Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Georgia congressman has proposed a yearslong delay in changes to federal rules meant to protect vanishing whales. The delay proposed by Republican Rep. Buddy Carter concerns new vessel speed rules issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service that are being finalized by the federal government. The proposed rules
Continue ReadingAssociated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A judge blasted efforts by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to shutter one of the oldest and largest migrant shelters on the U.S.-Mexico border in a scathing ruling Tuesday, accusing the Republican of “outrageous” conduct over his claims that the shelter encourages migrants to enter the country illegally. Judge
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek officials say 240 firefighters from Bulgaria, Malta, Moldova and Romania, will be deployed in Greece from early July until mid-September as reinforcements during the height of the summer wildfire season. It will be the third year running that firefighters from abroad will be stationed in Greece, which has been experiencing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Google, which has an ambitious plan to address climate change with cleaner operations, came nowhere close to its goals last year, according to the company’s annual Environmental Report Tuesday. Instead of going down, its emissions grew 13% in 2023. The tech giant’s total energy consumption has more than doubled just since 2019. Google
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Three-quarters of US voters say the Democratic Party would have a better shot at holding the presidency in 2024 with someone other than President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. His approval rating also has hit a new low
Continue ReadingBy Jake Tapper, CNN Washington (CNN) — Some Democratic governors are seeking a meeting with the White House to discuss their concerns about President Joe Biden in the aftermath of his poor debate performance, multiple sources with knowledge of the discussions told CNN. The concern from some of the nation’s Democratic governors were aired on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NICE, France (AP) — French prosecutors have asked the country’s highest court to rule on the validity of the international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad over complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war. A statement from the prosecutors on Tuesday says that Assad has absolute immunity as a serving head
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The New York state Supreme Court on Tuesday disbarred former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani over his part in Donald Trump’s election interference efforts in 2020. The long-expected disbarment of Trump’s most high-profile lawyer, which is effective immediately, is a major blow to the former public official at
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former small-town Iowa police chief has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for lying to authorities to acquire machine guns that prosecutors say he sold for his own profit. Former Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt was convicted in February of conspiring to make false statements to the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has been denied parole. The U.S. Parole Commission said in a statement Tuesday announcing the decision that he won’t be eligible for another parole hearing until
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss. The Manhattan appeals court ruled Giuliani, who had his New York law
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Post a comment on Reddit, answer coding questions on Stack Overflow, edit a Wikipedia entry or share a baby photo on your public Facebook or Instagram feed and you are also helping to train the next generation of artificial intelligence. Not everyone is OK with that — especially
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer A new study says the melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating. The snow covered area is now shrinking 4.6 times faster than it was in the 1980s. Tuesday’s study finds that it was slowly losing snow since the 18th century, but then that melt rate
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights. The justices on Tuesday declined to hear a challenge to an Illinois assault weapons ban and sent other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden. The moves come
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — A new survey by Pew Research Center finds public support for NATO in some of the countries belonging to the Western military alliance. The survey was released Tuesday. It questions adults in 13 of the 32 countries that belong to NATO. In those nations, about 6 in 10 people say they back
Continue ReadingAssociated Press In a major reprieve for former President Donald Trump, sentencing for his hush money convictions was postponed Tuesday until at least September — if ever — as the judge agreed to weigh the possible impact of a new Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. Trump had been scheduled to face sentencing July 11,
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By Paula Reid, Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump will not be sentenced on his business fraud conviction until September, a New York judge ruled Tuesday in the wake of Monday’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity. The delay in sentencing means that the former president is likely
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A new developer announced his intention to move forward with the long-delayed Talus La Quinta resort development as the City confirmed to News Channel 3 that long-time developer Robert Green Development Company and SilverRock Development Company are in default of all obligations to the project. Northern California-based investor Christopher M. George, founder of CMG Financial,
Continue ReadingThe U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to accelerate development of a pandemic influenza vaccine that could be used to treat bird flu in people, as concern grows about cases in dairy cows across the country, federal officials announced Tuesday. Moderna already has a bird flu vaccine in very early-stage testing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that the U.S. will soon announce an additional $2.3 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, to include anti-tank weapons, interceptors and munitions for Patriot and other air defense systems. Austin’s remarks came as Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov met with him at the Pentagon.
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