By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A high school teacher and two students are suing Arkansas over the state’s ban on critical race theory in public schools. The lawsuit was filed Monday by the teacher and students from Little Rock Central High School. That’s the site of the historic 1957 racial
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York City plans to intensify a crackdown on subway fare-beating by sending at least 800 police officers specifically to keep watch on turnstiles, officials announced Monday. It’s the latest in a string of recent moves to address concerns about safety and unruliness in the nation’s busiest subway system. Hours after
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden discussed migration with President Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala after the Central American leader held similar talks with Vice President Kamala Harris. The meetings Monday with Guatemala’s newly elected leader come amid his battle against corruption and as
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican-controlled Senate has tweaked a proposal initially designed to keep the state’s tourism records hidden from public scrutiny. The move on Monday marked an effort to add more sunshine into how the state secures high-profile events. Last month, the GOP-dominant House approved legislation that would
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two men charged in a brazen prison escape that left three correctional officers with gunshot injuries after an attack at an Idaho hospital were arraigned. Police say both the escaped inmate and a former inmate who used to live in the same cell block are in
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More than two dozen competitors will bring their word power into play Thursday for the 46th annual Riverside County Spelling Bee, featuring last year’s champion returning to attempt to carry on a family tradition of owning the top speller mantle. The free public event is slated to start at 9 a.m. in the county Office
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A man who made threats against then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in 2022 was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Monday, Justice Department officials announced during a news conference on threats to state election workers. Joshua Russell, from Ohio, made multiple death threats, according
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey has a well-earned reputation as a home to backroom political dealing, but some advocates see that as changing. A lawsuit brought by Rep. Andy Kim aims at breaking the boss-dominated culture in this Democratic stronghold. That and first lady Tammy Murphy’s departure from the
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — An early morning dispute over smoking on a New York subway train has led to one man being stabbed multiple times and another man being arrested. Monday morning’s incident happened on a Brooklyn train bound for Manhattan. Police received a 911 call for a person in distress and discovered a 52-year-old
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Riverside University Health System announced today that its “One Life, One Heart” Poisoning and Overdose Awareness Walk will debut at three Riverside County locations, starting with Palm Desert on Wednesday. “Addressing substance use and overdoses is not just an individual health issue; it’s a community health issue,” Riverside County Supervisor Chuck Washington said in a
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police on Monday launched an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro’s two-night stay at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia, amid widespread speculation from his opponents that he may have been attempting to evade arrest. A Federal Police source with knowledge of the investigation confirmed
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York City’s celebrity owl Flaco was suffering from a severe pigeon-borne illness and high levels of rat poison when he crashed into a building and died last month, officials at the Bronx Zoo said Monday. The Eurasian eagle-owl was found dead in a Manhattan courtyard on Feb. 23, a
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico has declared an epidemic following a spike in dengue cases. The U.S. territory of 3.2 million people has reported at least 549 cases so far this year, compared with a total of 1,293 cases for all of last year. The island’s health department says more than 340
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE and JONEL ALECCIA Associated Press Federal officials say that milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu. The virus has also been detected in New Mexico. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the milk supply remains safe. Dairies are required to only allow milk from healthy
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani said Monday he never bet on sports or knowingly paid any gambling debts accumulated by his longtime interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara. Instead, the Los Angeles Dodgers star claims his close friend lied to him for years and stole millions from the two-time MVP. Ohtani
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani said Monday he never bet on sports or knowingly paid any gambling debts accumulated by his longtime interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara. Instead, the Los Angeles Dodgers star claims his close friend lied to him for years and stole millions from the two-time MVP. Ohtani
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A bill that ultimately would have let voters decide whether or not abortions should be legal in Louisiana, a state with a near-total ban, has failed after a Republican-controlled committee rejected it. The legislation proposed an amendment to Louisiana’s constitution that would enshrine reproductive rights
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, Homero De la Fuente, Steve Almasy, Dalia Faheid and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Faced with growing attention over a theft and gambling scandal, baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani on Monday adamantly denied betting on any sport or paying a bookie and placed the blame for the improprieties squarely on his former interpreter
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA DONATI and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s little-known, 44-year-old opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye appears set to become the country’s next president. Preliminary results show him as the winner of Sunday’s election, less than two weeks after he was released from prison to launch a campaign. Official results of
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two properties belonging to music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in Los Angeles and Miami were searched Monday by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation by federal authorities in New York, two law
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