United flight diverted to Chicago due to reported bomb threat
CHICAGO (AP) — A cross-country United Airlines flight carrying 202 passengers was forced to land in Chicago after what local media reports, citing…
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Parts of a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver have been stolen
DENVER (AP) — A large Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver has been vandalized. Police are trying to determine if racial bias was involved.…
Continue ReadingDecaying bodies and fake ashes spur Colorado to confront lax funeral home oversight
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado state lawmakers have voted to introduce a bill to better regulate the…
Continue ReadingGeorgia has the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement. Mississippi could be next
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After years of refusing to expand Medicaid, some of Mississippi’s…
Continue ReadingToyota recalls 280,000 pickups and SUVs because transmissions can deliver power even when in neutral
DETROIT (AP) — Toyota is recalling about 280,000 pickup trucks and SUVs in the U.S. The recall is to fix a transmission problem that can let the…
Continue Reading11 years later, still no end to federal intervention in sight for New Orleans police
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge says the New Orleans Police Department’s progress in complying with an…
Continue ReadingTennessee Gov. Bill Lee signs law that allows people to refuse to ‘solemnize’ marriage licenses
By Shirin Faqiri, CNN (CNN) — Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee signed a bill Wednesday that allows people in the state to refuse to…
Continue ReadingAn online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare window into pervasive state surveillance
By FRANK BAJAK and DAKE KANG Associated Press Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a…
Continue ReadingUnited Airlines says after a ‘detailed safety analysis’ it will restart flights to Israel in March
CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines says it plans to resume flights to Israel next month, reviving a route that was suspended in October at the start of…
Continue ReadingWisconsin school district releases tape of Black superintendent’s comments that led to resignation
By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The school district in Green Bay, Wisconsin, has released the recording of…
Continue ReadingSeattle police officer who struck and killed graduate student from India won’t face felony charges
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Prosecutors in Washington state said Wednesday they will not file felony charges against a Seattle…
Continue ReadingBrightest known object in the universe was hiding in plain sight for decades, researchers say
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the brightest known object in the universe, and it’s a quasar powered by the…
Continue ReadingCourt lifts US coal sales moratorium in a setback for Dems and environmentalists
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday struck down a moratorium on coal leasing from federal…
Continue ReadingSexual assaults carried out ‘systematically’ during Hamas attack, Israeli report says
By Lauren Izso, CNN (CNN) — Israeli civilians suffered “brutal sexual assaults” that were carried out “systematically and deliberately”…
Continue ReadingHaiti orphanage founder to be sent to Florida for sex abuse case
By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — An American founder of a Haitian orphanage who is accused of sexually abusing four boys there more…
Continue ReadingFDA warns against smartwatches and rings that claim to measure blood sugar without needles
By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Smartwatches and smart rings that claim to measure blood sugar levels without piercing the skin could be dangerous…
Continue ReadingFederal judge affirms MyPillow’s Mike Lindell must pay $5M in election data dispute
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge has affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow chief…
Continue ReadingAlabama seeks to carry out second execution using controversial nitrogen gas method
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas. The move comes a…
Continue ReadingJimmy Carter becomes first living ex-president with official White House Christmas ornament
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has another distinction to his name. The 99-year-old is the…
Continue ReadingFeds accuse alleged Japanese crime boss of conspiring to traffic nuclear material
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the…
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