By MARÍA VERZA and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Day of the Dead in Mexico smells like cempasuchil flowers and copal incense. It has a sweet taste. Sounds and colors abound. There are photos, candles and music all over. The hands of artisans prepare the altars to honor their ancestors. Although
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — A federal judge has postponed sentencing for six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of federal charges for torturing two Black men in January. Sentencing had been scheduled to begin Nov. 14. But U.S. District Judge Tom Lee
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of judges has ruled that it was unconstitutional for Tennessee lawmakers to pass a state takeover of Nashville International Airport’s board without approval from city officials or voters. The decision by three state court judges Tuesday delivers the latest blow in court to state
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top prosecutor is going after landowners who he says are illegally and unconstitutionally depriving the public of access to the Pecos River. It’s the first case to be brought since the state Supreme Court in 2022 settled a long-simmering dispute over whether boaters
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried underwent a final barrage of questions on Tuesday from a prosecutor aimed at showing that he’s not being honest about how much he knew about the disappearance of $8 billion from his customers’ accounts, setting the stage for final arguments in his
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried underwent a final barrage of questions on Tuesday from a prosecutor aimed at showing that he’s not being honest about how much he knew about the disappearance of $8 billion from his customers’ accounts, setting the stage for final arguments in his
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Then-President Donald Trump could have mobilized the National Guard and other federal agencies to protect the U.S. Capitol once violence broke out on Jan. 6, 2021, a law professor testified Tuesday as a case to bar the former president from the 2024 ballot moved into a new
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Children were back in school in Lewiston and on the streets dressed as dinosaurs and princesses for Halloween, after a chaotic week that saw the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history and a massive search for the suspect as people sheltered indoors. Hundreds of students returned
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Riverside County is reporting its second mpox case in the span of a week. County Public Health spokesperson Jose Arballo confirmed the case was a man in his 40s from southwest Riverside County. Arballo also noted that last week’s case, which News Channel 3 confirmed on Monday, was in the Coachella Valley. Before last week,
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Maine State Police documents shed light on why a delusional U.S. Army reservist who killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston may have targeted those locations. According to documents released Tuesday, state police interviewed a woman three hours after the shooting who said Robert Card
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press FBI Director Christopher Wray warned on Tuesday that Hamas’ rampage inside Israel could inspire violence in the U.S., telling lawmakers that multiple foreign extremist groups have called for attacks against Americans and the West in recent weeks. “We assess that the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as
Continue ReadingLIMA, Peru (AP) — A Dutchman who recently confessed to killing American high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba was returned to Peru on Tuesday to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for murdering a Peruvian woman. Joran van der Sloot arrived in Lima in the custody of law enforcement. The South
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The fears of this year’s World Series between the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks becoming the least-viewed Fall Classic in TV history are becoming a reality. Games 2 and 3 are the least-watched on record, according to Nielsen. Monday’s 3-1 victory by the Rangers averaged 8.13 million viewers on
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales, Dianne Gallagher and Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of miles away from the brutality of war in Gaza, Tariq Hamouda and his wife Manal are in disbelief over the loss of three generations of their family. The Palestinian Americans, who live in Maple Grove, Minnesota, say it’s been over a week since
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Carey, Ivana Kottasová, Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Paul Murphy, Henrik Pettersson, Lou Robinson and Adi Koplewitz, CNN (CNN) — The Israeli army began its full ground operation in Gaza on Friday, moving tanks, bulldozers, infantrymen and combat engineer units into the Strip. But rather than make any quick advance on Gaza City, Israeli
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Internal emails shown at Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial reveal that when he tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014, investment bankers doubted the NFL would allow it but encouraged him to stay in the running. The internal emails were aired in court on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A Long Island woman has been convicted of aggravated manslaughter in the death of a New York City police detective killed on the Long Island Expressway. Jessica Beauvais, of Hempstead, was arrested in April 2021 after 43-year-old Anastasios Tsakos was struck and killed while assisting officers at the scene of another
Continue ReadingBy PAOLA FLORES and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia has severed diplomatic relations with Israel, accusing it of committing “crimes against humanity” in its offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. In announcing the move Tuesday, Bolivian officials cited the number of Palestinian casualties in Gaza, but made no
Continue ReadingBy TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — When Kalen DeBoer was distinguishing himself as one of the top small-college coaches in the country at Sioux Falls, his teams went undefeated three times on the way to an NAIA national title. Still, there were some rocky moments and closer-than-anticipated games along the way. That’s
Continue ReadingBy Kristin Wilson, CNN (CNN) – The House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it is continuing its investigation into Republican Rep. George Santos of New York and that the panel “will announce its next course of action in this matter on or before November 17, 2023.” The committee said in a statement that it had “contacted
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