SAN DIEGO (AP) — A migrant in a waiting area between two border walls has died this week after a medical emergency, a migrant advocacy group said. U.S. authorities confirmed Friday that someone died but gave few details. The migrant was a 29-year-old woman from Guinea who died Wednesday after encountering medical problems at an
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, has died at 80. Glück’s death was confirmed Friday by Jonathan Galassi, her editor
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen, Alex Marquardt and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US intelligence community produced at least two assessments based in part on intelligence provided by Israel warning the Biden administration of an increased risk for Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the weeks ahead of Saturday’s seismic attack on southern Israel,
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Jurors have cleared an Iowa man charged with murder in the shooting deaths of two students at a Des Moines alternative school, a month after another man was convicted for his role in the killings. Jurors acquitted 20-year-old Bravon Tukes of two counts of first-degree murder and single counts of
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged in the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the “The Wizard of Oz” pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that could keep him out of prison due to his failing health, but only cleared up some of
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged in the museum heist of a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the “The Wizard of Oz” pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that could keep him out of prison due to his failing health, but only cleared up some of
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s top corporate deputies considered adding a “presidential premium” when calculating the value of his Trump Tower penthouse, Mar-a-Lago resort and other assets during his White House years. That’s according to an executive at the former president’s company, who said the gambit would’ve padded
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday added another case to its docket that asks the justices to overturn decades-old precedent to scale back the power of federal agencies, as well as a case that looks at “qualified immunity” for police officers. The new case is
Continue ReadingBETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lacks federally recognized tribal nations, leaving it with an incomplete picture of its Indigenous culture. But a new grant announced Friday is designed to start changing that. Over the next two years, the Pennsylvania Tourism Office, in partnership with Lehigh University’s Institute for Indigenous Studies and federally recognized tribes, will
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Increasingly desperate Republicans convened behind closed doors again Friday as the endless search for a House speaker drags deeper into a second week leaving the GOP majority spiraling into chaos for the foreseeable future. Attention swiftly turned to Rep. Jim Jordan, the
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DeBRE, EDITH M. LEDERER and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas as the army prepares for an expected ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu delivered the threat in a nationally televised address late Friday. Israel has been pounding Gaza with airstrikes
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON, CLAUDIA LAUER, REBECCA BOONE and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Trapped in their cars, in homes or on the beach as flames, black smoke and embers swirled around them, people in the historic Maui town of Lahaina called 911, the one number that might send help or tell them
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — In Israel’s call for the evacuation of half of Gaza’s population, many Palestinians fear a repeat of the most traumatic event in their tortured history, their mass exodus from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding its creation. Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba,
Continue ReadingBROOKE LEFFERTS NEW YORK (AP) — During the pandemic, a friend sent Sharon Stone a paint-by-numbers set to keep her busy, a gesture that has led to a new path of creative expression. The actor has discovered a love of painting and launched a show of her giant abstract canvases at the C. Parker Gallery
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER, SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press ARRAS, France (AP) — A man of Chechen origin who was under surveillance by French security services over suspected Islamic radicalization stabbed a teacher to death at his former high school and critically wounded three other people Friday in northern France, authorities said. The attack
Continue ReadingALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gas and construction trade groups are suing to block New York state’s ban on gas stoves and furnaces in new buildings. The organizations argue the law violates the federal government’s rules around how gas appliances are regulated. They filed the case against the state on Thursday in federal court. New York
Continue ReadingBy Sabrina Souza, CNN (CNN) — A survivor of the 2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting that left 11 worshippers dead said the attack on Israel “feels familiar,” and brought back the trauma. Jeffrey Myers, the rabbi of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, posted Thursday on the congregation’s website in support of
Continue ReadingBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama state Rep. John Rogers has pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to obstruct a federal investigation into an alleged kickback scheme involving state grants. The longtime Democratic lawmaker from Birmingham entered the not guilty plea Thursday in federal court. His assistant, Varrie Johnson Kindall, also pleaded not guilty
Continue ReadingBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s pardon board has rejected a clemency bid for Antoinette Frank — an ex-New Orleans police officer awaiting execution for the murder of a fellow officer and two other people during a 1995 restaurant robbery. New Orleans news outlets report that Frank’s bid for a clemency hearing failed on a
Continue ReadingBy Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia, who entered the race for House speaker after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise dropped out, lost the GOP’s nomination to Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio in a 124-81 vote Friday. After the vote, Scott told CNN he was dropping out of the race
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