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By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some Indiana Republicans in key campaigns for office are fighting for access to detailed abortion reports that the health department stopped releasing to protect patient privacy under a near-total ban on the procedure. Advocates and some state officials warn that releasing the reports would jeopardize the privacy
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump said his $175 million bond posted to satisfy the judgement in the New York civil fraud case is financially sound, and they asked the judge to set aside the attorney general’s challenge to the bond and award
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday is taking up the first of two cases that could affect the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his election loss in 2020. Hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot also are at stake. The
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The maker of a popular weedkiller is turning to lawmakers in key states to try to squelch legal claims that it failed to warn about cancer risks. Bayer disputes such claims but already has paid about $10 billion to resolve them.
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Sonny Gray struck out six and didn’t walk a batter over six scoreless innings to beat his former club with career win No. 100, and Willson Contreras doubled twice and drove in a run for the St. Louis Cardinals in their 3-1 win against the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a moment in history. For the first time, a former U.S. president is facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet as coverage of that case began Monday, the nation had to rely on secondhand accounts of what was done and said in a
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will return to a New York courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime, a new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds. Only about one-third of U.S. adults say Trump did something illegal
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliving the day he thought might be his last. “At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Another day, another set of milestone accomplishments from Major League Baseball’s rookie class of Jacksons. San Diego’s Jackson Merrill went 3 for 5 and drove in two runs and Milwaukee’s Jackson Chourio hit a two-run homer and scored twice in the Padres’ 7-3 victory over the
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military renewed warnings on Monday for Palestinians not to return to northern Gaza, a day after witnesses and medical officials said Israeli troops opened fire and killed five people among throngs of displaced residents trying to walk back to
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Two construction projects worth almost $4 million in Cathedral City are moving into phase two. The city received funding for these projects from the Active Transportation Program. The projects include a sidewalk and multi-use trail on Cathedral Canyon Drive and an expansion of Date Palm Drive. These projects will make commuting safer for pedestrians, cyclists,
Continue ReadingTANA TORAJA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old girl and her mother who were the last victims still missing after landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island that killed 20 people. The rescue chief said the mother and child were found close to each other. Mud loosened by torrential rain poured from
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By Nectar Gan and Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has voiced “deep concern” over escalating tensions in the Middle East after Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles in an unprecedented attack on Israel, raising the prospect of a wider conflagration in a region where Beijing has pledged to play peacemaker and
Continue ReadingBy STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jackson Merrill went 3 for 5 and singled home two runs during a six-run rally in the fifth inning as the San Diego Padres defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 7-3 on Monday night. The game featuring two heralded 20-year-old rookies with the first name of Jackson —
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer, Haley Talbot and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson announced Monday evening the House will take up separate bills this week to provide aid for Israel and Ukraine, heeding demands from the far right to keep the issues separate as the threat of a vote to
Continue ReadingBy Coy Wire, Jill Martin and Ben Morse, CNN New York (CNN) — Excitement for women’s basketball is perhaps the highest it’s ever been. And now, many of the stars from the NCAA women’s basketball tournament – including Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, Stanford’s Cameron Brink, LSU’s Angel Reese and South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso – are taking
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump is here. The opening day of the first criminal trial of a former US president began Monday, hitting home the reality that the presumptive Republican nominee for president will be sitting in a Manhattan courtroom as
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Two visitors at Lake Mead National Recreation Area were captured on video destroying ancient rock formations and park rangers are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspects. Video shows two visitors who scaled towering russet-colored rock formations along the park’s Redstone Dune Trail and were shoving wide slabs
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — China’s economy expanded at a faster than expected pace in the first three months of the year, helped by policies aimed at stimulating growth and stronger demand, the government said Tuesday. The world’s second-largest economy expanded at a 5.3% annual pace in January-March, beating analysts’
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