SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of leaving threatening messages on the personal cellphone of an Arizona election worker he accused of rigging the 2022 election results, federal prosecutors said. The 52-year-old was charged with one count of communicating an interstate threat and will make an initial court
Continue ReadingHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two more candidates are filing paperwork to appear on Pennsylvania’s primary ballots for U.S. Senate as Democratic Sen. Bob Casey seeks a fourth term. Brandi Tomasetti, a Republican from Lancaster County, and William Parker, a Democrat from Allegheny County, both filed paperwork Thursday before a court-ordered deadline. Both Parker and Tomasetti
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Four foreign nationals were arrested and charged Thursday with transporting suspected Iranian-made weapons on a vessel intercepted by U.S. naval forces in the Arabian Sea last month. Two Navy SEALs died during the mission. The criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court
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A former Bermuda Dunes Learning Center teacher who is accused of sex crimes involving children pleaded guilty today to felony charges and was immediately sentenced to 30 years to life in prison. Palm Desert resident Devin Daniel Lujan, 32, pleaded guilty Thursday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio to two felony counts of engaging
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A Utah man imprisoned for nearly two years in Venezuelan has sued President Nicolás Maduro for allegedly heading a “criminal enterprise” that kidnaps, tortures and unjustly imprisons American citizens. The complaint filed Thursday in Miami federal court by Joshua Holt seeks compensation for damages Holt and his
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer AT&T said the hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network Thursday appeared to be the result of a technical error, not a malicious attack. The outage knocked out cellphone service for thousands of its users across the U.S. starting early Thursday before it was restored. AT&T blamed the incident
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Arab American leaders in Michigan have met with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California to discuss backlash towards President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Khanna is a Biden surrogate who organized the meeting independently from the campaign to hear community concerns. Leaders shared stories about how they
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — Czech farmers are driving their tractors and other vehicles to to several border crossings to join forces with their colleagues from neighboring countries in their protests against European Union agriculture policies, bureaucracy and overall conditions for their business. Farmers complain that the 27-nation EU’s policies on the environment, such as the Green
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lander on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back as flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact. Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a Japanese bay is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a skeletal specimen for a local museum. It’s the third year in a row that whales have become stranded in Osaka Bay,
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — A Houston has man has pleaded guilty to securities fraud for trading on inside information from his wife’s business conversations while both were working from home. Tyler Loudon, 42, reaped $1.7 million in illegal profits after learning that the oil and gas conglomerate BP was planning to acquire a truck stop and
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers are revisiting a nearly decade-old fight over whether the state needs to protect religious rights from being trampled by state and local governments. But opponents say the measure would provide a legal shield for people and groups to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in the name
Continue ReadingSHASTA LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Two children died after falling into a rushing river near a Northern California campground Thursday morning, authorities said. Deputies responded around 9 a.m. following reports that the children were swept away near Shasta Dam, the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Rescue crews including a dive team searched
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS BEAUMONT and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party is facing a cash crunch and there’s a power struggle within its ranks. The dispute is essentially between different allies of former President Donald Trump. Pro-Trump factions in Michigan and elsewhere are fighting over how best to represent
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Several Federal Reserve policymakers are warning against cutting U.S. interest rates too soon or by too much in the wake of recent data showing inflation stayed unexpectedly high in January. Their comments Thursday echoed the minutes from the Fed’s last meeting in January, released Wednesday. The
Continue ReadingGHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have carried out a double public execution at a stadium in the southeast of the country. Relatives of the victims of stabbings fired guns at the two convicted men while thousands of people watched. The Taliban’s Supreme Court had ruled that the two men were responsible for the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams and Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — An executive order issued in a New York county will ban transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s sports leagues and teams at county facilities, effective immediately, Nassau County executive Bruce Blakeman announced Thursday. The announcement marks the latest restriction in the United States on transgender athletes’
Continue ReadingBy RYAN KRYSKA AP Sports Writer Gamers will be blocked from manually adding players to EA Sports’ new college football game who decide not to accept an offer to have their name, image and likeness used in it, the video-game developer said Thursday. EA Sports revealed the safeguard in its announcement that it has begun
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Authorities in Brazil say at least eight people have died in Rio de Janeiro state due to landslides and floods caused by heavy rains. A 6-year-old is listed as missing in the countryside city of Mendes. Officials said Thursday that four of the dead, including an 8-month-old, were members of
Continue ReadingBy ALBERTO SAIZ Associated Press VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — A fire has engulfed two residential buildings in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, killing at least four people and injuring at least 13 others. Emergency services say at least 19 people were still missing several hours after the fire started Thursday. Flames were seen bursting
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