Year: 2024

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters have settled House primaries across the state. But all eyes are on a handful of swing districts whose November matchups will help determine who controls Congress for the next two years. All of California’s 52 House seats had primary elections on Tuesday. The top

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a fire that destroyed a building housing supplies for the vaping industry caused multiple explosions, killing one person and injuring a firefighter. The blasts rocked suburban Detroit on Monday, sending gas canisters and debris shooting into the air. The Clinton Township Police Department said on Facebook that debris

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers facing public pressure to restart in vitro fertilization services in the state advanced legislation Tuesday to shield providers from the fallout of a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. Committees in the state Senate and House approved identical bills that would protect

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (AP) — A judge in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent has ordered the deportation of three men from Grenada suspected in the disappearance of a U.S. couple whose catamaran was hijacked. The men, Trevon Robertson, a 19-year-old unemployed man; Abita Stanislaus, a 25-year-old farmer; and Ron Mitchell, a 30-year-old sailor;

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — While artificial intelligence made headlines with ChatGPT, behind the scenes, the technology has quietly pervaded everyday life — screening job resumes, rental apartment applications, and even determining medical care in some cases. While a number of AI systems have been found to discriminate, tipping the

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leader Mitch McConnell is the highest-ranking Republican in Congress who has yet to endorse Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House — having once called the defeated president “morally responsible” for the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack. But that’s potentially about to change.

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Highway signs welcome drivers entering North Carolina to “the nation’s most military friendly state,” and veterans here know they’re being courted. But in a state where camouflage-colored appeals have become commonplace, recent efforts by progressive groups to cut into what has long been a

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Supreme Court Justices Karen Baker and Rhonda Wood advanced to a runoff election for chief justice this fall, ensuring that for the first time a woman will be elected to lead the seven-member panel. Justice Barbara Webb and former state legislator Jay Martin were

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — Panama’s Electoral Tribunal has disqualified former president Ricardo Martinelli’s candidacy in the country’s May 5 presidential election because of a 10-year prison sentence for money laundering he received last year. Martinelli, a supermarket tycoon who was president of Panama from 2009 to 2014, was convicted last July of money laundering

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — For the Paris Olympics, it could almost be a new sport: Score points by hunting down mosaics that a mystery artist who calls himself “Invader” has cemented to walls across France’s capital, the world and even had carried aloft to the International Space Station. Vincent Giraud, one

By WILL WEISSERT, BILL BARROW and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, romped through more than a dozen states on Super Tuesday, all but cementing a November rematch and pushing the former president’s last major rival, Nikki Haley, out of the Republican race. Their victories from

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore is one of three Republicans expected to flip U.S. House seats after new district maps were drawn for the 2024 elections. Moore won the 14th District’s Republican nomination Tuesday. The Republican nomination in the 6th and 13th Districts appeared to be heading for a

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republicans in Alabama have chosen Justice Sarah Stewart as their nominee to lead the state Supreme Court. The court touched off a furor last month with its decision to recognize frozen embryos as children. Women in Alabama saw their appointments canceled and their path to parenthood

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein and Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won North Carolina’s primaries for governor. Their victories on Tuesday set the stage for what will be an expensive and high-stakes November contest in a state that the two parties see as a pivotal

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach is trying to break up with spring break, but it’s not yet clear whether spring break will take the hint. After three consecutive years of spring break violence, Miami Beach officials are implementing monthlong security measures aimed at curbing the chaos, including parking

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A man who purchased a gun with his son four days before the teen used that weapon in a mass school shooting in Michigan is headed to trial on involuntary manslaughter charges. Jury selection starts Tuesday. James Crumbley is accused of failing to take steps that

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — After nearly 200 bodies were found stacked and rotting in a Colorado funeral home, lawmakers have proposed bills to overhaul the state’s threadbare funeral home regulations, which failed to prevent a string of gruesome cases — from sold body parts to fake ashes. The cases

By JONATHAN MATTISE and TRAVIS LOLLER NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed near downtown Nashville told air traffic controllers he could see the runway they were clearing for an emergency landing. But he said he couldn’t reach it. “I’m going to be landing — I don’t know where!” the

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese and Philippine coast guard vessels have collided in the disputed South China Sea, slightly injuring four Filipino crewmen in a new confrontation that unfolded as Southeast Asian leaders gathered for an Asian summit where alarm over Beijing’s aggression at sea was expected to be raised.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Southern California man was arrested on suspicion of smuggling refrigerants into the U.S. from Mexico. Federal prosecutors said Monday that he’s the first person to be charged with violating regulations intended to curb the use of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Investigators say he posted them for sale

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Taylor Swift stole the show at an Asian summit Tuesday when Singapore’s leader was prompted to defend his tiny country’s exclusive concert deal with the singer that risks bad blood in the region by preventing her from performing in neighboring nations. Singapore is a key member

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A University of Hawaii report says regulatory costs account for more than half of the price of a new condo in Hawaii. High housing costs in the state are fueling an exodus of local-born residents searching for cheaper places to live. Some are worried the migration of

By HUIZHONG WU and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is increasing its defense budget by 7.2% this year, similar to last year’s rise. At $222 billion, it is already the world’s second-highest behind the United States. Tensions with the U.S., Taiwan, Japan and neighbors with competing claims to the crucial South China