By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Billions of people are using different kinds of energy each day and 2023 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy sources — ones that don’t emit planet-warming pollutants like carbon dioxide and methane — according to a report published Wednesday by Ember, a think tank based in London. For the
Continue ReadingFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has confirmed a report that former major leaguer Monte Harrison, a 28-year-old outfielder who played parts of three seasons with the Angels and Marlins, plans to walk on with the Razorbacks’ football program. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette first reported Tuesday that Harrison had committed to the school. An Arkansas football spokesman
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press Advocates for legalizing recreational marijuana in South Dakota have submitted petitions to get the issue once again on the November ballot. Voters approved a legalization initiative in 2020, only to have it struck down the next year in court for violating a single-subject requirement for constitutional amendments. Voters defeated another
Continue ReadingSECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — The San Jose Sharks have won the NHL draft lottery and the right to choose first overall.
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The mother of two Australian surfers killed in Mexico has delivered a moving tribute to her sons at a beach in San Diego. Debra Robinson noted that her son Jake loved surfing so much that, as a doctor, he liked to work in hospitals near the beach. Robinson thanked Australian officials
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press Despite pleas from Democrats and gut-wrenching testimony from doctors and rape survivors, a GOP-controlled legislative committee rejected a bill that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban. In the reliably red state, which is firmly ensconced in the Bible Belt and where even
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The city of Indio is making tentative plans for a big hometown event should Abi Carter make it to the Top 3 on American Idol. You can vote here for Abi Carter here: https://idolvote.abc.com Abi Carter, an Indio native, has been impressing audiences and judges alike throughout this season of American Idol. City officials told
Continue ReadingBy ALEXA ST. JOHN, SEAN MURPHY and JIM SALTER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Weather forecasters are warning residents in several Midwest states to brace for dangerous storms that could include tornadoes. The National Weather Service says some tornadoes were spotted in southwestern Michigan on Tuesday, including one that blitzed parts of Portage. It
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A landmark trial over abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center resulted in a $38 million award to a former resident. But some jurors are now distraught that the state is trying to slash the amount, and the judge is being asked to bring them back
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Three people have been arrested after a driver hit a pro-Palestinian protester on a Manhattan street. A New York police detective said the incident happened Tuesday at around 8:45 a.m. on the Upper East Side. About 25 protesters were wrapping up a demonstration when two of them got into an argument
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Adult film star Stormy Daniels dished out salacious details of her alleged sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump in 2006 from the witness stand on Tuesday, describing how they met at a celebrity golf tournament and what she says happened when she
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — “The People Call Stormy Daniels.” It was the moment that Donald Trump’s hush money trial — bogged down in recent days in dreary testimony about accounting — roared back to life on Tuesday. A former president — who could find himself back behind the Oval Office desk
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Officials say a captain in New York City’s Corrections Department suffered burns and smoke inhalation when her body camera suddenly caught fire. The department has since paused the use of body cameras pending an investigation. A spokesperson for the department says the captain was on duty at the Rikers Island jail
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have met for a second day at the Capitol as they try to figure out an off-ramp to her threat for a vote on the motion to remove him from office.
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms was nixed in Colorado’s Democratic-controlled Legislature on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed forward with a slew of other gun control bills on the 25th anniversary year of the Columbine High School massacre. The western state
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Seven more Republican states are suing to challenge a new federal regulation to protect transgender student rights. The GOP lawsuits were filed in federal courts in Missouri and Oklahoma, but Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota are also plaintiffs in the Missouri case.
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One-time movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was returned to a New York City jail in what his publicist said Tuesday was the result from a published report claiming he was getting VIP treatment during his 10-day stay at a hospital. The publicist, Juda Engelmeyer, said Weinstein was
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One-time movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was returned to a New York City jail in what his publicist said Tuesday was the result from a published report claiming he was getting VIP treatment during his 10-day stay at a hospital. The publicist, Juda Engelmeyer, said Weinstein was
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Three people have been arrested after a driver hit a pro-Palestinian protester on a Manhattan street. A New York police detective said the incident happened Tuesday at around 8:45 a.m. on the Upper East Side. About 25 protesters were wrapping up a demonstration when two of them got into an argument
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A bill to ban the sale and transfer of semi-automatic firearms was nixed in Colorado’s Democratic-controlled Legislature on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed forward with a slew of other gun control bills on the 25th anniversary year of the Columbine High School massacre. The western state
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