN By Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team in Georgia is continuing its efforts to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from pursuing her 2020 election interference investigation, as possible indictments in the state loom. In a new, 650-page filing in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Trump’s lawyers
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — George Kliavkoff was one day short of his one-year anniversary as the Pac-12 Conference commissioner, finally on the second day of his first vacation when he got the shocking news that USC and UCLA were leaving for the Big Ten. He was driving from Montana
Continue ReadingFRANKLIN. N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a New Jersey bus monitor was using her cellphone and failed to notice a disabled 6-year-old being suffocated by a seat belt. Twenty-seven-year-old Amanda Davila, of New Brunswick, was charged Wednesday with manslaughter and child endangerment in the death of Faja Williams, who was found unresponsive when she arrived
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The suicide rate in Uruguay increased once again last year, reaching a new record and cementing the small country’s position as an outlier in the region. The South American country’s suicide rate reached 23.3 deaths per 100,000 people in 2022, when the number of deaths
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Artificial intelligence has surged to the forefront of Hollywood’s labor fights. Standing alongside more traditional disputes over pay models, benefits and job protections, AI technology is the wild card in the contract breakdowns that have led actors and writers unions to go on strike. The
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Una víctima de secuestro de 13 años fue rescatada en el sur de California después de hacer un letrero que decía “¡Ayúdame!” que sirvió para alertar a los transeúntes, lo que condujo al arresto de un hombre de Texas. Steven Robert Sablan, de 61 años, ahora enfrenta cargos federales
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed out another winning week with a quiet Friday, as stocks found some stability after sliding the day before. The S&P 500 edged up by 1.47, or less than 0.1%, to 4,536.34 to cap its eighth winning week in the last 10. The
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has sets his sights on Bud Light, the latest development in what has turned into an ongoing crisis for the beer brand following its brief partnership with influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who is trans, four months ago. DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, suggested that
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is elevating CIA Director Bill Burns to his Cabinet, a symbolic measure that nonetheless represents the major role he has played in national security amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Under his leadership, the CIA is delivering a clear-eyed, long-term approach to our nation’s top national security
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