NEW ORLEANS (AP) 鈥� A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate’s legal team argued was based on 鈥渏unk science.鈥� Jimmie Duncan was originally convicted of first-degree murder in 1998 after being accused […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) 鈥� Mexico and the United States said Monday they had reached an agreement that involves Mexico immediately sending more water from their shared Rio Grande basin to Texas farmers after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs and sanctions earlier this month. 鈥淢exico has committed to make an immediate transfer of water from […]
A woman pleaded not guilty Monday to fatally stabbing a Kansas City, Missouri, paramedic as she was being taken to a hospital in an ambulance. Shanetta Bossell, 39, was arrested Sunday after trying to drive off in the ambulance as others were tending to paramedic Graham Hoffman’s chest wound, according to court records. She has […]
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday signed a law that supporters hope will prevent future school shootings like the one that killed two students and two teachers on Sept. 4 at the Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta. Richard Aspinwall, the father of the Ricky Aspinwall, one of the teachers who was […]
Canadians decide Monday if new Prime Minister Mark Carney will extend the Liberal Party鈥檚 decade in power or pick the opposition Conservatives’ populist leader Pierre Poilievre to lead the country. The Liberals looked headed for defeat after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down earlier this year amid rising food and housing prices and soaring immigration. […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) 鈥� The man who has led South Carolina prisons for more than a decade was named as the top federal prosecutor for the state on Monday. Bryan Stirling took the oath of office in a private ceremony at the federal courthouse in Columbia, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement. Stirling […]
Writers Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer of The Atlantic say they’ve learned one thing during their years of covering President Donald Trump: His first word is rarely his last one. That’s obvious from their circuitous journey in landing interviews with the Republican president, which included an apparent late-night 鈥渂utt dial鈥� and Trump’s unexpected invitation to […]
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) 鈥� A speedboat went airborne and did a complete backward flip while racing at about 200 mph (322kph) before crashing into an Arizona lake. Two racers inside the boat’s covered cabin survived the event, which saw the boat go over 30 feet (9 meters) in the air. They wore harnesses […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Labor leaders, politicians and civil rights activists are mourning the death of Alexis Herman, the first Black U.S. Secretary of Labor and a fierce advocate for workplace equality. She died on Friday at the age of 77. Herman broke many barriers in her prolific career, and the outpouring of praise since her […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� A man accused of stealing a purse from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was charged Monday in federal court with aggravated identity theft, robbery and fraud. Video captured Mario Bustamante Leiva taking Noem’s purse while she dined at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., on April 20 under the protection of Secret Service […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump is hosting the 2025 Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles at the White House on Monday, but several players, including quarterback Jalen Hurts, are skipping the celebration. Hurts and other players cited scheduling conflicts as the reasons for their absences, according to a White House official who was not authorized […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� A disability-rights case at the Supreme Court grew unusually heated on Monday, including accusations of lying and references to one side’s position being a potential 鈥渇ive-alarm fire.鈥� The appeal comes from a teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy whose family says some courts have made it too hard to sue […]
WARETOWN, N.J. (AP) 鈥� Three-fourths of a vast wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens has been contained, state officials said Monday. The state Forest Fire Service said the blaze in southern New Jersey’s Ocean County had grown to nearly 24 square miles (62 square kilometers) but was 75% contained. No deaths or injuries have been […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) 鈥� The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff, over one night in 2017. Willie Cory Godbolt had filed a handwritten petition in August seeking the high court’s review of a decision […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥� The battle between Harvard University and the Trump administration’s freeze on its $2.2 billion in grants will head into the summer. A federal judge on Monday scheduled arguments for July 21 over the university’s lawsuit against the government, after both sides met in court for the first time in a brief hearing. […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Major orders canceled. Containers of products left stranded overseas. No roadmap for what comes next. The Trump administration raised tariffs on goods from China to 145% in early April. Since then, small business owners who depend on imports from China to survive have become increasingly desperate as they eye dwindling inventory […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� An F/A-18 fighter jet slipped off the hanger deck of an aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East, as sailors were towing the aircraft into place in the hangar bay of the USS Harry S. Truman on Monday, the Navy said. The crew members who were in the pilot seat of the […]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) 鈥� Consumers across the U.S. still will be able to buy higher-ethanol blend E15 gasoline this summer, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday, saving them a little money at the pump but risking potential damage to the air and water. The emergency waiver issued by the EPA prevents retailers in most states […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The White House on Monday opened a weeklong celebration of Donald Trump鈥檚 first 100 days in office by focusing on his border crackdown, an area of relative strength for the president at a time when there are red flags for him in the latest round of polling. Yard signs with mugshots of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� A former career Justice Department prosecutor is challenging his firing by the White House, saying it was for 鈥渦nprecedented partisan and political reasons鈥� and undermines a 鈥渂edrock principle鈥� of the justice system after he was dismissed following a post by right-wing activist Laura Loomer. Adam Schleifer, an assistant U.S. attorney in Los […]
FOREST PARK, Ga. (AP) 鈥� Two people were killed and at least two others wounded at a large gathering of motorcycle riders just south of Atlanta, police said. The shooting happened around 5 p.m. Sunday in Forest Park, police said in a statement. Numerous motorcyclists were speeding away when officers arrived, and police had to […]
You shouldn鈥檛 have to cross your fingers and hope for a strong stock market to coincide with your short-term goals. And right now, you probably wouldn鈥檛 want to. Because you鈥檙e working within a short time frame鈥攖hink two to six years鈥攊nvesting for shorter-term goals like buying a house or paying for a wedding should look different […]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) 鈥� The main cause of Gene Hackman’s death was heart disease, but he was also in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease and likely had not eaten for a long time, according to a new autopsy report. The report documents the 95-year-old actor鈥檚 poor heart health, noting he had experienced congestive […]
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms took a big step Monday toward running for governor of Georgia in 2026, about four years after the Democrat broke Atlanta tradition by skipping a second mayoral run. Although she hasn鈥檛 officially announced she鈥檚 entered the race, Bottoms filed the necessary paperwork Monday to raise money […]
