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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — A bipartisan panel of judges in North Carolina has ruled that the Republican-controlled state legislature improperly tried to seize control of state and local election boards from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper – a consequential decision in a state that could emerge as a key battleground in November’s presidential election.
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — US intelligence officials “cannot rule out” the possibility that the Chinese government will use TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers on Tuesday. Haines’ comment, in response to a question from a lawmaker during a House Intelligence Committee hearing, comes after US
Continue ReadingBy Darya Tarasova and Tara John, CNN (CNN) — Alexey Navalny’s chief of staff was attacked in Lithuania Tuesday, the Kremlin critic’s team said, as Lithuania’s intelligence agency pinned the blame on Russia as the “likely” force behind the assault. “Leonid Volkov has just been attacked outside his house. Someone broke a car window and
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police say a gunman has wounded two people at a crowded bus terminal in Rio de Janeiro and taken 17 others hostage aboard a bus. Police have sent an elite police team to the scene to negotiate with the assailant. Police Col. Marco Andrade said in an interview on TV
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press Ukrainian long-range drones smashed into two oil facilities deep inside Russia on Tuesday, officials said, while an armed incursion claimed by Ukraine-based Russian opponents of the Kremlin unnerved a border region just days before Russia’s presidential election. The attack by waves of drones across eight regions of
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Advocates for some 200 wild horses roaming North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park are hoping a signal of support from Congress will prevent the removal of the beloved animals. A National Park Service decision is expected around April as to the horses’ future in the park’s
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has reiterated his concerns about railroad safety and scolded the industry for not doing more to improve since last year’s fiery Ohio derailment. In a new letter to the freight railroads’ main trade group, Buttigieg acknowledged that the railroads say they
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers failed to garner the 30 votes needed Tuesday to override Gov. Jim Pillen’s veto of a bill that would have allowed needle exchange programs. The bill had garnered wide bipartisan support before the veto, leading several lawmakers to accuse those who refused to
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer U.S. lawmakers are threatening to ban TikTok but also say they are giving its Chinese parent company a chance to keep it running. The premise of a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday is that TikTok fans in the U.S. can keep scrolling through
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sixth-ranked Arizona not only enters the Pac-12 Tournament as the clear favorite, coach Tommy Lloyd has been unbeaten in this event at T-Mobile Arena. The Wildcats won the conference tournament the past two seasons, going through UCLA each time. The Bruins were on Arizona’s level,
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A major donor to Britain’s ruling Conservative Party is under fire because he said a Black member of Parliament made him “want to hate all Black women” and that she “should be shot.” Frank Hester, chief executive of health care software firm The Phoenix Partnership, made the
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats as well as a small group of centrist Republicans are launching separate long-shot efforts to force a vote on tens of billions of dollars in wartime aid for Ukraine. The move intensifies pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to take up the package. House Democrats
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Republican Rep. Ken Buck has announced that he’ll resign next week, narrowing his party’s razor-thin House majority and scrambling the already heated GOP primary to fill his Colorado seat. Buck is a staunch conservative who already declined to run for reelection as he became increasingly critical of
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination for president, CNN projects, setting up a rematch with Joe Biden, the incumbent president who secured the Democratic nomination earlier Tuesday night. Biden and Trump will win their parties’ presidential primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington, while Trump will also win the
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rallied to records after some influential Big Tech companies got back in their groove. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% Tuesday to top its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite jumped 1.5%. All three indexes
Continue ReadingBy TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan official says his government is halting plans to deploy at least 1,000 police officers to Haiti following the unprecedented violence that erupted in the Caribbean nation and the announcement by its Prime Minister Ariel Henry that he would resign once a presidential council is
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is spearheading the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence, aimed at ensuring the new technology is “safe, secure and trustworthy” and that all countries, especially those in the developing world, have equal access. The draft General Assembly resolution aims to close
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Uvalde police chief who was on vacation during the Robb Elementary School shooting has resigned. The announcement Tuesday came less than a week after a report ordered by the city defended the department’s response to the attack but outraged some family members of the 19
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has met with the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters and reminded its leaders and members of his record on unions as likely Republican challenger Donald Trump tries to make gains among blue-collar workers. Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said after Tuesday’s meeting that
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a now-familiar ritual in Washington: a federal prosecutor being summoned to Capitol Hill to discuss the findings of a politically explosive investigation. Tuesday’s hearing with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden’s handling of classified information, broke little
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