By KEVIN FREKING and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new political action committee has begun pouring money into a key Oregon swing district just days before the Democratic primary there, raising questions about whether Republicans are trying to tilt the scales in the contest. The primary features Janelle Bynum and Jamie McLeod-Skinner.
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As Florida copes with rising seas and record temperatures, lawmakers are going to exceptional lengths to delete many mentions of climate change from state laws in a new bill that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on Wednesday, according to his official X account. The wide-ranging law makes
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Led by fascination with basketball star Caitlin Clark, interest in — and betting on — women’s sports is surging. Clark, who made her professional debut Tuesday with the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, helped generate record-breaking levels of viewership and wagering on the NCAA women’s basketball tournament,
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A driver suffered major injuries after crashing into a power pole near Thousand Palms today. The driver, an adult with three other passengers in his gray Chevrolet SUV, spun off the road and collided with the pole at around 1:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to California Highway Patrol spokesman David Torres. A male juvenile also
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. security officials say America’s foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming U.S. elections. Countries like Russia, China and Iran are likely to use the latest artificial intelligence programs to create and spread disinformation aimed at polarizing voters and undermining faith
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Eating a vegan or vegetarian diet significantly reduces your risk of developing cancer or heart disease and dying early, a comprehensive new analysis shows. Those types of diets also lower cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure and cholesterol. The researchers noted that people who
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill making climate change a lesser priority under state law and banning offshore wind turbines near the state’s long coastline. The former Republican presidential hopeful DeSantis has cast the bill he signed Wednesday as a common-sense approach to energy policy. But critics said it
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Indio border patrol agents discovered approximately $760,000 worth of cocaine along with a gun at the Highway 86 checkpoint earlier this week. The agents and a K9 unit found 25 packages of cocaine on Monday. They also found a semi-automatic glock. There was no word a, however, El Centro Sector Chief Gregory K. Bovino did
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge says Delaware’s vanity license plate program is unconstitutional because it allows for viewpoint discrimination by officials in deciding whether to approve applications. Tuesday’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a breast cancer survivor whose license plate was recalled in 2021 because it
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court paused a chaotic legal fight over Louisiana’s congressional districts in a brief order Wednesday that will likely allow the state to use a map in this year’s election that creates a second majority-Black district and benefits Democrats. The court’s three liberal justices publicly dissented from
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander. The order allows the use of a map that
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Strauss and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — More than two months after ending her presidential bid, Nikki Haley did not directly address the topic of Donald Trump or her political future during a two-day gathering of some of her key donors in Charleston, South Carolina, this week. Instead, the former South Carolina governor and her top political aides answered questions about policy from
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Actor Angie Harmon has filed a lawsuit against Instacart and one of its former shoppers who fatally shot her dog in March while delivering groceries at her North Carolina home. The lawsuit filed late last week in Mecklenburg County seeks to hold the shopper and Instacart liable for accusations of trespassing,
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a Texas man accused of fatally shooting two New Mexico women and taking one of their children is now facing a federal kidnapping charge. Alek Isaiah Collins appeared before a federal judge Tuesday in Abilene, Texas. The 26-year-old Houston man will remain in federal custody pending extradition to New
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Three people were pronounced dead after a crash involving multiple vehicles, including a pickup truck and two motorcycles, and a pedestrian in La Quinta Tuesday night. Deputies from the Riverside Sheriff’s Thermal Station responded to the crash at around 9:20 PM in the area of Highway 111 and Simon Drive, near Washington Street. Upon arrival,
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A man with a long record of dangerous driving told investigators he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before he sideswiped a bus, killing eight Mexican farmworkers and injuring dozens more, according to an arrest report unsealed Wednesday. Bryan Maclean Howard,
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond and Tamar Michaelis, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly rule out Israeli governance over Gaza and to lay out his post-war plans, warning that he opposes Israeli rule in the Palestinian enclave. “The ‘day after Hamas,’ will only be achieved with Palestinian entities
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has removed Cuba from the State Department’s short list of countries deemed as not cooperating as much as they could in counterterrorism efforts. In a statement, the State Department said Blinken made his ruling Wednesday. The State Department said that Cuban and
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A 28-year-old Thermal man suspected of committing an armed robbery at a business in La Quinta he used to work at was arrested on Tuesday. Â Â Members of the Riverside County Sheriffs Department’s La Quinta Business District Team and La Quinta Special Enforcement Team identified the suspect and took him into custody at 4:28 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Your wallet may soon be getting thinner. Visa on Wednesday announced major changes to how credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S. in the coming months and years. The new features could mean Americans will be carrying fewer physical cards in their wallets,
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