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By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview, hours after the Justice Department refused to prosecute Republicans’ contempt of Congress
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE SAVAGE and ALEXANDRA OLSON Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A lawsuit challenging federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions lacks standing, a federal judge in Arkansas ruled on Friday. Republican attorneys general from 17 states, led by Arkansas and Tennessee, sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April,
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN and SCOTT SONNER Associated Press/Report for America Survivors of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas and families who received somber calls hours later said they were alarmed when the U.S. Supreme Court Friday struck down a ban on the gun attachment used by the gunman who rattled off over 1,000 bullets
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First responders rescued a hiker from the Pacific Crest Trail north of Palm Springs Friday afternoon. The issue was first reported at around 1:55 p.m. The hiker sustained a medical emergency and was down on the trail. According to CAL FIRE, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office’s Rescue 9 helicopter hoisted two parties off the trail
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the abduction and death of a 4-year-old Louisiana girl who was found in Mississippi. Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade tells WJTV-TV that the 32-year-old woman arrested Friday is an acquaintance of a 36-year-old man who was captured the previous day. The woman
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One person is in custody after a police pursuit that ended when a car crashed into a house in Coachella Friday morning. The incident started at around 11:15 a.m. when deputies were called to the area of Avenue 52 and Frederick regarding the report of a reckless driver. “Upon arrival, deputies attempted a traffic enforcement
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s attorneys on Friday ridiculed special counsel Jack Smith’s gag order request in the former president’s classified documents case in Florida, calling it an unconstitutional attack on the 2024 Republican candidate and a ploy to help Joe Biden keep the presidency. “In Jack Smith’s most recent shocking display
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A felon who joined two others in burglarizing an illegal marijuana grow in Anza, where the 64-year-old proprietor was gunned down, was sentenced today to 21 years in state prison. James Max Robinson, 43, of San Bernardino pleaded guilty in April to voluntary manslaughter under an agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas prosecutors says an Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent was justified when he fatally shot the Little Rock airport’s director during a raid in March. Pulaski County Prosecutor Will Jones on Friday said no charges would be filed in the shooting
Continue ReadingREYNOLDS STATION, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police detectives have found a decomposed body that they believe is a missing 8-month-old girl. State police say the remains found Friday afternoon in Ohio County are consistent with the description of Miya Rudd. Police say the body was in a residence in the western Kentucky county and
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state government is demolishing a building that once housed a Coca-Cola museum. Excavators continued Friday to knock down the former World of Coca-Cola in downtown Atlanta near the state capitol. The site will become a parking lot. The Coca-Cola Co. moved the attraction across downtown to
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS and JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones′ personal assets but dismissed his company’s separate bankruptcy case, leaving the immediate future of his Infowars media platform uncertain as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the
Continue ReadingBy DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer MUNICH (AP) — Host Germany could hardly have wished for a better start to the European Championship. Goals from Florian Wirtz and Jamal Musiala in an imperious first half set Germany on the way to a confidence-boosting 5-1 win over 10-man Scotland in the Euro 2024 curtainraiser on Friday.
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was reelected by lawmakers on Friday after his African National Congress party struck a dramatic late coalition deal with the main opposition party and others to allow him to clinch a second term in office. Ramaphosa
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — A girl traveling to Chicago with her family on a commercial airline died on Thursday morning after becoming ill during the flight, according to Peoria County Coroner’s Office. “The child, 8-year-old Sydney Weston, of Carl Junction, MO, was traveling with her family for vacation when she suddenly became ill
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former post office branch manager who campaigned to expose a vast miscarriage of justice has been given a knighthood by King Charles III. Alan Bates is among more than 1,000 people, including artist Tracey Emin, actress Imelda Staunton and Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon, recognized
Continue ReadingBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana U.S. Rep. Garret Graves says he will not run for reelection after a new congressional map dismantled his district. The Republican said Friday that the new map transformed it into the state’s second majority-Black district. Up until now, the congressman had remained adamant that he would run again. But
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Two people were rushed to the hospital after a vehicle crashed into a tree Thursday night in Coachella. The crash was reported at around 10:46 p.m. in the area of Grapefruit Boulevard and Avenue 49. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, two occupants in the vehicle were extracted by CAL FIRE and transported to
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE and KENDRIA LaFLEUR Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The 97-year-old Texan known for her push to make Juneteenth a national holiday has been given the keys to her new home. Opal Lee’s new house is built on the same tree-lined corner lot in Fort Worth that her family was driven
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A weekend of commencement ceremonies at a half-dozen California universities was underway Friday with no immediate sign of the major campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza that have led to clashes with police and numerous arrests. Officials appealed for the graduates to be celebrated
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