By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Republicans have introduced a bill that would set up a binding statewide referendum on whether abortion should be banned after 14 weeks of pregnancy. Current Wisconsin law bars abortions after 20 weeks. The bill introduced Friday would outlaw abortions after 14 weeks if voters
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has become the fifth country in history to reach the moon. Its spacecraft, which wasn’t carrying astronauts, landed on the lunar surface early Saturday. But an issue with the power supply means that the mission could be in jeopardy. Officials say they need more time to
Continue ReadingCHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Federal search warrants have revealed new details about a shooting in August on the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus that left a professor dead. Warrant documents state the graduate student charged in the shooting had visited a gun range the day before Zijie Yan was killed inside a laboratory
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Religious leaders say six nuns have been kidnapped in Haiti as they traveled on a bus through the capital. The Haitian Conference of the Religious said in a statement that the nuns were accompanied by an undetermined number of unidentified people on the bus who also were kidnapped on Friday. It
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. company’s failed moonshot ended with a fiery plunge over the South Pacific, officials confirmed Friday. Astrobotic Technology said contact and then tracking was lost as its lunar lander reentered Earth’s atmosphere Thursday, 10 days after launching from Florida. It received confirmation Friday
Continue ReadingDULLES, Va. (AP) — A small passenger plane made an emergency landing on a northern Virginia highway after taking off from nearby Washington Dulles International Airport on Friday afternoon, but no injuries were reported, authorities said. Police responded to a call just before 1 p.m. about a small aircraft making an emergency landing on Loudoun
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Manslaughter charges have been dismissed against a former Detroit police officer who punched a 71-year-old man in the face, causing him to fall to the ground and later die. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office says a district court judge cited insufficient evidence during a preliminary hearing on Thursday. The prosecutor’s office announced
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico, reviving a dormant case against the actor. Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A grand jury indicted Alec Baldwin on Friday on an involuntary manslaughter charge in a 2021 fatal shooting during a rehearsal on a movie set in New Mexico, reviving a dormant case against the actor. Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in
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A group of sixteen Latino elected officials from across California will tour the Salton Sea to witness the polluted, shrinking body of water and be in the presence of arsenic-infested waters. Some elected officials have never seen the Salton Sea or smelled of hydrogen sulfide, which smells like rotten eggs. The environment and conditions have
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor has vetoed bills aimed at banning solitary confinement in city jails and requiring more transparency in police encounters with civilians. Democratic Mayor Eric Adams’ Friday vetoes set up a faceoff with the City Council, which has said it has enough votes to
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — A small commuter plane, which took off from Dulles Airport near Washington, DC, has landed on a Virginia roadway, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation in a post on social media. In a statement, the Federal Aviation Administration said Southern Airways Express Flight 246 made
Continue ReadingDULLES, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a small aircraft made an emergency landing on a northern Virginia highway after taking off from nearby Washington Dulles International Airport. Virginia State Police say they received a call just before 1 p.m. Friday about a small aircraft making an emergency landing on Loudoun County Parkway. A Metropolitan Washington
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press THORNTON, N.H. (AP) — An experienced hiker who had accomplished the “Triple Crown” of challenging cross-country trails died in New Hampshire’s White Mountains during a solo hike in brutal conditions, including single-digit temperatures, harsh winds and waist-deep snow. Christopher Roma, 37, was an expert hiker who ran
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The publisher of Sports Illustrated has notified employees it is planning to lay off a significant portion — possibly all — of the outlet’s staff after its license to use the iconic brand’s name in print and digital was revoked. In an email to employees Friday morning, the Arena
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired attorney Nathan Wade to lead the Georgia prosecution of Donald Trump and 18 others over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Now, allegations of a romantic relationship between Willis and Wade are raising questions about his past work
Continue ReadingINDIO, Calif. (AP) — A mistrial was declared after a jury deadlock in a voluntary manslaughter case against an off-duty Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot a mentally ill man who attacked him in a Costco store in 2019. After the mistrial Thursday, the California attorney general’s office declined to say whether it planned
Continue ReadingCNN By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, has become a staging ground for state forces, the epicenter of a standoff with the federal government and a stark symbol of dysfunction at the border. But there’s another story about this park that’s far less well known than the recent
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid and Annie Grayer, CNN Hunter Biden’s lawyer Kevin Morris is going after House Republicans for what he described as misrepresenting his closed-door interview with committee investigators and demanding they release the full transcript to correct the record. Republicans have raised questions about why Morris lent the president’s son millions of dollars and
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills and a state representative who immigrated from Somalia are looking to create a new government office that would tap recent immigrants to try to solve a workforce shortage in the state. Mills and Rep. Deqa Dhalac of South Portland unveiled a bill
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