By OLGA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police said Thursday that a man killed by police after intentionally crashing a car at the Chinese Consulate earlier this month was armed with a knife, and a crossbow and arrows, offering the first official details of the attack. San Francisco Police Acting Commander
Continue ReadingBy OLGA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police said Thursday that a man killed by police after intentionally crashing a car at the Chinese Consulate earlier this month was armed with a knife, and a crossbow and arrows, offering the first official details of the attack. San Francisco Police Acting Commander
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Samuel and Trent Williams all missed practice for the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday and their status for this week’s game against Minnesota is in doubt. Coach Kyle Shanahan said all three players are day to day after getting hurt
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police said a man killed by police after intentionally crashing a car at the Chinese Consulate was armed with a knife, and a crossbow and arrows. San Francisco Police Acting Commander Mark Im said an officer opened fire after Zhanyuan Yang failed to comply with orders to get on
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Advocates and Nebraska lawmakers are defending a reporter after Gov. Jim Pillen said her story about environmental concerns at his farms wasn’t worth discussing because the reporter was from “communist China.” The Asian American Journalists Association, the chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and some state lawmakers have
Continue ReadingBy DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police officer involved in the Breonna Taylor shooting collided with a suspect’s truck and pointed his gun at the man during an arrest in his new job as a sheriff’s deputy. Myles Cosgrove now works in a rural Kentucky county. He was responding
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Suspect who crashed into Chinese Consulate in San Francisco was armed with knife, crossbow and arrows, police say.
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rivian Automotive will move ahead with construction on a factory in Georgia early next year, the company confirmed Thursday. The California-based electric truck company made the announcement as it opens a retail location in an intown Atlanta development, the eighth in a network of what the company
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rivian Automotive will move ahead with construction on a factory in Georgia early next year, the company confirmed Thursday. The California-based electric truck company made the announcement as it opens a retail location in an intown Atlanta development, the eighth in a network of what the company
Continue ReadingMALIBU, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California university wrestling with the deaths of four seniors who were struck by a car sought to comfort students and faculty Thursday in a prayer service that recalled the young women as “bright lights with promise and aspirations.” Provost Jay Brewster gave that description of the Pepperdine University’s Seaver
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MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California university wrestling with the deaths of four seniors who were struck by a car sought to comfort students and faculty Thursday in a prayer service that recalled the young women as “bright lights with promise and aspirations.” Provost Jay Brewster gave that description of the Pepperdine University’s Seaver
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — As the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, the United States is now allowing Israelis wishing to visit the United States for 90 days or less to come visa-free. The U.S. announced Sept. 27 that it was admitting Israel into the visa waiver program. Forty mostly European and Asian countries are already in the program.
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of judicial employees, from administrative staff to judges, took to the steps of Mexico City’s largest federal court to launch a national, four-day strike against proposed budget cuts. In the first labor action to emerge in Mexico’s judiciary in decades, workers Thursday began protesting planned
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By Jamiel Lynch and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — The City of Orlando announced plans to buy Pulse, the nightclub where 49 people were killed in a mass shooting, pending final approval from city council on Monday. At least 53 others were injured on June 12, 2016, when a 29-year-old shooter opened fire at
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President Joe Biden has approved federal disaster assistance to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by Tropical Storm Hilary from Aug. 19 – 21, 2023, FEMA announced on Thursday. The agency confirmed that public Assistance federal funding is available to the Tribal government and certain private nonprofit organizations on
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — There are explosions audible in the cramped, humid room where Azmi Keshawi shelters with his family in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. The bombardments keep coming closer, he says, and they’re wreaking death and destruction. Keshawi, his wife, two sons,
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Norma has weakened slightly but remains a major storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast. The hurricane is continuing on a path expected to bring it near Los Cabos at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula by the weekend. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Thursday that Norma had 120
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana judge says two attorneys representing a man accused in the 2017 slayings of two teenage girls are withdrawing from the case unexpectedly. Thursday’s development leaves 51-year-old Richard Allen temporarily without representation. His trial originally scheduled for early January 2024 is expected to be
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A San Diego federal judge today overturned California’s three-decades-old ban on assault weapons for the second time in recent years. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, who has frequently ruled in favor of firearm advocates seeking to overturn state laws governing guns and ammunition, issued an injunction Thursday prohibiting state officials from enforcing the ban. In
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Anne Kirkpatrick, a veteran police official who has served as chief of departments in Spokane, Washington, and Oakland, California, won City Council approval as New Orleans’ new police chief Thursday on a 6-1 vote. Kirkpatrick had been serving as interim chief after Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced the appointment in June, pending
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