Year: 2024

By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan jury convicted a school shooter’s mother of involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in the killings of four students in 2021, making her the first parent in the U.S. to be held responsible for a child carrying out a mass school attack. Prosecutors say

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Republican contenders are filing petitions to appear on New Mexico’s June 4 primary ballot. They hope to challenge incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and reclaim a congressional swing seat along the U.S. border with Mexico. State election regulators received signature petitions Tuesday from candidates

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is going small to try to win big in November. With 10 months to go until Election Day, the Democratic incumbent is all in on minimalist events — visits to a boba tea store, a family’s kitchen and a barbershop, for example

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is electing a new parliament on Thursday. Forty-four political parties are vying for a share of the 266 seats up for grabs in the National Assembly, or the lower house of parliament. An additional 70 seats are reserved for women and minorities. But in a country

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for four death row inmates who are out of appeals have argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. Those lawyers also argued Tuesday that a 2023 law meant to allow

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) — A survivor of human trafficking who is imprisoned in Illinois for shooting a man sought and was granted a resentencing that will lead to her early release. Crystal Martinez relied on a 2016 Illinois law that allows survivors of domestic violence to ask for

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has been diagnosed with an unspecified type of cancer. Buckingham Palace says the 75-year-old king has begun outpatient treatment. Some key dates in Charles’ life: Nov. 14, 1948 — Charles is born on the royal estate at Sandringham, the first child of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Feb. 6,

By LAURIE KELLMAN and BILL BARROW Associated Press MAULDIN, S.C. (AP) — Hillary Clinton. Nancy Pelosi. Kamala Harris. Liz Cheney. Carly Fiorina. And for now, Nikki Haley. The former South Carolina governor is the latest in a long line of women — historically some of Republican Donald Trump’s most stubborn challengers — for whom the

By MARK SHERMAN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From civil rights to privacy, the 14th Amendment has been a foundation for forging the norms of American law and democracy. But one of its provisions, adopted after the Civil War in 1868, has gotten almost no attention until now: That’s Section 3, the

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JONATHAN J. COOPER and GABE STERN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nikki Haley was swamped in Nevada’s symbolic Republican presidential primary as GOP voters resoundingly picked the “none of these candidates” option on the ballot in a repudiation of the former U.N. ambassador who is the last remaining major rival

By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — One night after Taylor Swift earned her fourth career Grammy for album of the year, her boyfriend was feeling pressure to secure his own triumph in the Super Bowl. “She’s unbelievable, she’s rewriting the history books herself,” Travis Kelce said Monday night at Allegiant Stadium, where

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Two ships traveling in Middle East waters were targeted by Yemen Houthi rebel ballistic missile fire. That’s according to the United States military’s Central Command. It issued a statement early Wednesday identifying the ships as the Barbados-flagged, United Kingdom-owned cargo ship Morning Tide, and the