SAN DIEGO (AP) — Third baseman Manny Machado had right elbow extensor tendon repair surgery Tuesday in Los Angeles and has an estimated recovery time of four to six months, the San Diego Padres announced. That timetable should have Machado back on the field sometime during spring training. The surgery was performed by Dr. Neal
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown — a first in U.S. history, forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and throwing the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. It’s the end of the political line
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown — a first in U.S. history, forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and throwing the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. It’s the end of the political line
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A Minnesota grand jury has indicted the father of Madeline Kingsbury’s two children with first-degree murder in her death and accused him of engaging in a pattern of domestic abuse, roughly four months after her remains were found near a highway. Adam Fravel, 29, was charged
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker who had recently received his commercial pilot’s license was flying his own small plane home from a family celebration in Arizona when it crashed in Utah, killing him, his wife and their two young sons, family members said Tuesday.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The California public defender who sounded the alarm about Orange County’s illegal use of jailhouse informants says the number of major criminal cases that have unraveled because of the scandal has jumped from about a dozen to 57. A new analysis by Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders finds 35 homicide
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he’s traveling to Latin America to discourage people from seeking asylum in the city as it struggles to handle a massive influx of migrants. The Democratic mayor detailed the trip in a news conference Tuesday. He says he wants
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government has issued a long awaited public apology for the extrajudicial killings of 19 civilians who were slain by the military and registered as rebel fighters during one of the most violent periods of the nation’s civil war. The apology comes as Colombia’s government attempts to make amends with communities
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As Kevin McCarthy got pushed out of his job as House speaker, in part by colleagues who helped put him on the dais nine months ago, one of his top lieutenants stepped in to preside — at least temporarily. North Carolina GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has slammed the United States over a Pentagon report that labeled it a “persistent” threat because of weapons of mass destruction, saying it will strongly counter what it called U.S. plans for aggression. Last week, the Pentagon released the unclassified version of its
Continue ReadingBy Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — The congressman temporarily leading the House of Representatives as it searches for a new speaker was selected for the job by Rep. Kevin McCarthy before he was ousted from the speaker’s chair, and some lawmakers want to expand his power beyond the limited portfolio of the interim speaker. Rep.
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna and Morayo Ogunbayo, CNN (CNN) — An 11-year-old youth football player has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and wounding two fellow players at practice in Florida on Monday night, authorities said. The child shot two 13-year-olds at a recreation complex in Apopka, just outside Orlando, after a fight between them during
Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Several defendants in the Georgia election interference case have been approached about their interest in accepting plea deals, as the Fulton County district attorney seeks to pare back the pool of defendants and pick up cooperators ahead of potential trials, according to sources familiar with the
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Riverside County agreed to a nearly $800,000 settlement with Rebecca Spencer following her resignation as the county’s top elections official. The county accepted Spencer’s resignation as Registrar on Friday, Sept. 29, county spokesperson Brooke Federico confirmed. More: RivCo board OKs contract with new vendor for elections, despite reservations Spencer has been with the Registrar of
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Hickey, CNN When Speaker Kevin McCarthy failed to keep his leadership post, his 269-day speakership became the shortest in more than 140 years. In a historic move, the US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to oust McCarthy as speaker. The House will now need to elect a new speaker, but there is no clear alternative
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The Board of Supervisors today signed off on a $3 million-a-year contract with a ballot printing firm for upcoming elections in Riverside County, though the chairman and one other supervisor hesitated in supporting the agreement based on another vendor’s complaints about actions by the now-former registrar of voters. “There are some real discrepancies,” Supervisor Karen
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — It took only a week for the central Kansas police chief who led an August raid on the local newspaper to go from looking like he had enough support at city hall to keep his job to resigning. Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody’s
Continue ReadingSOUTHGATE, Mich. (AP) — A major fire spread through an apartment complex for older residents in suburban Detroit, injuring three residents, severely damaging the roof and forcing crews to fight the flames with aerial hoses. TV stations posted video of fire Tuesday ripping through the roof at the three-story, cross-shaped complex known as the Meadows
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A 34-year-old child care service provider from Costa Mesa was convicted today of molesting 16 boys, aged 2 to 14, and showing another victim child pornography. Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski was convicted by the Orange County Superior Court jury of 34 felony sex charges related to 17 victims in crimes that prosecutors said took place from
Continue ReadingOTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s House of Commons has elected a Black Canadian as its new speaker, a first. Liberal lawmaker Greg Fergus is the new speaker after a secret ballot by lawmakers. The election was triggered by the resignation of Anthony Rota, who stepped down last week after he invited and honored a man
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