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By JOSH BOAK and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday released a budget proposal aimed at getting voters’ attention: It would offer tax breaks for families, lower health care costs, smaller deficits and higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Unlikely to pass the House and Senate to
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Supporters of former President Donald Trump have submitted petitions seeking to force a recall election targeting Wisconsin’s top elected Republican, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. Vos angered them when he refused to impeach the official who oversees the battleground state’s elections. The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission will
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Federal investigators on Monday again searched a troubled women’s prison in California, seizing computers and documents in an apparent escalation of a yearslong sexual abuse investigation that previously led to charges against a former warden and other employees. More than a dozen FBI agents were at
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears are prepared to provide more than $2 billion in funding toward a publicly owned stadium in the city, signaling a shift in focus away from building a new home in the suburbs. Team president Kevin Warren says the new stadium would “bring a
Continue ReadingDUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — FBI agents conducting search at federal women’s prison in California that’s plagued by allegations of rampant sex abuse.
Continue ReadingBy Nicki Brown and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — During a pivotal meeting with school employees hours before the mass shooting at a Michigan high school, James Crumbley told his son there were “people you can talk to,” a school counselor testified Monday in the father’s manslaughter trial. “(James) was talking to his son and
Continue ReadingBy Nikki Carvajal and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden announced Monday that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge will leave the administration. Fudge said in a statement she had “worked tirelessly to ensure that America lives up to its promise of liberty and justice for all” and announced that with
Continue ReadingU.S auto safety regulators are investigating complaints that automatic emergency braking can stop for no reason on two Honda models. It’s another in a string of probes by the agency into performance of automatic braking systems, technology that has been touted as having the ability to prevent many crashes and save lives. The investigation by
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russia’s state news agency Tass says that a South Korean citizen arrested in Russia earlier this year on suspicion of spying is to remain in custody until mid-June. The report marked the first time a South Korean has been arrested for espionage in Russia. Tass said the man was detained “at
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians began fasting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Monday with cease-fire talks at a standstill, hunger worsening across the Gaza Strip and no end in sight to the 5-month-old war between Israel and Hamas. Prayers were held outside amid
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Paula Reid, CNN Robert Hur, at the start of his special counsel probe into Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, was lauded as an experienced and fair federal prosecutor who was well-versed in handling high-profile and complex investigations. Then, after a year of near-total public silence, he released a damning
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Nearly three-quarters of U.S. teens say they feel happy or peaceful when they don’t have their phones with them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. In a survey published Monday, Pew also found that despite the positive associations with going phone-free, most teens have not
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of states are rolling out new climate plans to tackle planet-warming pollution in preparation to compete for billions of dollars of funding in President Joe Biden’s signature climate bill. Forty-seven states and territories, including deeply red states like Alaska, Missouri, Montana, Utah and Alabama, are planning to install
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a Michigan school shooter declined to take their son home hours before the attack, leaving instead with a list of mental health providers after being presented with his violent drawing and disturbing messages, a counselor testified Monday. A security camera image of James
Continue ReadingCNN By Sabrina Souza and Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty on Monday to 12 new felony charges alleging he tried to obstruct a federal investigation into bribery allegations. Menendez was indicted last week on new charges including bribery and extortion. Prosecutors alleged that he led his
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Southern California rode a Pac-12 Tournament championship to its best ranking in 38 years. The Trojans moved up to No. 3 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll Monday after topping Stanford to win the conference tournament for the first time since 2014, their only other time
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — South Carolina and Iowa are 1-2 in the women’s AP Top 25; No. 3 Southern California has its best ranking in 38 years.
Continue ReadingBy Joshua Berlinger, Boglarka Kosztolanyi and Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said Donald Trump would effectively end the war in Ukraine by cutting off funding to Kyiv, should the former US president return to power in November. “He (Trump) has a very clear vision,” Orbán said in an interview
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear, resulting in denied treatment to some pregnant women in need. Instead, GOP leaders accuse abortion rights advocates of deliberately
Continue ReadingBy ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer For much of Lee Allen Jr.’s childhood, baseball seemed quite far from him. Major League Baseball’s Royals played in his hometown Kansas City, Missouri, but Allen — who is Black and lived in the inner city — didn’t come across many baseball opportunities until late in his high school
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