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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police say a 9-year-old child has become the fourth young gunshot victim in the city in recent weeks. The shooting occurred just after midnight Thursday. The child died at a hospital. Police say they are searching for “unknown suspects.” A 10-year-old girl was killed May 31 in Milwaukee while sleeping in her
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign on Thursday called on top Republicans to drop litigation seeking to curtail aspects of mail balloting now that Donald Trump has begun to embrace the method. Trump for years falsely claimed voting by mail was riddled with fraud, but his 2024 campaign
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Fox Sports said Thursday it has acquired the rights to broadcast IndyCar starting in 2025, a move that gives the network two of the biggest races in the world — the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s Daytona 500. Fox Sports already broadcasts the first half of the NASCAR schedule.
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A military history buff in China appears to have made an alarming discovery after picking up four books for less than $1 at a neighborhood recycling station. They were confidential military documents. The country’s Ministry of State Security told the story in a social media post on
Continue ReadingBY SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The strong El Nino weather condition that added a bit of extra heat to already record warm global temperatures is gone. Forecasters expect its cool flip side, La Nina, to breeze in just in time for peak Atlantic hurricane season. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Thursday pronounced dead the
Continue ReadingBy Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a leading candidate to be Donald Trump’s vice president, liked tweets in 2016 and 2017 that harshly criticized Trump and his policies — including one speculating that Vance could serve in former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s administration. Other
Continue ReadingWIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Wimbledon’s total prize money fund will rise to a record 50 million pounds, which is about $64 million. The two singles champions each will earn 2.7 million pounds or about $3.45 million. All England Club officials announced the amounts at an annual spring briefing on Thursday. The total amount is 5.3
Continue ReadingBy PAOLO SANTALUCIA and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven rich democracies are meeting in a faux medieval town constructed as a luxury resort on the heel of Italy’s boot. Borgo Egnazia, nestled amid olive groves and prickly pear cacti in the southern Puglia region, has
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits jumped to the highest level in 10 months last week, a sign that the labor market is likely cooling under the weight of high interest rates. Unemployment benefit applications for the week ending June 8 rose by 13,000 to 242,000, up
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer WIESBADEN, Germany (AP) — The Ukraine men’s soccer team was made to feel at home for its first practice in Germany for the European Championship. Patriotic songs were broadcast and thousands of exiled Ukrainians watching in the stadium at Wiesbaden on Thursday. There was a vivid reminder of the
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale price increases fell in May, the latest sign that inflation pressures in the United States may be easing as the Federal Reserve considers a timetable for cutting interest rates. The producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.2% from
Continue ReadingNEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — It was an emotional graduation ceremony for high school seniors in Newtown, Connecticut, who observed a moment of silence for their 20 classmates who were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Principal Kimberly Longobucco read the names of the first graders who were killed on Dec. 14, 2012 along
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has seen missiles strike a ship in the Gulf of Aden and set it ablaze. The attack happened Thursday in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen. That’s according to the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers U.S. markets were mixed in early trading Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve opted to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged just hours after the government said consumer inflation cooled more than expected last month. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.3% before
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French national Louis Arnaud has arrived in France after being released by Iran. He was imprisoned there for over 20 months for allegedly taking part in nationwide protests sparked by the death of a young woman who died after being arrested for allegedly not wearing her headscarf to the liking of security
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The Israel-Hamas war is roiling a primary election between two Democrats in New York, testing the party’s position on the conflict and the larger split between its progressive and centrist wings. The race pits liberal Rep. Jamaal Bowman against centrist county official George Latimer. Bowman is
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Senate narrowly approved President Javier Milei ’s sweeping proposals to slash state spending and boost his own powers on Thursday, handing the libertarian leader a much-needed first legislative victory even as opposition senators scrapped an income tax package and tweaked some contentious parts of
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Armenia will leave a Russia-led military alliance, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed Wednesday, accusing members of the bloc of plotting with bitter rival Azerbaijan to start a war against them. Pashinyan has for months accused the Kremlin’s Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) of failing to protect Armenia from resurgent
Continue ReadingBy ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Amari Cooper’s football jersey hangs in the Coconut Grove Sports Hall of Fame. So does Frank Gore’s, alongside tributes to Negro League baseball player Jim Colzie and football coach Traz Powell, whose name adorns perhaps the most revered high school football stadium in talent-rich South Florida.
Continue ReadingSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Former Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has invited his political opponents to hold talks on forming a new government. Borissov’s center-right GERB party emerged as the winner of Bulgaria’s parliamentary election. He told reporters Thursday at his party’s headquarters that he doesn’t want to be prime minister. But he cautioned that there
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