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By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — No criminal charges will be filed against the Oklahoma teens involved in a high school bathroom fight with Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year-old whose death following the altercation was ruled a suicide, the county district attorney said Thursday. Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said in
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States called for a vote Friday on a newly revised and tougher U.N. resolution declaring that “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is “imperative” to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to more than 2
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The joint fundraising agreement that Donald Trump has inked with the Republican National Committee and state parties first sends donors’ money to his campaign committee and then to the leadership PAC that pays his legal bills before the national party gets its share, an invitation to an upcoming fundraiser
Continue ReadingBy Nic F. Anderson and Jason Hanna, CNN (CNN) — A fifth teenager has been arrested in connection with a shooting this month that left eight high school students wounded at a transit bus stop in Northeast Philadelphia, police said Thursday. The 15-year-old, whom CNN is not naming because of his age, served as a
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men in an
Continue ReadingBy LAURIE KELLMAN and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The teeth clench. The brow furrows. The bicep bulges. In moody black and white, photos of French President Emmanuel Macron pounding a punching bag arched eyebrows across Europe on Thursday after his official photographer posted them to social media in what was widely received
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Pro-Trump attorney Stefanie Lambert has been released from jail in Michigan after turning herself in and posting $10,000 bond to resolve an outstanding warrant. Lambert appeared in court Thursday. That came after she was arrested in Washington, D.C., earlier this week following a
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY and JOHN HANNA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Georgia and Kansas have shot down attempts by Democrats to expand Medicaid in their states. The two states’ legislative committee voted Thursday. Democrats in Georgia said that GOP leaders in the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature had promised to advance the bill in
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Five minors were arrested after a stolen vehicle pursuit that ended in Palm Desert Thursday afternoon. The incident started at around 2:40 p.m. when deputies spotted a stolen vehicle near Washington and Country Club, a spokesperson for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office told News Channel 3. Deputies attempted a vehicle stop but the driver failed
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A 41-year-old man suspected of multiple window-smash burglaries throughout the Coachella Valley over the last two months was behind bars today. The suspect, an Indio resident, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of 17 counts of commercial burglary, according to Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Patrick Mushinskie. The burglaries occurred at numerous businesses throughout the Coachella
Continue ReadingTULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma district attorney said Thursday he doesn’t plan to file any charges in the case of Nex Benedict, the 16-year-old Owasso teenager whose death following a fight in a high school bathroom was ruled a suicide. Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said in a statement that after reviewing the
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court says a requirement that cigarette packs and advertising include graphic images demonstrating the effects of smoking does not violate the First Amendment. The ruling Thursday from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was a partial victory for federal regulators seeking to
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who indicated he had a gun hijacked a transit bus in downtown Los Angeles and then grabbed the wheel, causing the bus to collide with several vehicles and crash into a hotel, police said Thursday. Only the driver was on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority bus when
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The gang’s all here again. Well, almost. Donovan Clingan and defending champion UConn aren’t the only team in the East Region of the NCAA Tournament looking to make a repeat run. With fifth-seeded San Diego State and No. 8 seed Florida Atlantic also in the
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a fifth Albuquerque police officer has resigned during an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by officers assigned to a unit charged with stopping impaired drivers. Albuquerque TV station KRQE reports that City Police Chief Harold Medina said Joshua Montaño submitted his resignation Wednesday after he failed to appear for multiple
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WADE, TONG-HYUNG KIM and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Last spring, after a heartbreaking, stunning, early exit from the women’s NCAA Tournament at home, Tara VanDerveer gathered her coaches and players together for a series of debrief sessions to both regroup and reassess so Stanford could make sure this season is a special one.
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said Thursday he won’t run in the Democratic primary as he faces federal corruption charges, but he left open the possibility that he would reenter the race as an independent later this year if he is exonerated at a
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run. Skylar
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm is proposing to member countries to impose tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus. Speaking at the end of the opening day of a summit of EU leaders in Brussels, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said Thursday that the move would prevent Russia from
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