By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas officials have released a second audit in as many years of elections in Harris County. The report released Thursday does not suggest that results in 2022 were impacted by issues that Republicans have used to contest losses and take more control over voting in
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden declared it is “vital for America’s national security” for Israel and Ukraine to succeed in their wars, making the case Thursday night for deepening U.S. involvement in two unpredictable foreign conflicts as he prepared to ask for billions of dollars
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears’ highly anticipated memoir “The Woman in Me” will be released Tuesday, revealing the pop superstar’s personal take on events that have played out publicly in her decades as one of the most scrutinized figures in American life, along with private
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge who previously overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons did it again on Thursday, ruling that the state’s attempts to prohibit sales of semiautomatic guns violates the constitutional right to bear arms. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego conceded that powerful weapons like AR-15 rifles are
Continue ReadingWHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor says a suburban Chicago man has been charged with two hate crimes for allegedly verbally abusing and threatening to shoot two Muslim men. The DuPage County state’s attorney says 46-year-old Larry York of Lombard was denied pretrial release during a court hearing Thursday. Berlin says York confronted the victims
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden declared it is “vital for America’s national security” for Israel and Ukraine to succeed in their wars, making the case Thursday night for deepening U.S. involvement in a rare Oval Office address as he preparedto ask for billions of dollars
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man who crashed a car at the Chinese Consulate earlier this month had a crossbow and arrows and swung a knife at officers before a police sergeant killed him, San Francisco police said Thursday, offering the first official details of the attack. San Francisco
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — More than 15 minutes after the game, Ketel Marte stood at his clubhouse locker, gulping water while trying to finally catch his breath after delivering the Arizona Diamondbacks’ latest clutch postseason moment. “After my hit, I sprinted so hard,” Marte said, shaking his head. Marte capped
Continue ReadingNIAMEY The junta in Niger says it has thwarted an escape attempt to by the West African nation’s outed president. In a communique read late Thursday, Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane said that deposed President Mohamed Bazoum had tried to escape detention overnight. The attempt comes nearly three months after the democratically elected leader was detained
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Originally Published: 19 OCT 23 00:44 ET Updated: 19 OCT 23 21:50 ET By Betsy Klein, Kayla Tausche and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden tied the wars in Ukraine and Israel together during a primetime Oval Office address Thursday, making an impassioned appeal to the American people to support two fellow democracies
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An outage knocked out power to more than 1,000 Imperial Irrigation District customers in the Indio area today in the morning, but most had their electricity restored by noon. The utility alerted the public shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday that 1,290 customers were affected by the outage. By 11:36 a.m., power was restored
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A police detective has testified that a woman whose body was found in the trunk of a car in Georgia had come from South Korea to start anew and ease her depression. Gwinnett County police homicide Det. Angela Carter said in court Thursday that Sehee Cho
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — After going missing nearly 80 years ago, a baroque landscape painting was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German museum representative in a brief ceremony at the German Consulate
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, Amy Simonson and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — A St. Louis youth football team had the rest of its season canceled after a player’s parent allegedly shot the coach multiple times for not putting his son as a starter for the team, according to city and police statements. Authorities responded to the
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors say Donald Trump is “not above the law” as they are urging a judge to reject the former president’s efforts to dismiss the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Lawyers for Trump had asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan earlier
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The No Labels party on Thursday filed a lawsuit in Arizona seeking to block its ballot line from being used by Democrats who oppose the group’s efforts to launch a third-party ticket for president next year. The lawsuit asks a federal judge in Phoenix to block
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By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Parts of a controversial Southern California school district policy that require school staff to tell parents if their child asks to change their gender identification will remain halted after a judge granted a preliminary injunction Thursday to block them until a final decision is
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With tensions spiking in the Middle East, U.S. forces in the region are facing increasing threats as a Navy warship shot down missiles appearing to head toward Israel Thursday and American bases in Iraq and Syria were repeatedly targeted by drone attacks. Later,
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A fatal shooting by police in Wallingford, Connecticut, is raising questions about whether officers could have responded in another way. The state inspector general’s office says two officers fired about 10 gunshots at Donald Passmore as he lay in his bed with a .22-caliber revolver early Monday. Police body camera
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans says he is being unfairly prosecuted for disturbing the peace over a dispute with an airline employee who he alleges targeted him because of his race. Attorneys for Wayans, who is Black, made the allegations in a court filing Thursday that asked
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