By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio judge has found former Republican state Rep. Bob Young guilty on domestic violence charges over an incident this summer involving his wife. Judge Edward O’Farrell found Young, who waived his right to a jury trial and instead left his fate in the
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts are discriminatory and ordered them redrawn. The judge ruled Thursday, ordering the state to draw an additional Black-majority congressional district. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in a 516-page order, also ordered the state to draw two
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities are planning to convert unused military barracks and installations into temporary shelters for migrants to deal with the increased arrival of thousands of people by boat to the Canary islands. A government minister says the authorities are evaluating two barracks in the Madrid region and other installations in the southern
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has reaffirmed a $10,000 fine he imposed on Donald Trump over an out-of-court comment that the former president made during his civil business fraud trial. The development came Thursday, after Trump’s lawyers urged Judge Arthur Engoron to rethink
Continue ReadingBy Avery Lotz, CNN (CNN) – Herbert “Bertie” Bowman, the longest-serving African-American congressional staffer in history who worked on Capitol Hill for more than 60 years, died Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He was 92. According to his autobiography “Step by Step,” at 13, Bowman imagined Washington, DC could offer him a different
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan rose for the seventh straight week, making a significant hurdle for prospective homebuyers. The rate on the long-term loan is 7.79%, up from 7.63% last week and 7.08% a year ago. As mortgage rates rise, they can add hundreds of dollars a
Continue ReadingBy John Miller, Curt Devine, Casey Tolan, Isabelle Chapman and Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in the Maine mass shooting started making statements about hearing voices and wanting to hurt fellow soldiers while serving at a military base this summer, and spent a few weeks in a hospital, law enforcement officials told CNN.
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Danielle Campoamor (CNN) — On the morning of May 24, 2022, my then-editors at TODAY.com were ready to send me to Ukraine to cover Russia’s unprovoked war. I had done everything necessary to prepare: I completed a three-day hostile environment training; purchased tourniquets and other battlefield medical equipment to carry on my person at all
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Two cargo planes recently orchestrated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to carry supplies into Israel also contained drones, body armor and helmets for the war-ready country, CNN has learned. The Israeli government procured the equipment and asked the state of Florida for help transporting it overseas, a source with
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is ramping up political pressure on Serbia and Kosovo to normalize their relations. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Albin Kurti met Thursday with the leaders of France, Germany and Italy, plus the two EU officials supervising a stuttering “dialogue” between them. Vucic
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb and Lauren del Valle, CNN New York (CNN) — Judge Arthur Engoron on Thursday defended his $10,000 sanction against Donald Trump after the former president violated the gag order barring public comments about members of the judge’s staff, rejecting another appeal by Trump’s attorneys to drop the fine. Before trial testimony began Thursday morning, Trump’s attorney Chris Kise asked
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — A U.S. Army reservist suspected of killing at least 18 people in Maine had been taken by police for an evaluation after military officials became concerned that he was acting erratically in mid-July, a U.S. official told The Associated Press. The official said commanders in the
Continue ReadingBy Kara Fox, Krystina Shveda, Natalie Croker and Marco Chacon, CNN (CNN) — Lewiston. Monterey Park. Orlando. Las Vegas. Newtown. Parkland. San Bernardino. Uvalde. Nashville. Louisville. Ubiquitous gun violence in the United States has left few places unscathed over the decades. Still, many Americans hold their right to bear arms, enshrined in the US Constitution,
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A senior Hamas official has told The Associated Press that the Palestinian militant group had expected stronger intervention from Hezbollah in its war with Israel. Thursday’s comments were a rare public appeal by Hamas to its allies in the region. Hamas political bureau member Ghazi Hamad said
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Otis’ stunning transformation into a monster hurricane killed at least 27 people as it devastated Acapulco, officials said Thursday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador went by road after the hurricane hit the iconic city on Mexico’s Pacific coast, where at least four people remained missing. He
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has joined an EU summit saying that he was right to meet the EU’s foremost enemy Vladimir Putin. Orban says he’s the only one actively seeking peace in Ukraine and his stance of engaging with Russia was expected to be backed by
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On his first full day as speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson said prayer was a proper response from the House to the Maine shootings. Johnson said “this is a dark time in America,” and that ”prayer is appropriate at a time
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Authorities carried out a massive search Thursday for a man who they say killed 18 people and wounded 13 at a bowling alley and bar in Maine that sent panicked patrons hiding under tables and behind bowling pins and gripped the entire state in fear. Frightened
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office says the state has arranged to send drones, weapons, and ammunition to Israel as it prepares for an incursion of Gaza in response to Hamas’ attack. Florida has sent cargo planes with healthcare supplies, drones, body armor, and helmets, DeSantis said
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Two workers at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been hospitalized after accidentally being sprayed with radioactive liquid waste. Plant officials said on Thursday that the incident happened when the workers were cleaning a piping at a wastewater filtering facility that’s key to the ongoing
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