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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé made history once again: The superstar singer has become the first Black woman to top Billboard’s country music chart. The Grammy winner achieved the feat after her new single “Texas Hold ‘Em” reached No. 1 on the country airplay chart this week. She dropped the song on Feb. 11 —
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A foot-tapping FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried made a brief appearance in a New York courtroom to switch lawyers before his sentencing next month. His appearance in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday came before Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who will decide how long he must remain behind
Continue ReadingBy Camila DeChalus and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Commander Biden, President Joe Biden’s family dog, bit US Secret Service personnel in at least 24 incidents at the White House and other locations, according to new internal USSS documents obtained by CNN. That number does not include additional incidents CNN has previously reported involving executive residence
Continue ReadingSANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Nvidia Corp., which has seen its value skyrocket over the past year thanks to soaring demand for its graphics chips used for artificial intelligence, posted stronger-than-expected results Wednesday for its latest quarter, with its revenue more than tripling from a year earlier. Nvidia reported revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter
Continue ReadingBy CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Justice Department says a suspect in a plot to kill an Iranian American author and activist has been extradited from the Czech Republic to face charges. Polad Omarov was arrested by Czech officials in January 2023, when charges were announced against him and two other men
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An old Earth-observing satellite has fallen out of orbit and harmlessly burned up. The European Space Agency says its satellite broke apart over the Pacific on Wednesday, halfway between Hawaii and Alaska. No damage or injuries were reported. Launched in 1995, the spacecraft was
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Desert Hot Springs approved a permanent cannabis cultivation tax rate reduction for local business owners. During their Tuesday meeting, the city council voted to lower the tax rate from $10.20 per square foot to $5.75 per square foot of space used for cultivation. According to Deputy City Manager, Doria Wilms, the decision to cut the
Continue ReadingBy Ebony Davis, CNN (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Wednesday she believes an embryo is a baby following the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children and those who destroy them can be held liable for wrongful death. “I mean, I think embryos, to me, are babies,” Haley said during a pull-aside
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A jury has begun deliberations in the case of a New Hampshire man charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old daughter. Adam Montgomery said last year that he loves Harmony Montgomery unconditionally and did not cause her death. His attorneys acknowledged his guilt
Continue ReadingBy DIANE JEANTET and ELEONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s foreign minister is calling for reforms of the United Nations and other multilateral institutions, as his country kicked off its presidency of the Group of 20 nations. Mauro Vieira told fellow foreign ministers during opening remarks for a G20 meeting in
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. authorities have accused another sanitation company of illegally hiring at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities. It’s the latest example of the illegal child labor that officials say is increasingly common. The Labor Department asked a federal judge for an
Continue ReadingKing Charles III said he had been reduced to tears by the messages he has received from people since his cancer diagnosis, as he held his weekly audience with the prime minister for the first time since stepping away from public duties to focus on his treatment. Charles also met Wednesday with the Privy Council
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press A police detective says he was unnerved to find a U.S. Army rocket launcher when searching a suspicious truck for drugs in central Massachusetts. Det. Alex Sinni of the Sutton Police Department told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his first concern after finding the M190 launcher beneath the backseat
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is outlining a $52.7 billion state spending plan with more money for the migrant crisis, education and quantum computing. But the second-term Democrat has also proposed several new taxes, including more than doubling a sports betting tax. Pritzker characterized the proposed budget for
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s mythic ability to raise massive sums of political cash may be on a collision course with a new reality. Campaign finance reports released Tuesday showed two key committees in his political operation raised an anemic $13.8 million in January and collectively spent more than they
Continue ReadingBy DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended mostly higher on Wall Street Wednesday after a listless day of trading with big technology stocks again acting as a heavy weight on the market. The S&P 500 rose 6.29 points, or 0.1%, to 4,981.80. The benchmark index spent much of the
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Organizers for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics have reached an agreement with two major companies to sell tickets for the games. The deal announced Wednesday involves Los Angeles-based AXS and Germany-based CTS EVENTIM forming a joint venture to promote, sell and distribute LA28 tickets globally. The companies’ websites, as well as
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University condemned what it called a “flagrantly antisemitic cartoon” that an undergraduate group posted on social media over the weekend. It also appeared on the Instagram account of Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. Copied from a newsletter published by students in the U.S.
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law. This is raising concerns about how the decision could affect in vitro fertilization, commonly known as IVF. The fertility treatment involves retrieving a woman’s eggs and combining them with a man’s sperm in
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gay rights advocates are pushing back against a measure to broaden Kentucky’s religious freedom law. They say the bill would undermine community-level “fairness ordinances” meant to protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination. The measure won approval from a House committee Wednesday. But some supporters signaled a willingness
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