By Nick Watt, CNN (CNN) — “I’m not getting a fat check!” joked Kelly R as she helped her daughters with homework in the kitchen of their Los Angeles home. “But I’m hoping that the kids will benefit. That’s the biggest thing that I was worried about. All kids benefitting.” Kelly is among the parents,
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered the state elections commission not to transmit the presidential primary ballot to county clerks as it ponders an attempt by Democratic U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips to get added as a candidate. The order Thursday comes six days after Phillips asked
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization is in talks to potentially plead guilty to a perjury charge related to a civil investigation into the real estate company’s finances, people familiar with the matter said. Allen Weisselberg, the former CFO, is in negotiations with the Manhattan district
Continue ReadingBy DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Officials in South Sudan say residents of a swampy area battled with cattle herders who moved in looking for water and pasture during the dry season, and at least 38 people were killed and 52 suffered gunshot wounds. The fighting started Wednesday and tensions remained
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the early hours of New Year’s Day in 1987, a French tourist was mugged while walking with his wife through Times Square. The man, 71-year-old Jean Casse, struck his head on the pavement. He was pronounced dead soon after. Within days, police hauled in a
Continue ReadingNEEDLES, Calif. (AP) — There may finally be a breakthrough in a long-running investigation into the killing of wild burros in California’s Mojave Desert nearly five years ago, federal authorities said Thursday. Nineteen burros were found shot to death along a 50-mile (80-kilometer) stretch of Interstate 15 northeast of Los Angeles on Aug. 13, 2019.
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The mother of the Michigan school shooter took the stand at her trial for involuntary manslaughter. Jennifer Crumbley said she had no role in buying or storing the handgun used to kill four students in 2021. She says she wouldn’t have done anything differently but wishes
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Thursday slammed Donald Trump and allied groups for spending more than $50 million of political contributors’ money on the former president’s legal expenses, calling the outlay “unconscionable” and arguing that Trump’s thin campaign schedule was the result of a cash crunch. “It
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal investigators are trying to determine what caused the collapse of a steel airplane hangar that was under construction in Idaho. The Wednesday evening collapse killed three people and injured nine others, including five critically. The Boise Fire Department said Thursday that the scene has been
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican-dominant Legislature is once again facing pressure to reconsider when doctors can legally offer the procedure to pregnant patients. The pressure comes nearly a year after lawmakers begrudgingly tweaked the ban in 2023. However, it remains unknown if state lawmakers will be receptive to changes
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As tensions grow between Texas officials and the federal government over who can enforce immigration policies and how, some Republican leaders are pledging their support to the Lone Star state. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis deployed hundreds of additional National Guard troops to Texas Thursday as he
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK and TOM KRISHER Associated Press Residents of eastern Ohio can now get an up-close view in newly released videos of the toxic towers of fire that forced them from their homes last February when officials decided to blow open five tank cars filled with vinyl chloride they worried might explode days after
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s Legislative Black Caucus released a slate of reparations bills to implement ideas from the state’s landmark task force on the issue. The proposals include potential compensation for property seized from Black owners, but do not call for widespread direct cash payments to descendants of enslaved
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Beech, CNN New York (CNN) — A New Jersey man has admitted committing a series of violent assaults on members of the Orthodox Jewish community in and around Lakewood, New Jersey, according to a statement Thursday from the US Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey. Dion Marsh, 29, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York has always appreciated coach Kyle Shanahan’s honesty starting from the time of his first interview when he called the team’s roster the worst in the NFL. So York didn’t know what he would hear when Shanahan told
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An apparent cyberattack that affected government operations in Georgia’s most populous county is creating challenges for the election office as it prepares for the state’s March 12 presidential primary. As a precaution, Secretary of State spokesman Robert Sinners says the county’s access to the state voter
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire voters won’t be asked to add a secession clause to the state constitution, nor will lawmakers study the broader issue of breaking away from the United States. Without debate, the House on Thursday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment requiring the state to proceed as
Continue ReadingBy KILEY ARMSTRONG and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Adele Zerilli Springsteen, the longtime legal secretary, musical muse and concert dance partner who captured countless hearts in her son Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Nation and beyond, has died at 98. Bruce Springsteen announced in an Instagram post that his mother died Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, and Khalil Abdallah, CNN (CNN) — A number of Palestinian-Americans refused to attend a roundtable meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday to discuss the situation in Gaza in protest against the Biden administration’s ongoing support for Israel’s offensive in the war-torn strip – a military campaign that has exacted a massive humanitarian toll. “We do
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican leaders in the statehouse have promised to address declining literacy rates with legislation that would hold back thousands more third graders who don’t pass the state’s literacy test. Introduced in Senate Bill 1, the measure cleared one chamber of the General Assembly following a vote
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