WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won a 2005 Oscar for the movie “Finding Neverland,” has died at age 71. Kaczmarek’s death was announced by Poland’s Music Foundation. Kaczmarek had suffered from MSA, a rare degenerative neurological disorder. He authored music for movies made in Europe and Hollywood, like the 1995
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — U.S. House candidate Adam Hollier will be left off Michigan’s August primary ballot after a county clerk ruled that he had not submitted enough valid signatures. Hollier was considered the biggest threat to incumbent U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar’s bid for reelection in Detroit’s 13th Congressional District.
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher, Shawn Nottingham and John Bonifield, CNN (CNN) — The Louisiana state House on Tuesday passed an amended bill that would classify the abortion-inducing drugs misoprostol and mifepristone as Schedule IV controlled dangerous substances in the state, placing them in the same category as highly regulated drugs such as narcotics and depressants. The House’s final passage
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Nadeau and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Rome (CNN) — In a scene reminiscent of La Dolce Vita era, French actor Gerard Depardieu has been accused of attacking celebrity photographer Rino Barillari outside Harry’s Bar on the famed Via Veneto in Rome. Depardieu was dining at an outdoor table with a female companion and two
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — José Rubén Zamora has spent nearly two years locked in a dark 16- by 13-foot cell in Guatemala, allowed only one hour a day in the sunlight. The journalist’s money laundering conviction was tossed out, and last week a judge finally ordered his conditional release
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s National Police appear to confirm that retired Gen. Humberto Ortega, brother of President Daniel Ortega, has been under guard since local media reports emerged two days earlier that police had surrounded his home. The police said in a statement that the Health Ministry had visited 77-year-old Humberto Ortega, who suffers
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A pair of convicted felons who killed a 64-year-old Anza man while stealing marijuana and money tied to his illegal cannabis grow were both convicted today of first-degree murder and other charges. Jodi Lynn Miller, 48, of Rancho Cucamonga and Jesse Robert Thurbush, 43, of Victorville murdered James Cidney Brown in 2019. After three
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Two key players in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump have successfully defeated challengers. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee both won in Tuesday’s election. Willis is the prosecutor who last year obtained a sprawling racketeering indictment
Continue ReadingBEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — A Texas petrochemical company has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay more than $30 million in connection with two explosions that injured workers and caused the evacuation of thousands. The U.S. Justice Department announced the plea on Tuesday. Two explosions at a TPC
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has toured the Houston area to assess the damage from last week’s deadly storms. Local officials are reassuring residents still without power that their lights will be back on and they can soon begin rebuilding their lives. CenterPoint
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California could eventually join the European Union in requiring all new cars to alert drivers when they break the speed limit, a proposal aimed at reducing traffic deaths that would likely impact motorists across the country should it become law. The federal government sets safety standards
Continue ReadingLUQUE, Paraguay (AP) — Coaches at the Copa America will be able to make a 6th and extra substitution in cases of suspected head trauma or concussion. South American soccer’s governing body CONMEBOL announced the decision Tuesday, making it valid for all its competitions once the Copa America starts in the United States on June
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Two key figures in former President Donald Trump’s election interference trial in Georgia fended off challengers in their elections Tuesday. Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney who is prosecuting Trump, won her Democratic primary rematch with attorney and author Christian Wise Smith. And Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath has beaten two Democratic primary opponents to clinch the nomination in her second new district in two years. McBath has overcome Cobb County Commissioner Jerica Richardson and state Rep. Mandisha Thomas. The new Republican-drawn 6th District wraps around the west side of metro
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A police after-action report says there was “utter chaos” during the search for the gunman behind Maine’s deadliest mass shooting last October. Among the details contained in the Portland Police Department report are that deputies who had been drinking nearly crashed their armored vehicle and that
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s campaign has brought in Corey Lewandowski, the former president’s 2016 campaign manager who was later ousted from a pro-Trump super PAC in 2021, to serve as an adviser for the Republican National Convention in July, two Trump campaign officials told CNN. Lewandowski’s return to Trump world comes
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team rested its case Tuesday in his hush money trial after calling just two witnesses and opting not to have the former president take the stand in his own defense. But despite what Hollywood courtroom dramas might suggest, that isn’t all that unusual,
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT, SCOTT McFETRIDGE and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Powerful storms that rolled through the Midwest spun up multiple tornadoes, including a fierce twister that smashed through a small Iowa town Tuesday, carving a bleak landscape of destroyed homes and businesses, shredded trees, smashed cars and widely strewn debris
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California could eventually join the European Union in requiring all new cars to alert drivers when they break the speed limit, a proposal aimed at reducing traffic deaths that would likely impact motorists across the country should it become law. The federal government sets safety standards
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Forecasters say this year’s hurricane season for waters around Hawaii will likely be “below normal” with one to four tropical cyclones across the central Pacific region. That estimate includes tropical depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes. The outlook is for the overall tropical cyclone activity in the
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