By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Imprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has pleaded not guilty to 10 felony counts brought against him by the state. The 64-year-old entered his plea in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court during a Friday arraignment streamed from Elkton Federal Correctional Institution. He
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A price gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve cooled slightly last month, a sign that inflation may be easing after running high in the first three months of this year. Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that an index that excludes volatile food and
Continue ReadingBy MUIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A new study by the United Nations children’s agency says developing resilient energy systems to power health facilities in Pakistan could avert over 175,000 deaths by 2030. UNICEF says that improving energy resilience would also contribute $296 million to the country’s economy over the next 20 years
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather. Republican Gov. Phil Scott allowed the bill to become law without his
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A price gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve cooled slightly last month, a sign that inflation may be easing after running high in the first three months of this year. Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that prices, excluding the volatile food and energy
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in the nation’s capital will get their chance to weigh in on the race for the White House as the presidential primary calendar enters its final days. Voters in Washington, D.C., will cast ballots in the Democratic presidential primary as well as for Congress and city
Continue ReadingBy Tamar Michaelis and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military is in central Rafah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed in a statement Friday, despite international concern and anger over its military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city. The IDF statement confirms what eyewitnesses told CNN earlier this week, when tanks were spotted in
Continue ReadingVOVCHANSK, Ukraine (AP) — The Associated Press has obtained rare drone footage of the destroyed ruins of the embattled town of Vovchansk in northeastern Ukraine. The drone footage captures the scene in Vovchansk from sunrise on May 28 through to the following morning. The images in Vovchansk are a haunting repetition of other towns and
Continue ReadingBy MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New Mexico voters will be among the last to cast ballots for presidential nominees when the state holds its presidential and state primaries. Tuesday includes the final four contests on the Republican side and is the penultimate presidential primary day on the Democratic side. Both parties have
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The 10th annual Contact in the Desert event is taking place in Indian Wells this weekend! It’s the largest UFO convention in the world, and thousands of people come to join the conversation. The event is held at the Renaissance Esmerelda in Indian Wells, and it hosts over 70 of the world’s leading and most
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez, Steve Almasy and Cheri Mossburg, CNN (CNN) — A day after delivering a guilty verdict in Chad Daybell’s murder trial, an Idaho jury on Friday deliberated for six hours whether he will face the death penalty for killing his first wife and two of his second wife’s children. Daybell was convicted Thursday of first-degree
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, rebounded before the opening bell Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. A New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iowa voters will cast ballots in primaries for the narrowly divided U.S. House as well as the Republican-controlled state legislature. Tuesday’s race in the 3rd Congressional District may play a decisive role in determining which party will win control of the chamber in November. Competing for the
Continue ReadingSANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Police approached arm-in-arm protesters early Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a day after arrests at a pro-Palestinian encampment at a Detroit campus and a student walkout during commencement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Video showed a line of police with batons a few feet from protesters
Continue ReadingSANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Police approached arm-in-arm protesters early Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a day after arrests at a pro-Palestinian encampment at a Detroit campus and a student walkout during commencement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Video showed a line of police with batons a few feet from protesters
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — An assailant with a knife attacked and wounded several people in a square in the southwestern German city of Mannheim on Friday, police said. Police shot at the attacker, who also was hurt. Police said the incident happened shortly after 11.30 a.m. They said that they couldn’t immediately give any information on
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By Luke McGee, CNN (CNN) — This is a historic and pivotal year for democracy across the globe. Around 70 countries – from the United States to South Africa, via Mexico and Taiwan – will hold elections in 2024. After India’s huge and ongoing six-week ballot, however, the biggest election in terms of voter numbers takes place this week, when 373 million Europeans can
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2024 presidential primary calendar is drawing to a close with a handful of primaries on Tuesday and two Democratic caucuses in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands on June 8. Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota and Washington, D.C., will hold both presidential and state
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un supervised drills involving the firing of nuclear-capable multiple rocket launchers to show the country’s ability to carry out a preemptive attack on rival South Korea. State media on Friday cited Kim as saying the drills would show “what
Continue ReadingBy Kyle Feldscher, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday congratulated the Kansas City Chiefs on their second Super Bowl victory in two years, joking, “back to back … I like that.” “When the doubters question whether you could pull it off again — believe me, I know what that feels like,” the president
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