By Haley Talbot, CNN The House on Thursday afternoon passed the Laken Riley Act, with all GOP members in attendance plus 37 Democrats supporting the bill. The legislation, introduced by freshman conservative Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia, requires the detention of any migrant who committed burglary or theft. Laken Hope Riley was found dead
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police say that three escaped inmates from the eastern Caribbean island of Grenada have been charged in the killing of a U.S. couple whose catamaran they hijacked. The Royal Grenada Police Force said Thursday that Ron Mitchell, Atiba Stanislaus and Trevon Robertson were charged with capital murder, escaping lawful
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The BNP Paribas Open has launched a new partnership with Spotlight 29 Casino in Coachella to bring some new additions to this year’s tournament at Indian Wells Tennis Garden. “This is the jewel of desert, and we couldn’t be more fortunate than to have the BNP Paribas select us as their exclusive casino resort for
Continue ReadingBy Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) — The Minneapolis Branch of the NAACP and Children’s Rights, an advocacy group, have filed a complaint with the US Department of Health and Human Services against Minnesota for allegedly discriminating against Black children and families in its child welfare system. Minnesota’s “pattern and practice of utilizing federal funds to discriminatorily surveil and separate
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — An Army reservist who shot and killed 18 people in Maine last year had evidence of traumatic brain injuries, according to a brain tissue analysis by researchers from Boston University. The revelations about Robert Card’s brain injuries became public just as a special
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY, ABBY SEWELL, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military will deploy to set up a temporary port off the coast of Gaza, the Biden administration said Thursday, joining in an international push to open a sea route delivering food and other aid to desperate Palestinian civilians
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of theft, as Republicans seized on the recent death of a nursing student in Georgia to rebuke President Joe Biden’s border policies just hours ahead of his
Continue ReadingBy JEFFRREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Any adult who can legally own a gun can now carry one openly in South Carolina. Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill loosening gun laws Thursday, just a day after it received final legislative approval. The new law provides millions of dollars for free gun training
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Uvalde police made “many failures” when responding to a gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school in 2022, the investigator who led the city’s probe of its local officers said Thursday. Jesse Prado, an Austin-based investigator and former police
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rising toward records Thursday, with easier interest rates beckoning on the horizon. The S&P 500 was 1% higher in late trading and back above its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 112 points, or 0.3%, with
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Work on compromise budget legislation Virginia lawmakers will take up later this week is complete, and the bill does not include language enabling a proposed relocation by the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to Alexandria. Top Senate negotiator L. Louise Lucas says she remains
Continue ReadingBy PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press EAST HAMPTON, Conn. (AP) — A small earthquake hit the small Connecticut town of East Hampton on Wednesday, but that’s nothing new. Seismic sounds known as “The Moodus Noises” have been reported in the East Hampton area and the nearby village of Moodus for centuries. In fact, Moodus is short
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The head of US Africa Command warned Congress on Thursday that Russia is aggressively working to expand its footing among African countries, leaving several “at the tipping point” of falling under its influence. “[A] number of countries are at the tipping point of actually being captured by the Russian
Continue ReadingBy FREIDA FRISARO and DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Seaquarium, an old-Florida style tourist attraction that was home to Lolita, the beloved Orca that died last year, is being evicted from the waterfront property it leases from Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava cited a “long and troubling history
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain says it’s providing 10,000 drones to arm Ukraine in its fight against Russia. U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps made the announcement Thursday during a visit with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. The investment includes 125 million pounds ($160 million) of new funding on top of 200 million pounds ($256 million)
Continue ReadingMENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — A group of 40 state attorneys general have sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing “deep concern” over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts. The attorneys general called on Meta to do a better job preventing account takeovers
Continue ReadingCNN By Christiane Amanpour and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — An Israeli woman taken hostage by Hamas in Gaza has described the “hell” of being held captive, after her husband and daughter were murdered, telling CNN her captors would not allow her surviving young children to cry and tried to convince them they “had been forgotten.” Chen
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Fox will expand its coverage of college football with a package of Friday night games. The schedule of games, which will include matchups from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West conferences, is likely won’t be announced until late May or early June after conferences and the networks
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Fox will expand its coverage of college football with a package of Friday night games. The schedule of games, which will include matchups from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Mountain West conferences, is likely won’t be announced until late May or early June after conferences and the networks
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka is accused of stabbing and killing six people he lived with, including a 2 1/2-month-old baby girl and three other kids from a Sri Lankan family, Ottawa police said Thursday. Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs said an “edged weapon” or “knife-like
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