Month: October 2023

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “How would you be different as speaker, compared to Mr. Boehner?” a reporter asked then-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in September 2015 as the California Republican pursued, and eventually gave up, his first attempt at the speakership. McCarthy laughed while standing next to outgoing Speaker John Boehner

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press MOREAU, N.Y. (AP) — A 9-year-old girl who vanished during a family camping trip in upstate New York was “safe and in good health” Monday after a massive two-day search ended with her rescue and an arrest of a person suspected in her abduction, police said. Charlotte Sena disappeared while

By ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press CIUDAD MADERO, Mexico (AP) — Eleven members of Monica Segura’s family were gathered inside the Santa Cruz church in northeast Mexico for the baptism of her 1-year-old nephew when the roof collapsed killing at least 11 people. Segura and others were near a side of the church when the roof

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore City Council has voted to confirm Richard Worley as the city’s new police commissioner. Council voted Monday night in favor of the longtime department veteran. Worley was nominated by the mayor to replace Michael Harrison, who announced his resignation earlier this summer after leading the

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing an extraordinary referendum on his leadership of the House of Representatives after a conservative member of his own conference, a longtime critic, moved to trigger a vote on whether he should remain at the helm. “I have enough Republicans

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Thousands of people have blocked highways across Guatemala in reaction to the attorney general’s office seizing vote tallies from electoral authorities over the weekend as part of ongoing investigations into accusations of voting fraud that observers say are politically motivated. Indigenous groups and rural farm workers stalled traffic Monday on major

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Philippe has made landfall in the tiny island of Barbuda as it unleashes heavy rains and flash floods in the northeast Caribbean. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Philippe was about 80 miles east-southeast of St. Martin on Monday night. Top sustained winds were at

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A California man who says he was harassed after Elon Musk amplified social media posts that made false claims about him is suing the billionaire. The lawsuit was filed Monday in Austin, Texas, by the same attorney who won a defamation case last year against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The new

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ADAM BEAM Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When California Gov. Gavin Newsom needed to fill the U.S. Senate seat of his late mentor Dianne Feinstein, he could have turned to a big-city mayor, a member of Congress or a powerful legislator. Instead, he chose Laphonza Butler, a former union

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Preliminary autopsies show that five people who were killed in a central Illinois crash involving a semitruck carrying anhydrous ammonia died from exposure to the caustic chemical. The Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes on Monday completed autopsies of the victims of the accident Friday night in