By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday as part of her latest sentence reduction request. Smart,
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial in Delaware have reached a verdict after around 3 hours of deliberations.
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer USA Basketball said experience was a major reason Caitlin Clark was not on the U.S. women’s Olympic roster that was officially revealed Tuesday. The selection committee didn’t believe the talented Clark had enough of high-level reps to be a member of the group headed to the Paris Games. The
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer USA Basketball said experience was a major reason Caitlin Clark was not on the U.S. women’s Olympic roster that was officially revealed Tuesday. The selection committee didn’t believe the talented Clark had enough of high-level reps to be a member of the group headed to the Paris Games. The
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — With his execution drawing near, Missouri inmate David Hosier is “accepting his fate.” That’s according to his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeff Hood. Hosier is scheduled to be put to death at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for the 2009 deaths
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsiblity for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday as part of her latest sentence reduction request. Smart,
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than 10,000 voting representatives gathered Tuesday for the opening of the Southern Baptist Convention’s two-day annual meeting, where they will vote on whether to ban churches with women pastors and deliberate yet again on how to respond to sexual abuse within churches. Some 10,553 messengers, as
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A powerful Japanese business lobby is calling on the government to quickly revise its civil law to allow married couples an option to keep dual surnames, saying the lack of freedom to do so hinders women’s advancement and has even become a business risk. Keidanren, or The
Continue ReadingApple announced a slew of new features for iOS 18 at Monday’s developers conference event, many of which are designed to enhance the Siri assistant and bring artificial intelligence tools to iPhone users. The AI-packed updates coming in the fall are meant to enable the billions of people who use the company’s devices to get
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has once again asked a judge to throw out the classified documents case, arguing this time that investigators destroyed exculpatory evidence by rifling through boxes for classified documents gathered in the FBI’s 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago. The motion filed late
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — A U.N. agency says a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, killing at least 49 people and leaving another 140 missing. The International Organization for Migration says the boat was carrying roughly 260 Somalis and Ethiopians from the northern coast of Somalia across the Gulf of Aden when it
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Buy now, pay later” services are a popular way that shoppers pay for goods. Because shoppers like the service, offering it can be a plus for a small business. But since the payment plan is offered by third-party companies — such as Affirm and Klarna
Continue ReadingBy GREGORY GONDWE and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people died when the small military plane they were traveling in crashed in bad weather in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the president said Tuesday. Chilima was 51. President Lazarus Chakwera
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS, JIM SALTER and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America’s most storied river. Flooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday announced more than $400 million in new humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza as he again called on Hamas to accept a ceasefire proposal that he described as the most effective way to address the humanitarian devastation. The top US diplomat,
Continue ReadingBy DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell on Wall Street Tuesday ahead of several key inflation reports this week and the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate policy decision. The S&P 500 shed 0.2%. Roughly 80% of stocks in the benchmark index fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 195
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has falsely claimed over and over this year that Iran was so impoverished because of his policies as president that it did not provide any money to terror groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian territories. “Iran was, as you know,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The first month of the WNBA season drew its highest attendance since the league’s second season in 1998 and the best television ratings in its history, the WNBA announced Tuesday. The figures are the latest evidence of the surging popularity of the WNBA since it added prominent rookies including Indiana’s Caitlin
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s government says it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year. Animal rights groups say that while the number allowed is significantly lower than in previous years, the decision to allow the
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Warner Bros. Discovery and the French Tennis Federation made official on Tuesday what had been revealed over the weekend — the French Open will air on TNT Sports in the United States beginning next year. TV sportscaster Noah Eagle announced at the end of NBC’s coverage on Sunday that
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