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By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday as a Michigan judge lamented missed opportunities that could have prevented their teenage son from possessing a gun and killing four students in 2021. “These convictions
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes held at a near standstill again on Tuesday, as traders made their final moves ahead of some potentially market-moving reports. The S&P 500 edged up by 7.52 points, or 0.1%, to 5,209.91 after barely budging the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday. The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor,
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a Republican bill Tuesday that would have created grants to fight pollution from so-called forever chemicals. The Democrat Evers also took the unusual step of calling the GOP-controlled budget committee into meeting to approve spending $125 million to deal with contamination.
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured last month. That’s according to graphic video footage released Tuesday by a police oversight agency. Officers from a tactical unit
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service is planning a rate increase that would raise the price of a first-class stamp from 68 cents to 73 cents. The filing on the planned increase was made Tuesday with the Postal Regulatory Commission. The commission must approve the proposed increase, which the Postal Service says is necessary
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The final curtain will come down this summer on Cirque du Soleil’s long-running show “The Beatles Love,” a cultural icon on the Las Vegas Strip that brought band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr back together for public appearances throughout its 18-year run. Cirque announced on
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday. The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor,
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The House will send impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate next week – a delay that comes as Senate Republicans seek more time to make the public argument for a full trial since Democrats are expected to quickly dismiss the articles at the beginning of
Continue ReadingCNN By Kareem Khadder and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Health workers in northern Gaza exhumed the first corpses from mass graves in and around Al-Shifa Hospital on Tuesday, after they said Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians and left their bodies to decompose during their two-week siege of the complex. At least 381
Continue ReadingBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s parliament has agreed to consider a proposal that could grant residency and work permits to hundreds of thousands of foreigners living in Spain without proper documentation. The proposal was brought to the Congress of Deputies in Madrid by citizen initiative after it obtained more than 700,000 signatures and the backing
Continue ReadingBy Nadine Schmidt and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Berlin (CNN) — Germany has hit back at allegations by Nicaragua that it has been “facilitating genocide” in Gaza, telling an international court on Tuesday that history undergirds German support for Israel. Addressing the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Germany’s lawyer Tania von Uslar-Gleichen said
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been charged with felony child neglect more than a year after a 6-year-old boy brought a gun to class and shot his first-grade teacher. A special grand jury in Newport News found
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — More than half of the foreign-born population in the United States lives in just four states — California, Texas, Florida and New York — and their numbers grew older and more educated over the past dozen years, according to a new report released Tuesday by the
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — More than half of the foreign-born population in the United States lives in just four states — California, Texas, Florida and New York — and their numbers grew older and more educated over the past dozen years, according to a new report released Tuesday by the
Continue ReadingBy SARA HERSCHANDER of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy When billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, global embassies, and the National Football League want to lend a helping hand to American veterans, they increasingly turn to one source: the Bob Woodruff Foundation. Formed in 2006 to serve post-9/11 veterans and their families after ABC news reporter
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Washington Nationals opening day starter Josiah Gray went on the 15-day injured list Tuesday with a right elbow and forearm problem, among of a series of pitchers hurt around the majors early this season. “It’s a flexor strain,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said Tuesday. “The tendon looks good. He’s just going
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has ruled that Ja Morant acted in self-defense when a teenager accused the two-time NBA All-Star of punching him during a pickup game at the home of the Memphis Grizzlies guard’s parents in 2022. The judge cited Tennessee law on when the issue of self-defense can be raised.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press A court in Russia has added two more years to the 7 1/2 year prison term for a former associate of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the latest step in the Kremlin’s yearslong crackdown on dissent. Lilia Chanysheva, who used to head Navalny’s office in the Russian region of Bashkortostan,
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian prosecutors say they will call former President Álvaro Uribe to trial for the alleged crimes of bribery of witnesses in criminal proceedings and procedural fraud, which would make him the first former president to face trial in the Andean country. The office of the Attorney General tried twice to close
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