Month: June 2024

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A weekend of commencement ceremonies at a half-dozen California universities is underway with no immediate sign of the major campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza that have led to clashes with police and numerous arrests. Officials appealed Friday for celebrations of graduates without disruptions

TORONTO (AP) — A court document filed this week shows Austrian-Canadian auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach is accused of sexually assaulting three different complainants in alleged incidents that took place in Toronto and Aurora, Ontario.  The document says the alleged incidents took place in 1980, 1986 and last year. The charges that were announced last

By JAMIE STENGLE and KENDRIA LaFLEUR Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Opal Lee, the 97-year-old Texan known for her push to make Juneteenth a national holiday, was given the keys Friday to her new home, which was built on the same tree-lined corner lot in Fort Worth that her family was driven from

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Madison Square Garden is going back to the dogs. The Westminster Kennel Club has announced that its storied dog show is returning next year to the Garden for the first time since 2020. For reasons including the coronavirus pandemic, the annual dog show has since been

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — A family of six, including three children, were killed by gunmen in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas. The mayor of the Chiapas town of Pantelho said the killings occurred there Friday. It was the latest in a string of mass killings in

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix residents who have spoken out against police brutality hailed on Friday a scathing U.S. Justice Department report outlining a pattern of excessive force and racial discrimination, saying it lays blame not just at the feet of law enforcement but the leaders of the nation’s fifth-largest city.

By KIM CHANDLER and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama jury has convicted a state trooper of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl. An Associated Press investigation found Christopher Bauer landed the trooper job even after he was kicked out of the FBI’s New Orleans office amid earlier claims he raped a

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Around an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on bump stocks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly said a gunman who carried out a racist massacre in her hometown of Buffalo had used the gun accessory that can allow semiautomatic rifles to shoot

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has launched a major effort to block free communication on the Internet, shutting off access to virtual private networks, or VPNS. Those can be used to circumvent blockages of banned websites and services. The attempt to restrict access to information began at the end

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) — Seven years after a man was convicted of killing nursing student Holly Bobo, the case is returning to the Tennessee courtroom where his intense, highly publicized murder trial unfolded. With Bobo’s parents sitting in the courtroom, a judge heard legal arguments Friday as part of an

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A highway accident involving an SUV carrying aides to Claudia Sheinbaum, who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential elections, has resulted in at least one fatality. Sheinbaum’s spokesman said the advance car hit another vehicle on a highway in the northern state of Coahuila on Friday, and that one person in the

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press Donald Trump’s campaign has found itself defending a Supreme Court decision to strike down a ban that he himself had hailed as an achievement on gun control six years ago. He now almost denies it ever happened. The ruling on Friday draws attention to Trump’s record on gun rights

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Supreme Court ‘s ruling on technical grounds Thursday keeps the abortion pill mifepristone available in the U.S. for now, but it won’t be the last word on the issue, and the unanimous opinion offers some clues for how abortion opponents can keep trying to deny it to women nationwide.

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ALI SWENSON Associated Press BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) — The Republican National Committee on Friday launched a swing state initiative to mobilize thousands of polling place monitors, poll workers and attorneys to serve as “election integrity” watchdogs in November — an effort that immediately drew concerns that it could lead to

By MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s been a long strange trip for Mexico’s Ecologist Green Party, which rode on its alliance with the ruling Morena party to become the second-largest voting block in Congress. The Green Party has been better known for picking presidential winners like it did this time with

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A Serbian court has ruled to extradite a Belarusian filmmaker and pro-democracy political activist to the authoritarian regime in Minsk where he could face prison and torture. Andrei Hniot is wanted in Belarus for alleged tax evasion. His lawyers and supporters said Friday in a statement that if Hniot is extradited

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview, hours after the Justice Department refused to prosecute Republicans’ contempt of Congress

By KATHY McCORMACK and NICK PERRY Associated Press TUFTONBORO, N.H. (AP) — With summer about to start, many people planning to flock to their favorite swimming holes may also want to read up on bacteria warnings. The increased traffic at ponds, lakes and rivers means extra attention needs to be paid to E coli, cyanobacteria,

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press Google CEO Sundar Pichai has testified briefly at the federal financial conspiracy trial surrounding the collapse of once-touted startup Ozy Media. Pichai took the stand Friday. He countered Ozy founder Carlos Watson’s alleged claims that the search giant once sought to buy the company. Pichai said Google did consider hiring

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco park where a grandmother was beaten and then later died will now bear her name. Family and friends will gather Saturday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially usher in the newly named Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park. According to a website maintained by Huang’s family, the

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Some shelters south of the U.S. border are caring for many more migrants now that the Biden administration stopped considering most asylum requests, while others have yet to see much of a change. The impact appears uneven more than a week after the temporary suspension took

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Government officials would be infringing on religious freedom if they were to restrict the Catholic Church’s work serving migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border, says a top U.S. bishop. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressed the issue this week while in

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Democratic governor and top Republican lawmakers in Kansas say they have an agreement on a package of broad tax cuts. The deal between Gov. Laura Kelly and leaders of the GOP-controlled Legislature potentially ends a two-year political standoff that has prevented Kansas from following

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland’s City Hall will remained closed to the public through at least Monday, as officials in Ohio’s second-largest city continued to grapple with the effects of a ransomware attack. City operations have been hampered all week by the threat first detected Sunday. State and federal authorities are investigating. After shutting down most

By KEN MILLER Associated Press Tejano singer and longtime television music show host Johnny Canales has died. He was 77. Canales’ family confirmed his death in a statement posted Thursday on the Johnny and Nora Canales Show Facebook page. The post did not provide a cause of death. “He was more than just a beloved

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers has determined that soil is contaminated beneath some suburban St. Louis homes near a creek where nuclear waste was dumped decades ago, but the contamination isn’t enough to pose a health risk. Soil beneath six homes at the Cades Cove subdivision in Florissant “will not need