By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Financial documents show no sign that Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has fulfilled his pledge to give away campaign donations from people charged with misspending welfare money in the state’s largest public corruption case. Reeves became governor in January 2020. Six people were arrested in the
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — An American living abroad was arrested last week on a charge of threatening US senators and political groups over the number of unsolicited political emails he was receiving, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Eric Charles Welton, who has lived in Thailand for more than a decade,
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday set a July date for the state’s first attempt at a lethal injection following a series of troubled executions. The governor’s office set a time frame for the execution of James Barber that will begin at midnight on July 20 and expire at 6 a.m.
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is suing to block a new Nebraska law combining a 12-week abortion ban with restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors. The plaintiffs are Planned Parenthood and one of its doctors who performs abortions in Nebraska. The ACLU argues that lawmakers
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s attempt to put its first spy satellite into space has failed. Wednesday’s unsuccessful launch is a setback to leader Kim Jong Un’s push to boost his military capabilities. After its unusually quick admission of failure, North Korea vowed to conduct
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) — Minnesota’s governor has legalized recreational marijuana for people over 21 starting in August. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed the bill on Tuesday, making Minnesota the 23rd state to legalize the drug. Former Gov. Jesse Ventura spoke at the signing ceremony. He served as
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un caza chino realizó una “maniobra innecesariamente agresiva” durante la intercepción de un avión espía estadounidense en el espacio aéreo internacional sobre el mar de China Meridional la semana pasada, informó este martes el ejército estadounidense en un comunicado. El 26 de mayo, el caza chino J-16 cortó directamente delante del
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The Sisters Ranger District plans to conduct a 115-acre prescribed burn on Wednesday four miles northwest of Sisters, near Highway 20 and three-quarters of a mile north of the Cascade Meadow Ranch Subdivision.
Continue ReadingNEWS 12 NEW JERSEY LLC, NEW BRUNSWICK TODAY, SAYREVILLE GOP, MIDDLESEX PROSECUTORS OFFICE, CNN By Rob Frehse, CNN (CNN) — A man in Virginia has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Eunice Dwumfour, a 30-year-old councilwoman who was found shot to death in her car in Sayreville, New Jersey,
Continue ReadingBy Rob Frehse, CNN (CNN) — A man in Virginia has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Eunice Dwumfour, a 30-year-old councilwoman who was found shot to death in her car in Sayreville, New Jersey, in February, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday. Rashid Ali Bynum, 28, has
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic has drawn criticism from Kosovo’s tennis federation — but not from French Open organizers — after offering his thoughts on clashes in northern Kosovo between ethnic Serbs and police and NATO peacekeepers. Djokovic is a 36-year-old from Serbia who has won 22 Grand Slam titles and is scheduled to play
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Quickly becoming the soccer coach America didn’t know it needed, Ted Lasso is making his final appearance on the pitch after three uproarious seasons, when the Apple TV+ series of the same name comes to an end this week. Emmy-winning “Ted Lasso” was more than just a feel-good series,
Continue ReadingSAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian court is seeking the arrest of L.A. Galaxy striker Douglas Costa for failing to pay for child support. An attorney for the Brazilian striker says in a statement that he trusts the decision by a judge in the city of Porto Alegre will be reversed. The 32-year-old Costa cannot
Continue ReadingBy ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer Aaron Gordon bristled at the notion the Denver Nuggets must operate the “rust versus rest” seesaw with 10 days between their Western Conference title celebration in Los Angeles and the start of the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat. Rest? “We’ve been working,” Gordon declared about 15 hours after
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Air New Zealand, cuyo concepto económico de asientos reclinables causa sensación, es oficialmente la aerolínea del año, al menos según AirlineRatings.com, una agencia de calificación de productos y seguridad aérea con sede en Australia. AirlineRatings.com cita las intrigantes camas económicas SkyNest de AirNZ —que se lanzarán en 2024— como uno de
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Good Tuesday evening, Central Oregon! Today we continued our string of sunny days, which look to stick around for awhile. We stayed pretty warm in the mid 70s, but that’s down a few degrees from the low 80s we saw yesterday. Cooling will affect our overnight lows, which will drop into the mid 30s to
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Es una de las personas de confianza de la vicepresidenta de Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, y ocupa un puesto central del gabinete de Alberto Fernández, como es el de Ministerio del Interior, donde se encarga de temas de política interna y de la relación con los gobernadores. Sin embargo,
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a military aid package for Ukraine that is expected to be announced this week will total up to $300 million, and will include additional munitions for drones. The drone ammunition comes as new attacks by unmanned aircraft targeted Moscow. There
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — There will be “significant costs for US diplomacy” if Congress doesn’t renew a controversial intelligence program gathering communications data that is set to expire this year, a senior State Department official said Tuesday, adding that US diplomats have used the program to monitor Russian atrocities in Ukraine. The program,
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — A white man has been sentenced to probation in South Florida for pulling a gun and yelling racial slurs in a traffic confrontation with a group of Black teenagers protesting housing inequality on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2019. As part of a deal with with prosecutors, 55-year-old Mark Bartlett pleaded
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