Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Guatemala attorney general leading efforts to prosecute President Bernardo Arévalo and his party is refusing to step down. “I am not going to resign,” Consuelo Porras said in a recorded video message Wednesday. The video was released by her office on the same day that Arévalo had said
Continue ReadingBy Carlos Suarez and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — Florida’s Board of Governors voted Wednesday to ban state spending on diversity, equity and inclusion programs across all public universities in the state – the latest move targeting higher education DEI spending in the United States. The University of Florida, Florida State University and Florida International
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A man has been convicted of murder and other crimes for carrying out the arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan, that killed 36 people. The Japanese court that found him guilty said it will announce the penalty later Thursday. Shinji Aoba stormed into Kyoto
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday, with Chinese stocks extending gains after Beijing announced a raft of policies to support sagging markets. Hong Kong rose 1.4% and Shanghai surged 2%. Benchmarks fell in Tokyo and Seoul. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices advanced. Late
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The chairman of the Arizona Republican Party said Wednesday he is resigning, claiming he was doing so amid pressure from GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake. Jeff DeWit’s resignation comes after The Daily Mail published an audio recording of a conversation between DeWit and Lake in which he explained
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For Dejan Milojević, the Golden State Warriors and Atlanta Hawks stood united on one sideline near their team benches and listened as the Serbian national anthem played in his honor. Each Warrior player then placed an extra jersey with Milojević’s name on the back worn
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court has restored a prominent detained activist’s conviction over a banned vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, marking the latest setback for the city’s democracy supporters. Chow Hang-tung, a former leader of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER, FATIMA HUSSEIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden picked up an endorsement from the United Auto Workers union Wednesday, an important boost to the Democratic president’s reelection bid as he pushes to sway blue-collar workers his way in critical auto-making swing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin.
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new lawsuit says opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater. Several local governments and business groups filed the federal lawsuit Monday
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Nneka Ogwumike is going to be wearing a new uniform next season as she has told the Los Angeles Sparks that she’s going to leave in free agency. Ogwumike has played her entire 12-year career with the Sparks after being drafted No. 1 by the team in 2012. “I
Continue ReadingBy Carlos Suarez and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — The Florida Supreme Court will consider a challenge to a state congressional map advocated by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, which was enacted after the 2020 census and dismantled a Black-majority district, according to a filing Wednesday. Voting rights groups appealed to the state Supreme Court after the First District Court of
Continue ReadingMONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in New Jersey say law enforcement officers have killed a man in a shootout while trying to arrest him on several felony charges. The state Attorney General’s Office says the officers were trying to execute an arrest warrant Wednesday afternoon at a motel in Monmouth Junction when the man
Continue ReadingBRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Residents have begun battening down homes and businesses with Tropical Cyclone Kirrily forecast to cross the Australian northeast coast on Thursday, bringing destructive winds and flooding rain. Authorities said the storm system was still tracking west across the Coral Sea and that gusts of 140 kph (87 mph) are forecast as
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A 24-year-old ambulance attendant from Riverside County who groped and solicited sex from a teenage girl being transported to a hospital pleaded guilty today to felony charges. Jason Dean Anderson of Wildomar admitted two counts of sexual battery on a restrained person for the purpose of arousal under a plea agreement with the Riverside County
Continue ReadingBy Brammhi Balarajan and Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A man accused of driving an SUV into two dozen law enforcement recruits who were on a 2022 training run in Southern California – leaving one dead and others seriously injured – has been indicted by a grand jury, prosecutors said this week. Nicholas Joseph
Continue ReadingSAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica’s Supreme Court of Justice says it was no longer obligatory to place the paternal surname before the maternal surname on a person’s identification. The court modified a piece of civil code originally mandating that names had to be written in that order on the grounds that it
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, NIKKI HALEY FOR PRESIDENT, GETTY IMAGES By Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden officially turned the page Wednesday to the general election, looking ahead to a race against former President Donald Trump that will test his ability to reenergize key corners of his winning coalition in a race his team
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh was hired as head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers on Wednesday, leaving Michigan after capping his ninth season as coach of college football’s winningest program with the school’s first national championship since 1997. Harbaugh signed a five-year deal a person close
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh was hired as head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers on Wednesday, leaving Michigan after capping his ninth season as coach of college football’s winningest program with the school’s first national championship since 1997. Harbaugh signed a five-year deal a person close
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020. The protesters were among tens of thousands who rallied downtown and in the Capitol Hill neighborhood for weeks following the killing of George
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