By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Indonesian President Joko Widodo have formalized closer ties between their countries at the White House. Biden described it as a “new era” in the relationship. Indonesia is the world’s third largest democracy and a heavyweight player in Southeast Asia. The
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers said his goal is to return from a torn Achilles tendon by mid-December, NBC’s Melissa Stark reported during the telecast of the Jets’ game at Las Vegas on Sunday night. Rodgers had hinted recently he hopes to return before
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A jury has begun deliberating at the federal trial of a former Louisville police officer accused of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights. Prosecutors say ex-officer Brett Hankison opened fire on the 26-year-old Black woman’s apartment the night she was killed during a botched
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Controlled burns are slated to begin before the end of the month throughout the San Bernardino National Forest, including near Mountain Center and Idyllwild, where federal fighters will be igniting piles of dead vegetation and burning off excess foliage from the ground and air. “The (U.S. Forest Service) plans to start prescribed fire operations on
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Matthew Stafford is expected to start for the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday against Seattle, coach Sean McVay said. Stafford missed the Rams’ final game before their bye week, a 20-3 loss in Green Bay on Nov. 5. The Super Bowl-winning quarterback sprained a
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial position in Mexico has been found dead in their home in the central Mexican city of Aguascalientes. The Aguascalientes state prosecutor’s office confirmed Monday that Jesús Ociel Baena was found dead next to another person, who local
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego State announced Monday that Brady Hoke will retire at the end of a disappointing season that has seen the Aztecs play before many empty seats in their new stadium and plummet to the bottom of the Mountain West standings just two years after
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A San Diego County couple whose two-year-old daughter drowned at an Airbnb rental home in Mexico announced today that they are filing a wrongful death lawsuit against Airbnb. Esmeralda Garcia and Ricardo Colin, the parents of Grezhia Colin, allege Airbnb failed to notify them that the Puerto Vallarta home they rented lacked safeguards that could
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza’s Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a dayslong stalemate in Israel’s war against the Hamas militant group. Shifa is Gaza’s largest and best-equipped hospital. But Israel claims the facility also is used by Hamas for military purposes. It says Hamas has built a vast underground
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Donald Trump Jr. returned to the witness stand Monday to give his family’s side of the story in the New York attorney general’s civil fraud trial against Donald Trump. Trump Jr.’s testimony often appeared as a lengthy effort to rehabilitate the
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The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the community’s assistance in locating a 44-year-old man reported missing. Richard Contreras was last seen in the city of Banning on Sunday at approximately 11:45 p.m. He is described as 5 foot, 5 inches tall, weighing 170 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last
Continue ReadingPONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a Michigan school shooter will have separate trials for their alleged roles in the deaths of four students. A judge signed off on the request Monday. James Crumbley and Jennifer Crumbley had presented a united defense for two years. But their lawyers asked for separate trials after new
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is holding a test vote Monday on whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a step usually reserved for grave misconduct in office that is instead being wielded in an extraordinary effort to remove the Cabinet secretary for his handling of the southern border.
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is holding a test vote Monday on whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a step usually reserved for grave misconduct in office that is instead being wielded in an extraordinary effort to remove the Cabinet secretary for his handling of the southern border.
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hundreds of Civil War relics are being conserved after their discovery during a South Carolina river cleanup. Cannonballs, a sword blade and a wagon wheel are among the artifacts found in the Congaree River. It’s the same stream where Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, Eric Levenson and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The killings of four University of Idaho students in an off-campus home in Moscow in November 2022 were as brutal as they were perplexing. The group of friends had gone out in the college town and returned to their shared home late. The next day, police
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By Melissa Alonso, Matt Phillips, Elizabeth Wolfe and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — The massive fire that forced the indefinite closure of parts of Interstate 10, a major traffic artery in Los Angeles, was set intentionally, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. A preliminary investigation found there was “malice intent,” Newsom said at a news
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Felony charges were filed today against two women who allegedly took part in a smash-and-grab robbery with four men at a Palm Desert jewelry store last month. Destiny Unique Baca, 18, of San Bernardino, and 24-year-old Los Angeles resident Analea Paradise Miller were charged in two separate cases with one felony count each of robbery,
Continue ReadingBy RON TODT Associated Press A convicted murderer who escaped from a southeastern Pennsylvania prison earlier this year and eluded a massive two-week search is now facing new charges in connection with alleged crimes committed while he was on the run. Authorities allege that 34-year-old Danilo Cavalcante stole a transit van and burglarized homes in
Continue ReadingBy RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jury deliberations are under way in the trial of a suspected serial killer accused in the deaths of six people in Delaware and Pennsylvania in 2021. A Delaware jury began deliberations Monday after closing arguments in the trial of 41-year-old Keith Gibson of Philadelphia. Gibson is charged
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