Year: 2024

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle gun shop and its former owner will pay $3 million for selling high-capacity ammunition magazines despite a state ban, the Washington attorney general said Tuesday. Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the settlement with Federal Way Discount Guns and Mohammed Baghai after a King County judge found last year

By ALBERT AJI and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israeli airstrikes over Syria’s central city of Homs and nearby areas have killed and wounded civilians. There was no immediate comment from Israel. The strikes come as tensions across the Middle East grow with the Israel-Hamas war. A Britain-based war

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — For years, renewable projects in India have been growing steadily — from small-town rooftop solar installations to large-scale projects across the desert and long stretches of wind turbines and solar panels on farmland all helping the country transition to clean energy. But in 2023, a mix

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies say they shot and killed a man armed with two machetes after he charged at them inside a supermarket in Lancaster. The man was pronounced dead at a hospital after the shooting Tuesday morning. Deputies were sent to the Albertsons supermarket by reports that an armed

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When rainstorms like this week’s powerful atmospheric river hit California, the earth begins to move. Water rushing down mountains and hills picks up soil and vegetation. Larger objects such as boulders, trees and cars are turned into battering rams. In the blink of an eye, property

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press The U.S. Postal Service says a mix of environmental initiatives and cost-cutting business practices are going to reduce its planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030. Tuesday’s announcement would meet the Biden administration’s environmental goals in the process. Postmaster General Louis Dejoy said the sweeping plans call for diverting

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man accused of murdering two Alaska Native women recorded images of both of his victims, and the break in the case came when a third woman stole the man’s phone and provided police with photos and videos of one of the killings. That’s what prosecutor

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer General Motors’ troubled robotaxi service Cruise has endured a public lashing from a California judge. The judge compared the company to the devious TV character Eddie Haskell for its behavior following a ghastly collision that wrecked its ambitious expansion plans. The withering comparison to the two-faced Haskell from the

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has honored Annette Bening as its 2024 Woman of the Year. Bening recently received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for playing the prickly long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in the movie “Nyad.” It’s her fifth Oscar nod. The Pudding is the

By STEVE PEOPLES and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has discussed the possibility of stepping down during a private meeting with former President Donald Trump. But both have agreed to delay a decision until after South Carolina’s Feb. 24 primary. That’s according to two people familiar