By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former union leader and Democratic insider Laphonza Butler was sworn in as the newest member of the Senate on Tuesday, replacing California Sen. Dianne Feinstein after her death and becoming only the third Black female senator in history. Butler was appointed by
Continue ReadingBy JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer It was Prime Time all the time the first two weeks of the season as Colorado and effervescent new coach Deion Sanders turned the college football world into believers. Following two straight losses, some of the Prime shine has left the Buffaloes, even if the future looks much brighter
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A bus carrying foreign tourists including Ukrainians crashed near the Italian city of Venice when it fell from an elevated street Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 18 others, authorities said. Four of the injured were in serious condition following the accident in the Mestre
Continue ReadingSOUTHGATE, Mich. (AP) — Firefighters are trying to control a major fire at an apartment complex for older residents in suburban Detroit. The roof has been severely damaged, and crews are trying to subdue the flames with aerial hoses. TV stations posted video of fire ripping through the roof at a cross-shaped building known as
Continue ReadingREBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “THIS IS A TEST”: If you have a cell phone or are watching television Wednesday, that message will flash across your screen as the federal government tests its emergency alert system used to tell people about emergencies. The Integrated Public Alert and Warning System sends out messages via
Continue ReadingLAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — A federal investigator said the small plane crash that killed former NFL tight end Russ Francis and another man at an Adirondack Mountains airport occurred after the engine apparently lost power. Francis was 70 years old. He and 63-year-old Richard McSpadden had just taken off from the Lake Placid Airport
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A bus carrying foreign tourists including Ukrainians crashed near the Italian city of Venice when it fell from an elevated street Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 18 others, authorities said. Four of the injured were in serious condition following the accident in the Mestre
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN (CNN) — When the Supreme Court ruled against the federal agency that protects consumers from financial scams in 2020, it let the agency keep operating, opting for “a scalpel rather than a bulldozer in curing the constitutional defect.” The question now is whether the justices are ready to employ the bulldozer
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker who died in a plane crash along with his wife and two young sons had recently received his commercial pilot’s license with hopes of one day working for a major airline, a Senate colleague said. State Sen. Doug Larsen, his wife Amy
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection began Tuesday in the fraud trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried after a prosecutor revealed that no discussions about a potential plea agreement took place in the nearly 10 months since the cryptocurrency executive was arrested and brought to the United States. Once a
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — NATO says it is “actively addressing incidents” affecting its unclassified websites after a hacking group claimed to have stolen numerous strategic planning and research documents from the alliance. The apparent cyber intrusions raise questions about NATO’s ability to protect communication networks where the alliance shares unclassified but non-public insights
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 ReadingJACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for a drug suspect who was repeatedly punched, elbowed and kneed by officers in northeast Florida during a traffic stop say that they are petitioning the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the case. Attorneys for Le’Keian Woods said Tuesday at a news conference outside the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office headquarters
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is again making his pitch to reduce the state’s individual income tax rate. But not all of his Republican colleagues in the Legislature are sold on the idea. Oklahoma’s Republican-controlled Legislature returned to the Capitol for a special session Stitt called to
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is criticizing his boss-turned-rival, Donald Trump, for calling retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a traitor. Pence also reacted to the news that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been ousted from his post,
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Manager Phil Nevin wasn’t the reason for the Los Angeles Angels’ massively disappointing season, general manager Perry Minasian says. Nevin was simply the face of their latest failure, and that was enough to compel the Angels to part ways with their fourth manager in six
Continue ReadingBy Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, who was expelled from the chamber earlier this year, has filed a federal lawsuit against Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton and other House officials, alleging his constitutional rights have been repeatedly violated, court records show. The federal lawsuit filed in the Middle
Continue ReadingANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Japan is back on top in men’s gymnastics. The five-man group led by reigning world and Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto edged rival China in the team finals at the 2023 world championships on Tuesday to earn Japan’s first major international gold medal since 2015. The Japanese posted a team total of
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Originally Published: 03 OCT 23 10:22 ET Updated: 03 OCT 23 16:47 ET By Clare Foran, Melanie Zanona, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, CNN (CNN) — The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker – a historic moment that threatens to plunge House Republicans even further into chaos and
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