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By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has offered his deep appreciation to Kenyan President William Ruto for the coming deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police forces to help quell gang violence in Haiti. Biden also is defending his decision to withhold American forces from the mission in
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. California’s law is meant to give Arizonans an option to receive legal abortions from their doctor over the next several months. The move
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — The House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s hearing on campus antisemitism Thursday came with no shortage of fiery exchanges between lawmakers and the heads of Northwestern University, Rutgers University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). But unlike two prior hearings, Thursday’s was the first
Continue ReadingCNN By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — The House Committee on Education and the Workforce’s hearing on campus antisemitism Thursday came with no shortage of fiery exchanges between lawmakers and the heads of Northwestern University, Rutgers University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). But unlike two prior hearings, Thursday’s was the
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Louis Vuitton has unveiled its latest fashion designs at Barcelona’s Park Güell in an homage to one of Antoni Gaudí’s architectural masterpieces. Nicolas Ghesquiere’s ambitions for the Parisian house’s 2025 Cruise collection were unveiled before an A-list crowd that included actresses Ana de Armas, Jennifer Connelly,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A Holocaust museum in New York City will offer free educational field trips to eighth grade public school students in a program aimed at combating antisemitism. The Museum of Jewish Heritage already offers student discounts and free admission days. The new program announced Thursday will cover transportation, guides and take-home materials
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By Meghan Pryce 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Nothing screams Memorial Day weekend more than the beach, and Hawaii is king of them. Duke Kahanamoku Beach on the island of Oahu crowns a list of the top 10 in the US. See if your favorite made it. Here’s what else you might have missed
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Jim Hiller is sticking to the hard-nosed, defense-first philosophy that got the Los Angeles Kings to the first round of the playoffs — and no farther — in each of the past three seasons. General manager Rob Blake introduced Hiller as the Kings’ permanent
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — To screen for colon and rectal cancers, most people have colonoscopies, which can feel invasive and require anesthesia, or they may take an at-home stool test, which can be more convenient but also awkward — and not appealing for the squeamish. But a simple blood test could soon become more
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The number of young people in the US who are prescribed GLP-1 agonist drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic for weight loss and diabetes soared 594.4% in just three years, according to new research. Demand for these drugs has skyrocketed for people of all ages recently, but the study, which was
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Amanda Musa and Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has sentenced Baltimore’s former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby to time served and 12 months of home confinement – to be served concurrently with 3 years of supervised release – for mortgage fraud and perjury. In addition, Mosby was ordered to complete
Continue ReadingBY GARY FIELDS, LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize sympathies with the Christian nationalist movement and the false claim that the
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. California’s law is meant to give Arizonans an option to receive legal abortions from their doctor over the next several months. The move
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO (AP) — Arizona doctors can come to California to perform abortions under new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Aid groups have begun distributing the humanitarian assistance offloaded at the US pier in Gaza to Palestinians, after encountering significant obstacles on distribution routes including Hamas drones and looting that delayed the deliveries. More than 500 metric tons of food and other
Continue ReadingBy ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Flooding in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state ravaged nearly everything needed for economic activity, from local shops to factories, farms and ranches. The environmental catastrophe — unprecedented in state history — upended transportation, including the airport in capital Porto Alegre, which is expected to
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are signaling to major Republican donors that they’re putting their rivalry behind them after a contentious and often personal primary fight. DeSantis brought together allies this week in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to press them to support the presumptive
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines has distanced itself from a court filing in which the carrier said a 9-year-old girl should have noticed there was a camera taped to the seat of an airplane lavatory. A former flight attendant is accused of luring girls to use the lavatory after taping his iPhone to
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The incumbent mayor of Alaska’s largest city has lost his re-election bid. Dave Bronson, who had floated the idea of giving the homeless one-way plane tickets out of Anchorage, on Thursday conceded the election to challenger Suzanne LaFrance. Bronson says he called and congratulated LaFrance and
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A leading Black Lives Matter activist in Los Angeles on Thursday lost her lawsuit against the city’s police department over its handling of hoax phone calls that brought a large law enforcement response to her home. Police have said three teens driven by racial hatred were behind so-called swatting calls across
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