Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday halted a ruling striking down the state’s near-ban on abortions while it considers the state’s appeal. The high court’s order came a week after a judge found that Georgia unconstitutionally prohibits abortions beyond about six weeks of pregnancy, often before women realize they’re
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s top elections official said he doesn’t expect damage from Hurricane Helene to cause major disruptions for next month’s general election in the state. After coming ashore in Florida, Helene hit Georgia hard, leaving destruction and power outages in its wake. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said during a news
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Opposition supporters in Albania have protested again and demanded that the government be replaced by a technocratic caretaker Cabinet before next year’s parliamentary election. The conservative opposition has long accused Prime Minister Edi Rama’s Socialists of corruption, manipulating earlier voting and usurping powers of the judiciary and others. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago protested outside the U.K. Parliament on Monday. They are angry about a deal they say has decided their homeland’s fate without them. The British government announced last
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have asked a jury to sentence a former Houston police officer to life in prison for the murders of a married couple during a drug raid that exposed systemic corruption. Prosecutors said Monday that Gerald Goines used his badge to prey on people he was supposed to protect. Goines
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Jewish congressman said masked pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrived outside his Ohio home on the eve of Monday’s anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack and refused to leave. Democratic U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman said Monday that the group has set up an encampment and intimidated him and his family members.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Martin Shkreli, who was once dubbed “Pharma Bro” after jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug. Shkreli appealed an order to return $64.6 million in profits he and his former company reaped after monopolizing the market for the medication and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has appointed a new school board, days after all seven members resigned amid an escalating fight over control of the public schools in the nation’s third-largest city. Johnson has been trying to oust Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez, who was named to the job in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — One person has died and more than 100 others evacuated from their homes as wildfires raged through parts of western North Dakota over the weekend. Dry and windy conditions spurred the fires. The state Department of Emergency Services says four fires are nearly contained. Two other large fires continued
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — The Antisemitism Observatory in Milan says the vandalism of a mural depicting a survivor of last year’s Oct. 7 Hamas attack is an example of rising antisemitism in Italy. The mural by AleXsandro Palombo depicted Vlada Patapov escaping the Hamas attack. Vandals erased the figure’s head and legs from the mural near
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — An elderly man narrowly escaped with his life after a harrowing attack by a bear and her three cubs in his own home. Around 8:30 p.m. last Thursday, the 74-year-old man in Lake City, Colorado, along with other residents in the home, were startled by a
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writers The global soccer transfer market is worth more than $10 billion each season but is facing a revolutionary overhaul or a nuanced evolution following last week’s ruling by the European Court of Justice in the Lassana Diarra case. By ruling that some FIFA regulations on player transfers are contrary to EU legislation
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal from parents in Michigan and Virginia who accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of stifling their freedom of speech with a three-year-old memo that asked officials to look into threats directed at public school officials. In 2021, Garland issued a
Continue ReadingAP College Football Writer Longtime Associated Press Top 25 voter Kirk Bohls of the Houston Chronicle said this week’s ballot was the most difficult he’s had to fill out. Six unranked teams upset Top 25 teams. Texas returned to No. 1 after a week’s absence. The biggest questions were how far to drop Alabama for
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal from R. Kelly, who is currently serving a prison sentence for federal sex crime convictions. Robert Sylvester Kelly was already serving a 30-year sentence for sex trafficking, stemming from a 2021 New York case, when he was convicted of child
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Miller, lead singer of alternative rock band Guster, has a new gig that even he’s a little surprised about: Musical theater songwriter. Miller is part of a growing trend of alt-rockers bringing a new sound to the space carved out by giants like Stephen Sondheim and Andrew
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it won’t hear an appeal from the social media platform X over a search warrant prosecutors obtained in the election-interference case against former President Donald Trump. The company, known as Twitter before it was purchased by billionaire Elon Musk, says a nondisclosure order that blocked it
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Turning Point ’s representatives have made two things clear in meetings with state and local Republican leaders— Donald Trump has blessed their conservative organization to help lead his get-out-the-vote effort, and local party officials ought to use the group’s new voter mobilization app. Both prospects terrify fellow Republicans. Soaring to
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nicholas Alexander Chavez has had an exciting few weeks with the debut of his first two roles in prime-time shows. The former daytime actor plays Lyle Menendez in Netflix’s “Monsters” and a priest with a self-professed “morbid fascination” for true crime in FX’s “Grotesquerie.” Both shows are co-created by Ryan Murphy. Chavez may
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