Month: March 2023

By BASSEM MROUE and Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The top U.S. military commander has visited northeast Syria where American troops and their allies are launching a campaign against the Islamic State group. A U.S. military spokesperson says Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley met commanders and troops

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the legal system in the country, as the government pressed on with the proposed changes despite the mass opposition. The central city of Tel Aviv saw the largest turnout in this week’s protests Saturday, with

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s reparations task force still has not made key decisions about what reparations may look like or how much Black Californians may be paid. But time is running out. The group has a July 1 deadline to issue a report to lawmakers with recommendations.

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A tanker truck hauling a flammable liquid crashed on a Maryland highway Saturday and caught fire, killing the driver and damaging several homes and vehicles, authorities said. The truck crashed around noon on U.S. 15 in Frederick, about an hour’s drive west of Baltimore. Photos showed massive flames and billowing smoke.

By The Associated Press Voters in Oklahoma will decide Tuesday whether it should be legal to possess and grow recreational marijuana in the state. The cannabis industry wants to expand the market to help offset falling prices brought on in part by a glut of medical dispensaries opened to support medical marijuana users. The measure

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Detectives say a fight involving three students at a Northern California high school began with an argument outside art class and culminated in a fatal stabbing. Santa Rosa police said in a statement Saturday that two groups of students were arguing Wednesday outside art class at Montgomery High School in

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two supporters of President Donald Trump arrested after driving a Hummer with guns and ammunition to a Philadelphia vote-counting site in November 2020 have been spared additional jail time. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 44-year-old Joshua Macias and 63-year-old Antonio Lamotta were sentenced Wednesday to 11½ to 23 months but placed on

By PAUL J. WEBER and KEN MILLER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas was censured Saturday in a rare move by his state party over votes that included supporting new gun safety laws after the Uvalde school shooting in his district. The Republican Party of Texas voted 57-5