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By ANDREW DeMILLO and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for sideways glances, questioning looks and snide comments whenever he has to hand over his driver’s license, which still identifies him as female. They’ve come from a police officer responding to a car
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two people have been killed and two more seriously wounded during a shooting at a home in a remote Inupiat whaling village on Alaska’s northwest coast and a 16-year-old boy is in custody. That’s according to the Anchorage Daily News. The violence
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Utility giant Southern California Edison has agreed to pay $80 million to settle the US Forest Service’s claims relating to the 2017 Thomas Fire, which at the time was the largest wildfire in California’s modern history, federal prosecutors said Monday. The federal government had sued the
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was meeting Tuesday with the top four leaders of Congress to press them to act quickly to avoid a looming government shutdown early next month and to pass emergency aid for Ukraine and Israel. Biden was hosting House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate Majority
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The Palm Springs Police Department is hosting a series of Neighborhood Town Hall Meetings this week. Around seventy residents and business owners came out to the Neighborhood Town Hall in what the Palm Springs police department calls the north district of Palm Springs. Residents, business owners, and community stakeholders came face to face with the progress
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city, a long-awaited first step as it considers providing reparations. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the resolution
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city, a long-awaited first step as it considers providing reparations. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the resolution
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While Joe Biden and Donald Trump are marching toward their respective presidential nominations, Michigan’s primary on Tuesday could reveal significant political perils for both of them. Trump, despite his undoubted dominance of the Republican contests this year, is facing a bloc of stubbornly persistent GOP voters
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Kara-Murza could only laugh when officials in Penal Colony No. 6 inexplicably put a small cabinet in his already-cramped concrete cell, next to a fold-up cot, stool, sink and latrine. That moment of dark humor came because the only things he had to store in
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press The voters of Bridgeport, Connecticut, have again voted for mayor after the result of the last election was thrown out because of allegations of absentee ballot box stuffing during a Democratic primary. With only a fraction of the expected total vote publicly reported Tuesday night, incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim declared
Continue ReadingBy JAMES BROOKS and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The century-old Geneva motor show is back in action for the first time in five years, and organizers are desperately trying to rev up its fortunes. The show skidded off track in 2020 — canceled at the last-minute because of the coronavirus outbreak —
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A photographer told police he was punched in the face by Taylor Swift’s father on the Sydney waterfront on Tuesday, hours after the pop star’s Australian tour ended. Ben McDonald said he provided police with a statement alleging that Scott Swift assaulted him at the Neutral
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson, Alli Rosenbloom and Jessie Yeung, CNN Sydney (CNN) — An Australian photographer has filed a police complaint against Taylor Swift’s father, Scott Swift, for allegedly punching him as the superstar left a concert afterparty in Sydney in the early hours of Tuesday. Photographer Ben McDonald, 51, told CNN he learned the singer
Continue ReadingCNN By Angus Watson, Alli Rosenbloom and Jessie Yeung, CNN Sydney (CNN) — An Australian photographer has filed a police complaint against Taylor Swift’s father, Scott Swift, for allegedly punching him as the superstar left a concert afterparty in Sydney in the early hours of Tuesday. Photographer Ben McDonald, 51, told CNN he learned the
Continue ReadingCNN By Casey Gannon, Jennifer Hansler and Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — An active-duty member of the US Air Force who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, on Sunday, has died, authorities said. Aaron Bushnell, 25, said in a video of the incident obtained by CNN that he would “no
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Authorities are investigating after Donald Trump Jr. on Monday opened a letter with unidentified white powder at his Florida home. Andrew Surabian, a spokesperson for Trump Jr., said, “The test results of the substance came up inconclusive on what it was exactly, but officials on the scene do not believe
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — With their 6-foot-7 center Lauren Betts having an off-night, No. 8 UCLA turned to a couple of smaller dynamos. Kiki Rice had 20 points and nine rebounds and Charisma Osborne added 14 in a 53-45 win over 13th-ranked Colorado 53-45 on Monday night that moved
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Testimony at trial Monday turned emotional and argumentative as an eyewitness recounted the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a movie rehearsal and described gun misfires, crew members walking out and a “ludicrous” pace of work. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not “ruled out” in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia’s full-scale invasion grinds into a third year. The French leader
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was sued Monday by a music producer who accused the hip-hop mogul of sexually assaulting him and forcing him to have sex with prostitutes. The suit, filed in federal court in New York, accuses Combs of repeated instances of unsolicited groping and sexual touching. It also says the
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