By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A Colorado dentist accused of killing his wife by lacing her protein shakes with poison is expected to plead not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in October. Police said that James Craig had searched online if arsenic was detectable in autopsies and how to
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — The Atlanta Braves’ game against the Colorado Rockies on Monday was delayed momentarily when two spectators ran onto the field, approached and made contact with Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. at Denver’s Coors Field. The incident happened in the middle of the seventh inning, with video showing
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Junko Ogura, Emiko Jozuka and Saki Toi, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A wave of online harassment and vitriol directed at Japanese people following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from Fukushima has sent tensions between Japan and China soaring, prompting Tokyo to summon the Chinese ambassador. China’s heavily censored internet exploded in
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Idalia could hit Florida’s west coast as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm Wednesday morning, the National Hurricane Center warned as Idalia continued to intensify and churn toward the state late Tuesday. Officials across coastal communities repeatedly pleaded with residents Tuesday to immediately evacuate, stressing
Continue ReadingBy Nick Valencia, Devon M. Sayers and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in the fatal shooting of a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday is a graduate student at the school, UNC police said in a news release Tuesday. Tailei Qi, the grad student, was charged
Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s weather authorities warned residents of heavy rain and strong winds starting Wednesday as Typhoon Saola skirts by the island’s southern coast on its way to China. The typhoon is moving northwest with sustained winds of 101 mph, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau. The typhoon’s
Continue ReadingBy Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — The New Jersey Attorney General’s office is investigating the fatal shooting of a man who family and authorities say was mentally ill, after police said he lunged at them with a knife. Andrew Jerome Washington was fatally shot by Jersey City police officers on Sunday, Jersey City Mayor Steve
Continue ReadingBy JAMES MARTINEZ Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a rousing tribute from former first lady Michelle Obama, Billie Jean King on Monday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Open becoming the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male competitors, promising never to stop fighting to maintain
Continue ReadingBy ARIEL GILREATH of The Hechinger Report and JACKIE VALLEY of The Christian Science Monitor On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind an elementary school. One by one, they raced to a table, where they scribbled answers to multiplication questions before sprinting back to high-five their
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — A founder of Backpage.com will face his second trial on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money in what authorities say was a scheme to knowingly sell ads for sex on the classified site. Jury selection for Michael Lacey and four former Backpage employees will resume for a second day Wednesday. Their
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Sitting alone before a grand piano in a stark studio, Ryuichi Sakamoto takes the listener on a journey of his life, playing 20 of his compositions. Shot entirely in black and white, on three 4K cameras, the film “Opus,” directed by Neo Sora, is the Japanese composer’s
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — After months of intense lobbying, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is ebullient about the upcoming transfer of Dutch, Norwegian and Danish F-16 fighter jets to the Ukrainian air force. In many ways, the US-made F-16 is the ideal platform for the Ukrainians. It’s multi-role: it can provide
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting his Costa Rican counterpart, Rodrigo Chaves, at the White House. They’re discussing strengthening an agreement between the two countries on possible legal pathways for the increasing numbers of Central American migrants arriving to the U.S. southern border. Biden and Chaves plan
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A judge will hold a hearing with experts to determine if a mentally ill man man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 is mentally competent to be prosecuted in the mass shooting. Prosecutors revealed last week that experts at the state mental hospital
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) — Florida residents living in vulnerable coastal areas were ordered to pack up and leave Tuesday as Hurricane Idalia gained steam in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall. Idalia also pummeled Cuba with heavy rains
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump. The conservative organizations are recruiting thousands of Americans to travel to Washington on a mission to dismantle the
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Ron DeSantis scoffed when the NAACP issued a travel advisory this spring warning Black people to use “extreme care” if traveling to Florida. The leading civil rights group argued that the state’s loose gun laws and the Republican governor’s “anti-woke” campaign to deny
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Do you identify as anxious, avoidant, disorganized or secure? For those who aren’t up on pop psychology vernacular, these terms refer to the four attachment styles. Attachment styles describe how people behave in relationships, from their desires for closeness and intimacy to their sensitivity to potential relationship threats. But unlike
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Recorrer tres de los senderos de larga distancia más remotos y escarpados de Estados Unidos sería un reto para cualquier excursionista. Pero intentar recorrerlos con varios niños pequeños a cuestas es otro nivel. Sin embargo, después de completar el Sendero de los Apalaches, que se extiende a lo largo de casi
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were in the Arthur Ashe Stadium stands to watch Coco Gauff’s first-round victory at the U.S. Open on Monday night. Afterward, Gauff met the Obamas — and even received some advice. “I wasn’t sure they were here
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