By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers have been blocked from forcing NBC to provide them with materials related to the TV network’s recent documentary about Stormy Daniels. The porn actor is a key prosecution witness at the former president’s upcoming hush-money criminal trial in New York. Manhattan Judge
Continue ReadingBy ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, with weak rumblings felt as far away as Baltimore and the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. No life-threatening injuries or major damage have been reported. Here’s what to know about earthquakes on the
Continue ReadingBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Authorities say a fire outside the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders caused minor damage but no injuries. The Burlington Fire Department says it responded Friday morning and found a fire between the vestibule, the elevator and the entrance door of Sanders’ third-floor office. The fire was extinguished and no one was
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Pellish and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday raised the possibility that the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was not a “true insurrection” and expressed concern about the “weaponization of government” against those charged with crimes in connection to the riot. “It
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 hoping to recover Mexico’s old reputation as the diplomatic leader of Latin America. What he’s managed to do, however, is get several of his country’s ambassadors kicked out of countries in the region. On Thursday, Ecuador ordered
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel-Hamas war has stretched on for half a year and become one of the most destructive, deadly, and intractable conflicts of the 21st century. Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 cross-border attack, Israel has pummeled the Gaza Strip, displacing the vast majority of the population and causing many
Continue ReadingBy ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — Clouds could obscure views of Monday’s total solar eclipse in some parts of North America. There is still some time for forecasts to change, but meteorologists predict that storm fronts could bring clouds to many locations along the eclipse’s path, including parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s mandate for auto dealers to provide an increasing number of electric vehicles for sale across the state will remain in place pending a legal challenge. Members of the state Environmental Improvement Board on Friday rejected an effort to stall implementation of the rules
Continue ReadingRAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A jury has convicted a former tribal leader in South Dakota of defrauding his tribe to enrich himself. Former Oglala Sioux Tribal President Julian Bear Runner was convicted Thursday of six counts of wire fraud and other charges. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Police say an incendiary device has been thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany but caused only minor damage. No one was injured. The incident in the city of Oldenburg happened early Friday afternoon. The fire was discovered quickly and didn’t spread, and the fire service didn’t need to
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A dedication ceremony was held at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage a month after the unveiling of former First Lady Betty Ford’s forever stamp at the White House. Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales, her daughter, was present in the audience, listening to the expressions of gratitude and thanks for her mother’s legacy in the Coachella Valley
Continue ReadingROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s top prosecutor says four state troopers who may have falsified data about traffic stops won’t face state criminal charges. Chief State’s Attorney Patrick Griffin’s office said in a statement Friday that none of the officers can be prosecuted, despite an independent investigation that found the number of traffic stops
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — State security services in Moldova’s Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria say that a drone attacked a military unit close to the border with Ukraine, causing minor damage to a radar station but no casualties. The region’s state security ministry says the incident occurred in the region of Rabnita, about
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The East Coast earthquake has snarled travel by air, road and rail around the region. Friday’s quake was centered in northern New Jersey and registered a magnitude of 4.8. It shook skyscrapers and suburbs across the northeastern U.S. for several seconds. It caused
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged western Darfur region for the first time in months, following two successful cross-border delivery operations. However, the population there still faces widespread hunger unless more help arrives. The yearlong conflict in Sudan between rival military and
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden were dealt their latest blow this week when the CIA informed them that an allegation they pushed was false, the latest example of House Republicans citing questionable information to make a serious claim. Without the evidence or the votes
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration, keeping astronauts space-bound with a reusable and relatively cheap ride into orbit. It was a project that forever altered the course of spaceflight with its triumphs — and its tragic failures. Deemed an
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan and Sarah Davis, CNN (CNN) — The judge overseeing Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case lambasted the suspect’s defense attorney Thursday, saying she commissioned phone surveys to potential jurors that could hinder Kohberger’s ability to get a fair trial. Defense attorney Anne C. Taylor had a sharp accusation of her own, saying the
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Spring took a back seat again Friday as a wintry weather system brought more low-elevation snow, hail, rain and unusually cold temperatures to California. A cold and unstable air remained in place after a late-season low pressure system spun into the state a day earlier and
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces. Friday’s NOAA calculations show carbon dioxide, the most important and abundant of the human-caused greenhouse gases, rose in 2023 by the third
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