By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Actor Ashley Judd and singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc have helped the Biden administration promote its new national strategy to prevent suicide. Both were at the White House on Tuesday as Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, helped unveil the Democratic administration’s blueprint for reducing suicide
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writers Tesla’s first-quarter net income plummeted 55% as falling global sales and price cuts sliced into the electric vehicle maker’s revenue and profit margins. The Austin, Texas, company said it made $1.13 billion from January through March compared with $2.51 billion in the same period a year
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writers Tesla’s first-quarter net income plummeted 55% as falling global sales and price cuts sliced into the electric vehicle maker’s revenue and profit margins. The Austin, Texas, company said it made $1.13 billion from January through March compared with $2.51 billion in the same period a year
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied for a second straight day Tuesday to blunt the blow of what’s been a rough April. The S&P 500 climbed 1.2% and pulled further out of the hole created by a six-day losing streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 263 points,
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Judge Juan Merchan appeared poised on Tuesday to sanction Donald Trump for violating the gag order in his criminal hush money case after peppering the former president’s lawyers with questions about why Trump’s social media posts were acceptable. Tuesday began with a hearing
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Judge Juan Merchan appeared poised on Tuesday to sanction Donald Trump for violating the gag order in his criminal hush money case after peppering the former president’s lawyers with questions about why Trump’s social media posts were acceptable. Tuesday began with a
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — An email Monday night from Donald Trump – subject line: “My farewell message” – carried a fateful warning to his backers. “Tomorrow is my GAG ORDER hearing,” it read. “If things don’t go our way, I could be thrown in jail.” Ominous? Certainly. Dubious? Yes, that too. Trump faced
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An autopsy was pending today on a 53-year-old inmate found dead in his cell at the Smith Correctional Facility, though authorities said his death did not appear to be suspicious. Mack Luther Price of Riverside was discovered not breathing in cell No. 70 of Housing Unit 16 at the Banning jail about 8 p.m. Friday,
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A unique book club at one of the nation’s largest jails brings together college students and inmates. The student-led volunteer effort started years ago as an offshoot of a DePaul University program offering college credit classes at the jail for students and detainees. Their recent meeting at
Continue ReadingBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The man charged with starting a fire outside independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office earlier this month pleaded not guilty to a federal charge on Tuesday. Shant Michael Soghomonian, 35, was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of maliciously damaging or attempting to damage and destroy by fire
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to move ahead with $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, bringing the bill to the brink of passage after months of delays and contentious internal debate over how involved the United States should be abroad. The vote
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council charged with selecting a new prime minister and Cabinet for Haiti is demanding that its members be sworn in at the National Palace, raising concerns about their safety. Gangs control most of the territory that surrounds the palace. Every day, bullets whiz past
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with competitors under a rule approved by a federal agency, though the rule is sure to be challenged in court. The Federal Trade Commission voted to ban measures known as noncompete agreements, which
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials have released the name of the Idaho man who was killed last weekend after being identified as the suspect in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy. The Ada County Coroner says Dennis Mulqueen, 65, of Boise, died of a gunshot wound early Sunday morning. Boise police say Mulqueen was
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Britain’s home secretary is touting Britain’s migrant deportation deal with Rwanda as a “new and creative” deterrent to an old and growing problem. But he says he takes seriously criticism by the U.N. refugee agency that it violates international law. Home Secretary James Cleverly visited Italy, ground
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Unlike recent years when there was an LGBTQ+ ally in the Louisiana governor’s office, nothing stands in the way this year of legislation hostile to transgender people. Democratic former Gov. John Bel Edwards was able to block most such legislation in previous years through vetoes.
Continue ReadingNEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former MIT researcher has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the killing of a Yale University graduate student in Connecticut. Qinxuan Pan apologized for his actions Tuesday during a hearing in a New Haven courtroom packed with family and friends of the victim, Kevin Jiang. Pan pleaded
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Officials at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport have unveiled a new security baggage system and a dedicated baggage handling area ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The new equipment includes a revamped scanner system to allow a more detailed scan of passengers’ baggage, so that travelers won’t have to remove items
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A Michigan woman was arraigned Tuesday on second-degree murder and other charges after prosecutors say she drunkenly crashed her SUV into a boat club that was hosting a child’s birthday party, killing a young brother and sister and injuring several other people. Marshella Chidester, 66, did not enter a plea
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The Port of Baltimore is preparing to open a deeper channel for commercial ships to get in and out for a few days. Thursday’s move will be a significant step toward reopening the major maritime shipping hub. It’s been closed to most traffic since the Francis Scott
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