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BY COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Residents in a small city in the northeastern corner of Colorado are cleaning up after hail the size of baseballs and golf balls pounded the community. Heavy construction equipment and snow shovels were used Tuesday to clear the hail that piled up knee-deep in the city of
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s communications minister has ordered the government to return camera equipment it seized from AP after blocking its live video of Gaza. Israeli officials accused the news organization earlier Tuesday of violating a new media law by providing its images to Al Jazeera. The
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Donald Trump’s reelection campaign called “The Apprentice,” a film about the former U.S. president in the 1980s, “pure fiction” and vowed legal action following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. But director Ali Abbasi is offering to privately screen the film for Trump. Following
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Christopher Dunn has spent 33 years in prison serving life without parole for a murder in Missouri he has always claimed he didn’t commit. A hearing starting Tuesday will determine if he should go free. St. Louis prosecutors are now convinced that Dunn is telling the
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The law signed Tuesday makes South Carolina the 25th state to restrict or ban such care for minors. The governor announced the signing on social media. The law bars
Continue ReadingBy CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Singapore Airlines says one of its flights hit severe turbulence over the Indian Ocean and descended 6,000 feet in about three minutes. Authorities say a British man died, possibly after a heart attack, and several people were severely injured. The flight from London to Singapore was diverted
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli communications minister orders return of seized camera equipment to AP after blocking its live video of Gaza. Earlier Tuesday, two senior Biden administration officials said the U.S. had privately urged the Israeli government to reverse its decision. Israeli officials accused the news organization
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The bodies of four men and two women have been found strangled and dumped in a pile in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. Prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero said Tuesday that the bodies were found late Monday with their hands tied behind their backs. The identities of the
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was open to supporting regulations on contraception and that his campaign would release a policy on the issue “very shortly,” comments that he later said were misinterpreted. The comments, made during an interview with a Pittsburgh television station, suggested that a future
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli communications minister orders return of seized camera equipment to AP after blocking its live video of Gaza. Earlier Tuesday, two senior Biden administration officials said the U.S. had privately urged the Israeli government to reverse its decision. Israeli officials accused the news organization
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An independent commission investigating the deadliest shooting in Maine history plans to take up accusations contained in a report that said self-dispatching police officers created “chaos” during a search for the gunman. The after-action report by the leader of the Portland Police Department special response team
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — An investigation has been opened into the death of Matthew Perry and how the “Friends” actor received the anesthetic ketamine, which was ruled a contributing factor in his death. Los Angeles Police Capt. Scot Williams said in an email Tuesday that the police department was working with the Drug Enforcement Agency
Continue ReadingBy WALTER BERRY Associated Press A former University of Arizona graduate student was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a hydrology professor on campus, months after he was expelled. A Pima County Superior Court jury deliberated for less than three hours before reaching a verdict against Murad Dervish, 48, in the death of
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — A Detroit police lieutenant has been placed on administrative duties after a shouting match in which he told a pro-Palestinian protester to “go back to Mexico.” The encounter Sunday outside Huntington Place in downtown Detroit where President Joe Biden was giving the keynote during an NAACP fundraiser was recorded on police body
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British police say a man charged with assisting Hong Kong authorities with gathering intelligence in the United Kingdom has died in unexplained circumstances. Matthew Trickett was one of three men charged earlier this month with agreeing to engage in information gathering, surveillance and acts of deception that were likely to materially assist
Continue ReadingMIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — Police in Michigan have released body camera video of an encounter with a woman who was living inside a sign on the roof of a grocery store. The 34-year-old woman told police in Midland that it was an ‘old safe spot’ known to her family. She didn’t elaborate on why she
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — An investigation has been opened into the death of Matthew Perry and how the “Friends” actor received the anesthetic ketamine, which was ruled a contributing factor in his death. Los Angeles Police Capt. Scot Williams told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that the police department was assisting the Drug Enforcement
Continue ReadingBy JACK JENKINS Religion News Service (RNS) — Diocesan hermits by nature don’t get much attention. A small subset of religious persons, hermits mostly spend their lives engaged in quiet prayer. Brother Christian Matson, a Catholic diocesan hermit in Kentucky, has spent years doing just that. His monk’s habit might catch his neighbor’s eye, but
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program said Tuesday the new U.S. $320 million pier project for delivering aid to Gaza may fail unless Israel starts ensuring the conditions the humanitarian groups need to operate safely. The operation was halted for at least two days after
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The defense has rested its case in Donald Trump’s hush money trial without the former president testifying in his own defense. The conclusion of witness testimony on Tuesday brings the trial one step closer to closing arguments, which will take place next week. Jurors have been sent home and will not
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