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By MICHAEL R. SISAK, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge on Tuesday took the air out of a big statute of limitations win that former President Donald Trump claimed he had scored in the first hours of his civil business fraud trial. Trump’s legal team
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration took aim Tuesday at the fentanyl trafficking threat, announcing a series of indictments and sanctions against Chinese companies and executives blamed for importing the chemicals used to make the deadly drug. Officials described the actions, which include charges against eight Chinese
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Ayer inicio en el Condado de Riverside el “tribunal de atención” que es un esfuerzo por ayudar a personas que sufren una severa enfermedad mental. Esto permite que las personas reciban tratamiento, incluso si el paciente se rehúsa el juez puede ordenar que lo atiendan, algo que antes estaba prohibido. El objetivo es romper el
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Jurors have heard a harrowing description of Manny Ellis’ last moments during opening statements in the trial of three Washington police officers charged in the 33-year-old Black man’s death in 2020. Before he died, Ellis was punched, shocked with a Taser, put in a chokehold and
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Two new reports show that women are paying what’s become known as a kind of “pink” tax for their health care. They are spending more out of pocket than men, and when it comes to breast cancer, the extra expenses are causing such a significant burden that it may
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — The number of job openings at US employers unexpectedly jumped in August, a testament to the continued resilience of the labor market, according to new data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There were an estimated 9.61 million open jobs in August, according to seasonally adjusted
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to China next week, traveling to the country amid heightened tensions and after several members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet visited. His office says that Schumer, a Democrat, and Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas was back at work on Tuesday after being carjacked the night before by three armed attackers less than a mile from the Capitol. Cuellar said he was “good” and even joked about the frightening experience. He said the robbers “came out
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WCBS) — A New Jersey man is facing charges after he was caught on video crashing his SUV into a police station. Police say 34-year-old John Hargreaves was blasting the song “Welcome to the Jungle” when he slammed into the station
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Foreigners with guns are met with hostility in most countries in the world. But the departure of armed soldiers and police from Haiti in 2017 after nearly two decades on the streets helped criminals seize control of much of the country. Gangs have
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Utah U.S. Rep. John Curtis says he will not run to succeed Mitt Romney in the Senate. The announcement leaves the race to replace Romney clear of one of Utah’s best known Republicans. Curtis is a former mayor of the city of Provo. He’s been in Congress since 2017. In
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Most Pennsylvania lawmakers want to move their state’s presidential primary election up from late April. But disagreements arose in the House on Tuesday over whether to embrace a Senate-backed plan that would shift the election to mid-March. A House committee first rejected, but later
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — A subway rider was slashed in the face overnight on the Upper West Side. It happened shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday, as a northbound A train was passing through 72nd Street and Central Park West. Police said the male passenger
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has railed against unauthorized migrants, human-rights laws and “woke” critics of her hardline policies at the Conservative Party’s annual conference. Braverman is trying to secure her place as the flag-bearer of the party’s law-and-order right wing. In a speech she called
Continue ReadingBy MARCELLA BAIETTO, TOM GARDINER Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — A video showing a mother grabbing her children from the car after a biker shattered her back windshield is now going viral. In the video, a biker stomps twice on Nikki Bullock’s back windshield in Center City. After shattering the
Continue ReadingBy Fletcher Halfaker Click here for updates on this story HARRISBURG, Nebraska (Star-Herald) — Fourth graders from throughout the Panhandle are making trips to a one-room schoolhouse in Banner County to experience a day in the life of a frontier child complete with period accurate studies, attire and behavior lessons. Flowerfield School has been a
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against a conservative-led challenge. Even some conservative justices sounded skeptical Tuesday of arguments that the agency, created after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages, car loans and other consumer finance, violates
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Hundreds of small tremors have shaken a densely populated volcanic area west of the Italian city of Naples in recent weeks, pushing the government to quickly redraft mass evacuation plans, even though experts don’t see an imminent risk of eruption. In the latest of a long string
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s highest court says it will hear the case of a Christian baker who refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. The decision announced Tuesday comes after a U.S. Supreme Court victory this summer for a graphic artist who didn’t want to
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and TIAN MACLEOD JI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Thailand’s capital say at least two people were killed when a teenage boy with a handgun opened fire in a major shopping mall in the center of Bangkok. A police spokesperson told reporters a suspect was taken into custody after the
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