Month: July 2023

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Congressman Adam Schiff’s Senate campaign says the California Democrat raised $8.1 million over the past three months, a period that includes his recent censure by the Republican-led House. His team says that’s a record for a Senate campaign for the April-through-June quarter in a

UNDERWOOD, Wash. (AP) — Authorities have more than doubled the number of people battling a wildfire that has burned structures and forced the evacuation of homes in southwestern Washington near the Columbia River Gorge. The blaze that began Sunday in the unincorporated area of Underwood across from Hood River, Oregon, had burned about 546 acres

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County sheriff says video footage of a deputy violently throwing a woman to the ground while she filmed her husband being handcuffed in a grocery store parking lot is “disturbing.” The June 24 incident in Lancaster, north of Los Angeles, is the latest

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum says a fire destroyed eight Atlanta police motorcycles and was one of several recent acts of vandalism by a group aiming to stop construction of a new public safety training center. Schierbaum spoke at a news conference Wednesday with Atlanta Mayor Andre

JERUSALEM (AP) — The office of Israel’s prime minister says a dual Israeli-Russian citizen who has been missing in Iraq for months is being held by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Wednesday that Elizabeth Tsurkov, who disappeared in late March, is still alive “and we hold Iraq responsible for

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A member of the “Central Park Five” has won the Democratic primary for a seat on the New York City Council representing Central Harlem. The win all but assures Yusef Salaam of eventual victory. Ranked choice voting tallies Wednesday show him with nearly 64% of

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The son of a jailed Belarusian presidential hopeful has been convicted and sentenced on charges that he and other activists rejected as trumped up. The Minsk District Court sentenced Eduard Babaryka, 34 to eight years in prison on charges of “organizing mass riots” and “inciting hatred,”

By The Associated Press The latest mass killing in the United States happened Monday night in Philadelphia. A 40-year-old man is accused of fatally shooting four people in the streets and killing one man in a house before surrendering to police. This is the country’s 29th mass killing this year — in which four or

By SCOTT BAUER and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed off on a two-year spending plan after dramatically scaling back the size of a Republican income tax cut that would have moved the state closer to a flat rate. Evers, a Democrat, called the Republican-authored budget “imperfect

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Federal Reserve officials pushed to raise the Fed’s key interest rate by one-quarter of a percentage point at their meeting last month to fight high inflation, though the central bank ultimately decided to forgo a rate hike. In a sign of growing division among the

By CLAUDIA LAUER and RON TODT Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 40-year-old accused of killing a man in a house and then gunning down four others “seemingly at random” in a southwest Philadelphia neighborhood before surrendering to police officers has been arraigned on murder and other charges. Prosecutors said Kimbrady Carriker was arraigned Wednesday

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Chinese mining company on Wednesday commissioned a $300 million lithium processing plant in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has one of the world’s largest reserves of the metal, which has seen a surge in demand globally due to its use in batteries in electric cars. Zimbabwe President Emmerson

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter Coco Lee has died by suicide. She was 48. Her sisters said in a statement on Wednesday that the star had been suffering from depression for several years with her condition deteriorating drastically over the last few months. Her siblings said

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. is celebrating the 75th birthday of its beloved but increasingly creaky National Health Service. The date is being marked with charity tea parties, royal visits and a service of thanksgiving at London’s Westminster Abbey. However, three respected health think tanks warned Wednesday that the NHS

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Mass shootings broke out at festivals, block parties and other gatherings in a handful of cities this week as the U.S. celebrated the Fourth of July. Gun violence that flared in Washington, D.C, Louisiana, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Texas and Florida left more than a dozen dead and about 60 wounded — including

SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — A Maryland sheriff’s office says a 14-year-old boy was killed and six other people were injured in a shooting at a Fourth of July block party on the Eastern Shore. The Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office says its criminal investigation division responded to a report of a shooting early Wednesday in Salisbury.