MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is expressing dissatisfaction with the country’s first presidential debate ahead of the June election. He claimed on Tuesday that the debate’s narrative focused on what his opponents say instead of what he says his administration has achieved. Mexico’s Constitution limits presidents to one six-year term, so President Andrés Manuel
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Fresh gunfire has erupted in Haiti’s capital, forcing aid workers in downtown Port-au-Prince to halt urgently needed care for thousands of people. The Alliance for International Medical Action says the gang violence has forced 18 hospitals to stop working and caused a shortage
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California spent $24 billion on homelessness in 5 years but didn’t consistently track outcomes, state audit finds.
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The basketball world can’t get enough of Caitlin Clark and now that the college season is over, next up is the WNBA draft. While there is no drama about whether the Iowa guard will be the top pick, there is excitement about her arrival. With
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD and ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona will soon join 14 other states that have banned abortion at all stages of pregnancy after a state Supreme Court ruling Tuesday found that officials may enforce an 1864 law criminalizing all abortions except when a woman’s life is at stake. The court
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Two groups of Republican-led states have sued President Joe Biden over the student loan repayment plan he launched last year, arguing he’s once again overstepping his authority to cancel student debt. Some of the states, including Missouri, are among the same plaintiffs that sued the Biden administration over
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two conservative political operatives who orchestrated a robocall campaign to dissuade Black people from voting in the 2020 election have agreed to pay up to $1.25 million under a settlement with New York state. Attorney General Letitia James announced the agreement Tuesday. Operatives Jacob Wohl and
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press An escaped mountain goat that somehow got stuck under a Kansas City bridge has survived a rocky rescue effort and now may be reunited with the owners who suspect he was stolen from their farm two months ago. “It’s the story that captured the hearts of Kansas City,” said Tori
Continue ReadingBy PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Some windows were broken and street signs taken down, but celebrations following UConn’s second consecutive men’s basketball championship were mostly peaceful, the school said Tuesday. Thousands of students spilled onto campus following the 75-60 win over Purdue in the NCAA title game in Arizona and
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress Tuesday that pressure on Israel to improve humanitarian aid to Gaza appears to be working, but he said more must be done, and it remains to be seen if the improvement will continue. “It clearly had an
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Conservative activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have agreed to pay $1 million to the New York attorney general’s office and others for running a voter suppression campaign targeting Black voters during the 2020 election. The deal announced Tuesday by state Attorney General Letitia James represents the latest punishment
Continue ReadingBy Kareem Khadder and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Health workers in northern Gaza exhumed the first corpses from mass graves in and around Al-Shifa Hospital on Tuesday, after they said Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians and left their bodies to decompose during their two-week siege of the complex. At least 381 bodies
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday. The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said he died Monday “peacefully at home following a short
Continue Reading: SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Someone threw an explosive device onto the porch of The Satanic Temple in Massachusetts at a time when no one was inside, and the device and damage it caused were not found until nearly 12 hours later, police said. No injuries were reported. State police bomb technicians ensured that the
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge sentenced the parents of a Michigan school shooter to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for failing to take steps that could have prevented a “runaway train” — the killing of four students in 2021. Jennifer and James Crumbley are the first parents
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet of more than 1,000 autonomously operated combat aircraft. The Air Force’s top civilian leader says he plans to climb into an artificial intelligence-operated warplane and let it take him airborne. Air
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court judge Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay his hush money criminal trial, taking just 12 minutes to swat aside an argument that it should be postponed while the former president fights a gag order. Justice
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron are urging Congress to approve new military aid for Ukraine, saying the stalled funding is critical for U.S., European and world security. Speaking after meeting at the State Department on Tuesday, Blinken repeated
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN New York (CNN) — An appeals court judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s request to delay the start of his New York hush money trial so he can challenge the gag order imposed by Judge Juan Merchan. New York Associate Justice Cynthia Kern denied
Continue ReadingBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — In a story published April 5, 2024, about an excessive force lawsuit filed by a woman whose hand was nearly severed during a protest near the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, The Associated Press reported that Sophia Wilansky alleged her injury resulted from an “explosive munition” fired at her by
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