Month: February 2024

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Testimony at trial Monday turned emotional and argumentative as an eyewitness recounted the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a movie rehearsal and described gun misfires, crew members walking out and a “ludicrous” pace of work. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was sued Monday by a music producer who accused the hip-hop mogul of sexually assaulting him and forcing him to have sex with prostitutes. The suit, filed in federal court in New York, accuses Combs of repeated instances of unsolicited groping and sexual touching. It also says the

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A lawsuit filed by one of the sons of the owner of the Houston Texans that had sought to have her declared incapacitated and have a guardian appointed for her was dropped on Monday. Robert Cary McNair Jr. had filed his application for appointment of a

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republicans in the Tennessee House have voted to advance a bill that would prevent local governments from reappointing state lawmakers who were expelled due to behavior. The proposal passed Monday is one of several restrictions being considered after the GOP’s high-profile expulsion proceedings against Democratic House

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge struck down a California law banning possession of club-like weapons, reversing his previous ruling from three years ago that upheld the prohibition on billy clubs, batons and similar blunt objects. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez ruled last week that the prohibition violates the Second Amendment. The state said

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill requiring that public and private schools determine why a fire alarm went off before evacuating children from classrooms. The action in the Senate on Monday next needs the governor’s approval to cement into law the change inspired by a deadly

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru has declared a health emergency in most of its provinces due to a growing number of dengue cases that are occurring at a time of higher than usual temperatures caused by the El Nino weather pattern. According to the nation’s health ministry, the number of

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah House has blocked a bill that would have banned teachers from using their position to promote or disparage certain beliefs. Utah teachers will be free to display LGBTQ+ Pride flags and other social, political or religious imagery. The Republican-led chamber shot down the

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The GOP-led Tennessee House has passed a bill that would largely ban displaying pride flags in public school classrooms. The 70-24 vote Monday sends the legislation to the Senate. A final vote could happen in the coming days. Republicans cut a heated debate short before the

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate has voted to lay the foundation to attract nuclear energy projects to a state where coal has fueled the economy for generations. Republican Sen. Danny Carroll says Kentucky should embrace a cross-section of sources — including coal, natural gas and

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members have demanded that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the sixth grade and women’s right to work and move freely. A statement Monday

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban by creating limited exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest has been introduced in the GOP-dominated House. Republican state Rep. Ken Fleming filed the measure Monday. That’s the last day that new House bills could be introduced

By JILL COLVIN and DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Emergency crews responded Monday after a letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to the Florida home of Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of former President and GOP front-runner Donald Trump. A person familiar with the matter said that results on the

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Mohegan tribe says it will end its management of Atlantic City’s Resorts casino at the end of this year. The move will conclude a management agreement the tribe’s gambling arm Mohegan Gaming Advisors made with Resorts in  2012 six months after the casino’s co-owner,

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A shooting that killed two adults and severely wounded two others has stunned a tiny Alaska Native whaling village above the Arctic Circle, where parents were told they could keep their children home from school Tuesday to hug them. A 16-year-old boy has been charged as

REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — A case of old hockey cards possibly containing the game’s Great One has fetched more than $3.7 million after it was discovered in a Regina home. Heritage Auctions says the winning bidder bought the case of 16 sealed boxes of O-Pee-Chee’s 1979 hockey card collection, amounting to more than 10,000 cards.

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats in the New York Legislature are rejecting a congressional map drawn by the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission. The votes on Monday set the stage for the party to craft lines that help Democrats in battleground House races that could determine control of Congress. The Democratic-dominated

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say Family Dollar Stores has pleaded guilty to holding food, drugs, cosmetics and other items under “insanitary” conditions at a now-closed, rodent-infested distribution center in West Memphis, Arkansas. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Monday that Family Dollar faced one misdemeanor count of causing

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police on Tuesday found the bodies of a couple shot and killed by an ex-boyfriend, who happened to be a police officer, hours after he admitted to killing and hiding them under rocks and debris on a rural property. The remains of former television reporter

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The government of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has condemned a threat by the governor of the oil-rich province of Chubut to cut off energy supplies to the rest of the country amid a dispute over funding reductions. The squabble between Argentina’s central government with the local provinces started late

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Andy Kim says in a federal lawsuit that New Jersey’s primary ballot design unconstitutionally favors candidates who have the support of political party leaders and should be scrapped. The representative, who’s locked in a primary contest for U.S. Senate against the state’s first lady Tammy Murphy, filed the lawsuit

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley was asked in a New York courtroom Monday about a seamy episode from his past: his 1980 arrest after authorities said they found drugs and a naked 16-year-old girl suffering from an overdose at the Eagles co-founder’s Los Angeles home. Henley was testifying at

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City medical school will be tuition-free for all students from now on thanks to a $1 billion donation from a former professor, the widow of a Wall Street investor. Ruth Gottesman announced the gift and its purpose to students and faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Monday,