By COLLEEN LONG, AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced a bloody setback Tuesday when, shortly before his expected departure for the Middle East, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas withdrew from scheduled meetings to protest an
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Palm Springs Mayor Grace Garner is set to deliver the annual State of the City Address today at the Palm Springs Art Museum’s Annenberg Theatre. A reception will get underway at 5 p.m., and the event begin at 6 p.m. with a video and update from Garner and city council members, who will highlight accomplishments
Continue ReadingWEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — An email exchange made public this week shows that a prison guard had warned convicted murderer Danilo Cavalcante was planning to escape a month before the act was carried out. Cavalcante escaped from the Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania on Aug. 31. He eluded a massive manhunt for two weeks
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The estimated future cost to clean up 19 sites contaminated by nuclear waste from the Cold War era has risen by nearly $1 billion in the past seven years. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A prosecutor says a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a 21-year-old man during a traffic stop won’t be criminally charged. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy told news outlets on Tuesday that the deputy clearly ordered Jarveon Hudspeth not to reenter his vehicle, but he did so and started to
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Republican candidate for governor of Michigan has been sentenced to two months behind bars for joining a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper on Tuesday also ordered 42-year-old Ryan Kelley to pay a $5,000 fine for his misdemeanor conviction stemming
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMYA KULLAB, RAVI NESSMAN and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says it had no involvement in an explosion that killed hundreds of people at a Gaza City hospital and that the blast was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket. The Hamas-run Health Ministry in
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump returned Tuesday to the civil fraud trial that imperils his real estate empire, watching and deploring the case as an employee and an outside appraiser testified that his company essentially put a thumb on the scale when sizing up his
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers say they are appealing a narrow gag order imposed on him in his federal 2020 election interference case. Trump’s lawyers said in court papers filed Tuesday that they will challenge an order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan that bars him from making statements
Continue ReadingPONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has been selected to receive the Charlie Sifford Award for his work in advancing diversity in golf. Curry two years ago launched “Underrated Golf” that commits to providing equity, access and opportunity to high school athletes from all communities. He also funded the
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas police officer was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison for stealing nearly $165,000 in a trio of casino heists, including one in which he was found guilty of brandishing a department-issued weapon. Caleb Rogers, who has been on unpaid suspension in
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Another federal lawsuit has been filed challenging provisions in a new North Carolina elections law that critics contend will discourage young adults from voting through a popular method. The complaint filed Tuesday marks the third such lawsuit against portions of a voting bill that became
Continue ReadingBy GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jada Pinkett Smith is feeling free these days. She’s no longer hiding that she’s been separated from megastar husband Will Smith for seven years. “It’s a weight off my shoulders, honestly,” said Pinkett Smith whose new memoir, “Worthy,” is out now. “Ever since the Oscars,
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Teresa Lee Scalf’s family has searched for the name of the person who killed their loved one for over three decades. Now, thanks to new DNA analysis, Scalf’s family has an answer – and some semblance of closure – because investigators say they have solved the 1986 murder case.
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Special prosecutors said Tuesday they are seeking to recharge actor Alec Baldwin in the 2021 fatal shooting on a Western movie set in New Mexico by presenting evidence to a grand jury. New Mexico-based prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis said they’ll present evidence to
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time detected tiny quartz crystals containing silica — a common mineral on Earth — within the atmosphere of a blazing hot exoplanet. It’s likely that the nanoparticles of silica, which on Earth appears in beach sands and is
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By Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio has so far failed to clinch the House speakership in two rounds of voting. On Tuesday, 20 Republicans voted against his candidacy – far more than the handful he could afford to lose given the party’s narrow
Continue ReadingBy LAURIE KELLMAN, DANICA KIRKA, JOCELYN NOVECK and LORI HINNANT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The families of Israel’s missing after Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre say they’re stuck in a limbo of pain and numbness, and without much information. The Associated Press has documented more than 250 people who disappeared during the attacks, which killed
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Billionaire Ronald Lauder, a powerful financial backer of the University of Pennsylvania, is threatening to cut off donations if the school doesn’t do more to fight antisemitism, CNN has learned. The threat from Lauder, one of the heirs to the Estee Lauder cosmetics company, marks the latest
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