By MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden was working a photoline backstage on Wednesday after receiving the United Auto Workers’ coveted political endorsement at its’ annual conference in Washington, DC, when a small group of union members supporting a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war approached him. Biden briefly spoke with the members
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Journalists at The New York Daily News and Forbes walked off the job Thursday amid contentious contract talks with management and a difficult few weeks in the news industry. Both strike are historic: It’s the first-ever at the business-focused magazine in more than a century, and
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Journalists at The New York Daily News and Forbes walked off the job Thursday amid contentious contract talks with management and a difficult few weeks in the news industry. Both strike are historic: It’s the first-ever at the business-focused magazine in more than a century, and
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid faced potential collapse Thursday as Senate Republicans grew increasingly wary of an election-year compromise that Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, says is “meaningless.” Senate negotiators have been striving for
Continue ReadingBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Authorities say New England Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte has been arrested on charges related to illegal online gambling while he was under age and playing at Louisiana State University. Boutte is accused of creating an online betting account under a fake name and then placing more than 8,900 illegal
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Family, lawyers and activists for Ricky Cobb II say justice is within reach now that the Minnesota trooper who fatally shot him last year has been charged with murder. The 33-year-old Black man was shot July 31, 2023, after failing to get out of his
Continue ReadingWESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana coroner says remains recovered from the central Indiana estate of a presumed serial killer have been identified as those of a man reported missing in 1993. Authorities said Thursday the remains recovered in 1996 at the Fox Hollow Farm estate of Herbert Baumeister were found to match Manuel Resendez.
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A voting-rights coalition is vowing to fight on after Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost issued his second rejection of its petition language for a proposed constitutional amendment. The Republican on Thursday found the title of the “Ohio Voters Bill of Rights” was “highly misleading and
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — In a story published January 24, 2024, The Associated Press reported that during protests following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, then-Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best promised that police would stop using certain crowd-control measures, and that the City Council subsequently voted to bar the police from
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — General Motors is facing a U.S. Justice Department investigation into a gruesome collision that critically injured a pedestrian and derailed its self-driving car ambitions. The Justice Department inquiry disclosed in a report Thursday is the latest twist in a debacle that began in October after
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — General Motors is facing a U.S. Justice Department investigation into a gruesome collision that critically injured a pedestrian and derailed its self-driving car ambitions. The Justice Department inquiry disclosed in a report Thursday is the latest twist in a debacle that began in October after
Continue ReadingBy THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Fendi, under Kim Jones, has presented a mesmerizing collection blending minimalist futurism with an homage to Karl Lagerfeld at Paris Couture Week. Celebrities like Zendaya and Reese Witherspoon attended the event on Thursday. It’s a shift from Lagerfeld’s lavish furs to a focus on human form
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former elected official accused of killing a Las Vegas investigative reporter wants to go to trial in March, his new lawyer said Thursday, after a supervisory judge rejected his second bid to remove the state court judge overseeing his case. Robert Draskovich, a criminal defense
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican National Committee is expected to consider a resolution next week to declare Donald Trump the party’s “presumptive 2024 nominee,” even though only two states have voted and the former president has nowhere near the requisite number of delegates to clinch the
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A 20-year-old woman from Compton was killed in a car crash Wednesday night in Coachella. The crash was reported at around 9:00 p.m. near the Spotlight 29 Casino. California Highway Patrol Officer David Torres told News Channel 3 the woman was driving a Nissan Sentra westbound on Dillon Road. She collided into a guard rail
Continue ReadingBy LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown wrote goals in a notebook before the season started and reads them daily. How’s he doing on the list? “Good,” St. Brown said Thursday. “Great, actually.” He accomplished at least two goals, having at least 1,500 yards
Continue ReadingBy PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Three years ago, the Atlanta Falcons passed on a chance to make Raheem Morris their head coach. They didn’t let him get away this time — even after an exhaustive search that included six-time Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick. The Falcons hired the Los Angeles Rams
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid faces potential collapse. Senate Republicans are increasingly wary of an election-year compromise that Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, seems likely to oppose. Senate negotiators have been striving for weeks
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Health Ministry and witnesses said Israeli troops opened fire as a crowd of Palestinians gathered for humanitarian aid in Gaza City on Thursday, killing at least 20 and wounding dozens. The Israeli military said it was looking into the
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Denim giant Levi Strauss & Co. said Thursday that it’s slashing its global corporate workforce by 10% to 15% in the first half of the year as part of a two-year restructuring plan that seeks to cut costs and simplify its operations. The company employed
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