By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine claims to have carried out one of the most destructive attacks on Russian air assets since the beginning of the war. The claim comes as a U.S. official reveal that the longer-range ballistic missiles sought for months by Kyiv have been delivered quietly and are
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — Aurora, Colorado, police officer Nathan Woodyard’s actions on the day Elijah McClain was restrained and injected with ketamine in 2019 had a “cataclysmic effect” on the young man, a prosecutor said Tuesday during opening statements in the officer’s manslaughter trial. Nathan Woodyard, 34, has pleaded not
Continue ReadingBy HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are withholding pay raises for Universities of Wisconsin employees amid a fight over the school system’s diversity, equity and inclusion spending. The Legislature’s employment relations committee voted to approve raises for other state employees but did not take
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The Palace of Versailles, one of France’s most visited tourist attractions, has reopened after being evacuated because of a security scare. It was the second time in four days that the palace had to close. Following a police inspection, the palace was cleared to reopen on Tuesday afternoon. France is on heightened
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press Many parents tell their children never talk to strangers. But Curtis Chin’s parents urged their six kids to ask customers at their Chinese restaurant about their background. It was their way of showing the children a world outside the Detroit restaurant’s four walls. “That is something my parents taught me
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press Many parents tell their children never talk to strangers. But Curtis Chin’s parents urged their six kids to ask customers at their Chinese restaurant about their background. It was their way of showing the children a world outside the Detroit restaurant’s four walls. “That is something my parents taught me
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai construction magnate whose conviction on poaching charges became a rare example of the rich and influential facing justice in the country was freed on parole, two months before his prison term ends. Premchai Karnasuta, chairman of Italian-Thai Development Plc, one of Thailand’s top construction firms,
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says the long-range ballistic missiles sought by Ukraine have been delivered quietly by the U.S. and are being used on the battlefield against Russia nearly a month after President Joe Biden promised them to his Ukrainian counterpart. The official was not authorized to
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak, Kayla Tausche, MJ Lee, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — It took an explicit commitment from his Israeli counterpart to open Gaza for humanitarian aid for President Joe Biden to agree to make an extraordinary wartime trip to Tel Aviv. While the trip will amount to a dramatic
Continue ReadingBy Laura Dolan (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is appealing the gag order issued on him by the federal judge overseeing his federal 2020 election subversion case, after claiming she “took away my right to speak.” “We’re being railroaded. And I have other trials where we’re being railroaded. You saw yesterday where they took
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Killers of the Flower Moon” is an audacious big swing by Martin Scorsese to continue his kind of ambitious, personal filmmaking on the largest scale at a time when such grand, big-screen statements are increasingly a rarity. In an interview with The Associated Press, Scorsese
Continue ReadingBy CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press Eleven days after 57-year-old Anthony Talotta arrived at a Pittsburgh jail, he died from what his family says was a treatable and preventable infection from a foot wound. Talotta, who had autism and developmental disabilities, had been brought to the Allegheny County Jail after a fight with a staff member
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin state Assembly has approved a plan to spend more than half a billion dollars to help cover repairs at the Milwaukee Brewers’ stadium. The Brewers contend that American Family Field’s glass outfield doors, seats and concourses should be replaced, that the suites and scoreboard
Continue ReadingBy Brad Parks and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Saturday started out as a normal day, 32-year-old Hanaan Shahin told police, with breakfast in the home her family rented in Plainfield Township, Illinois. Within hours, Shahin was in the hospital, recovering from more than a dozen stab wounds, after the family’s landlord brutally attacked her
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Speculation that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin might jump in the race for president has long swirled and could be set to further escalate, depending on the outcome of next month’s legislative elections in the state. Youngkin is holding a major donor retreat
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump returned to a New York City courthouse Tuesday to be a spectator at the civil fraud trial that threatens to disrupt his real estate empire, renewing his claims that the case is a baseless and politically targeted distraction from his 2024
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is slipping Tuesday following the latest signal the U.S. economy may still be too strong for the Federal Reserve’s liking. The S&P 500 was 0.5% lower in morning trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 64 points, or 0.2%, as of 10:10
Continue ReadingHOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Two more people have been charged in connection with a shooting investigation in Holyoke, Massachusetts, during which a pregnant woman on a bus was hit by gunfire and delivered a baby that later died. A total of five people have been named by prosecutors following the Oct. 4 shooting. Two are
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US secretly provided Ukraine with long-range ATACMS missiles in recent days, according to multiple US officials, providing Ukraine with a significant new capability that could allow its forces to hit new Russian targets that were previously out of reach. The confirmation came on Tuesday after
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN and STEVE DOUGLAS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Sweden players have been returning to their clubs after taking an overnight flight home from Brussels following the suspension of their European Championship qualifier against Belgium at halftime because a gunman killed two Swedish nationals before kickoff. The squad went directly to the airport
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