Month: June 2023

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A California law approved by voters that promises to get breeding pigs out of narrow cages that prevent them from standing or turning will finally take effect Saturday, after years of delays and warnings that the rules could lead to price spikes and pork shortages.

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — If French Montana’s father never abandoned him as a teenager, the rapper believes he would not have grown into a popular figure who has earned three Grammy nominations. After his father returned to Morocco, Montana turned to New York City’s street life in the

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Sun’s out, guns out? Not on Hawaii’s world-famous beaches. Beginning Saturday, a new law prohibits carrying a firearm on beaches, as well as banks and restaurants that serve alcohol. A lawsuit seeking to block the measure argues Hawaii, which has long had some of the strictest

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A panel of judges voted Friday to render far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ineligible to run for office again after concluding that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system. The decision, once all judges have

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Frances Tiafoe heads into Wimbledon on the heels of his first title at a grass-court tournament and his first appearance in the Top 10 of the ATP rankings. He also says he has high hopes for what he can achieve over the coming two weeks

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Veterinarians are preparing to airlift an Asian elephant from Sri Lanka back to its home country of Thailand this weekend after it spent more than two decades at a Buddhist temple where activists alleged it was abused. The Thai royal family gave the elephant as

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that the state’s abortion ban doesn’t violate Indiana’s constitution. The court’s Friday decision removes a major hurdle to enforcing the abortion ban Republicans approved last summer. A county judge had blocked enforcement in September, saying the state constitution’s liberty rights include

CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — A tractor-trailer driver was on the social media app TikTok just before causing a Phoenix-area freeway collision that killed five people, authorities said. The Arizona Department of Public Safety announced in a news release that 36-year-old Danny G. Tiner was arrested at his home Thursday on multiple charges related to the

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovan authorities say that two people have been fatally shot at the airport in the capital Chisinau by a foreign citizen who was denied entry into the country. As the perpetrator was being escorted by officials at Chisinau International Airport on Friday, the individual “took the gun of a border guard”

By The Associated Press Did mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin have inside help from the military and political elite in his armed rebellion that rattled Russia? A week after the mutiny raised the most daunting challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s rule in over two decades, key details about the uprising are still unknown. Uncertainty also swirls

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has delivered a setback to Native American tribes in Maine seeking greater sovereignty. She vetoed a proposal Friday aimed at ensuring all federal laws apply to them despite a state land claims settlement. The governor says the bill is vague and confusing,