LOS ANGELES (AP) — The executive editor of the Los Angeles Times announced Tuesday that he is stepping down after a 2 1/2-year tenure at the newspaper that spanned the coronavirus pandemic and three Pulitzer Prizes, as well as a period of layoffs and contentious contract negotiations with the newsroom’s union. Kevin Merida’s last day
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The executive editor of the Los Angeles Times announced Tuesday that he is stepping down after a 2 1/2-year tenure at the newspaper that spanned the coronavirus pandemic and three Pulitzer Prizes, as well as a period of layoffs and contentious contract negotiations with the newsroom’s union. Kevin Merida’s last day
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police have arrested two politicians convicted of abuse of power who had taken refuge for hours in the palace of President Andrzej Duda. The arrests, reportedly made inside the palace, mark a dramatic escalation of a standoff between the new and previous governments. The prime
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The fifth Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election season will also be its first head-to-head matchup. The debate kicks off Wednesday, 9 p.m. Eastern time at Drake University and comes just five days before Iowa’s leadoff presidential caucuses. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A woman who dominated discussion about abortion during Kentucky’s campaign last year has stepped forward again. She is now calling on lawmakers to relax the state’s near-total abortion ban. Hadley Duvall on Tuesday endorsed a bill that would add exceptions to the state’s anti-abortion law. The
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and at least two years before landing on it, under the latest round of delays announced by NASA on Tuesday. The space agency had planned to send four astronauts around the
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Congressional Republicans and some GOP presidential candidates are continuing to target the Internal Revenue Service – a longtime political punching bag – after Democrats bolstered the agency with billions in new funding meant to help modernize the nation’s tax collector. Most recently, Republican lawmakers secured a concession from
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered messages about California, New York and President Joe Biden during his State of the State address. The speech that opened Florida’s annual legislative session Tuesday came as DeSantis is wooing Iowa voters ahead of next week’s presidential caucus. It was
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the federal civil rights conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who held back a concerned crowd while fellow officers pinned down a dying George Floyd. The high court, without comment on Monday, rejected the appeal of Tou Thao. He had testified earlier that
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge set bail Tuesday at $750,000 for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur in 1996, saying he can serve house arrest with electronic monitoring ahead of trial on a murder charge. Court-appointed attorneys for
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House chief of staff on Tuesday ordered Cabinet members or secretaries to notify his office if they ever can’t perform their duties, as the Biden administration, reeling from learning of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s surprise illness last week, mounts a policy
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A full day after a massive explosion at a historic Fort Worth hotel, fire inspectors were still working to determine what caused the blast that shattered windows, littered the streets with debris and injured 21 people, leaving some hospitalized with concussions and
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher and Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — The 94-year-old Hilton Head Island woman who made headlines with her legal battle to keep her family’s ancestral land has died. Josephine Wright died “surrounded by family, loved ones, and prayers” on January 7, according to an update her family posted on their Go Fund
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge set bail Tuesday at $750,000 for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur in 1996, saying he can serve house arrest with electronic monitoring ahead of trial on a murder charge. Court-appointed attorneys for
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE, NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on Israel to work with moderate Palestinian leaders on plans for a post-war Gaza. Israel has so far ruled out calls to allow the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza and
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and another few years before landing on it, under the latest round of delays announced by NASA on Tuesday. The space agency had planned to send four astronauts around the moon
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has delivered her annual State of the State address. The Democrat on Tuesday outlined her agenda for the ongoing legislative session and focused on public safety and housing policies, among other things. The address came as both Republicans
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says officials at the Arctic prison colony where he is serving a 19-year term have isolated him in a tiny punishment cell over a minor infraction. Navalny said in a social media statement relayed from behind bars that officials accused him
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a secret tunnel built beneath a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway. Video from the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights on
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Mourners had gathered in Dallas to remember a longtime Texas congresswoman. The funeral for former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson was held Tuesday at Concord Church in Dallas. Johnson served in Congress for 30 years. She died at the age of 89 on Dec. 31. People on
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