By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers are expecting a “new star” to appear in the night sky anytime between now and September, and it promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime celestial sight, according to NASA. The expected brightening event, known as a nova, will occur in the Milky Way’s Corona Borealis, or Northern Crown constellation,
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Contraceptives will be available without a prescription in New York under an order signed by state health officials. The order signed Tuesday is part of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mission to bolster reproductive rights at a time when its restricted in other parts
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Cyberattacks are hitting water and wastewater systems “throughout the United States” and state governments and water facilities must improve their defenses against the threat, the White House and Environmental Protection Agency warned US governors on Tuesday. “We need your support to ensure that all water systems in your state comprehensively
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The former top military chief Gen. Mark Milley and former head of U.S. Central Command testified before Congress Tuesday on policy failures by the Biden administration to adequately plan for or direct an evacuation in time to avoid the chaotic final days of the U.S. withdrawal from
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov, Henry McMaster has held a ceremony marking a new law allowing any adult who can legally own a gun to carry the weapon openly without a permit. McMaster signed the bill into law 12 days ago as soon as it hit his desk.
Continue ReadingBy Jean Casarez and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — James Crumbley, the father of the teenager who fatally shot four students at a Michigan high school in 2021, allegedly threatened Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald in a jailhouse call with a family member, saying the prosecutor was going to hell soon, she better be
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street notched another record high as traders wait to hear what the Federal Reserve will do with interest rates. The S&P 500 shook off an early loss and closed 0.6% higher Tuesday, beating the all-time high it set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer As March Madness is set to tip off, three of the most recognizable names in college basketball are in the women’s tournament: Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers. Clark drew record crowds and ratings all season long. Reese has LSU in contention for a second straight national championship.
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that future presidents could be vulnerable to “de facto blackmail and extortion while in office” if the justices did not accept his sweeping view of immunity against special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion charges. However, the presumptive 2024
Continue ReadingVIENNA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say the brother of Michigan congressman has been fatally shot at his home north of Flint. Tim Kildee was the 57-year-old brother of Dan Kildee, a congressman representing the Flint area. Sheriff Chris Swanson said Tim Kildee was shot and killed early Tuesday at his home in Vienna Township
Continue ReadingBy JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills and Sabres owner Terry Pegula filled both teams’ vacant chief operating officer positions by hiring Pete Guelli, who returns to his roots after spending the past five years as the New York Giants chief business officer. The 59-year-old Guelli will oversee the business
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Tennessee nurse practitioner who called himself the “Rock Doc” has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegally prescribing thousands of doses of opioids including oxycodone and fentanyl in return for money and sex. Jeffrey W. Young Jr., was sentenced Monday
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer New research shows that more than six in 10 of the abortions in the United States last year were done through medication. That’s up from 53% in 2020. The Guttmacher Institute is a research group that supports abortion rights, and put out the new research. Its data shows about
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — An unprecedented exhibition opening Wednesday at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan reunites for the first time in over 450 years eight surviving panels of the Augustinian Altarpiece by the early Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, while possibly solving one of its enduring mysteries. Museums have
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer USA Basketball’s men’s team is assured of seeing Serbia and South Sudan in the group stage of the Paris Olympics, while the U.S. women are guaranteed of a gold-medal-game rematch against Japan in France this summer. FIBA, the sport’s global organizing body, held the draw for the Paris Games
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top Republican is deriding supporters of former President Donald Trump who are trying to recall him from office. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Tuesday predicted that their effort would fail and some would be subject to election fraud charges. Vos called those trying to oust
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen blew up a house in a town southeast of the capital, Sanaa, killing at least nine people from the same family, officials and residents said. The blowup on Tuesday came a day after two Houthi fighters were killed in an ambush allegedly
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two recent U.S. Supreme Court actions have opened the door to a new legal frontier in which local and state officials can be disqualified from office for life for engaging in “insurrection” or providing “aid and comfort” to enemies of the Constitution.
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A judge on Tuesday released pro-Trump lawyer Stefanie Lambert from a Washington, DC, jail after she promised to immediately return to Michigan and surrender to authorities there, where there is a warrant related to her indictment on election-tampering charges. DC Superior Court Magistrate Judge Heide Herrmann released Lambert
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a pharmacist engaged in sex-based discrimination when he refused to provide emergency contraception to a woman in 2019. This comes less than two years after a district court jury ruled that the pharmacist did not
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