Year: 2024

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former members of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group have avoided prison time for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot after pleading guilty to federal charges and cooperating with investigators. Jon Ryan Schaffer, who founded the band Iced Earth, was the first Jan. 6 defendant

Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Students and faculty members at Harvard University have engaged in pro-Palestinian “study-in” protests at university libraries, as protests at other campuses nationwide have also begun to pull in teachers. The Harvard Crimson reports about two dozen Harvard faculty members were suspended for participating in an Oct. 16 “study-in.” The

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Washington state will cast their ballots mostly before Election Day, as the state votes almost entirely by mail. They will cast ballots for president, governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House, as well as several state and local offices and ballot measures. The last Republican to carry the solidly

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh’s police chief has retired just a week after making the controversial announcement that he would add refereeing college basketball games to his calendar. Chief Larry Scirotto said in his resignation letter Friday that he did not want the issue to become a distraction for the department. Some city leaders had raised

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis man has been convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of five people including a pregnant woman. The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office says a jury deliberated about three hours before finding 21-year-old Raymond Childs III guilty Friday of six counts of murder in the killings. His conviction came months after

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts voters will cast ballots for president, Congress and the state Legislature in the Nov. 5 general election, as Democrats in the commonwealth look to continue their dominance in federal and state elections. Topping the ballot this year is the race for president, where Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont voters will cast ballots for a full slate of federal and state offices in the Nov. 5 general election, including the president, a U.S. senator, the governor and seats in the state Legislature. Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump will be on the ballot, along with seven third-party

AP National Writer Less than two weeks before Election Day, The Washington Post said Friday it would not endorse a candidate for president in this year’s tightly contested race and would avoid doing so in the future — a decision immediately condemned by a former executive editor but one that the current publisher insisted was

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Delaware voters will select replacements for some of the state’s most prominent elected officials in the Nov. 5 general election. At the top of the ballot, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump will compete for the state’s three electoral votes in the race to replace Democratic President Joe Biden,

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alaska voters will decide in the Nov. 5 general election which presidential candidate will receive the state’s three electoral votes, but it’s the race for the state’s sole U.S. House seat that might have bigger national implications. Republicans hold a slim majority in the U.S. House, and control of the

Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida mother is suing a tech company over an AI chatbot that she says pushed her son to kill himself. The lawsuit filed this week by Megan Garcia of Orlando alleges that Character Technologies Inc. engineered a product that pulled 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III into an

AP Film Writer Leonardo DiCaprio is endorsing Kamala Harris for president. The Oscar-winning actor expressed support for the Democratic nominee in a video Friday. DiCaprio has long been an outspoken advocate for addressing the climate crisis and has supported Democratic candidates in the past. In early 2020, he attended a fundraiser for Joe Biden at

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, in just over three weeks in office, has inherited a whirlwind of violence that many say was set up by her predecessor’s policy of not confronting drug cartels and using the army for law-enforcement. Sheinbaum, who took office Oct. 1, would rather be talking about