By Ana María Cañizares, Sahar Akbarzai and Veronica Calderon (CNN) — Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas on Wednesday started a hunger strike in a Guayaquil maximum security prison, where he has been held since Saturday, a member of his team told CNN. “He is in a hole, without light,” the source said. On Monday,
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC and NICK PERRY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. Air Force veteran who fled a charge of possessing sexually explicit images of a child told his lawyer he joined Russia’s army. And video appears to show him signing documents in a military enlistment office in Siberia. Wilmer Puello-Mota is also a
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, JILL COLVIN and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With his job on the line, House Speaker Mike Johnson is dashing to Florida to meet with Donald Trump this week. He has also offered far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a seat on his own “kitchen cabinet” advisory group. Facing the threat
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers have killed a bipartisan bill for the year that would have let residents convicted of felonies apply to vote again without also restoring their gun rights. Democratic Rep. Antonio Parkinson and Republican Sen. Paul Bailey advanced the bill late in Tennessee’s annual legislative session.
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — A 26-year-old Alabama man was arrested Wednesday after being indicted on federal charges in connection to the detonation of an explosive device outside the state attorney general’s office in February. Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, of Irondale, will face charges of malicious use of an explosive and possession of an
Continue ReadingBy GERALD HERBERT and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Severe storms blamed for a death in Mississippi spawned a tornado that demolished buildings in one Louisiana city Wednesday while inundating streets in low-lying New Orleans with hours of steady rain that snarled traffic and strained the city’s antiquated drainage system. Severe weather
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press A judge in Wisconsin is hearing testimony to help determine whether a woman should be released from a psychiatric center, a decade after she nearly killed a girl at age 12. Two psychologists say Morgan Geyser isn’t ready yet. Geyser is now 21 years old. She told authorities that she
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say two Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies have been injured and a suspect is dead following an exchange of gunfire in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka. The shootout happened just before 11:20 a.m. Wednesday. Sheriff Dawanna Witt says one deputy was taken to a hospital with injuries
Continue ReadingBy BEN ROSS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nick Ahmed and Tyler Fitzgerald had three hits apiece and Jordan Hicks allowed one run in six innings as the San Francisco Giants avoided a three-game series sweep with a 5-1 win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday. Hicks (2-0) has allowed one earned run or
Continue ReadingBy CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A joyful celebration of the end of Ramadan devolved into panic Wednesday in Philadelphia after rival groups exchanged gunfire, leaving at least three people injured and hundreds of parents and children to flee in search of safety. The annual Eid al-Fitr event, held outside a large mosque
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ind. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered a psychologist and a psychiatrist to examine the mother of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana in 2022. Washington County Circuit Judge Larry Medlock asked the doctors to perform mental evaluations of Dejaune Anderson to determine her competency to
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR and DEVI SHASTRI Associated Press Adrienne Mansanares expects a flurry of calls from patients in Arizona starting this week. She’s the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which has clinics that provide abortions in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. Mansanares said the clinics should be able to accommodate
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is now 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to get a New York appeals court to delay his looming hush money criminal trial. An appeals court judge Wednesday swiftly rejected the latest salvo from the former president’s lawyers, who argued
Continue ReadingCNN By Kristen Holmes, Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — As Mike Johnson stares down a serious threat to his speakership, he’s taking steps to show alignment with the most powerful figure in the Republican Party: Donald Trump. Johnson has made plans to trek down to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to appear at a
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency announced new limits on certain types of PFAS chemicals in drinking water. PFAS is a large family of chemicals and they’ve been used to make nonstick pans and waterproof clothing over many decades. Scientific evidence of their harms, however, has accumulated in recent years. As a
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump has stirred religious controversy again in his presidential comeback bid, lashing out at Jewish voters who back President Joe Biden and framing Election Day as a referendum on Christianity’s strength in America. Jews who support Biden “should have their head examined,” he said. Trump made
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rescuers were searching Wednesday for a gray whale last spotted off Northern California’s coast with its tail entangled in a massive gill net. The 30-foot (9-meter) whale was spotted Tuesday near San Francisco swimming north as part of gray whales’ annual migration from Mexico to
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rescuers were searching Wednesday for a gray whale last spotted off Northern California’s coast with its tail entangled in a massive gill net. The 30-foot (9-meter) whale was spotted Tuesday near San Francisco swimming north as part of gray whales’ annual migration from Mexico to
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW and MORGAN LEE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona abortion providers vowed Wednesday to continue service until they’re forced to stop, a pledge that comes day after the state Supreme Court cleared the way for enforcing an 1864 law criminalizing abortion throughout pregnancy unless a woman’s life is at risk. The court
Continue ReadingBy Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Bogota (CNN) — Latin America has seen plenty of diplomatic wrestling in recent weeks, from Argentina’s president calling his Colombian counterpart “a terrorist murderer” to Venezuela’s latest attempt to take back a territory ruled by neighboring Guyana. But none of that has been quite as hands-on as Ecuador’s highly controversial decision to raid Mexico’s embassy – a major
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