Year: 2024

Associated Press DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A clumsy and time-consuming early voting option in the nation’s biggest presidential battleground state is creating frustration. The new procedure in Pennsylvania is leading to hours-long lines and prompting claims of disenfranchisement as voters swamp county offices that aren’t prepared to handle the influx before Election Day. The confusion

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury in Nevada found a previously convicted felon guilty of breaking into a room at a Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino and robbing and killing two Vietnamese tour leaders six years ago. Julius Trotter now faces the possibility of a death sentence, or the jury could decide he’ll spend life in

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declined to say whether he opposes Donald Trump’s plan to launch the largest mass deportation operation in American history. The mayor also argued Tuesday that the Republican presidential nominee should not be considered a fascist. The comments fueled speculation that the Democratic

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Kenyan man plotted a 9/11-style attack on a U.S. building before his plans were interrupted. The comments came Tuesday in opening statements for a trial in New York City. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jon Bodansky told jurors that Cholo Abdi Abdullah plotted an attack for four

WHITE CLOUD, Mich. (AP) — A 65-year-old woman charged with violating Michigan’s new gun storage law in the death of her grandson has pleaded no contest to a different charge. Theresa Robart pleaded no contest to second-degree child abuse and is unlikely to face prison. Her 5-year-old grandson was shot and killed last April when

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A long-running investigation found that Rhode Island’s governor “personally and directly intervened” in the awarding of a multimillion-dollar state contract but that his actions did not warrant criminal charges. The findings of the investigation from the Office of the Attorney General and the Rhode Island State Police released Tuesday focused on

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The manager of a key swing county in northern Nevada is out on medical leave, a departure announced just days before the election. Washoe County has been the center of attention in recent weeks amid turnover at the top of the elections office there. The county confirmed Tuesday that Manager Eric

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. government has chosen winning bids to develop wind power off New England in the first commercial sale for floating offshore wind on the Atlantic coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a lease sale and selected nearly $22 million in winning bids Tuesday for four lease

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a man fired at least 15 gunshots at a Four Seasons Hotel in Atlanta during a standoff and has been taken into custody. Atlanta Chief of Police Darin Schierbaum said officers responded to a call Tuesday around 10 a.m. about a mental health emergency in the residential area of the

Religion News Service CONETOE, N.C. (RNS) — Congregants at Conetoe Chapel Missionary Baptist Church thought their pastor was crazy when he suggested his rural community take up farming as a way to improve their health and become more self-sufficient. The small, predominantly Black community, about 80 miles east of Raleigh, is surrounded by vast, fertile