By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Megan Kau takes occasional weeklong hunting trips to the Hawaiian island of Lanai, where she enjoys watching the sunrise and hearing the distant rustle of deer and mouflon sheep in the tropical wilderness, a rifle ready at her side. As a gun owner, she also goes
Continue ReadingBy FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Even after five years of living together in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, something as simple as holding hands or sharing a kiss in public is unthinkable for Dayanny Marcelo and Mayela Villalobos. There is an ever-present fear of being rejected or attacked in Guerrero,
Continue ReadingBy Carolyn Sung, CNN Two Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine boosters updated to target the Omicron variant show a substantially higher immune response than the current Covid-19 vaccine, the companies said Saturday. The companies tested a vaccine that targets Omicron BA.1 subvariant and bivalent booster — which targets two strains — that includes the current
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney isn’t up for reelection this year. But Trump-aligned Republicans hostile toward the Utah senator have made his name a recurring theme in this year’s primaries, using him as a foil and derisively branding their rivals “Mitt Romney Republicans.” Republicans have used the concept
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Seven women who say Ghislaine Maxwell helped Jeffrey Epstein steal the innocence of their youth are asking a judge who will sentence the British socialite on Tuesday to consider their pain. Manhattan federal prosecutors unveiled their statements publicly Friday, including graphic pictures of how one of
Continue ReadingMUNICH (AP) — Li Haotong had eagle on the same hole for the third day running as he opened up a three-shot lead of the BMW International Open ahead of the final round. Li was 5 under for the day and 20 under for the tournament. He was nearly further ahead but for a bogey
Continue ReadingBy Yenny Sanchez, CNN Not everything you see on television is real, until it is … A South Carolina man has won more than $100,000 after trying a lottery strategy he says was inspired by an episode of TLC’s “Lottery Changed My Life.” TLC, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. The strategy
Continue ReadingPALMA, Spain (AP) — Stefanos Tsitsipas has won the Mallorca Championships after beating Roberto Bautista Agut in three sets as they prepare to play on the grass courts of the All England Club. Tsitsipas’ first grass-court title on the ATP Tour comes before Wimbledon starts on Monday. The second-seeded Greek held off a late rally
Continue ReadingBOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) — Three people have been wounded and one person was arrested following a shooting at an automotive interior products warehouse in suburban Chicago. Bolingbrook police Capt. Anthony Columbus tells WLS-TV that officers responded about 6:25 a.m. Saturday to reports of the shooting at the WeatherTech facility. Police said the suspected shooter fled
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers hopes to translate anger over the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade into votes this fall as he vows to fight a 173-year-old state abortion ban in any way he can. Evers won election in the battleground state four
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A 5-month-old girl was shot to death while in the rear of a car in a neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. The infant, who was identified as Cecilia Thomas, was struck in the head Friday evening when shots were fired from another vehicle in the South Shore neighborhood, according to police and
Continue ReadingSAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — The last victim of the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is being laid to rest. A funeral is being held Saturday for 10-year-old Uziyah Garcia at Immanuel Baptist Church in San Angelo, where he lived before moving to Uvalde about a year before the May 24 attack. In an
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma testified as part of a civil case into an alleged sexual assault at the Baptist church camp he oversaw that he believed a 13-year-old can consent to sex. The Associated Press obtained a copy of Lankford’s deposition from 2010, before
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The mayor of Ukraine’s capital has warned that an imposter is posing as him and communicating with other officials. Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko told German daily newspaper Bild that “several mayors in Europe have been contacted by a fake mayor of Kyiv who has been saying absurd
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Mark Appel is a big league ballplayer nine years after he was selected No. 1 overall in the amateur draft. Appel has been promoted by the Philadelphia Phillies. The right-hander, who turns 31 on July 15, went 5-0 with a 1.61 ERA in 19 appearances for Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Appel is
Continue ReadingBAD HOMBURG, Germany (AP) — Caroline Garcia has won her first tour title in three years after beating 2019 U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Bad Homburg Open. Garcia needed a medical timeout for what seemed to be a shoulder problem in the second set and fought
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s sweeping rulings on guns and abortion sent an unmistakable message. Conservative justices hold the power and they are not afraid to use it to make transformative changes in the law, none more so than taking away a woman’s right to abortion
Continue Reading
Using biographies, magazine accounts, museum records, and more, Stacker compiled a list of 25 facts about Amelia Earhart’s life story.
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The European Union and Iran say they have agreed to resume negotiations in Vienna in the coming days over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers. The agreement on Saturday could help relieve tensions after the talks stalled for months, while Iran enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels under
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Oleksandra Ochman, Olga Voitovych and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk is “completely under Russian occupation,” the city’s head of military administration said Saturday, following months of grueling and bloody fighting. “The [Russians] appointed a commandant. But the city is so destroyed that it will be difficult for people
Continue Reading