By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s chief prosecutor has announced a criminal investigation into organizers of a presidential primary election held over the weekend. Sunday’s contest was meant to allow voters to choose an opposition candidate to run against President Nicolás Maduro next year. Attorney General Tarek William Saab says
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Republicans who control the North Carolina legislature on Wednesday approved a new congressional map that could help their party pick up at least three US House seats in next year’s elections. The map, approved a week after it was first unveiled, could help Republicans retain –
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Voters in a Tennessee city have firmly rejected a far-right mayoral candidate after she refused to denounce white supremacists who showed up to support her at a candidate forum. Unofficial results show Gabrielle Hanson lost Tuesday by a wide margin to the incumbent Franklin mayor, Ken
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE Associated Press SPRINGS, South Africa (AP) — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground because of a union dispute have left a gold mine in South Africa. A mine official said 109 miners who were held against their will by fellow employees in the mine near Johannesburg escaped
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say 22-year-old man charged with murder in Malibu crash that killed 4 Pepperdine University seniors.
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A hiker was taken to a hospital with moderate injuries today after being rescued from a hiking trail in an unincorporated area of Riverside County near Palm Desert. Fire crews responded at 8:50 a.m. Wednesday to a report of an inaccessible rescue on the Art Smith Hiking Trail, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.
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Update 10/26/23 The Palm Springs City Council passed the resolution as part of the consent calendar. The motion passed unanimously. Original Report 10/25/23 The Palm Springs City Council will consider a resolution on Thursday that will extend the city’s parklet program for another five years through December 31, 2028. On September 26, 2023, the City
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Dwight Howard has denied accusations by a Georgia man who says he was sexually assaulted by the former NBA star and another person. Stephen Harper filed a state civil lawsuit against Howard in July, alleging assault and battery, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress. No criminal charges have been filed
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Dwight Howard has denied accusations by a Georgia man who says he was sexually assaulted by the former NBA star and another person. Stephen Harper filed a state civil lawsuit against Howard in July, alleging assault and battery, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress. No criminal charges have been filed
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) – Fulton County prosecutors have discussed potential plea deals with at least six additional co-defendants charged alongside Donald Trump for attempting to subvert the 2020 presidential election, multiple sources tell CNN. The strategy by District Attorney Fani Willis’ office is clear: get as many co-defendants
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking lawmakers for more than $23 billion in emergency funding to help the government respond to the tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters that have ripped through the U.S. this year. That request is part of a broader package being sent
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — At least once every time Bob Melvin visited San Francisco as a visiting manager, he allowed himself to believe that maybe someday, he would wear a Giants uniform again. Running the bleachers before games, Melvin would glance out at iconic McCovey Cove. Before the team
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A Minnesota doctor who has worked as a poison specialist is accused of killing his estranged wife by poisoning her, police said. Connor Bowman, 30, of Rochester, was arrested Friday, jail records show, and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Betty Bowman, 32. The Rochester Police Department said in a
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Bud Light is set to return as the official beer of the UFC in the U.S. next year as the brand tries to recover from a conservative backlash to a promotion with a transgender influencer. The companies announced that under a new multiyear marketing deal between the promoter of mixed martial
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With a menu of “comforting” food and instrumental sounds rather than dance party music, the White House set out Wednesday to throw a state dinner that balanced the desire to celebrate ties to a close U.S. ally with an effort to strike a measured
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors are set to begin their opening statements Wednesday in the trial of the captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire in 2019, killing 34 people on board and becoming the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history. Captain Jerry Boylan is charged
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors are set to begin their opening statements Wednesday in the trial of the captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire in 2019, killing 34 people on board and becoming the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history. Captain Jerry Boylan is charged
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are floating changes to a funding proposal for Milwaukee Brewers stadium repairs, including the idea of taxing non-Brewers events. The proposals raised at a Senate hearing Wednesday are an attempt to win over skeptics of a plan designed to keep the team at American
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The World Bank has approved a $1 billion loan for South Africa to help it address an energy crisis that has peaked this year with the country’s worst electricity blackouts. It has forced South Africa to lean more heavily on its highly polluting coal-fired
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Scholastic Inc. will end a widely criticized policy that made it easier for school book fairs not to sell works with racial, disability and LGBTQ+ themes. The children’s publisher angered many authors and educators when it created a separate package of more than two dozen books, labeled “Share Every Story, Celebrate
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