By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — A popular lake in central Mexico that is a major tourist destination during the Day of the Dead festivities is drying up due to drought, deforestation, and the theft of its water. Lake Patzcuaro in the western state of Michoacán has lost more than half its volume since authorities
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai. Meteorologists say cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard
Continue ReadingGRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A lockdown prompted by a report of a gunshot at the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota has lifted. Security officers completed a door-to-door sweep of the base Wednesday afternoon, the base said in a social media post. Earlier that afternoon, base security received the report of a
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving a subpoena on Stormy Daniels as she arrived for a screening of her documentary at a gay bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor and hush money trial figure refused to take
Continue ReadingBy BEN ROSS Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Esteury Ruiz homered for the second time in three games since being recalled from Triple-A, and the Oakland Athletics beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-3 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep. Ruiz drove in two runs, scored twice and stole a base. He has homered
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Attorney General declined to file criminal charges against a Los Angeles police officer who fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store in 2021, killing a 14-year-old girl in a dressing room, authorities said Wednesday. Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr. fired three
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Joe Biden suggested to cheering, unionized steelworkers on Wednesday that his administration would thwart the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company, and he called for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel, seeking to use trade policy to win over working-class
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court’s landmark school desegregation ruling in 1996, has died. She was 94. Peters, who also was the first female faculty member at Yale
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s governing conservatives have won a highly contested parliamentary election, but without enough seats to rule alone. The ballot Wednesday pitted the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union led by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic against an alliance of centrist and left-wing parties informally led by populist President
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Investigators from the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office are asking for the public’s help locating relatives of a Mexican national killed and dumped alongside a regional highway 35 years ago, hoping to let them know the fate of their loved one. Jorge Lopez Serrano was shot to death in March 1989, and his remains
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Twenty-three Republican attorneys general are attacking the Biden administration’s stated goal of pursuing environmental justice. They officials call it a form of “racial engineering.” They are demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency stop using civil rights laws to investigate actions and policies that harm Black people
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court’s landmark school desegregation ruling in 1996, has died. She was 94. Peters, who also was the first female faculty member at Yale
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment. The House Judiciary Committee voted 9-4 against the bill that would give life without parole sentences to
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press BERLIN, Vt. (AP) — Hundreds of Vermont farms are still recovering from July’s catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather as they head into this year’s growing season. Dog River Farm lost nearly all its produce crops in the summer flooding. The owner says they removed truckloads of river silt and
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, Tami Luhby and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — The Senate passed a foreign aid package Tuesday that includes money for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region. The House passed the aid package, in the form of four separate bills, on Saturday – months after the Senate first passed legislation with aid for Ukraine and
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some felonies. The Republican-controlled House passed a bill that would have done so. But the bill died when the Republican chairwoman of the Senate Constitution Committee did
Continue ReadingBy Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US Senate on Wednesday voted to end the impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, bypassing with procedural votes the first attempt by Congress to oust a Cabinet secretary in more than a century and a half. The pair of votes, which split along partisan lines, swiftly
Continue ReadingBy JILL PAINTER LOPEZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — CJ Abrams homered in the first at-bat of the game and the Washington Nationals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0 on Wednesday to take the series. Nationals starter Jake Irvin (1-1) threw six scoreless innings to get his first win of the season and gave
Continue ReadingSPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say skeletal remains found at a house in Springfield have been identified as those of a woman who vanished in 2008. Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon says a post-mortem examination identified the remains as those of Michelle Renee “Shelly” Bianco of Springfield. Allmon says Bianco’s official cause and manner of
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to order New Jersey Democrats scrap a ballot design widely viewed as helping candidates with establishment backing. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals considered a slimmed-down appeal brought by the Camden County Democrats after the county clerks — the officials charged with
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