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Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a Tennessee woman has a constitutional right to post a yard sign condemning both President Biden and Donald Trump using profane language. Julie Pereira set up the sign in her front yard that uses profanity about the two major party candidates. The city
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas election officials have rejected the petitions submitted for an abortion-rights ballot measure. The secretary of state’s office on Wednesday said organizers behind the measure did not submit paperwork required about paid canvassers it used. The groups submitted more than 101,000 signatures on Friday. The measure would have
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — There’s more upheaval in the media business. CNN said Wednesday it is eliminating approximately 100 jobs and plans to debut its first digital subscription product before the end of the year. Meanwhile, CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews said she was resigning less than a year into her job,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has declared 2025 to 2034 the United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms — extreme weather events that are increasing and threaten health and economies from central Africa to northern China. It adopted a resolution by consensus Wednesday. Uganda’s U.N. Ambassador Godfrey Kwoba,
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says she doesn’t plan another run to try and get the post of Germany’s leader in the next national election. She said in an interview aired on Wednesday that she needs to concentrate on diplomacy in a time of multiple crises. Baerbock made her environmentalist Green party’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana sheriff says a 1-year-old boy survived two days of sometimes stormy weather before a truck driver spotted him crawling along a roadside. Sheriff “Stitch” Guillory is calling the child a “miracle baby.” He was spotted Tuesday in southwest Louisiana a day after his 4-year-old brother was found
Continue ReadingAssociated Press This year has already seen many heat records broken as the world grows hotter with more and more greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere. For many places, the highest temperatures since record-keeping began have come in just the last 10 to 15 years. That’s the clearest possible sign that humans are altering the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The FanDuel sports book took bets on some mixed martial arts fights on April 1, 2022. But — April Fools! The matches had already happened a week earlier. New Jersey gambling regulators have fined FanDuel $2,000 for the error, which 34 gamblers took advantage of. The company paid
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A defense lawyer for Sen. Bob Menendez says acquitting the Democrat would be the patriotic thing to do. Attorney Adam Fee told jurors Wednesday in a closing argument that it would be a “win” for the country if it acquits Menendez of bribery charges. As he left the courthouse,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Poland is hoping a new NATO training center in the country can help recruit more volunteers for the fight in Ukraine. A senior Polish security official, Jacek Siewiera, spoke to The Associated Press in Washington on the sidelines of the NATO summit. The new NATO-Ukraine training center in Poland is
Continue ReadingCLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An autopsy shows that a Fort Campbell soldier found dead in her home had been stabbed nearly 70 times. The body of 23-year-old Pfc. Katia Dueñas Aguilar was found in her Tennessee home in May. An investigation is ongoing but no arrests have been made. The soldier’s family and The League
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The August theatrical release for the second chapter of Kevin Costner’s ambitious Western epic “Horizon: An American Saga” has been canceled after the first film fizzled in theaters. New Line Cinema announced Wednesday that “Horizon: Chapter 2” will not hit theaters on Aug. 16 as scheduled. The studio
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Calls for justice in the death of a Black man who was pinned to the ground during a struggle with security guards at a Milwaukee hotel are growing as thousands of GOP supporters and protesters are expected to gather in the city for the Republican National Convention. D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death on June 30
Continue ReadingHILO, Hawaii (AP) — Operations at Hawaii’s Hilo International Airport were halted when security screeners spotted two items that looked like grenades in a bag belonging to a man from Japan. Police say officers evacuated the terminal area Tuesday morning. A bomb squad determined the grenades were inert, and airport operations resumed about an hour
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department will stop promoting “Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect” on the exterior of its patrol cars. The NYPD is replacing the long-standing motto with a new slogan: “Fighting Crime, Protecting The Public.” A police spokesperson said the change will roll out as the department updates its vehicle
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police recruit has died after suffering a medical episode at a training facility in the Bronx, just days before he was set to graduate. The New York Police Department says 33-year-old probationary police officer Edgar Ordonez lost consciousness Wednesday at a base used by police
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says it is extending the stay of 1.45 million Afghan refugees who legally reside in the country, a day after a visit by the U.N. refugee agency. Afghan refugees with proper documentation will be able to remain in Pakistan until June 30, 2025, according to a statement issued Wednesday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — He’s calling into his favorite morning cable news show, bashing the “elites” of his party and dismissing unfavorable polls. He’s talking up his crowd sizes. As an increasingly defiant President Joe Biden rejects calls to step aside after a disastrous debate performance, he’s been embracing some of the tactics
Continue ReadingChronicle of Philanthropy In response to a nationwide crisis that has left more than 650,000 people without housing, 100 tiny home villages for the homeless have opened in the United States over the past five years. That growth, from just 34 in 2019 to 123 today, represents a quadrupling, according to Yetimoni Kpeebi, a researcher at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge said Wednesday he was leaning toward throwing out Rudy Giuliani ‘s bankruptcy case after lawyers for the cash-strapped former New York City mayor and his biggest creditors — two ex-Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him — agreed this was the best
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