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By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has denied clemency for a death row inmate convicted of killing two people more than two decades ago. Wednesday’s 4-1 vote clears the way for Michael Dewayne Smith to be executed on April 4. Smith was convicted and sentenced to
Continue ReadingBy Alison Main and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips announced Wednesday that he was dropping out of the 2024 Democratic presidential primary and throwing his support behind President Joe Biden. “I ran for Congress in 2018 to resist Donald Trump, I was trapped in the Capitol in 2021 because of Donald Trump, and I
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected to vote to keep money flowing to scores of federal agencies before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline. The first package of six bills expected to be voted on Wednesday has a price tag of about $460 billion. Lawmakers are still negotiating a second
Continue ReadingCOLDSPRING, Texas (AP) — A Texas sheriff whose office drew national scrutiny and an FBI investigation following a shooting last year in which a man is accused of killing five of his neighbors has lost his re-election bid. Greg Capers had sought a fourth term as sheriff in San Jacinto County, which is about 60
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson and Jeremy Herb, CNN Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake says she will court voters who backed GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley – and those who would have voted for independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema – even as she criticized Haley’s campaign as a “vanity project” in an interview with CNN Wednesday. Lake,
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says more than 8,500 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, a record high since it began counting deaths a decade ago. The International Organization for Migration says the biggest increase in deaths last year was on the treacherous Mediterranean
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With Rhode Island this week becoming the seventh U.S. state to launch internet gambling, industry panelists at an online gambling conference predicted Wednesday that several additional states would join the fray in the next few years. Speaking at the Next.io forum on internet gambling and sports
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is sending the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons. Wednesday’s move follows a series of high-profile crimes in the system. The Democrat says she will deploy 750 members of the National Guard and 250
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Protesters have commandeered a pickup truck and used it to ram down the wooden doors of Mexico City’s National Palace. They battered down the doors and entered the palace, where the president lives and hold his daily press briefings, before they were driven off by security agents. The demonstration Wednesday was
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTIAN WARDLAW Edmunds Gas prices regularly fluctuate. When they’re down, people often forget they will inevitably go back up. And when they’re up, people scramble to find a way to save money at the pump. If fuel costs are stressing your monthly budget, you can reduce the financial strain by getting a hybrid SUV
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL and TARA COPP Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden killed two of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel on Wednesday, authorities said, the first fatal strike in a campaign of
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in a quarry in Ukraine belonged to ancient humans who used them more than a million years ago, according to new research. The fresh dating analysis of the artifacts reveals the earliest known presence of hominins in Europe, said Roman Garba, an archaeologist at the Czech Academy of
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish state prosecutors have accused Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti of tax fraud during his first stint at the club, claiming he used shell companies to hide parts of his income. Prosecutors in Madrid say in a statement that they are accusing Ancelotti of two accounts
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday approved a rule that will require some public companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks. The rule was one of the most anticipated in recent years from the nation’s top financial regulator, drawing more than 24,000
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A student group seeking to host a drag show at a Texas university asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to overrule a decision by the school’s president to prohibit the performance, which he described as “derisive, divisive and demoralizing.” Spectrum WT and two student leaders of the LGBTQ group
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing has refused to disclose who worked on the door plug that blew off a jetliner in January, according to the head of the agency that’s conducting the investigation. Jennifer Homendy, the chair of the National Transportation Board, made the comment Wednesday to members of a Senate committee. Boeing
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the oldest “dead” galaxy ever observed while studying the cosmos with the James Webb Space Telescope, and it’s one of the deepest views into the distant universe made with the observatory to date. The galaxy existed when the universe was only about 700 million years into
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rising Wednesday and recovering much of their sharp losses from the day before, which was Wall Street’s worst in three weeks. The S&P 500 was 0.5% higher in afternoon trading, a day after sharp drops for many Big Tech stocks dragged it
Continue ReadingBUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities in Pennsylania say a woman was seriously injured in a bear attack when she let her dog outside. State game commission workers then killed the mother bear and tranquilized her three yearling cubs so they can be moved into the wilderness. Butler Township police said the 55-year-old woman was taken
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Parliament has approved changes in the gun law that tighten requirements for owning a weapon following the worst mass killing in the nation’s history. After a green light from the lower house in January, the upper house followed suit on Wednesday. The legislation now must be signed by President Petr
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