GOMA, Congo (AP) — Reporters Without Borders says Congolese journalist Stanis Bujakera was set to be freed soon after being sentenced to six months in prison for spreading false information among other charges. He had been jailed more than six months waiting for trial. The court in Kinshasa that found him guilty Monday also fined
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for a White House summit next month amid growing concerns about North Korea’s nuclear program, provocative Chinese action in the South China Sea and differences over a Japanese company’s plan to
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby left the team on its Western road trip after his surgically repaired right elbow flared up. Coach Tom Thibodeau said Monday before New York played the Golden State Warriors that Anunoby flew home after playing 33 minutes in a win at Sacramento on Saturday night
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A suspect in a triple murder case out of North Carolina was arrested over the weekend near Salvation Mountain in Imperial County. Benjamin Joseph Taylor, 35, has been wanted for the murder of a mother and her two children earlier this month in Charlotte, North Carolina. Taylor was located and arrested in Imperial County on
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Freddie Mercury ’s sanctuary in London, where he lived the last decade of his life, is on sale for the first time in nearly half a century — minus his “exquisite clutter.” Garden Lodge, as the neo-Georgian brick home in the posh Kensington neighborhood is known, is
Continue ReadingRIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Two men who used high-powered rifles to kill three wild burros in Southern California’s Mojave Desert more than two years ago pleaded guilty on Monday to federal charges related to the shootings, prosecutors said. The men wore tactical gear including night vision goggles as they targeted the burros in a remote
Continue ReadingRIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Two men who used high-powered rifles to kill three wild burros in Southern California’s Mojave Desert more than two years ago pleaded guilty on Monday to federal charges related to the shootings, prosecutors said. The men wore tactical gear including night vision goggles as they targeted the burros in a remote
Continue ReadingHAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s government has protested as interventionist comments from the U.S. Embassy on the island following demonstrations against power blackouts and food shortages by hundreds of people in eastern Cuba. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry delivered a note expressing the complaint to the chargé d’affaires at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana, Benjamin Ziff.On Sunday,
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to murder, about two years the decomposing body of his lover was found encased in concrete in a bathtub in one of Hawaii’s most exclusive gated communities. Twenty-five-year-old Juan Baron pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the death of 73-year-old
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man has been found guilty of murder in a 1980s cold case involving a college student. Prosecutors say Multnomah County Circuit Judge Amy Baggio found Robert Plympton of suburban Portland guilty Friday of first-degree murder in the death of Barbara Mae Tucker. Gresham police arrested Plympton in 2021 after
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Famine is “imminent” in northern Gaza, where 70% of people are experiencing catastrophic hunger, according to a report Monday that warned escalation of the war could push half of Gaza’s total population to the brink of starvation. The report, by
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Starting this week, Palm Springs residents are invited to partake in a series of meetings regarding renovations at the city’s public library. Library staff and architects from Group 4 Architecture will be available at all five meetings to receive feedback, answer questions and share information about the renovation plans. The meetings will be on: Thursday,
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — For more than a decade, Lee has been able to circumvent China’s internet controls to go on Twitter, now known as X, without getting into trouble with the authorities. The Chinese lawyer stayed away from politically sensitive topics and rarely engaged with other users,
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Melissa Toomim advances to the general election for U.S. House in California’s 36th Congressional District.
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Benny Bernal advances to the general election for U.S. House in California’s 29th Congressional District.
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s one-of-a-kind method of drawing primary ballots has prompted some apparent skepticism from a federal judge. The judge held a hearing Monday as he considers a lawsuit claiming the system favors preferred candidates of establishment party leaders and gives them a more prominent position on
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press The Minnesota Court of Appeals has sent a transgender athlete’s lawsuit back to a trial court to determine whether she was illegally denied entry into women’s competitions because of her gender identity. JayCee Cooper has sued USA Powerlifting in 2021 and alleged the organization denied her 2018 request for participation
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press An attorney already facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines says she disseminated documents obtained in discovery in a defamation case filed by a voting machine company. Stefanie Lambert said in a court filing Monday that she gave the records to “law enforcement.” Lambert obtained the documents by
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A pro-Trump lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a court hearing about her recent leak of internal emails belonging to Dominion Voting Systems. There was an existing arrest warrant for the attorney, Stefanie Lambert, stemming from her failure to appear at recent court
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has approved two new murder counts against an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls but rejected a prosecutor’s bid to add kidnapping charges. Special Judge Fran Gull on Monday approved the two counts in addition to two counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit
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