By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Polls in Kentucky have closed as voters there decide whether to give Democratic incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear a second term in the Republican-leaning state. Beshear is up against Republican challenger Daniel Cameron. After months of sparring over abortion and the economy, they’ll await the verdict from
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer A new study finds that endangered cheetahs are more likely to hunt at dawn and dusk on hot days, which increases their odds of conflict with other nocturnal predators. The researchers placed GPS tracking collars on 54 large carnivores in Botswana — including cheetahs, lions, leopards — to track
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to uphold health care guidance issued last year that says hospitals must provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy. A federal judge blocked enforcement of the guidance last year after the state
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director (CNN) — One year out from Election Day 2024, former President Donald Trump narrowly leads President Joe Biden, 49% to 45% among registered voters, in a hypothetical rematch in the latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Biden’s reelection chances are buffeted by deeply negative approval ratings, a stagnant sense that
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A Coachella man was arrested on suspicion of stealing several high-value golf clubs and equipment in La Quinta. The theft was reported to Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies on Oct. 28 within the 81000 block of Contento Street, the agency reported on Tuesday. Deputies were told the items were stolen from a vehicle. The La Quinta
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump went off. Again and again. Making the witness stand at his civil fraud trial his podium, the former president laid into the judge who’ll decide the case and the New York attorney general who’s suing him. During 3½ hours of
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man with a rifle has been arrested in a park near the U.S. Capitol. Police say officers confronted the 21-year-old Atlanta man on Tuesday and used a Taser stun gun after he refused to drop the weapon. U.S. Capitol Police say they searched the area where
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A 39-year-old man accused of killing his fiance at her Woodcrest home and fleeing to Mexico, then returning to the United States where he was apprehended almost three years later, must stand trial for murder, a judge ruled today. Eduardo Avalos Escoto allegedly killed 42-year-old Brandie Frazier in 2019. Brandie Frazier (Courtesy of Riverside County
Continue ReadingBy KEN KUSMER Associated Press A law firm says the Peace Corps has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a 24-year-old volunteer from Illinois who died in 2018 in East Africa after the agency’s doctors misdiagnosed a case of malaria. Adam Dinnell, a partner at the Houston-based law firm of Schiffer Hicks Johnson
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and JULIE WATSON Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Southern California authorities investigating the death of a Jewish man following a confrontation with a pro-Palestinian demonstrator over the Israel-Hamas war haven’t determined whether a crime occurred and on Tuesday asked for the public’s help to unravel what happened. Ventura County Sheriff
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and JULIE WATSON Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Southern California authorities investigating the death of a Jewish man following a confrontation with a pro-Palestinian demonstrator over the Israel-Hamas war haven’t determined whether a crime occurred and on Tuesday asked for the public’s help to unravel what happened. Ventura County Sheriff
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville said he’s open to negotiating an end to his blockade of almost 400 military nominees after meeting with fellow Republican senators, signaling a shift after he has dug in on his protest of a Pentagon abortion policy for more
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Update 11/7/23 Juan Reyes pled not guilty to his charges on Tuesday. He is being held without bail. Original Report 11/6/23 A man suspected in the fatal shooting of another man who was found last week outside a vehicle in Whitewater pleaded not guilty to murder today. Daniel Tomas Pacheco, 40, of Whitewater and Juan
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Originally Published: 07 NOV 23 14:00 ET By Eric Resendiz Click here for updates on this story TUSTIN, California (KABC) — A massive fire ripped through a historic hangar at a former air base in Orange County Tuesday morning, prompting a large response from fire crews. The three-alarm fire was reported around 1 a.m. at
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Gotham FC coach Juan Carlos Amorós was named the National Women’s Soccer League coach of the year on Tuesday. Amorós led Gotham to an 8-7-7 regular season record and an appearance in the NWSL championship game on Saturday in San Diego. Gotham will play OL Reign for the title. Hired in
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota district judge said Tuesday he will rule soon on whether to issue a temporary restraining order against North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for children. Families and a pediatrician filed the lawsuit in September. They want the ban found unconstitutional and blocked from
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Republican state senators in Oregon who walked out of the Legislature earlier this year have filed a federal lawsuit as part of their efforts to seek reelection. The three senators filed the lawsuit Monday. They’re challenging a voter-approved amendment to the state constitution that bars them from reelection following their term
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Two Los Angeles men who allegedly supplied fentanyl-laced pills and methamphetamine for a drug trafficking organization that used the darknet and encrypted messaging to sell narcotics to people in all 50 states are facing federal charges, officials announced today. The two-count indictment charges Omar Navia, 38, of South Los Angeles, and Adan Ruiz, 27, of
Continue ReadingMAXTON, N.C. (AP) — The sheriff in a North Carolina county says that two deputies and a suspect have been seriously wounded during an exchange of gunfire. Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins confirmed the three had been shot Tuesday in an area outside of Maxton. Wilkins said the suspect and one of the deputies were
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is warning U.S. schools and colleges that they must take immediate action to stop antisemitism and Islamophobia on their campuses, citing an “alarming rise” in threats and harassment. In a Tuesday letter, the Education Department said there’s “renewed urgency” to fight discrimination against
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