Month: June 2023

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Republican Party is suing the state in an effort to maintain its party-run caucuses, even as Nevada shifts to a presidential primary system beginning in 2024. Nevada lawmakers ditched the presidential caucus model after the 2020 election, passing a law the following year that

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A judge in Colorado has agreed to delay the first criminal trial in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was stopped by police, forcibly restrained and injected with a powerful sedative nearly four years ago. Police officers Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt had

Associated Press Journalists across the U.S. will walk off their jobs next week at roughly two dozen newsrooms run by Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the U.S., their union said Thursday. The mostly one-day strike, which will start June 5, aims to protest Gannett’s leadership and cost-cutting measures imposed since its 2019 merger with

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists can proceed to trial years after they first filed the lawsuit in an attempt to hold the nation’s leadership accountable for its role in climate change. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the plaintiffs

CHICAGO (AP) — A pair of peregrine falcon parents are raising three chicks along Chicago’s busy Wacker Drive, and beware to any pedestrian who ventures too closely to their nest. Just ask Chuck Valauskas. He was leaving work last week, walking below the nest situated on a seventh-floor ledge when he felt a thud against

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s attorney general and its Environment Department have filed suit against the manufacturers of so-called forever chemicals, seeking monetary damages to defray the costs of environmental monitoring and cleanups that they say are inevitable. At a news conference Thursday, Attorney General Raúl Torrez said

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A bill that would broadly ban K-12 public school employees in Louisiana from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in the classroom or during extracurricular activities is nearing final passage, after advancing in a legislative committee Thursday. Another measure before lawmakers would require teachers to

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As the annual celebration of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen uprising approaches, a new exhibit is opening in New York City to remember the protests. The small trove of memorabilia are the centerpiece of the “June 4 Memorial Exhibit,” now housed on the fourth floor

NEW YORK (AP) — A new work by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, written for an upcoming NASA mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, is a glance at outer space that returns back to Earth. Limón’s “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” which she read Thursday night during a ceremony at the Library of