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By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns will host the 2027 NBA All-Star game, the league announced Thursday, giving owner Mat Ishbia a marquee event for the city roughly one year after he purchased the franchise. This will be the fourth time Phoenix has hosted the All-Star game and first
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in Iowa’s House of Representatives have approved a bill that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person” — over Democrats’ concerns about how it might impact in vitro fertilization. The legislation passed by the House on Thursday and awaiting Senate action would outline
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Tennessee House lawmakers have advanced a bill to undo the reforms to police traffic stops made by Memphis officials in response to the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers last January. Republicans voted Thursday as Democrats accused Republican Rep. John Gillespie
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Several New York City employees have been arrested for their alleged role in a scheme to steal the identities of homeless shelter residents and defraud a pandemic-era relief program. Manhattan prosecutors brought charges against 18 people, including five employees of the city’s homeless services agency. Prosecutors
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The federal judge who oversaw a New York defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 million award to a longtime magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s refused Thursday to relieve the ex-president from the verdict’s financial pinch. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
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A man who aided his younger brother in trying to cover up the alleged killing of a 16-year-old Moreno Valley girl pleaded guilty today to being an accessory after the fact and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail. Gary Anthony Shover, 27, of Hesperia admitted the felony count under a plea agreement
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra will tour Asia for the first time with nine performances in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan from June 19-30. Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct concerts featuring soprano Lisette Oropesa, mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn. Venues include Seoul, Nishinomiya, Tokyo and Taipei. The full
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Allies of former President Donald Trump held meetings with top officials in Israel last week to discuss the current conflict in Gaza, according to three sources familiar with the trip. The visit – led by Keith Kellogg, a leading national security adviser to the former president who also
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers defended the actions of local police in a report released Thursday, prompting shouts of “cowards” during a City Council meeting and causing several family members of the
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The CEO of Rivian Automotive announced Thursday that the electric truck maker is pausing construction of its $5 billion manufacturing plant in Georgia to speed production and save money. California-based Rivian had planned to start building its new R2 midsize SUVs at the Georgia
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Costco locked in $1.50 hot dog-soda loyalists. Now, it’s chasing a different clientele: precious metal investors and collectors. Costco recently started selling silver coins for the first time, finance chief Richard Galanti told CNN. The company is selling 25-count tubes of 1 oz. Canada Maple Leaf Silver
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A school headteacher in northwestern Nigeria says gunmen who attacked the school abducted 287 students as they were about to start classes. It marks the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week. Locals told The Associated Press the assailants surrounded
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A Saudi Arabian farm previously permitted to pump unlimited amounts of groundwater to grow alfalfa for dairy cows overseas has stopped irrigating its crops on state land in Arizona’s Butler Valley, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs announced Thursday. Hobbs and the Arizona State Land Department announced after a recent inspection
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A jury in Michigan has heard a frantic 911 call made by the father of a school shooter in 2021. James Crumbley is on trial for involuntary manslaughter. He’s accused of contributing to the tragedy at Oxford High School by failing to properly secure a gun
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Derrick Henry is back in the gym, eager to prove turning 30 is just a number that shouldn’t affect the four-time Pro Bowl running back’s value on the NFL’s open market. The man who organized a group chat among the league’s top running
Continue ReadingBy Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — Tissue samples from the brain of the man who killed 18 people during a shooting rampage at a bowling alley and a restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, in October showed evidence of traumatic brain injury but not the neurological disorder CTE, according to the Concussion Legacy Foundation. Robert Card, 40, was a US Army reservist
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Recently unsealed court documents show that an Army soldier accused of selling national defense information has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a wide range on charges, including bribery of a public official. According to the indictment, Korbein Schultz allegedly conspired with an individual
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Brian Dutcher has experienced all 25 seasons of Mountain West basketball and he’s never seen one as crazy as this one. A season after Dutcher’s San Diego State Aztecs became the first Mountain West team to reach the Final Four, the conference could have a
Continue Reading By Paula Newton and Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — A 2-month-old was among the dead in a mass killing in Canada that claimed the lives of 4 children, their mother and a family friend, Ottawa police said Thursday. The father of the family survived the attack and emerged from the home injured and asking for
Continue ReadingEVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti is once again facing a wave of chaos fueled by ongoing gang wars. Haiti’s security crisis has spiraled since the 2021 assassination of the country’s president. Gang leaders have grown increasingly violent and empowered, taking advantage of power vacuums in the Caribbean nation to grow in
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