By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An investigation into dozens of Connecticut state troopers has concluded that seven of them “may have” falsified traffic stop data they entered into a state database. A report released Thursday said those officers have been referred to state police internal affairs investigators. An audit last year
Continue ReadingBy Benjamin Brown and Ingrid Formanek, CNN (CNN) — About six million people in more than 200 towns, villages and cities in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia will be banned from washing their cars or filling swimming pools as the regional government on Thursday declared a state of emergency due to a water shortage
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has issued an executive order that targets Israeli settlers in the West Bank who’ve been accused of attacking Palestinians in the occupied territory. The order Thursday imposes financial sanctions and visa bans in an initial round against four individuals.
Continue ReadingFLINT, Mich. (AP) — A second contractor says it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water scandal. Boston-based Veolia North America said Thursday that the class-action litigation agreement includes payments of $1,500 for individual minors. It says the agreement will resolve claims made on behalf of more than
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Media outlets say two gunmen have taken seven hostages at a factory owned by Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Turkish media Thursday published an image of one of the purported suspects inside the factory, a man wearing
Continue ReadingBy ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Some of Roberto Clemente’s most impactful career and life moments are on display at the Miami Marlins’ loanDepot Park. A traveling exhibit titled “3,000” — a nod to the day on Sept. 30, 1972, that the late Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder became the first Latin American-born major
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away, they were buried there without notice. Nearly 130 years later, the Winnebago Tribe wants the boys back home. So far, the Army has refused to return the remains of Samuel
Continue ReadingBy Larry Madowo and Faith Karimi, CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — It had been three months since Maggie Mbitu was found dead at Boston’s airport, and authorities seemed no closer to finding the man suspected of killing her and fleeing the country. But this week, they finally got a break. On Monday night an undercover
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press The new season of National Geographic’s “Genius” anthology series focuses on two civil rights legends, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. “Genius: MLK/X” is launching the fourth season of the series. “Genius: MLK/X” stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. as King and Aaron Pierre as Malcolm X. The series
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether changes should be made to the state’s Senate districts. The high court heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit contending the current map illegally splits Buchanan County and the St. Louis suburb of Hazelwood into multiple districts. The
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP, LOLITA C. BALDOR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday it’s time to further disable Iran-backed militias that have struck at U.S. forces and ships in the Middle East and the U.S. is preparing to take significant action in response to the deaths of three
Continue ReadingBy Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Sonia Lemos doesn’t know how she will put food on the table until the next harvest, two months from now. Lemos, 42, is a seasonal worker from northern Argentina. Six months a year, she harvests yerba, the leaves of a native South American shrub that are the basis of
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has issued an executive order that targets Israeli settlers in the West Bank who’ve been attacking Palestinians in the occupied territory. The order Thursday imposes financial sanctions and visa bans in an initial round against four individuals. The order
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee and Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s campaign has a message for impatient Democrats who want to see his campaign build out its operations in the battleground states more visibly and with greater urgency. That message: Don’t expect us to be Barack Obama. The Biden reelection campaign is rejecting the political organizing model
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured scintillating images of 19 spiral galaxies — and the millions of stars that call them home — in unprecedented detail never seen before by astronomers. Webb’s singular ability to observe the universe in different wavelengths of infrared light, such as near-infrared and
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s two major farmers unions announced they would lift country-wide blockades Thursday, shortly after the prime minister introduced new measures aimed at protecting their livelihoods that they described as “tangible progress.” However, farmer activists who have snarled traffic along major highways around Paris said they would stay
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run for reelection. The decision upholds the secretary of state’s decision to disqualify the senators from
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for the man charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in late 2022 are seeking a change of venue, saying he cannot receive a fair trial in the community where the killings occurred. Anne Taylor, Bryan Kohberger’s lead public defender, this week asked Judge John Judge of
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Ibrahim Dahman and Amir Tal, CNN (CNN) — The main United Nations agency in Gaza has warned it “most likely” will have to halt its work in the war-torn enclave and across the Middle East by the end of the month after donors paused funding over allegations some of its staff were
Continue ReadingBy LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, when an out-of-whack immune system attacks their own bodies — and new research may finally explain why. It’s all about how the body handles females’ extra X chromosome, Stanford University researchers reported Thursday — a
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