By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The Las Vegas Raiders hired Tom Telesco on Tuesday as their next general manager, passing over interim Champ Kelly for the position. Kelly could remain as the assistant general manager, the position he held under Dave Ziegler, who was fired Oct. 31. Kelly then was
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s elections office has confirmed that the state’s toughened voting rights restoration policy requires people convicted of a felony to get their gun rights restored before they can become eligible to cast a ballot again. The state’s elections coordinator revealed the decision to The Associated Press
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Senate committee wants to give the appointed State Election Board the legal power to investigate Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s handling of elections. But Raffensperger’s office says it’s unconstitutional for board members to legally oversee him. The Senate Ethics Committee voted for the bill
Continue ReadingFLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Raheem Morris met again with the Atlanta Falcons about their head coaching job, joining Bill Belichick in receiving a follow-up interview. The team announced Tuesday night that it held a second round of talks with Morris, who was interim head coach for Atlanta’s final 11 games of the 2020 season
Continue ReadingBy David Close, CNN (CNN) — A no-kill, non-profit cat adoption agency in Western New York says it has received over $150,000 of pledged donations since declaring support for Buffalo Bills placekicker Tyler Bass, calling him a “Cat Dad.” The Ten Lives Club posted to Facebook on Monday, “WE STAND WITH TYLER BASS. DON’T BULLY
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Trump will win New Hampshire Republican primary, CNN projects Originally Published: 23 JAN 24 20:18 ET Updated: 23 JAN 24 20:23 ET By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump will win New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary, CNN projects, defeating former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and moving him closer to a rematch with President Joe Biden this fall.
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has won New Hampshire’s largely symbolic Democratic primary, prevailing via an unusual write-in campaign after he refused to campaign or appear on the ballot in the state. Biden has championed a new Democratic primary calendar that begins in South Carolina on Feb. 3 and
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump had rock-solid support from the party faithful in his New Hampshire primary victory, and even most backers of rival Nikki Haley acknowledge the GOP belongs to him. Yet as Trump’s hold on securing the party’s nomination tightened, AP VoteCast found
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER, JILL COLVIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump easily won New Hampshire’s primary on Tuesday, seizing command of the race for the Republican nomination and making a November rematch against President Joe Biden feel all the more inevitable. The result was a setback for former
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump won New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, defeating former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and moving him closer to a rematch with President Joe Biden this fall. Trump’s victory, after a big win in the Iowa caucuses, marks the first time in the modern primary era that the
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Recently released 911 audio reflects the confusion that followed the shooting death of a University of South Carolina student mistaken for an intruder while trying to enter the wrong home. Nicholas Donofrio died on August 26, 2023, and the shooter has not been charged.
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military said Wednesday that North Korea fired several cruise missiles into waters off its western coast, as an analysis of commercial satellite images suggested that the North has torn down a huge arch in its capital that symbolized reconciliation with war-divided rival South
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden has won the New Hampshire primary, calming the anxieties of Democrats concerned that lagging enthusiasm over his campaign and the absence of his name from the ballot could add up to an embarrassing defeat. Those worries led Biden loyalists to launch an unofficial
Continue ReadingBy Alex Leeds Matthews and Alex Newman, CNN (CNN) — Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, the second contest in the race to determine the Republican presidential nominee, features only two competitive candidates: Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ended his campaign on Sunday and endorsed Trump; Vivek Ramaswamy and Asa Hutchinson ended theirs
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A driver who plowed into a group of Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruits on a training run last year, killing one and injuring two dozen others, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to vehicular manslaughter. Nicholas Gutierrez, 23, entered pleas to an 11-count grand jury indictment that also accuses him of severely
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A driver who plowed into a group of Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruits on a training run last year, killing one and injuring two dozen others, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to vehicular manslaughter. Nicholas Gutierrez, 23, entered pleas to an 11-count grand jury indictment that also accuses him of severely
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Denver police officer has pleaded guilty to accidentally wounding six bystanders in a crowd while firing at an armed man as bars let out. A judge says Tuesday that the shooting polarized the community. Brandon Ramos didn’t speak in court except to acknowledge that he understood
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A proposal to scale back Arkansas’ abortion ban has cleared its first hurdle toward getting on the November ballot. Republican Attorney General Tim Griffin on Tuesday approved the wording of the measure prohibiting the state from banning abortion within the first 18 weeks of pregnancy.
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned abortion bans that have increasingly endangered the health of pregnant women, forcing them to grow sicker before they can receive medical care, and he laid the blame on Donald Trump, his likely Republican challenger in this year’s
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press A divided federal appeals court has refused to revive the lawsuit of a Texas-based online citizen journalist who says she was wrongfully arrested for seeking and obtaining nonpublic information from police. A state judge dismissed the criminal case against Priscilla Villarreal and said the law used to arrest her in
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