By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges has been denied entrance to Canada due to his past legal problems and will not be available to play Monday night in Toronto against the Raptors, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The person said Bridges
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First responders in Cathedral City helped dozens of families in need get free gifts for the holidays. The Cathedral City Police Department hosted its “Shop with a Cop” event at Target, helping more than two dozen families get gifts. CCPD thanked Target and the Palm Springs Elks Lodge for making this year’s event happen. View
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge is rejecting a lawsuit to disqualify Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones from holding office because of his participation as an elector for Donald Trump in 2020. The judge ruled Friday that voters who sued couldn’t use the kind of legal action they filed to attack
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There was nothing but smiles during the Palm Springs Police Department’s annual “Shop with a Cop” event. PSPD teamed up with Walmart and McDonalds to put on the event. “Shop with a Cop” pairs a deserving child with an officer to help out with their holiday shopping. This year, more than 40 kids were able
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A declassified U.S. government report says foreign hackers did not change vote totals or otherwise compromise the integrity of federal elections last year in the United States. The report does identify multiple instances in which hackers linked to Iran, China and Russia connected to election infrastructure, scanned
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, Mengchen Zhang, Wayne Chang and Maija Ehlinger, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At least 131 people were killed and hundreds more injured after an earthquake hit northwest China, state media reported Tuesday, as rescue teams scrambled to reach survivors in sub-zero temperatures. The quake, China’s deadliest in nearly a decade, rocked Jishishan
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Solway Investment Group, a Switzerland-based mining company with interests in Guatemala, says it agrees with a regional court’s decision requiring the Guatemalan government to recognize the property rights of an Indigenous community. The company, which was not a party to the case, stressed Monday that the
Continue ReadingBy BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — An explosion and inferno at Guinea’s main fuel depot in the capital of Conakry has left at least 13 people dead and 178 injured. It is not clear what caused the explosion that damaged the heart of the Kaloum administrative district that’s home to most government
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, was remembered Monday as a trailblazer who never lost sight of how the high court’s decisions affected all Americans. O’Connor, an Arizona native who was an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism for more
Continue ReadingBy Michael Callahan and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday announced a new US-led operation focusing on the “security challenges in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden” following recent attacks by Houthi forces on commercial marine traffic in the region. “I am announcing the establishment of Operation
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By JENNIFER PELTZ. JAKE COYLE and JAKE OFFENHARTZAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney Co. have dropped actor Jonathan Majors after his conviction on charges of assaulting his former girlfriend during a confrontation in New York City earlier this year. A Manhattan jury convicted the Marvel star Monday of one
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press A liberal group is appealing a ruling that allows former President Donald Trump to stay on the Michigan primary ballot to the state supreme court. Free Speech For People is appealing the ruling earlier this month by the Michigan court of appeals that the Republican party can place whomever they want
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to review a gag order restricting the former president’s speech in the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 election. The request Monday follows a decision by a three-judge panel of the
Continue ReadingBROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) — A mother who shot and killed her 6-year-old son in an Ohio hotel after taking him there for a special day of fun has been sentenced to life in prison. Thirty-one-year-old Daneicha Bringht, of Parma had pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and other charges as part of a plea deal with
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By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law Monday a bill that makes entering Texas illegally a state crime, an extraordinary step in the hard-fought legal battle between the state and the federal government over efforts to curtail illegal immigration. The measure, SB 4, grants
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgement against Rudy Giuliani are asking for a court order barring him from continuing to repeat the lies he spread about them following the 2020 election. The new suit filed Monday points to comments the former
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — The New York trial judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial wrote a scathing denial of the former president’s latest attempt to toss the state attorney general’s case against him — potentially a preview of a tough outcome for Trump as the trial process winds
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Rimmer, CNN Senate Minority Whip John Thune told CNN’s Manu Raju on Monday that there is no way the Senate can vote on an immigration deal this week, meaning aid for Ukraine and Israel will not pass either. “That is a fact, yeah. There’s no way,” he said. Senators have been negotiating in
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE COYLE and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney Co. have dropped actor Jonathan Majors after his conviction on charges of assaulting his former girlfriend in New York City earlier this year. A Manhattan jury convicted the “Creed III” star Monday of one misdemeanor
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A pair of rare Nike sneakers donated to an Oregon homeless shelter in Portland sold for nearly $51,000 at auction on Monday. The shoes designed in 2019 for filmmaker Spike Lee sold for nearly double the high end of the predicted sale price. The gold Air
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