Month: April 2024

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A candidate for mayor of a violence-wracked city in Mexico has been killed just as she began campaigning. Authorities in the north-central state of Guanajuato said candidate Bertha Gaytán was shot to death on a street in a town just outside the city of Celaya. Mayorships

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge refused Monday to toss out a tax case against Hunter Biden, moving the case closer to the possible spectacle of a trial as his father campaigns for another term as president. U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi denied eight motions to dismiss the indictment accusing President

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Pressure keeps mounting against Peru President Dina Boluarte as lawmakers have submitted to Parliament a request to remove her from office for “permanent moral incapacity.” The move came Monday, three days after police broke down the front door of her residence to search for luxury watches tied to an investigation against

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse. The suit filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8 lockdown violates inmates’ constitutional rights to practice

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond on Monday in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals, according

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s April 15 hush-money criminal trial declared his family off-limits to the former president’s rancor on Monday, expanding a gag order days after Trump assailed his daughter and made false claims about her on social media. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers representing migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard nearly two years ago by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can sue the charter flight company that transported them to the island off the Massachusetts coast, according to a ruling Monday by a federal judge in Boston. The 50 Venezuelans were sent to Martha’s Vineyard from

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines in what authorities say was a yearslong scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children. Samuel Bateman also pleaded guilty on Monday in U.S. District

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Multiple people were hurt Monday in a pileup involving as many as 30 vehicles at an intersection south of Midland, Texas, as high winds blew dust that made visibility difficult, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. Texas Highway Patrol Troopers and Upton County Emergency personnel responded to the crash along

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate seeking to block the state’s plans to make him the second person to be put to death with nitrogen gas has filed a lawsuit arguing the state “botched” the first execution using the new method. Attorneys for Alan Eugene Miller filed the lawsuit

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — The wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor has been sentenced to four months in jail in a scheme to stuff the ballot box to support her husband’s unsuccessful campaign for Congress. KTIV-TV reports that Kim Taylor also was ordered to serve four months’ home confinement following her release from

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s president has appointed the country’s first female prime minister, fulfilling a campaign promise and taking an important step toward the formation of a new government after his reelection late last year. Former planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka will step into the role at a time

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — An attorney for Kansas City Chiefs player Rashee Rice said Monday that the wide receiver is cooperating with authorities after a speeding Corvette and Lamborghini sport utility vehicle caused a chain-reaction crash on a busy Dallas highway over the weekend. A total of six vehicles were involved

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran of the epic wire service rivalry between The Associated Press and United Press International has died. Mike Feinsilber was 89. Feinsilber knew both sides of that long-fierce competition, first as a reporter for UPI in bureaus from Pennsylvania to Vietnam to Washington, then as a

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press The Vermont Legislature is advancing legislation requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change. The state Senate is expected to give final approval this week to the legislation before it goes to the House. If approved, the proposal would create a program that

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea test-fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward waters off its eastern coast, as it pushes to advance its weapons aimed at U.S. targets in the Pacific. South Korea said the missile launched Tuesday flew about 370

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court issued rulings Monday allowing the state’s voters to decide whether to protect abortion rights and legalize recreational use of marijuana, rejecting the state attorney general’s arguments that the measures should be kept off the November ballot. The court was

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has signed into law a bill that recriminalizes the possession of small amounts of drugs. The new law rolls back the state’s previous decriminalization efforts by making so-called personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. It also establishes ways for treatment

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavy gunfire erupted Monday in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital as police battled gang members near the National Palace for several hours. Local media reported that at least one policeman was shot after he and other officers were forced to flee an armored car that

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser. The massive housecleaning comes as part of a settlement in a lawsuit accusing the search giant