Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to meet with Democratic governors as he attempts to solidify support among his party’s top leaders after last week’s shaky debate performance. The discussion will come Wednesday and is likely to be mostly virtual, according to two people familiar with Biden’s plan. They insisted on anonymity
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence. Meta’s updated privacy policy enables the company to feed people’s public posts into its AI systems. That practice will
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s national data protection authority determined on Tuesday that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence. Meta’s updated privacy policy enables the company to feed people’s public posts into its AI systems. That practice will
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A judge at Lebanon’s military court has charged the gunman who opened fire at the U.S. embassy near Beirut with being affiliated to the militant Islamic State group. Security and judicial officials said Tuesday that Government Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Fadi Akiki also charged two others who sold
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — It’s all about the journey for tennis player Billy Harris. Harris lost his Wimbledon debut on Tuesday but he’s won over some fans at the same time. That’ll happen when your back story involves leaving home on the Isle of Man to live out of a van while playing
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the case of an Alabama man who has spent decades in prison for a murder conviction supported by recanted and discredited bite mark testimony. Justices declined Tuesday to review the petition of Charles M. McCrory. He was convicted of murder for the 1985
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says that China’s coast guard has boarded a Taiwanese fishing boat and steered it to a port in mainland China. Taiwan is demanding that Beijing release the vessel. Taiwanese maritime authorities said in a press statement that the Tachinman 88 was intercepted by two Chinese vessels Tuesday evening. The statement
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July 2 is Special Recreation for the Disabled Day, a day to acknowledge those with varying degrees of ability to participate in recreation activities. Resources for those with disabilities continue to lack across the country but the city of Indio is working to make them more accessible, especially when it comes to sports. Indio Community
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By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas on Tuesday became the first sitting Democratic member of Congress to call on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, a huge moment for the Democratic Party as Doggett says publicly what many elected officials had been speculating about privately.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House Democratic lawmaker has become the first in the party to publicly call for President Joe Biden to step down as the party’s nominee for president, citing Biden’s debate performance against Donald Trump failing to “effectively defend his many accomplishments.” Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas said in a statement
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said Tuesday the only sure path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza. “If there is a cease-fire in Gaza, we will stop without any discussion,” Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem, said in an
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GENEVA (AP) — United Nations human rights experts say Russia violated international law by imprisoning Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and should release him “immediately.” The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, made up of independent experts convened by the U.N.’s top human rights body, said there was a “striking lack of any
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that the US will soon announce more than $2.3 billion in military aid for Ukraine. “This package under presidential drawdown authority will provide new air defense interceptors, anti-tank weapons, and other critical munitions from US inventories,” Austin said in a meeting with Ukrainian
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer Police say Oklahoma State running back and Doak Walker Award winner Ollie Gordon II has been arrested for suspicion of DUI. A state trooper in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, reported seeing Gordon swerving in a vehicle on Sunday morning. According to a probable cause affidavit, the vehicle was clocked at 82 mph in
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two plundered marble vases that marked ancient Athenians’ graves more than 2,000 years ago, including one with an emotional family scene, have been returned to Greece from Switzerland. Greece’s Culture Ministry says in a statement that the two white marble works, which were decorated with relief sculptures, were brought back following
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie has rejected a plea deal that would have shortened his state prison term but exposed him to a federal terrorism-related charge. An attorney for 26-year-old Hadi Matar says he rejected the agreement during a court hearing Tuesday in Mayville, New York. Matar has been held
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says a fight between gangs over drug and migrant trafficking routes was behind the massacre of 19 men in the southern state of Chiapas. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday the killings were part of a long-running dispute between two drug cartels. He said there were several Guatemalans
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A 19-year-old and the club where she worked as a stripper have sued Florida’s attorney general and two local prosecutors to stop enforcement of a new state law prohibiting adult entertainment businesses from employing people who are under 21, claiming it violates their constitutional rights. Serenity Michelle Bushey claims in the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 has resigned from a police force in West Virginia. It’s the third time in six years that Timothy Loehmann left a small department amid backlash shortly after he had been hired. Officials in White Sulphur Springs say Loehmann resigned
Continue ReadingBy CNN Impact Your World (CNN) — Older than dinosaurs and trees, sharks have endured a lot throughout their 450 million years on Earth. They’ve even survived five mass extinctions, including the asteroid that wiped out 75% of life on the planet. But many species of these aquatic apex predators are now in danger of dying out forever.
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