PHOENIX (AP) — A judge ruled Wednesday that Phoenix must permanently clear the city’s largest homeless encampment by Nov. 4. City officials began shutting down the homeless encampment known as “The Zone” in May under an order by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott Blaney, but they had asked to be given until April 2024
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Gen. CQ Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, putting him in place to succeed Gen. Mark Milley when he retires at the end of the month. Brown’s confirmation on a 83-11 vote, months
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The debate over whether a Black high school student in Texas should be serving in-school suspension for wearing twisted dreadlocks to class intensified this week as the student’s family and his school district both took legal action. Darryl George, 17, a junior at Barbers Hill High
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration says it has taken a series of recent steps to improve the accuracy of the state’s voter rolls, including entering into new data-sharing agreements with five states and Washington, D.C. The announcement Wednesday came months after Virginia joined the growing number
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s Day 3 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York. Here are the highlights of what happened Tuesday at the U.N. and what to keep an eye on today, Wednesday. Key speeches expected are Rashad al-Alimi, head of Yemen’s internationally
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Thousands came out in a rain to watch an open-air Diesel show during Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, making the denim-centric brand the hottest ticket in town. Designer Glenn Martens has elevated the brand to new heights, attracting top music talent like Jaden Smith to the VIP
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai says he doesn’t want to see his father die in detention, as his lawyers raised the prospect that his long-delayed trial may be pushed back indefinitely. Sebastien Lai also slammed the U.K. government for its “shameful” lack of
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The “Forever Marilyn” statue in downtown Palm Springs has a new look, can you spot it? Crews unwrapped a huge scarf and placed it around Marilyn’s neckline. It’s a stunt to promote season 45 of the CBS hit series “Survivor” “Forever Marilyn” was chosen as one of several iconic locations across the United States. Miles
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The railroad industry is trying to make sure that emergency responders can quickly look up what is on a train quickly when they respond to a derailment. In the chaos after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and caught fire in eastern Ohio in February, firefighters couldn’t
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has revealed parts of her trial strategy for the Georgia election subversion case in a new court filing Wednesday that identified some of her key witnesses. Pro-Donald Trump lawyer Lin Wood is a “witness for the state” in the Georgia
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — House Democrats have begun internal discussions about how to deal with the prospects of a chaotic situation: The possibility that Speaker Kevin McCarthy could lose his job in an unprecedented vote on the floor. While no decisions have been made, some of the party’s
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — It’s the $250 million question: Why has it taken until Sept. 20 for the high-priced San Diego Padres to start playing like everyone thought they would have all season? The Padres extended their season-best winning streak to seven games by beating the last-place Colorado Rockies
Continue ReadingBy TED ANTHONY AP National Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Work together. Go it alone. The apocalypse is at hand. But the future can be bright. The squabbles never cease, yet here are human beings from all across the world — hashing out conflicts with words and processes, convening under one roof, trying to write
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors in Colorado say two Denver-area police officers ignored Elijah McClain’s pleas that he couldn’t breathe when they put the Black man in a neck hold. He was later injected with a powerful sedative and was pronounced dead three days after going into cardiac arrest on
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — An unknown gunman opened fired outside the U.S. embassy in Beirut late Wednesday night. Embassy spokesperson Jake Nelson said in a statement that “small arms fire was reported in the vicinity of the entrance” of the sprawling and heavily fortified compound in the suburb of Awkar. “There were no injuries, and our
Continue ReadingBy BEN ROSS Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Dominic Canzone homered and drove in four runs as the Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 6-3 on Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep and maintain their position in the tight AL West race. Julio Rodríguez and Cal Raleigh added back-to-back homers to give Seattle 200
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — During his abbreviated lifetime, a cabaret performer named Fritz Grünbaum amassed a trove of artwork — more than 400 pieces, including 80 sketches and paintings by the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele that were ultimately plundered by the Nazis. For a while, many of those disappeared
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — During his abbreviated lifetime, a cabaret performer named Fritz Grünbaum amassed a trove of artwork — more than 400 pieces, including 80 sketches and paintings by the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele that were ultimately plundered by the Nazis. For a while, many of those disappeared
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Corbin Carroll swiped his 50th base of the season, followed with his 25th homer and then made a nice, running defensive play to track down a line drive in left field that wrapped up Arizona’s 7-1 win over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday. Just another
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House aide, claims in a new book that Rudy Giuliani groped her backstage at the rally that preceded the former president’s supporters’ insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. The 27-year-old Hutchinson, whose bombshell testimony provided a key moment in
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