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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was convicted on Friday of charges that he interfered with police and obstructed Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Michael Sparks, 46, of Kentucky, jumped through a shattered window
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge has blocked the state’s attorney general from forcing an LGBTQ+ advocacy group to hand over information about transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care. Friday’s ruling comes just a day after PFLAG sued to try to stop the state’s effort to get the information. A judge says making the
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed what would have been one of the most far-reaching social media bans for minors. After Friday’s veto, lawmakers proposed new language that seeks to keep children under 14 off of addictive platforms. The original bill would have banned social media
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2021 US Open Champion Emma Raducanu headlines the list of players awarded main draw wild cards into the 2024 BNP Paribas Open, which will be held March 3-17 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Raducanu, 22, heads to Tennis Paradise looking to jumpstart her 2024 season after a career-best showing in Indian Wells last March,
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A pair of orcas working in concert have been killing great whites along a stretch of South African coastline since at least 2017, plundering the sharks’ nutrient-rich livers and discarding the rest. Scientists have been trying to make sense of the hunting approach, which has driven the sharks away
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump spent the first half of 2024 juggling a busy court and campaign schedule as he defended himself in several criminal cases while also vying for a second term in the White House. After a seven-week trial this spring in Trump’s New York hush money
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Katelyn Polantz, Marshall Cohen, Devan Cole, Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s attorneys on Friday sought to delay one of his criminal trials until after the November election and disqualify the district attorney prosecuting another case against the former president, in a split screen that underscored how all
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Medicare’s historic drug price negotiation program has survived its first court challenge by a drugmaker. A federal district court judge in Delaware on Friday rejected AstraZeneca’s claims that the negotiation program was unconstitutional and deprived the pharmaceutical company of its protected property interest. AstraZeneca’s Farxiga drug, which treats chronic
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Family members and victim advocates are mourning the death of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, who was killed near Houston. But as more details come to light, questions remain about how the suspect in her death was allowed to remain free despite a long criminal history involving violence.
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have pressed a federal judge to schedule a trial for this summer in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, while defense lawyers sought to put it off until after the election. U.S. District Judge
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press The University of Florida is eliminating its chief diversity officer position, scrapping the program’s staff jobs and halting any contracts involving the subject because of a new law passed last year that was pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The university said in a memo released Friday that staff whose
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump indicated Friday that he would rule within the next two weeks on whether to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the case over a romantic relationship with a top prosecutor.
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in North Carolina will decide a full slate of primaries Tuesday, including contested races for president, governor, U.S. House and other offices. Donald Trump and Nikki Haley have their sixth matchup of the campaign and President Joe Biden faces a challenge from “No preference.” Also on
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Commercial fishermen off the coast of Alaska have found what officials are concerned could be another spy balloon and are bringing it to shore with them, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN. FBI agents will meet the fishing vessel when it comes into
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The latest rail layoffs this week, combined with an investment fund’s ongoing campaign for control of Norfolk Southern, are renewing concerns among unions and regulators about all the cuts hurting safety and service. The worries about the lean operating model the freight railroads have used
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Thousands of mourners gathered in Moscow to bid farewell to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Friday, two weeks after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony. Crowds faced a heavy police presence as they thronged the church where Navalny’s funeral was held, and the cemetery in a snowy suburb
Continue ReadingBy MARK LONG AP Sports Writer The NCAA has told its enforcement staff to halt investigations into booster-backed collectives or other third parties making name, image and likeness compensation deals with Division I athletes. In a letter to member schools, NCAA President Charlie Baker said the the Division I Board of Directors directed enforcement staff
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of civil rights activist Andrew Young. Personal Birth date: March 12, 1932 Birth place: New Orleans, Louisiana Birth name: Andrew Jackson Young Jr. Father: Andrew Jackson Young, dentist Mother: Daisy (Fuller) Young, teacher Marriages: Carolyn (McClain) Young (April 15, 1996-present); Jean (Childs) Young
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UPDATE March 1st: The Riverside County Coroner’s Office has identified the passenger who died in the crash as 46-year-old Sandy Marks of Yucaipa. One person was killed in a rollover crash on Interstate 10 in Beaumont Thursday afternoon. The crash happened just before 4:00 p.m. on the I-10 west of Highland Springs Avenue. According to
Continue ReadingZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced that the U.S. will begin airdropping sorely needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. But the White House warns that there are few military operations that are more complicated than humanitarian assistance airdrops. Pentagon planners will identify drop
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