By MJ Lee, Jeff Zeleny, Edward-Isaac Dovere and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s campaign is preparing to make a full pivot to the general election with some of the president’s top advisers in the West Wing set to move over to the reelection campaign, as it watches former President Donald Trump’s quick
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Investigators in Washington state have identified the last known set of human remains connected to the so-called “Green River Killer” as those of a woman who was determined to be a victim more than 30 years ago, officials said Monday. Tammie Liles’ partial remains were found
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — Arkansas authorities are searching for two “dangerous” inmates who were discovered missing from a detention center Monday morning, including one who was being held on probable cause for murder, officials said. The men – Noah Roush and Jatonia Bryant – were found missing around 10:30 a.m. Monday from the
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump took a huge step toward winning a third consecutive Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, winning the New Hampshire primary in a one-on-one matchup with his last challenger standing, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley vowed to remain in the Republican race, saying she’ll now focus
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump made several false claims in a speech Tuesday night after CNN and other media outlets projected that he would win the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire. CNN also watched rival candidate Nikki Haley’s Tuesday night speech in New Hampshire; Haley’s claims were either accurate or too
Continue ReadingBy MAYA SWEEDLER and ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is the winner of the New Hampshire Republican primary. The Associated Press has declared Trump the winner based on an analysis of initial vote returns as well as the results of AP VoteCast, a survey of Republican primary voters. Both
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A U.S. District Court judge is standing by her decision to block portions of a public health order from New Mexico’s governor that would suspend the right to carry firearms in many public parks in the Albuquerque area. The Monday order from Judge Kea Riggs
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he has once again pardoned two politicians who were arrested earlier this month amid a bitter standoff between the new centrist government and the previous conservative administration. President Andrzej Duda made the announcement Tuesday shortly after the new justice minister refused Duda’s motion for a pardon procedure to
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After decades of delay and pressure, Brazil announced Tuesday that it will henceforth use “favelas and urban communities” to categorize thousands of poor, urban neighborhoods, instead of the previous term “subnormal agglomerates” that was widely viewed as stigmatizing. Starting in the 1990s,
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“The phones are ringing off the hook,” said Rob Winkle, the Chief Financial Officer at Roof Asset Management. Winkle says in the last 24-hours his company has received over 200 phone calls. Although its nothing in comparison to the inquiries he got after Tropical Storm Hilary. During that week, Roof Asset Management answered nearly 1,000
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A new LGBTQ retirement living facility is open in the desert. Living Out Palm Springs hosted its grand opening on Tuesday. This marks Southern California’s first and only luxury active adult community specifically designed for the LGBTQ community. Loren Ostrow, one of the developers of Living Out, states, “Knowing that too many LGBTQ seniors live
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Todd Helton thought back to when he was a kid being coached by his father, Jerry, a minor league catcher in the 1960s. “When I would go 1 for 3 — and it’s a bad day when you’re young — he’d say 1 for 3
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional Taiwan Caucus on Wednesday opened the first trip by U.S. lawmakers to the island where the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party won a third straight term in presidential elections this month. U.S. Reps. Ami Bera, a Democrat from California, and Florida
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional Taiwan Caucus on Wednesday opened the first trip by U.S. lawmakers to the island where the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party won a third straight term in presidential elections this month. U.S. Reps. Ami Bera, a Democrat from California, and Florida
Continue ReadingBy Olivia LaBorde and Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — Atlanta rapper YFN Lucci pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating Georgia’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act, according to court documents. The rapper, whose real name is Rayshawn Bennett, was facing a number of charges including murder and racketeering. Bennett was sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by
Continue ReadingILWACO, Wash. (AP) — A fire at a port seafood facility along the coast in Washington state destroyed more than 1,000 crab pots just ahead of the state’s commercial Dungeness crab season. KING-TV reports the blaze began around noon on Monday at the Port of Ilwaco. The town is located near the mouth of the
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New Hampshire was supposed to present a formidable challenge for former President Donald Trump but he’s winning that state solidly. That shows he’s got a glide path to the Republican presidential nomination against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. But New Hampshire delivered warning
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon jury has awarded $85 million to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020. It is the latest verdict in a series of legal proceedings that are expected to put the utility PacifiCorp on the hook for billions of dollars over its liability for the deadly blazes.
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Arizona said Tuesday they will retry a co-founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com on dozens of prostitution facilitation and money laundering charges that alleged he participated in a scheme to sell sex ads. A jury in mid-November 2023 convicted Michael Lacey of one
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian judge has ruled that the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell weeks of protests by truckers and others angry over COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 was unreasonable and unconstitutional. The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it will appeal. The protests eventually encompassed
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