Month: June 2024

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is making a serious run at becoming the new home for the reigning Super Bowl champions with legislators approving a plan Tuesday to lure the Chiefs and Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals away from Missouri. Bipartisan legislative supermajorities OK’d the measure to authorize state

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press The Colorado Supreme Court is considering whether a Christian baker can refuse to make a cake to celebrate a gender transition. The justices heard about a variety of hypothetical cake-design scenarios on Tuesday in the case of a transgender woman who asked for a pink-and-blue cake to celebrate her gender

GLENNVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A prison official says the inmate who shot and killed a kitchen worker at a Georgia prison before fatally shooting himself had a personal relationship with the woman. Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lori Benoit said the shooting a day earlier at Smith State Prison was an isolated incident and the

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The shooter who killed five people and injured 19 others at an LGBTQ+ club that was a refuge in the conservative city of Colorado Springs pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes and was sentenced to 55 life terms in prison on Tuesday, but once again declined to

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Last week in Parkland, Florida, wrecking equipment began demolishing the building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where a gunman’s rampage in 2018 ended with 17 people dead. As the rumble of destruction echoed, people in the community set to explaining exactly why ripping the building

By MEG KINNARD and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s a grinning Joe Biden as “Dark Brandon” or Donald Trump’s face superimposed onto a scene from HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” both presidential campaigns this year have embraced digital memes, the lingua franca of social media. The campaigns of the Democratic president

By CORA LEWIS and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Janille Williams wants to buy a house someday — but first, he has to pay down tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt. “I was hospitalized for a blood infection for three months more than ten years ago, and the bill was

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean troops fired warning shots to repel North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the rivals’ heavily fortified land border Tuesday for the second time this month, the South’s military said. Both incursions were believed to be unintentional. Around 20 to 30 North Korean soldiers

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota shareholders have voted in support of all of the company’s proposals at their annual meeting, including keeping Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the Japanese automaker’s founder, as chairman of the board. Details on the vote tallies weren’t immediately available. The annual meeting, held at company

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A twin-engine Cessna airplane has crashed in a residential area in north-central Colorado, killing two people aboard and starting a fire that burned two mobile homes. Police in Steamboat Springs said the pilot and a lone passenger were killed in the crash Monday afternoon near the Steamboat Springs Airport. Police

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Jayson Tatum put his hands behind his head, with TD Garden fans standing on their feet cheering around him, and took it all in. Walking to the bench, he wrapped both arms around Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla. The journey was complete. The Boston Celtics again stand

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States government has suspended inspections of avocados and mangoes in the Mexican state of Michoacan due to security concerns. A U.S. government spokesperson says the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has paused inspections in Michoacan until the security conditions

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been indicted and arraigned on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. He was granted bail. Thaksin is the unofficial power behind the party leading the government, Pheu Thai,