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Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will consider two challenges to a 175-year-old law that conservatives have interpreted as an abortion ban. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin asked the high court in February to invalidate the statutes. The organization argues the Wisconsin Constitution’s declaration that people have the right to life, liberty
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer Federal health officials are investigating a possible death and dozens of illnesses tied to recalled “microdosing” candies laced with a chemical found in mushrooms and sold online and in vape shops nationwide. At least 48 people in 24 states said they got sick after eating Diamond Shruumz-brand products, including chocolate bars, cones
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Bronny James says the opportunity to play professionally alongside his famous father played no role in his decision to enter the NBA draft. Now that the 19-year-old son of LeBron James has been selected by the Los Angeles Lakers anyway, Bronny says he can still handle all
Continue ReadingAP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. new-vehicle sales rose only slightly in the second quarter, despite larger discounts and slightly lower prices. Auto industry analysts predict that still-lower prices are coming and suggest buyers consider waiting for better deals. Overall, U.S. sales were up only 0.1% compared to a year ago, as still-high prices
Continue ReadingTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Nine historians have been awarded the prestigious Dan David Prize. They include an archeologist whose research illuminated the hidden history of Viking armies and a researcher who studies the often-overlooked role of working-class Black women in the civil rights movement in the United States. The historians will each receive $300,000
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Tuesday that President Joe Biden will meet with congressional leaders and Democratic governors, sit for a network TV interview and hold a press conference in the coming days, a blitz designed to push back against growing pressure for the 81-year-old president to step aside in the
Continue ReadingRICHMOND. Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Board of Elections has certified the apparent defeat of Republican congressman Bob Good, one of America’s most conservative congressmen, to a challenger endorsed by former President Donald Trump in the state’s June 18 primaries. Tuesday’s certification does not end the matter, though. Good has said he will seek
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is revising the restrictions it set last year on absentee ballot assistance to voters who have disabilities or cannot read or write. A short list of allowable helpers was blocked by a judge who said it violated the federal Voting Rights Act. An updated state law took effect
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — World UFO Day is being celebrated amid a surge in sightings and government studies on unidentified flying objects. Its July 2 date has its roots in the so-called Roswell Incident on July 2, 1947, when something crashed at what was then the J.B. Foster ranch in New Mexico. The
Continue ReadingMore than 100 people have been killed in a stampede in northern India following a Hindu religious gathering. Thousands had gathered Tuesday at a makeshift tent for an event in Hathras district in Uttar Pradesh state and were crushed to death as they rushed to leave afterward. The incident echoes other crowd disasters in India
Continue ReadingBENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty in a wild scheme to steal 123 handguns by kidnapping the manager of a Michigan sporting goods store. Darnell Bishop admits he threatened the manager at gunpoint to reveal how to turn off the alarm at Dunham’s Sports near Benton Harbor last November. Bishop pleaded
Continue ReadingCINCINNATI (AP) — The FBI and police are investigating the damaging of nearly 180 gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries in Cincinnati. The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati says the tombstones likely were knocked over between June 25 and Monday. It says some of the gravestones date back to the late 1800s. The damage was found in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ROME (AP) — A French bishop has put off any decision on whether to remove mosaics by an ex-Jesuit artist accused of abusing women, saying that they will stay for now on the Lourdes shrine but that eventually they should be removed. The Rev. Marko Rupnik has been accused by over 20 women
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and the conservative interests that helped him reshape the Supreme Court got most of what they wanted this term, from substantial help for Trump’s political and legal prospects to sharp blows against the administrative state they revile. The decisions reflected a deep and sometimes bitter divide on a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FORDYCE, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas grocery store where four people were killed in a mass shooting has reopened, and community leaders call it an important step in the community’s healing process. The Mad Butcher grocery reopened Tuesday, 11 days after the mass shooting in the Arkansas town of Fordyce. The shooting had
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed a prominent Palestinian doctor and eight members of his extended family on Tuesday after they complied with military orders to evacuate their home and moved into an Israeli-designated safe zone. The Hamdan family — around a dozen people from three generations — fled
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the prosecutor improperly excluded Black jurors. A jury found Warren King guilty of murder and other crimes and sentenced him to die for the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP (AP) — Authorities in Mauritania say clashes between security forces and protesters rallying against the reelection of President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani have left three people dead. They say several arrests were made and an unspecified number of people were injured. Following the clashes, mobile internet access was blocked on Tuesday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri judge has set an Aug. 21 date for a hearing to determine if Marcellus Williams is innocent of the murder that landed him on death row — a hearing that comes just over a month before Williams is scheduled to die. Williams was hours away from execution
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Swaths of California sweltered Tuesday and things were only expected to get worse during the Fourth of July holiday week for parts of the United States, with nearly 90 million people under heat alerts. The torrid conditions were being caused by a ridge of high pressure just off the
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