Month: September 2024

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Supreme Court justices are expressing skepticism that votes for presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz should count. Tuesday’s hearing could set the stage for disqualifying the candidate from the the battleground state’s ballots. Democrats are trying to prevent others from siphoning votes from Vice President Kamala

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says his country will send 150 military police officers to help Haiti fight violent gangs. Tuesday’s announcement at the U.N. General Assembly comes as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police officers in Haiti struggles with a lack of personnel and funding, prompting the U.S. to

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lawyers for a Texas county that wants to keep 17 books off its library shelves went before 18 federal appeals court judges in New Orleans to argue their case. Tuesday’s arguments before the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came in a lawsuit filed by library patrons against

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A classmate of Detroit Lions Head Coach Dan Campbell’s daughter reposted the family’s home address on social media following the team’s January playoff loss. The Detroit News reports that the incident was among others that included people stopping by the Bloomfield Township home uninvited and preceded the family’s move earlier

Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who waived his right to appeal his death sentence has received a lethal injection for killing his 3-month-old son more than 16 years ago. It was one of five executions scheduled within a week’s time in the U.S. Thirty-eight-year-old Travis Mullis was pronounced dead at 7:01

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — After almost a year of trading fire, Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are now engaged in ferocious confrontations that threaten to turn into a full-blown war. Israel faces a much more formidable foe in Hezbollah than it faced in Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Many consider the Iran-backed

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Law enforcement authorities across the U.S. are increasingly focused on a Venezuelan gang behind a spate of violent crimes. The Tren de Aragua traces its origin more than a decade ago to an infamously lawless prison. But it has expanded in recent years as more than 8 million desperate Venezuelans

NORCO, Calif. (AP) — The passenger in a car was killed when a horse smashed through the windshield during a series of crashes on a Southern California interstate over the weekend, authorities said. The first collision occurred about 2 a.m. Sunday when a Toyota Tacoma towing a horse trailer veered to the right and struck

Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tom Watson, a hall of fame broadcast reporter whose career included decades as a broadcast editor for The Associated Press in Kentucky, has died. He was 85. Watson’s baritone voice and sharp wit were fixtures in the AP’s Louisville bureau. He wrote broadcast reports and cultivated connections with reporters

Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The chief executive in charge of Georgia’s two busy seaports says a strike by dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts seems likely next week. But he’s hopeful it would last only a few days. Griff Lynch is the CEO of the Georgia Ports Authority, which operates state-run ports