By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israel is vowing again to destroy Hamas, rejecting calls for a cease-fire at a high-level U.N. meeting from the U.N. chief, the Palestinians and many countries and declaring that its war against the extremist group in Gaza is also “the war of the free world.”
Continue ReadingMACON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man who officials say shot himself after police officers appeared at his door has died. Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones says 23-year-old Christian Demond Williams died Tuesday from a single gunshot wound and that he had ruled the death a suicide. The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force found him
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel escalated airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, crushing families in the rubble of residential buildings, as health officials said hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the past day and medical facilities were shut down because of bomb damage
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Caitlin Clark of Iowa is a unanimous pick for The Associated Press preseason women’s basketball All-America team for the second consecutive season. The star guard was on all 36 ballots from the national media panel that selects the AP Top 25 each week. She led the Hawkeyes to the
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — An estimated 305,000 people initially received federal student loan bills with the wrong amount – many with charges higher than they should be – when payments resumed this month after a three-plus year pause. The Department of Education identified the errors and directed student loan servicing companies to
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was granted immunity by special counsel Jack Smith and has met with federal prosecutors multiple times in their investigation into the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to a report from ABC News. Meadows told investigators
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Off-duty pilot accused of trying to cut engines on Horizon Air flight pleads not guilty to attempted murder charges.
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Payments processing giant Visa Inc. posted an 18% rise in its fiscal fourth-quarter profits Tuesday, as the company continues to benefit from the growing use of credit and debit cards globally. The San Francisco-based company said it earned $4.82 billion in the quarter, or $2.33
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government escalated attacks Tuesday on the past weekend’s opposition primary to choose a challenger for President Nicolás Maduro next year. It says the voter turnout claimed by organizers was fraudulently inflated and amounts to a crime. Maduro’s government and its allies have spent months
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An off-duty airline pilot riding in an extra cockpit seat on a Horizon Air flight said “I’m not OK” just before trying to cut the engines midflight and later told police he had recently taken psychedelic mushrooms as his mental health worsened, according
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A 36-year-old man living in Montana with a teenager who mysteriously disappeared from Arizona four years ago has been charged with two felony counts of child sexual abuse based on images found on his phone, authorities said Tuesday. Edmund Davis was arrested
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Otis strengthened from tropical storm to a major hurricane in a matter of hours Tuesday as it approached Mexico’s southern Pacific coast where it was forecast to make landfall near the resort of Acapulco early Wednesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said that Otis was about 115 miles (185 kilometers)
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Jury selection got underway today for the trial of a 66-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend during a frenzied attack in Palm Springs ignited when she told him that their relationship was finished. Miguel Hernandez Toscano is charged with first-degree murder, child cruelty and a sentence-enhancing allegation of using a deadly weapon
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — Florida’s attorney general on Tuesday asked the US Supreme Court to allow a law that a federal court judge says amounts to a crackdown on drag shows to go back into effect while legal challenges play out. Attorney General Ashley Moody said the law –
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that while “the United States does not seek conflict with Iran,” it will act to defend itself “swiftly and decisively” against attacks by Iran or its proxies, and called on United Nations member states to urge Iran not to become directly involved
Continue ReadingBy Pamela Brown and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Intelligence shared with the United States suggests a small cell of Hamas operatives planning the deadly surprise attack on Israel communicated via a network of hardwired phones built into the network of tunnels underneath Gaza over a period of two years, according to two sources familiar
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer American tennis player Jenson Brooksby was given an 18-month suspension after an independent tribunal determined he missed three drug tests within the span of a year. The International Tennis Integrity Agency said Tuesday that Brooksby accepted that his “whereabouts failures” for two of the missed tests “were valid” and
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With millions of families behind on utility payments and more people seeking heating aid, many could soon see a welcome reprieve: The federal government says the cost of heating a home with natural gas this winter is projected to decrease. Heating with electricity is expected to
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The first major snowstorm of the season is expected to hit the northern Cascades and Rockies and North Dakota this week, sending residents searching for their winter coats and facing much different driving conditions after a warm fall in many places. The National Weather Service
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Tom Emmer abruptly abandoned his bid to become House speaker Tuesday, withdrawing hours after winning the internal party nomination once it became clear he would not have enough support from GOP colleagues for the gavel. The House GOP whip,
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