Month: June 2023

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — One-by-one, victims stood in a Colorado courtroom to confront the person who pleaded guilty to murdering five people and injuring 17 others in a shooting last year at a sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ community.  Some cried, others seethed with anger. They called

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has been invited to address the Irish Senate on Tuesday. She’ll be there to help commemorate the 30th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Ireland. Healey is one of the first two openly lesbian elected governors in the U.S. and a descendant of Irish immigrants.

BEIJING (AP) — China’s No. 2 leader says economic growth accelerated in the latest quarter and he expressed confidence it can hit the ruling Communist Party’s official target of 5% for the year. Premier Li Qiang spoke at a conference in the eastern city of Tianjin. Li gave no figure for the three months ending

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has made history a few times in her political career, becoming one of the first Native American women to serve in Congress and as the first to hold the reins of the Interior Department. Haaland says one of the hardest

By ED KOMENDA Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — On some days, Anthony Jones can’t get to work. Since he was a teen, the 41-year-old Seattle resident has often struggled with lupus, an autoimmune disease that can cause the body to attack tissue surrounding joints and organs, making everyday tasks like showering, cooking and commuting to

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. judge is set to hear arguments Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s attempt to move his criminal case in New York out of the state court, where he was indicted, to a federal court where he could potentially try to get the case dismissed. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein will listen

By MARC LEVY and JOSH FUNK Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Spurred on by train derailments, some states with busy criss-crossing freight railroads are pursuing their own safety remedies rather than wait for federal action amid industry opposition and questions about whether they even have authority to make the changes. The activity comes after

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Lawyers for environmentalists and tribes urged a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a judge’s decision to allow construction to begin on a huge lithium mine in Nevada earlier this year before the plans were in full compliance with federal law. A lawyer representing four

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An argument over seating at an Albuquerque movie theater escalated into a shooting that left a man dead and sent frightened filmgoers scrambling to flee, police said Monday. Detectives with the Albuquerque Police Department filed charges Monday in Metropolitan Court against 19-year-old Enrique Padilla in connection with the Sunday evening shooting

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Leftist candidate Olivia Chow has become the mayor of Canada’s largest city. Chow is Toronto’s new mayor after more than a decade of conservative rule. She is the first woman of color to lead Canada’s most populous city.  John Tory stepped as mayor after acknowledging he had