By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic groups are asking Michigan officials to investigate the nominating petitions of the GOP candidates in the U.S. Senate race. The groups allege that signatures on the nominating petitions show signs of fraud. Just two years ago, five Republicans running for governor were kept off the
Continue ReadingBy EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo were meeting Friday in this Mexican border city to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration. Arévalo, who took office earlier this year, noted that they were meeting in the same city
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed down the sentence for David DePape, 44, whom jurors found guilty last November of
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The world’s top-ranked golfer played in the second round of the PGA Championship just hours after being arrested following a traffic incident. Scheffler was detained by police in the predawn hours outside Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Police say Scheffler illegally tried to get
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed down the sentence for David DePape, 44, whom jurors found guilty last November of
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted of attacking ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Continue ReadingVATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral. Previous approved apparitions have turned these sites into major pilgrimage destinations, drawing millions of people to them each year. Here are some Some
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing symptoms. Powell tested positive late Thursday. A spokesperson said Powell is following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and he is staying away from others and working at home. Powell was a participant
Continue ReadingBy STEPHANY MATAT and JOSÉ MARÍA ÁLVAREZ Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Families are mourning the loss of their loved ones from a bus crash in Florida earlier this week. Officials say eight Mexican farmworkers were killed after 41-year-old Bryan Howard sideswiped a bus carrying about 53 farmworkers, where the bus veered
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of Louk’s twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world, bringing to light the scale of the Oct.
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says that several gunmen opened fire in central Afghanistan, killing at least four people, including three foreign nationals. He says four suspects were arrested at the scene in Bamyan province, a major tourist area, and an investigation was underway into the late Friday evening attack. No one immediately claimed
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden has spoken to Black leaders at the National Museum of African American History and Culture about the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision that desegregated schools. It’s part of a stepped-up effort to highlight his administration’s commitment to racial equity
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has applied for a presidential pardon ahead of sentencing on her recent perjury and mortgage fraud convictions. According to The Baltimore Sun, the Congressional Black Caucus expressed support for her cause in a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday. Mosby has argued the prosecution was
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The California Highway Patrol is investigating a two-vehicle traffic collision that occurred this Thursday morning, resulting in a fatality. At 2:26 AM, Indio CHP responded to a two-vehicle crash that took place at the intersection of State Route 62 and North Indian Canyon Drive. For reasons currently under investigation, a Hyundai was in the process
Continue ReadingBy SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The 35 American and other international doctors came to Gaza in volunteer teams to help one of the territory’s few hospitals still functioning. They brought suitcases full of medical supplies and had trained for one of the worst war zones in the world. They knew the
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man accused of setting a house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family in 2020 in a case of misplaced revenge was set to appear in court Friday to enter a plea. Twenty-year-old Kevin Bui is charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, arson
Continue ReadingCNN By Mitchell McCluskey, Eugenia Yosef and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli military announced Friday that it has recovered the bodies of three hostages from the Gaza Strip. The hostages were identified as Shani Louk, Amit Bouskila, and Itshak Gelernter, IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a press conference in Tel
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer For the nation’s bicycle shops, the past few years have probably felt like the business version of the Tour de France, with numerous twists and turns testing their endurance. Early in the pandemic, a surge of interest in cycling pushed sales up 64% to $5.4 billion in 2020, according
Continue ReadingBy GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Members of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group in the country’s rebel-held northwest have fired bullets in the air and beaten up protesters with clubs, injuring some of them. The protesters have been demonstrating for weeks to demand the release of detainees and an end to the
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, Christopher Lamb and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — The Vatican has tightened up its guidance on recognizing supernatural phenomena such as apparitions of the Virgin Mary and seemingly blood-soaked crucifixes. The new guidelines replace rules drawn up in 1978 and say that bishops should no longer act independently over such sightings but
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