Month: January 2024

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some conservative Pennsylvania state lawmakers are suing in federal court and challenging three executive branch actions designed to boost voter registration, including a 2021 executive order by President Joe Biden. The lawsuit filed Thursday is expected to be one of many to litigate voting and election

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An effort to modernize state oversight of a thriving petroleum industry in the nation’s No. 2 state for oil production advanced past its first committee vetting Thursday at the New Mexico Legislature. The bill would rewrite portions of the state’s 1930s-era Oil and Gas Act

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Clad in a yellow vest, little Efruz balances himself on the front of the surfboard as waves foam around him and his companion as they skim over the Pacific waters off Peru. Efruz is a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier and he is a common sight these hot days of the Southern

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Court records show that Brazil’s federal police are investigating the country’s former intelligence chief as part of a wider probe into alleged spying on political opponents under former President Jair Bolsonaro. The former intelligence chief, Alexandre Ramagem, was among those targeted by the 21 search

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — A federal jury has convicted a man on two counts for with defacing one of Michigan’s oldest synagogues with a swastika and other graffiti in 2019. Prosecutors say 23-year-old Nathan Weeden of Houghton was found guilty of conspiring against rights and damaging religious property. Prosecutors say swastikas and symbols associated with

NEW YORK (AP) — A Seattle man who police say has been stalking and harassing Taylor Swift was ordered held without bail Thursday after he was arrested three times in recent days in front of the pop star’s home in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. David Crowe, 33, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on a misdemeanor

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. agency in charge of maintaining the nation’s nuclear arsenal is not consistent when it comes to tracking the progress of small construction projects, making it difficult to prevent delays and cost overruns, congressional investigators said in a report released Thursday. The Government Accountability Office

PINE BLUFF One of two detainees who escaped from a local jail in Arkansas has been captured. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday said Noah Roush was captured at an abandoned house in Pine Bluff. Roush and Jatonia Bryant were discovered missing from the county jail on Monday. Roush was being held on residential

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Journalists at The New York Daily News and Forbes are striking amid contentious contract talks with management and a difficult few weeks in the news industry. The one-day strike Thursday at the Daily News, which once boasted of being the largest circulating newspaper in the country,

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Authorities say New England Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte has been arrested on charges related to illegal online gambling while he was under age and playing at Louisiana State University. Boutte is accused of creating an online betting account under a fake name and then placing more than 8,900 illegal

WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana coroner says remains recovered from the central Indiana estate of a presumed serial killer have been identified as those of a man reported missing in 1993. Authorities said Thursday the remains recovered in 1996 at the Fox Hollow Farm estate of Herbert Baumeister were found to match Manuel Resendez.

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Family, lawyers and activists for Ricky Cobb II say justice is within reach now that the Minnesota trooper who fatally shot him last year has been charged with murder. The 33-year-old Black man was shot July 31, 2023, after failing to get out of his

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A voting-rights coalition is vowing to fight on after Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost issued his second rejection of its petition language for a proposed constitutional amendment. The Republican on Thursday found the title of the “Ohio Voters Bill of Rights” was “highly misleading and

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — General Motors is facing a U.S. Justice Department investigation into a gruesome collision that critically injured a pedestrian and derailed its self-driving car ambitions. The Justice Department inquiry disclosed in a report released Thursday is the latest twist in a debacle that began in October

By MEG KINNARD. JILL COLVIN and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican National Committee has pulled a resolution to consider declaring Donald Trump the party’s “presumptive 2024 nominee” before he formally clinches the requisite number of delegates, a person familiar with the decision said Thursday. News of the withdrawal came shortly

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Three years ago, the Atlanta Falcons passed on a chance to make Raheem Morris their head coach. They didn’t let him get away this time — even after an exhaustive search that included six-time Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick. The Falcons hired the Los Angeles Rams

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Legislature has kicked off debate on whether to join the list of states that allow physician-assisted suicide. A House health committee took the unusual step Thursday of giving the bill a hearing even before the legislative session formally convenes Feb. 12. The lead

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A New Hampshire National Guard officer who led a battalion on the southern U.S. border has pleaded guilty to assault and several other crimes and been sentenced to a reprimand, the U.S. Army said Thursday. A military judge in Texas on Wednesday convicted and sentenced Lt. Col. Mark Patterson as part

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An unprecedented surge in gang violence is plaguing Haiti, with the number of victims killed, injured and kidnapped more than doubling last year. That was the grim report Thursday from the U.N. special envoy for the conflict-wracked Caribbean nations. Maria Isabel Salvador told the U.N.

Associated Press NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — An historic Connecticut church’s soaring steeple and roof have collapsed, leaving a gaping hole in the top of the building and rubble at the front of the building. Authorities said a search was continuing after Thursday’s collapse but there were no deaths or injuries reported at the First

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Denim giant Levi Strauss & Co. says that it’s slashing its global corporate workforce by 10% to 15% in the first half of the year. The company employed about 19,100 people as of the end of November. The job cuts announced Thursday are part of