By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Private money to fund elections will be banned in Wisconsin after voters approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday put forward by Republicans in reaction to grants received in 2020 that were funded by donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Voters also have approved a second question put
Continue ReadingBy IAN HARRISON Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — LeBron James scored 23 points, Anthony Davis had 21 points and 12 rebounds and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 128-111 on Tuesday night for their seventh win in eight games. D’Angelo Russell shot 7 for 14 from 3-point range and scored 25 points, Rui
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Tyler Anderson pitched seven scoreless innings, Aaron Hicks homered and the Los Angeles Angeles beat Miami 3-1 on Tuesday, sending the Marlins to their worst start in franchise history. Anderson (1-0) scattered four hits, walked two and struck out five. The left-hander was lifted after 83 pitches. “Honestly, today I just wanted
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he is mourning a mayoral candidate killed the day before, just hours after she requested protection and started campaigning. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday the killing of one of his own party’s candidates “hurts a lot,” but he did not announce
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A former police officer who prosecutors say was the ringleader of a campaign donations scheme to help New York City Mayor Eric Adams during his winning 2021 run has been sentenced. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office confirmed Tuesday that Dwayne Montgomery received 200 hours of community service and was prohibited
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER and TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Voters in four states weighed in Tuesday on their parties’ presidential nominees, a largely symbolic vote now that both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have locked up the Democratic and Republican nominations. Biden and Trump easily won primaries in
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A powerful earthquake rocked the entire island of Taiwan early Wednesday, collapsing buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands. A five-story building in lightly populated Hualien appeared heavily damaged, collapsing its first floor and leaving the rest leaning at a 45-degree angle.
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ron Eller has won a Republican primary runoff in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District. He will face longtime Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson in the Nov. 5 general election. Eller is a military veteran and physician assistant. He defeated Andrew Scott Smith in Tuesday’s vote. Smith has
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — President Javier Milei has struggled to navigate nationalist sensitivities around the contested archipelago it knows as the Malvinas, which Britain knows as the Falklands Islands controls and Argentina claims as its own. The right-wing leader has shown more interest in boosting trade with the British
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Donald Trump is suing two co-founders of Trump Media & Technology Group, the newly public parent company of his Truth Social platform, arguing that they should forfeit their stock in the company because they set it up improperly. The former president’s lawsuit, which was filed on March 24, follows a complaint
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been detected at a poultry facility in Michigan. Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s top prosecutor says the scope of an investigation into President Dina Boluarte’s ownership of three luxury watches has broaden to include fine jewelry that authorities estimate could be worth more than $500,000 and money transactions that exceed $400,000. Attorney General Juan Villena on Tuesday told Parliament’s oversight committee that the
Continue ReadingBy Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Argentina’s President Javier Milei has said his government is committed to establishing a “roadmap” towards Argentine sovereignty of the British-ruled Falkland Islands. “I want to reiterate our unwavering claim for the islands, and I commit that during our government we will be able to have a clear roadmap so
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A powerful earthquake rocked the entire island of Taiwan early Wednesday, collapsing buildings in a southern city and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on Japanese islands. Television showed buildings in the city of Hualien shaken off their foundations. Islandwide train service was suspended, as was subway service in Taipei. Taiwan’s
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Caitlin Clark can claim another record — the most-watched women’s college basketball game in history. Iowa’s 94-87 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament on Monday night averaged 12.3 million viewers on ESPN, according to Nielsen. That makes it one of the most-viewed games
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Chang and Helen Regan, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Rescuers in Taiwan scrambled to free dozens of people trapped in highway tunnels after the island was struck by its strongest earthquake in 25 years Wednesday, killing at least nine and injuring more than 900 others. The powerful 7.4 magnitude tremor shook the island’s east coast, hitting at 7:58
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck off Taiwan, and Japan issued a tsunami alert for the southern Japanese island group of Okinawa. Japan’s meteorological agency forecast a tsunami of up to 3 meters or 9.8 feet. It wasn’t yet clear if there was any damage from the quake Wednesday morning.
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Zach Edey of Purdue and Tristen Newton of UConn are among the five finalists for the John R. Wooden Award as the nation’s outstanding men’s college basketball player of the season. Joining them are RJ Davis of North Carolina, Dalton Knecht of Tennessee and Jamal Shead of Houston. Edey, who won
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JILL COLVIN Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of unleashing a “bloodbath” at the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday, escalating his inflammatory rhetoric as he campaigned in two Midwestern swing states likely to be critical to the outcome of the 2024 election. Trump,
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER and TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Voters in four states are weighing in on their parties’ presidential nominees, a largely symbolic vote now that both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have locked up the Democratic and Republican nominations. Biden and Trump easily won primaries in Rhode Island and
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