Month: June 2023

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is scheduled to speak to federal prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office. The special counsel’s team has been looking into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss. In a rambling phone call

COLESVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York man shot his companion with a crossbow while she was holding the couple’s 3-week-old daughter, killing the child and injuring the woman. Sheriff’s deputies responding to a 911 call found the injured woman and baby at a home in the upstate town of Colesville shortly after

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s muted reaction to the Wagner mercenary group uprising against Russia’s military belies Beijing’s growing anxieties over the war in Ukraine and how this affects the global balance of power. China’s ruling Communist Party called the swift end of the 22-hour revolt Moscow’s “internal affair,” with state

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago mother who was accused of telling her teen son to shoot a man at a fast food restaurant is suing the city and arresting officers, a day after murder charges against her and her son were dropped. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office said Monday it is unable to meet

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The TKTS booth in Times Square, which has become part of the city’s visual and financial DNA and a key part in keeping Broadway going, is celebrating its 50th birthday this week. It’s a discount ticket booth where Broadway and off-Broadway shows can be more

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled to make it more difficult to convict a person of making a violent threat. The case could make it harder for prosecutors to convict certain people who threaten elected officials including the president. The question for the court was whether prosecutors must

By STEVE LeBLANC and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — Jill D’Amore helped make Our Lady Help of Christians Church beautiful, tending to flowers and decorating the parish season by season. Her mother, 97-year-old Lucia Arpino, never missed morning Mass until the coronavirus pandemic hit. And Jill’s husband, Bruno, proudly flipped burgers at

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that North Carolina’s top court did not overstep its bounds in striking down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state law. The justices by a 6-3 vote rejected the broadest view of a case that could have transformed elections

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A court appearance was postponed Tuesday for a Donald Trump valet who’s charged with helping the former president hide classified documents that the Justice Department wanted back. A lawyer for the valet, Walt Nauta, told a judge that Nauta had been unable to

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000, despite a three-year effort by the Food and Drug Administration to crack down on kid-friendly flavors. The rise in e-cigarettes has been almost entirely driven by a wave of cheap,

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three men armed with sledgehammers and hatchets walked into an upscale mall in Mexico City and spent about a minute bashing in reinforced plate glass windows at a luxury jewelry store. They then snatched merchandise from the store’s displays and fled. The bizarre scene was captured on video by bystanders. The

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The future of Wisconsin’s top elections official is up for a vote as Republicans call for her to resign over how she ran the 2020 presidential election. Meagan Wolfe, the administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, has defended the decisions she’s made and fought