Year: 2024

By NICK PERRY Associated Press VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — High housing costs on Martha’s Vineyard are forcing many regular workers to leave and threatening public safety. Sheryl Taylor works as an administrator for Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School but says that each summer she has to leave the island or stay with friends because

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for migrant children who arrived to the United States on their own say the Biden administration’s new rules are not enough to ensure their safety while they are in U.S. custody and should not replace a decades-old agreement that requires court oversight. U.S. District Judge

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge denied a request Friday to use immunity to compel testimony from a movie set armorer in the involuntary manslaughter trial of actor Alec Baldwin who fatally shot a cinematographer during rehearsal for the Western movie “Rust.” Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted

ARCO, Idaho (AP) — Two crop dusting airplanes have collided near an airport in southern Idaho, causing them to crash to the ground. The Butte County Sheriff’s Office says one pilot was killed and the other suffered life-threatening injuries. The crash was reported early Thursday afternoon near the airport in Arco, about 70 miles west

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. officials are fining two Hawaii residents $20,000 for their part in the fatal mauling of a female Hawaiian monk seal pup by unleashed dogs. Hawaiian monk seals are a critically endangered species. Only 1,600 remain in the wild. The loss of a female is a particularly

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle police officer has been fired for calling his Chinese American neighbor racist and sexist slurs while off duty in 2022. The Seattle Times reports Seattle police Officer Burton Hill was fired in May. The termination stemmed from an altercation with his neighbor, Zhen Jin, over the disposal of dog bones

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Nearly six months into his administration Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo says opposition in the Congress and the Attorney General’s Office have made it difficult to implement the change he seeks for the Central American nation that he says he found “semi-destroyed.” The politician from the

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has ruled that New York’s state prison system has been holding inmates in solitary confinement for too long, in violation of state law. State Supreme Court Justice Kevin Bryant said in a decision filed Thursday that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision did not provide sufficient evidence

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador to protest a defense pact with North Korea, two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement vowing mutual defense with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a state visit to Pyongyang. South Korea’s government has

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Thursday rejected longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon’s bid to stay out of prison while he fights his conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol attack. Bannon is supposed to report to prison

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s former nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, says he has been summoned  by the Vatican to face charges of schism. The archbishop posted on Thursday the two-page decree from the Vatican’s Dicastry for the Doctrine of Faith ordering him to appear for trial, citing as evidence

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign outraised President Joe Biden by more than $60 million last month. That’s according to federal filings made public Thursday that detail the Republican fundraising explosion sparked by Trump’s felony convictions. Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee together raised a robust

By ED DAVEY Associated Press BATANGAS, Philippines (AP) — An influential politician in the Philippines, who has been a cheerleader for natural gas power, is behind a company that planned to make a fortune from it, an Associated Press investigation of thousands of pages of documents has found. Gov. Hermilando Mandanas of Batangas province and

By DORANY PINEDA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s workplace regulators passed rules that would protect indoor workers from extreme heat. The regulations would apply to workplaces such as warehouses, schools and kitchens. They would require cooling devices, access to water and cool break areas at certain temperature thresholds as well as monitoring for

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum has begun naming her Cabinet, presenting an even gender distribution and a heavy presence from academia and her prior administration as Mexico City’s mayor. Sheinbaum, herself a climate scientist and former academic, said Thursday that her administration’s economy secretary will be Marcelo Ebrard, who was foreign

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The family of a Black man holding a cellphone when he was fatally shot by a SWAT officer called Thursday for a murder trial for the officer following the public release of portions of body camera footage of the shooting. Kilyn (KAI-lin) Lewis, 37, was shot as

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges, a sharp departure from the anti-immigrant rhetoric he typically uses on the campaign trail. Trump was asked about plans for companies to be able to import

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — As Ajay Stone strolled around historic Rickwood Field and gazed at tributes displayed in honor of Willie Mays and other Negro Leaguers, he clutched a cherished memory under his arm. It was a picture from 2004 of Mays holding Stone’s then-10-month-old daughter Haley, who was

BENONA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — It was a crazy night at a camp for kids in northern Michigan. Police say a tree crashed onto a cabin with 14 people inside, trapping a counselor in her bed for 90 minutes. The counselor eventually walked away and appears to be fine. Authorities were called around 2 a.m.

BLUESTEM, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say two men died in a helicopter crash in eastern Washington state. Lincoln County Fire District 6 Chief Brandon Larmer tells KREM-TV that the helicopter had two people aboard when it crashed Wednesday afternoon. The Lincoln County coroner said Thursday that 68-year-old Ryan Sandvig of Spokane and 63-year-old Mark Manteuffel

COOK, Minn. (AP) — Several small-town tourist meccas in northern Minnesota have been inundated by floodwaters after a deluge of rain earlier this week, while another powerful storm turned a New Mexico village into a lake. In St. Louis County, Minnesota — the home of Duluth — people navigated flood-ridden streets with kayaks and other

By MORGAN LEE and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — More than 1,000 firefighters in New Mexico took advantage of a break in the weather on Thursday to get the upper hand — for now — on a pair of wildfires that have killed two people, destroyed hundreds of homes and