By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new forever postage stamp bearing the portrait of former first lady Betty Ford was unveiled Wednesday afternoon in the East Room of the White House. And if there was a theme to the unveiling event, it focused on how the wife of 38th President Gerald Ford
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-five Republican-led states have joined lawsuits challenging a new Biden administration rule that sets tougher standards for deadly soot pollution. Republicans say the Environmental Protection Agency rule would raise costs for manufacturers, utilities and families across the country and could block new manufacturing facilities and infrastructure projects.
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22 residents of the long-troubled Oasis Mobile Home Park, along with a tenant association called Juntos Por Un Mejor Oasis, settled their civil suit against the park’s owners. Oasis Mobile Home Park has been a fixture of controversy for years, most recently due to high levels of arsenic in drinking water, resulting in three emergency administrative
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A visit from a rare, fine-feathered tourist on the Las Vegas Strip interrupted a hotel-casino’s prominent water show before wildlife biologists captured the yellow-billed loon and relocated it Wednesday, unharmed, to an unspecified remote location where they expect it to resume its migratory trek north. The Bellagio said in a social
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Constitution spells it out clearly in Article II, Section 3: The president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” But the modern State of the Union address
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new forever postage stamp bearing the portrait of former U.S. First Lady Betty Ford was unveiled Wednesday afternoon in the East Room of the White House. And if there was a theme to the unveiling event, it focused on how the wife of 38th U.S. President
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Republican official in New York City’s suburbs who prohibited girls and women’s sports teams with transgender athletes from using county facilities has asked a federal court to affirm the ban. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the “cease and
Continue ReadingBy RON TODT Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say eight teenagers in northeast Philadelphia were injured in another shooting involving a city bus. Wednesday’s shooting is the fourth shooting on the transit system in as many days. Philadelphia’s police commissioner Kevin Bethel says students from Northeast High School were waiting for a bus when
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have invited Hunter Biden and his former business associates to appear at a public hearing on March 20. It’s part of the next step in the GOP’s monthslong impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee announced Wednesday that the hearing
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL and TARA COPP Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday killed three of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel, the U.S. military said. It was the first fatal strike
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, Hannah Rabinowitz, Katie Bo Lillis and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Defense Department is analyzing a balloon discovered by fishermen off the coast of Alaska last week to determine whether it was a spy balloon, a spokesperson told CNN. The balloon is currently at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, said department
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Prosecutors in Arizona have issued several grand jury subpoenas in recent weeks to people connected to efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in that state, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The subpoenas suggest the state-level probe is accelerating
Continue ReadingBy the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — MAX, the streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and formerly known as HBO Max, is ready to join Netflix and Disney with its own crackdown on password sharing later in 2024. The company’s president and CEO of global streaming, Jean-Briac Perrette, said Monday that Warner Bros.
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A fractious three-way Republican primary for the chance to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this November is culminating in Ohio, where candidates are divided more over their pasts than their policy positions. Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, Secretary of State Frank LaRose and state Sen.
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s public schools superintendent and some state legislators won’t be returning to their positions in 2025 after primary defeats. Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt lost Tuesday’s Republican primary to Michele Morrow. Truitt is in her first term. Morrow is a home-schooling parent who
Continue ReadingBy Richard Roth, Eve Brennan and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — The war in Sudan is “triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis,” with more than 25 million people “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity, a United Nations agency has warned. Nine in 10 people across the country face “emergency levels of hunger” and are
Continue ReadingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Royal Caribbean cruise employee is accused of hiding cameras inside bathrooms of passenger cabins to spy on guests including underage girls. Arvin Joseph Mirasol was arrested Sunday on charges of production and possession of child sexual abuse material after the Symphony of the Seas arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Republican primary saw more than a dozen incumbents defeated or forced into uncomfortable runoffs in races from the state House to a top state court. Tuesday’s election results could reshape the leadership of the Legislature. Already the outcome has emboldened insurgent challengers hoping more
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