Wendy Williams has frontotemporal dementia. What is FTD?
By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Former talk show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with a rare form of dementia called frontotemporal…
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Bail is set at $4 million for an Ohio woman charged in her 5-year-old foster son’s suffocation death
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge has set bail at $4 million for an Ohio woman charged with murder in the suffocation death of her 5-year-old foster…
Continue ReadingGOP lawmakers try to thwart abortion rights ballot initiative in South Dakota
By JACK DURA Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s Republican-led Legislature is trying to thwart a proposed ballot initiative that…
Continue ReadingOnline fundraisers for violent West Bank settlers raised thousands, despite international sanctions
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When the Biden administration imposed sanctions this month against Israeli settler Yinon Levi…
Continue ReadingWisconsin lawmakers OK bill to tackle forever chemicals pollution, but governor isn’t on board
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have passed a bill that would unlock $125 million to fight…
Continue ReadingChina demands the US stop any official contact with Taiwan following a congressional visit
By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China is responding sternly to a U.S. congressional delegation’s visit to Taiwan, demanding the…
Continue ReadingAfrofuturist opera `Lalovavi’ to premiere in Cincinnati on Juneteenth 2025
By RONALD BLUM Associated Press The Cincinnati Opera will present an Afrofuturist-themed production next year that commemorates the Juneteenth…
Continue ReadingData from phone, Apple Watch help lead police to suspect in Iowa woman’s death
MARENGO, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say that data from an iPhone and Apple Watch helped lead police to a suspect after a woman’s body was found in…
Continue ReadingMexico president denies report of allegations that close associates took drug money during campaign
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is denying allegations contained in a U.S. media report about a U.S. inquiry into…
Continue ReadingEPA approves year-round sales of higher ethanol blend in 8 Midwest states
By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drivers in eight Midwestern states will be able to fuel up with a higher blend of…
Continue ReadingFire engulfs 2 buildings in Spanish city of Valencia, killing at least 4 people. Nearly 20 missing
By ALBERTO SAIZ Associated Press VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — A fire has engulfed two residential buildings in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia,…
Continue ReadingHydeia Broadbent, AIDS activist, dies at age 39
By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Hydeia Broadbent, known for raising awareness for HIV/AIDS since she was a young child, has died, her father said…
Continue ReadingInvestigators: Man who killed 3 Minnesota responders opened fire without warning, inside his house
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Investigators have revealed that the man who killed two Minnesota police officers and a…
Continue ReadingAnti-doping law nets first prison sentence for therapist who helped sprinters get drugs
NEW YORK (AP) — The first person charged for violating a 2020 law that forbids conspiracies to taint international sports events through…
Continue ReadingDeSantis calls takeover of Disney government a ‘success’ despite worker exodus, litigation
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Almost a year after Florida lawmakers passed a law giving Florida’s governor control over…
Continue ReadingEA Sports College Football 25 to block gamers from manually adding players who reject NIL opt-in
By RYAN KRYSKA AP Sports Writer Gamers will be blocked from manually adding players to EA Sports’ new college football game who decide not to…
Continue ReadingTwo men charged in Vermont murder-for-hire case to go on trial in September
The Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Two men facing federal charges connected to a murder-for-hire plot that led to the 2018 abduction and…
Continue ReadingBrazil’s Bolsonaro chooses to remain silent in meeting with police as part of coup allegation
By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his former top aides have met with…
Continue ReadingOhio mom who left toddler alone when she went on vacation pleads guilty to aggravated murder
An Ohio mother who left her 16-month-old daughter home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation pleaded guilty on…
Continue ReadingWhy it’s so difficult to land on the moon, even five decades after Apollo
CNN By Kristin Fisher and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of miles beyond Earth, a phone booth-size spacecraft is en route to…
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