By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Several New York City employees have been arrested for their alleged role in a scheme to steal the identities of homeless shelter residents and defraud a pandemic-era relief program. Manhattan prosecutors brought charges against 18 people, including five employees of the city’s homeless services agency. Prosecutors
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The federal judge who oversaw a New York defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 million award to a longtime magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s refused Thursday to relieve the ex-president from the verdict’s financial pinch. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
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A man who aided his younger brother in trying to cover up the alleged killing of a 16-year-old Moreno Valley girl pleaded guilty today to being an accessory after the fact and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail. Gary Anthony Shover, 27, of Hesperia admitted the felony count under a plea agreement
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra will tour Asia for the first time with nine performances in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan from June 19-30. Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct concerts featuring soprano Lisette Oropesa, mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn. Venues include Seoul, Nishinomiya, Tokyo and Taipei. The full
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Allies of former President Donald Trump held meetings with top officials in Israel last week to discuss the current conflict in Gaza, according to three sources familiar with the trip. The visit – led by Keith Kellogg, a leading national security adviser to the former president who also
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers defended the actions of local police in a report released Thursday, prompting shouts of “cowards” during a City Council meeting and causing several family members of the
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith is forcefully opposing former President Donald Trump’s sweeping claim of presidential immunity in the criminal case over his handling of classified documents, urging the judge to cut off Trump’s ability to appeal the issue in a way
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The CEO of Rivian Automotive announced Thursday that the electric truck maker is pausing construction of its $5 billion manufacturing plant in Georgia to speed production and save money. California-based Rivian had planned to start building its new R2 midsize SUVs at the Georgia
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A school headteacher in northwestern Nigeria says gunmen who attacked the school abducted 287 students as they were about to start classes. It marks the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week. Locals told The Associated Press the assailants surrounded
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Some Chinese-made cranes used at US ports contain communications equipment with no clear purpose or record of their installation, according to a new congressional investigation that will heighten US concerns that the cranes could be used for surveillance or sabotage. The investigation by the House Committee on Homeland Security
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A Saudi Arabian farm previously permitted to pump unlimited amounts of groundwater to grow alfalfa for dairy cows overseas has stopped irrigating its crops on state land in Arizona’s Butler Valley, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs announced Thursday. Hobbs and the Arizona State Land Department announced after a recent inspection
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A jury in Michigan has heard a frantic 911 call made by the father of a school shooter in 2021. James Crumbley is on trial for involuntary manslaughter. He’s accused of contributing to the tragedy at Oxford High School by failing to properly secure a gun
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Derrick Henry is back in the gym, eager to prove turning 30 is just a number that shouldn’t affect the four-time Pro Bowl running back’s value on the NFL’s open market. The man who organized a group chat among the league’s top running
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Recently unsealed court documents show that an Army soldier accused of selling national defense information has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a wide range on charges, including bribery of a public official. According to the indictment, Korbein Schultz allegedly conspired with an individual
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Brian Dutcher has experienced all 25 seasons of Mountain West basketball and he’s never seen one as crazy as this one. A season after Dutcher’s San Diego State Aztecs became the first Mountain West team to reach the Final Four, the conference could have a
Continue ReadingEVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti is once again facing a wave of chaos fueled by ongoing gang wars. Haiti’s security crisis has spiraled since the 2021 assassination of the country’s president. Gang leaders have grown increasingly violent and empowered, taking advantage of power vacuums in the Caribbean nation to grow in
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers have walked out of a Kentucky House committee hearing as the GOP-led panel was taking up a bill to expand access to prebirth and newborn services for pregnant women carrying nonviable fetuses that are expected to die before or soon after birth. The three
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran and Kaanita Iyer, CNN Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, the youngest Republican woman elected to the US Senate, criticized President Joe Biden and his administration over the border, the state of the US economy and crime and safety issues as she delivered the GOP’s rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union address. “Right now, the
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ AND HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A United Airlines jetliner bound for Japan made a safe landing in Los Angeles on Thursday after losing a tire while taking off from San Francisco. Video shows the plane losing one of the six tires on its left-side main landing gear
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Former Assemblymember Brian Nestande has died at the age of 60. Nestande died in the 73000 block of Vermeer Way on Wednesday. According to the Riverside County coroner’s office, he was found at around 2:00 p.m. There was no word on the cause of death. He represented the Coachella Valley in the California State Assembly
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