By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight have arrived in Florida for their May launch. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams flew from Houston to Kennedy Space Center on Thursday. They will serve as test pilots for Boeing’s Starliner. The capsule is
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump returned to court Thursday for the third day of witness testimony in his hush money trial. The trial resumed around the same time the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Washington over whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions he took during his time as president. At
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials say the United States will pull the majority of its troops from Chad and Niger as it works to restore key agreements governing what role there might be for the American military and its counterterrorism operations. One U.S. official said Thursday that the U.S.
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Bob Graham, former United States senator and Democratic governor of Florida. Personal Birth date: November 9, 1936 Death date: April 16, 2024 Birth place: Coral Gables, Florida Birth name: Daniel Robert Graham Father: Ernest “Cap” Graham, Florida state senator, dairy farmer and cattle
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of John Kasich, former Republican governor of Ohio and 2016 presidential candidate. Personal Birth date: May 13, 1952 Birth place: McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania Birth name: John Richard Kasich Jr. Father: John Kasich Sr., mail carrier Mother: Anne Kasich, postal worker Marriages: Karen (Waldbillig)
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published April 23, 2024, about suicide prevention, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Shelby Rowe is executive director of the Suicide Prevention Research Center. Rowe is executive director of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center.
Continue Reading
CNN By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court appeared ready to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims of sweeping immunity and the broad protections he has sought to shut down his federal election subversion case, but also reluctant to give special counsel Jack Smith carte blanche to pursue
Continue ReadingBy LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — There’s no place Drake Maye would rather be. When the NFL invited the former North Carolina quarterback to attend the draft in Detroit, he had a quick answer. Yes. “I think you always dream about coming here and coming to walk across the stage and be
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Months before they pitched their tents on Columbia University’s main lawn, inspiring a wave of protest encampments at college campuses nationwide, a small group of pro-Palestinian student activists met privately to sketch out the logistical details of a round-the-clock occupation. In hours of planning sessions, they
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Native American tribes and environmentalists want a U.S. appeals court to weigh in on their request to halt construction along part of a $10 billion transmission line that will carry wind-generated electricity from New Mexico to customers as far away as California. The disputed stretch of the SunZia Transmission
Continue ReadingBy MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Planned Parenthood affiliated groups have announced a $10 million voter engagement campaign in North Carolina for the 2024 election. Organizers said in a Thursday news conference that the money will go toward things like canvassing, mailers and digital ads. The funding comes as abortion-rights advocates seek
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press United Methodist delegates have overwhelmingly endorsed a constitutional amendment seen by advocates as a way of defusing debates over the role of LGBTQ people in the church by giving rule-making autonomy to each region of the international church. Delegates voted 586-164 on Thursday for the “regionalization” proposal on the third
Continue ReadingBy FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Thousands of Indigenous people, frustrated with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, are marching in Brazil’s capital to demand official recognition of lands they live on. Previously president between 2003 and 2010, Lula began a third term in January of last year. Since then, his administration
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press Authorities in Maryland say a high school athletic director used artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording. They say the clip contained racist and antisemitic remarks and quickly spread on social media. The principal was temporarily removed from his post at Pikesville High School in Baltimore County.
Continue ReadingBy DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The FCC on Thursday restored “net neutrality” rules that prevent broadband internet providers such as Comcast and AT&T from favoring some sites and apps over others. The move effectively reinstates a net neutrality order the commission first issued in 2015 during the Obama administration; under
Continue ReadingBy JULIA DIAS CARNEIRO and ALAN K. GUIMARÃES Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the northern coast of Brazil’s Amazon region have been buried in a cemetery in Belem, Para state’s capital. Fishermen off the coast of Para found a boat adrift on April
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrikes represented the “best of humanity” and risked everything “to feed people they did not know and will never meet,” José Andrés, the celebrity chef who founded the organization, told mourners who gathered Thursday
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris’ detail was removed from their assignment after displaying behavior that colleagues found “distressing,” the agency said. The incident occurred about 9 a.m. ET Monday at Joint Base Andrews, the agency said, ahead of a planned visit by the
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHAEL R. SISAK, COLLEEN LONG and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The former publisher of the National Enquirer testified Thursday at Donald Trump’s hush money trial about going to great lengths to help shield his old friend from potentially damaging stories using a catch-and-kill scheme prosecutors allege amounted to
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York has rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial after a jury awarded $83.3 million in damages to a longtime magazine columnist who sued the former president for defamation. The judge rejected the former president’s claims that the compensatory and
Continue Reading