AP National News

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a law banning licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 violates the Second Amendment and is unconstitutional. The ruling came Wednesday. It would prevent dealers from selling handguns to 18- to

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The family of a man killed by police officers in the Kansas City suburb of Independence, Missouri, filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit Thursday, accusing the officers of shooting the man without justification. The lawsuit on behalf of Tyrea Pryor’s relatives names two officers and the city of Independence. It

By AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House official has told a key Chinese diplomat that the Biden administration is “looking to move beyond” tensions spurred by the U.S. shooting down a Chinese spy balloon. That’s according to a senior Biden administration official who briefed reporters on condition

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Elon Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it’s now called — and it’s a woman. He did not name her but said she will be starting in about six weeks. Musk, who bought Twitter last fall and

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press From El Paso and Ciudad Juarez to San Diego and Tijuana, migrants were massing Thursday along some sections of the U.S.-Mexico border in a last attempt to cross into the United States in the hours before the pandemic-era health rule known as Title 42 ends. Some migrants who have traveled

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor has scuttled a small legal settlement between the state and the owner of a Wichita fitness studio forced to shut down during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic and then operate under restrictions. The settlement rejected Thursday by Gov. Laura Kelly

By GERALD IMRAY and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The U. S. ambassador to South Africa accused the country Thursday of providing weapons and ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine via a cargo ship linked to a sanctioned company that docked secretly at a naval base near the

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and FRANKLIN BRICENO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is poised to face charges linked to the young woman’s vanishing for the first time after the government of Peru authorized his extradition to the United States. Neither U.S.

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is appealing a New York jury’s verdict awarding $5 million to a magazine columnist after jurors concluded Trump had sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her last October. A notice of appeal was filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court, the

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A teenager is in critical condition Thursday afternoon after being shot by a Baltimore police officer. Officials say the shooting followed a foot pursuit during which police repeatedly ordered the teen, who was armed, to drop his weapon. An officer initially approached the 17-year-old because he was

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is asking a judge to put on hold a scheduled deposition of Donald Trump in a lawsuit brought by an FBI agent who was fired over text messages critical of the former president. The government said in a federal court filing that a judge

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The family of woman who was asleep when she was hit by a stray bullet says it was a “senseless crime.” Authorities say the bullet was fired by her Texas neighbor as he was shooting at car thieves. Bethany Mefford was found in her bed Wednesday

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says an influencer who staged a California plane crash to make a YouTube video of himself parachuting to safety has agreed to plead guilty to obstructing the investigation by destroying the wreckage. The plea agreement signed by Trevor Daniel Jacob of Lompoc, California, was filed Wednesday in

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California state senator and member of a historic task force studying reparations proposals for African Americans says it could be tough to pass large payments for eligible residents. Gov. Gavin Newsom says facing the legacy of slavery is about more than payments. Compensation

AMY TAXIN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of killing one person and wounding five others when he opened fire at a Southern California church luncheon last year has been charged with dozens of federal hate crimes in connection with the attack, which investigators said was motivated by political hatred

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Protecting a narrow, four-vote majority, Republican leaders in the House are making clear that they intend to let the legal process play out with New York Rep. George Santos before they take steps to force his resignation or expel him. The freshman congressman was accused Wednesday by

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico say they have arrested two more men in the March 3 kidnapping of four Americans and the killing of two of them. The Gulf drug cartel turned over five men to police soon after the abduction in the border city of Matamoros. Prosecutors said Thursday that the two

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Republicans in the audience laughed when former President Donald Trump mocked a woman who accused him of rape. They cheered when he defended his role during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. And they applauded again after he said he

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is putting new restrictions into place at its southern border to try to to stop migrants from crossing illegally and encourage them instead to apply for asylum online through a new process. The changes come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled for a onetime top aide to ex-Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York and for others who were convicted of corruption related to an economic development project known as the “Buffalo Billion.” In two cases before the high court, both liberal and