By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthony Davis is sitting out of the Los Angeles Lakers’ showdown with the Golden State Warriors due to the aftereffects of a blow to his head two days earlier. Lakers coach Darvin Ham said Davis had been ruled out about 90 minutes before tipoff Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An 18-year-old man planned to attack churches in a northern Idaho city using a metal pipe, butane fuel, a machete and, if he could get them, his father’s guns, according to federal prosecutors who charged him with attempting to provide material support to
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s election’s chief said President Joe Biden could be left off the ballot in Alabama because the state’s certification deadline is several days before the Democratic Party’s convention. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, a Republican, made the statement Tuesday. A similar concern was raised in
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Iowa’s Caitlin Clark won the John R. Wooden Award for the second straight year as the nation’s top women’s college basketball player on Tuesday. The other finalists were Cameron Brink of Stanford, Paige Bueckers of UConn and freshmen Hannah Hidalgo of Notre Dame and JuJu Watkins of Southern California. All five
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of a sub-atomic particle that came to be known as the Higgs boson, has died at 94. Higgs predicted the existence of the particle in 1964. But it
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rib eye steak, cherry blossoms and Paul Simon will be features of a White House state dinner for Japan. More than 200 guests are expected at the swanky affair being held Wednesday to honor Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and relations between the United States and Japan. President
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces a crucial referendum Wednesday in a parliamentary election that could determine whether he becomes a lame duck or enjoys a mandate to pursue key policies for his remaining three years in office. In the months ahead of the
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a teenager planned to attack churches in a northern Idaho city using a metal pipe, butane fuel, a machete and potentially his father’s guns. Eighteen-year-old Alexander Scott Mercurio has been charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump granted a request by prosecutors on Tuesday aimed at protecting the identities of potential government witnesses. But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon refused to categorically block witness statements from being disclosed, saying there
Continue ReadingBy Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — More than two years after a shooting at a Michigan high school left four students dead, a court heard gut-wrenching impact statements from the victims’ families as the parents of the shooter were sentenced to prison. James and Jennifer Crumbley were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in separate trials earlier this year but
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge decided Tuesday that the names of potential witnesses in the classified documents case against Donald Trump will remain secret – resolving one of the issues that has created a logjam in the criminal case. After months of arguing over what pieces of information
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden will roll out the diplomatic – and literal – red carpet Wednesday for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his wife, Yuko Kishida, welcoming them to the White House for a meticulously planned official visit intertwining and highlighting American and Japanese cultures, including the
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Senate has advanced legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions. Republicans approved the bill on a 24-5 vote Tuesday. It must still clear the similarly conservatively dominant House chamber before it can go to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk for his signature. Florida’s
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — A New York-based campaign official for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who raised the possibility that voting for the independent presidential candidate would help Donald Trump defeat President Joe Biden previously promoted false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and attended “Stop the Steal” rallies after the election, including the rally on
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been executed for killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago in an attack that left the couple’s 4-year-old girl home alone and unharmed. A spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Corrections says Brian Dorsey was pronounced dead Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have cleared a significant hurdle toward permitting certain trained teachers and faculty who haven’t worked in law enforcement carry handguns on school grounds. The Monday vote marks one of the state’s biggest expansion of gun access since a deadly
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former top utility regulator awaiting trial on charges he took millions in bribes in conjunction with the largest corruption scandal in Ohio history has died by suicide. The Franklin County Coroner’s Office says the one-time chair of the Public
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a decision that could leave voters doing a double take, a California court ruled Tuesday that a state legislator can appear as a candidate in two races on the November ballot — one for ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s former U.S. House seat, and the
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began a much-anticipated visit to Washington on Tuesday that spotlights shared concerns about provocative Chinese military action in the Pacific and at a rare moment of public difference between the two nations over a Japanese company’s plan to buy an iconic U.S.
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An infant girl and her 9-year-old sister who were found on a busy Los Angeles-area freeway were thrown from a moving SUV, and investigators believe their mother was responsible and died by suicide after also killing her partner, authorities said Tuesday. The 8-month-old was pronounced dead
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