Month: June 2023

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, failing to curtail “vitriolic statements” directed at Cruz’s attorneys by the victims’ families and sometimes allowing “her emotions to overcome her

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two insurance industry giants have pulled back from California’s home insurance marketplace, saying that increasing wildfire risk and soaring construction costs have prompted them to stop writing new policies in the nation’s most populous state. State Farm announced last week it would stop accepting applications

DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A year after the killing of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest, loved ones are gathering in several Brazilian cities to honor their memory. Dozens of people showed up on Monday at demonstrations in Rio de

By TRÂN NGUYỄN and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials say the state of Florida has twice picked up asylum-seekers on the Texas border and flown them by private jet to California’s capital. The latest flight arrived Monday with about 20 migrants. It follows the arrival Friday of 16 others

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of activists are at Atlanta’s City Hall ahead of a council vote over whether to approve tens of millions in public funding for a police and firefighter training center. Monday’s meeting is a culmination of nearly two years of activism against the project that activists decry

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter’s ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public’s imagination. After years of speculation, Apple CEO Tim Cook

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal trial over Oregon’s voter-approved gun control measure opened Monday in Portland, marking a critical next step for one of the toughest gun control laws in the nation after months of being tied up in the courts. The trial, which is being held before a

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state school board in Oklahoma voted Monday to approve what would be the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional. The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 3-2 to approve the

By SARAH BRUMFIELD and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The pilot of a business jet that flew over Washington and crashed into a remote part of Virginia on Sunday appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, fighter jet pilots reported, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the matter. Federal investigators trudged through