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By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to dismiss an indictment charging the former president with conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election, renewing their arguments that he is immune from prosecution for official acts taken in the White House. Lower
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina officials are preparing to remove over 1.2 million gallons of toxic waste from a World War II aircraft carrier in Charleston Harbor. It’s part of an $18 million effort to prevent leakage from the USS Yorktown. The ship has been one
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By Lauren Mascarenhas and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Tennessee are searching for a 22-year-old college student who vanished after leaving a downtown Nashville bar more than a week ago. Riley Strain, a student at the University of Missouri, was on a weekend trip to Nashville when he was kicked out of Luke’s
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Caitlin Clark’s audacious logo 3-pointers and record-breaking accomplishments have driven sports fans who previously wouldn’t walk across the street to watch women’s basketball to set their DVRs for Iowa games. Bettors have taken an interest, too, using some of their discretionary money on Clark and
Continue ReadingHaley Talbot, Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer, Sam Fossum and Clare Foran, CNN Washington (CNN) — Congressional leaders on Tuesday formally announced a deal to keep the rest of the government funded through the fiscal year, but with just days to go before a key deadline, members from both parties in the House and Senate will
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state senator says he’s seeking to make it harder for people to challenge the qualifications of individual voters, but opponents warn he’s only going to enable more baseless attacks. Senate Ethics Committee Chairman Max Burns says his bill would add some standards for county election
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker is facing calls for his resignation after reading a graphic account of rape that included a colleague’s name on the floor of the Nebraska Legislature. Republican Sen. Steve Halloran read an excerpt Monday night from the memoir “Lucky” by Alice Sebold. The
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court has ruled in a case involving a Confederate monument standing outside a central North Carolina courthouse. A three-judge panel on Tuesday unanimously upheld a trial court judge’s decision to side with Alamance County and its commissioners over the statue at
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Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — A poco más de tres meses de mandato, Javier Milei vuelve a intentar que el Congreso apruebe un proyecto enviado por el Ejecutivo. Luego del revés de la semana pasada en el Senado, con el rechazo del extenso Decreto de Necesidad y Urgencia (DNU), con más de 300 artículos, y
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers are expecting a “new star” to appear in the night sky anytime between now and September, and it promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime celestial sight, according to NASA. The expected brightening event, known as a nova, will occur in the Milky Way’s Corona Borealis, or Northern Crown constellation,
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A pregnant Arizona lawmaker who revealed in a speech at the state Senate that she was planning to get an abortion says she wanted to share with her colleagues and the public the practical effects of abortion restrictions passed over the years. Democratic Sen. Eva Burch of
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump dijo este martes a la Corte Suprema que los futuros presidentes podrían ser vulnerables al “chantaje y la extorsión de facto mientras están en el cargo” si los jueces no aceptan su amplia visión de la inmunidad contra los cargos de subversión electoral en el caso del fiscal
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump made a series of false claims on Tuesday while railing against the judge who issued the $454 million civil fraud judgment against him. Trump posted the claims on social media the day after his lawyers said in a court filing that he had been
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — The city of Chicago has sued Glock Inc., alleging the handgun manufacturer is facilitating the proliferation of illegal machine guns that can fire as many as 1,200 rounds per minute on the streets of the city. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court claims Glock unreasonably endangers Chicagoans by manufacturing
Continue ReadingBy DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer The New York Jets have agreed to terms with former Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams on a one-year contract, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The 29-year-old Williams visited the Jets’ facility Tuesday and reportedly had meetings with other teams scheduled
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that future presidents could be vulnerable to “de facto blackmail and extortion while in office” if the justices did not accept his sweeping view of immunity against special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion charges. However, the presumptive 2024
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Two of the Vermont communities hardest hit by the catastrophic summer flooding have put in an urgent request for $3.5 million in state funding to elevate 20 homes in Barre and the capital city of Montpelier for flood victims who still need safe places to live
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– Los rumores sobre quién será el próximo James Bond volvieron a ganar fuerza después de que el tabloide The Sun publicara un reporte que decía que al actor británico Aaron Taylor-Johnson, de 33 años, le ofrecieron el papel del agente 007. The Sun reportó, citando una fuente anónima, que “el papel de
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Michael Conte, CNN (CNN) — The two senior generals in charge of the US military during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 both blamed the State Department for not sooner ordering a “noncombatant evacuation operation” for remaining US citizens in Afghanistan in a congressional hearing on Tuesday. “It is my assessment that that
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Texas to start arresting migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border and ordering them to leave, while the legal battle over Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest immigration move plays out. The court issued a divided decision Tuesday that allows Texas to
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