Month: June 2024

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Each year from June to September, a heavy band of rain makes its way from India’s southwest coast to its northeastern borders, quenching farmers’ thirsty fields. India’s monsoon season is arguably the single most important weather phenomenon for the country, and a good monsoon can noticeably

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The torrential rains hitting El Salvador caused the deaths of another six people on Friday when two girls and four adults were killed after being buried in their homes. Wall collapses and landslides on the outskirts of the capital brought a total of 19

MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. government inspections of avocados and mangoes in the Mexican state of Michoacan will gradually resume. U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar made that announcement Friday, a week after they were suspended over an assault on inspectors. Salazar says in a statement that the U.S. Agriculture Department inspectors “will gradually begin to return

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — About two years after 13 children and teens sued Hawaii over the threat posed by climate change, both sides reached a settlement that includes an ambitious requirement to decarbonize the state’s transportation system over the next 21 years. It’s another example of a younger generation channeling

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former CEO of a publicly traded health care company based in Nevada has been found guilty of a multimillion-dollar insider trading scheme. A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted Terren Scott Peizer on Friday. The Justice Department says it’s the first case it has prosecuted exclusively based on a special

STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two Lockheed Martin subsidiaries have agreed to pay the federal government $70 million for overcharging the Navy for aircraft parts. The U.S. Department of Justice says Sikorsky Support Services and Derco Aerospace knowingly entered into an improper subcontract for spare parts and materials for aircrafts used to train Navy pilots. Under

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man arrested in the slaying of a Louisiana woman and abduction of her two daughters and subsequent death of one of them has waived extradition in federal court in Mississippi. The decision Friday cleared the way for the suspect to return to Louisiana to face trial. Multiple news outlets report

ATLANTA (AP) — Reality TV star Julie Chrisley’s sentence for bank fraud and tax evasion has been thrown out by federal appeals judges, who have ordered a lower court to redo her punishment. The star of the show “Chrisley Knows Best” is serving a seven-year prison sentence after her 2022 conviction for conspiring with her

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer and was sentenced to 30 years in federal court has also been convicted of aggravated kidnapping by a state court, a conviction that mandates life behind bars. A San Francisco jury on Friday found David

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An 88-year-old Montana man has been sentenced to two years in a federal prison medical facility for his role in two bank robberies in Billings last summer. The defendant was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in February to being the getaway driver for the robberies in August 2023. Prosecutors say a

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Belinda Bukovitz was jolted into action by the sound of police outside her home shouting through a loudspeaker: “Go now, go now, go now!” Realizing this was not like other wildfires that had threatened her mountain village before, she, her husband, son and two cats bundled into three separate

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A former top law enforcement official is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, saying he was forced to resign after defying illegal orders. Former Florida Law Enforcement Chief of Staff Shane Desguin said DeSantis ordered the illegal surveillance of migrants and carried out a plan to fly

SELDEN, N.Y. (AP) — A New York county has reached a settlement with the family of a man fatally shot by police in his home in 2011. Suffolk County Legislator and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee Rob Trotta said Friday the Long Island county has agreed to pay $1.75 million to the family

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Mitch Landrieu, national co-chair of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign; Gov. Kristi Noem, R-S.D. ___ CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M.; former national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien; former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell.

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Newly released body camera footage shows a chaotic encounter on a Minneapolis street last month, as officers ran toward a man who just shot one of their own and bystanders took cover behind a car as gunfire rang out. Edited video released Friday by the Minneapolis Police

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration. The state’s Republican governor signed the bill into law on Tuesday. Proponents hope the new law will deter people from committing sex crimes

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Days before the National Transportation Safety Board is set to explain why first responders were wrong to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside after the East Palestine derailment, Norfolk Southern said Friday it plans to lead an industrywide effort to improve the way those decisions

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights. Attorneys estimate the deal could be worth more than $50 million. Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, of the Northern District of Illinois, gave preliminary

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — At least six people have died from heat-related causes this year so far in sizzling metro Phoenix, where the temperatures this week hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius), the Maricopa County Department of Public Health reported this week. Another 87 deaths are under investigation for possible heat-related

By MELISSA GOLDIN and ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans have shared a spate of lightly altered and out-of-context videos to fuel a narrative that President Joe Biden is mentally and physically unfit for office. It’s long been standard practice in politics to spin real moments to make an opponent look bad.