FBI El Paso is done investigating city representatives’ use of taxpayer-funded gas cards
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) —The FBI in El Paso has confirmed to ABC-7 that it investigated allegations of excessive use amongst city…
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NTSB: Engine oil warnings sounded moments before jet crash-landed on Florida highway, killing 2
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Moments before the deadly crash of a charter jet on a Florida highway, three warnings…
Continue Reading Starbucks and Workers United, long at odds, say they’ll restart labor talks
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks and the union organizing its U.S. workers say they have agreed to begin talks with the aim of reaching…
Continue Reading NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for expanded cooperation between police and immigration authorities
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is calling for expanded cooperation between local police and…
Continue Reading US and UK hit Iranian deputy commander and Houthi member with sanctions
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and U.K. sanctioned a deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard…
Continue Reading Army personnel file shows Maine reservist who killed 18 people received glowing reviews
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An Army reservist responsible for the deadliest shooting in Maine history received a glowing…
Continue Reading Federal prosecutors take over case against man charged with threatening Virginia church
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have taken over the case against a northern Virginia man arrested last…
Continue Reading Suspect in New York hotel killing remains in custody without bond in Arizona stabbings
PHOENIX (AP) — A suspect in the killing of a woman at a New York City hotel was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Arizona’s most populous…
Continue Reading Effort to repeal Washington’s landmark carbon program puts budget in limbo with billions at stake
By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A conservative-backed effort to repeal Washington state’s landmark carbon pricing program and…
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Asteroid is a ‘very different body’ after being hit by NASA spacecraft, scientists say
CNN, NASA TV, X By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft intentionally slammed into the…
Continue Reading A mower sparked a Nebraska wildfire that has burned an area roughly the size of Omaha, officials say
By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — State officials say a mower sparked a wildfire that has burned about 110 square miles of…
Continue Reading A Canadian mass killer died from a cocaine overdose, a pathologist says
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (AP) — A pathologist told Saskatchewan coroner’s inquest that a man who killed 11 people and injured 17 others died from…
Continue Reading 2 men convicted of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay nearly 22 years after rap star’s death
By JENNIFER PELTZ and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than 20 years after Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay was brazenly gunned…
Continue Reading UAW says a majority of workers at an Alabama Mercedes plant have signed cards supporting the union
DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers said Tuesday that a majority of workers at a Mercedes plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, have signed cards in…
Continue Reading Massachusetts man sues state for $1M after serving 27 years in prison
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man who spent nearly three decades in prison on a murder conviction that was thrown…
Continue Reading NYC officials shutter furniture store illegally converted to house more than 40 migrants
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City furniture store that had been illegally converted into sleeping quarters for more than 40 migrants has been shut…
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‘Mary Poppins’ gets a new age rating in the UK over its use of a racial slur
CNN By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — A British film industry group has raised the age rating for the beloved children’s classic “Mary…
Continue Reading Nebraska prosecutors to pursue death penalty in only one of two grisly small-town killings
By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty in the December killing of a…
Continue Reading Innocent girlfriend or murderous conspirator? Jury begins deliberations in missing mom case
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A Connecticut jury has begun deliberating after hearing closing arguments in the murder conspiracy case against a…
Continue Reading New Orleans hat seller honored by France for service in WWII
By KEVIN McGill Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 99-year-old New Orleans businessman best known in the city as a proprietor of his family’s…
Continue Reading Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation in Brazil for allegedly harassing a whale off Sao Paulo
By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation for allegedly harassing a…
Continue Reading Chatbots’ inaccurate, misleading responses about U.S. elections threaten to keep voters from polls
By GARANCE BURKE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With presidential primaries underway across the U.S., popular chatbots are generating false and…
Continue Reading EPA awards $1 billion to clean up toxic waste in third cash infusion for Superfund program
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says 25 toxic waste sites in 15 states will be cleaned up as…
Continue Reading The killing of a Georgia nursing student is now at the center of the US immigration debate
By JEFF AMY, ELLIOT SPAGAT and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student out on her morning…
Continue Reading Florida lawmaker pulls bill on wrongful death of unborn children after Alabama IVF ruling
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida bill to allow people to file wrongful death lawsuits over the death of a fetus is being shelved because of the…
Continue Reading King Harald V of Norway has been hospitalized with an infection while on vacation in Malaysia
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norwegian royal officials say that King Harald V of Norway has been hospitalized with an infection while on vacation in Malaysia.…
Continue Reading Ole Anderson, founding member of the pro wrestling team known as The Four Horsemen, has died
By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A funeral home says Ole Anderson, a professional wrestler whose tough, no-nonsense style led…
Continue Reading Man to plead guilty in ‘killing spree’ of eagles and other birds for feathers prized by tribes
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press A Washington state man accused of helping kill more than 3,000 birds — including eagles on a Montana Indian…
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Biden tries out a new line of attack on Trump: The former president’s age
CNN By Michael Williams and Arlette Saenz, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Monday pointedly explored a new line of attack against…
Continue Reading Notable numbers capture the wild weather hitting much of the US this week
CHICAGO (AP) — Wild fluctuations in temperatures are being recorded in much of the United States this week, with some cities experiencing a winter…
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