AP National News

By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces showered Ukraine with more missiles and munition-carrying drones Tuesday after widespread strikes killed at least 19 people in an attack the U.N. human rights office described as “particularly shocking” and amounting to potential war crimes. Air raid warnings sounded throughout Ukraine for a second

By BILL BARROW Associated Press CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — Two U.S. senators, Rick Scott of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, are boosting the campaign of Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker. Tuesday’s campaign event in metro Atlanta offered the latest sign that national Republicans are digging in on Walker’s candidacy. The former football star

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says eligible Americans should get the updated COVID-19 boosters by Halloween to have maximum protection against the coronavirus by Thanksgiving and the holidays, as it warns of a “challenging” virus season ahead. White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said Tuesday the

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Another volatile run on Wall Street left stocks lower Tuesday, extending the market’s recent losses as traders brace for updates on inflation and corporate earnings. The S&P 500 fell 0.7%, marking its fifth straight loss. The benchmark index had been down as much as 1.2%

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok appears to be deepening its foray into e-commerce. It’s indicating in job listings that it has plans to operate its own U.S. warehouses, the kind of packing and shipping facilities more associated with Amazon or Walmart than the social media platform best known for

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died. She was 96. Lansbury died Tuesday at her

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal jury in Virginia has heard opening statements in the trial of a think tank analyst who played a major role in the creation of a flawed dossier about former President Donald Trump. Prosecutors say Igor Danchenko lied to the FBI about how he obtained

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has begun questioning a few of the hundreds of prospective jurors summoned for the trial of a man charged with killing eight people on a New York City bike path in a terror attack five years ago. Sayfullo Saipov has pleaded not guilty to

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A nonprofit organization is calling on Haiti’s government to release certain inmates amid a swift rise in cholera cases throughout the country’s severely crowded prison system. Health through Walls, which provides medical care to prisoners in Haiti, noted in a letter Tuesday that not

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The prosecutor and defense attorney for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz agreed Tuesday that his 2018 attack that killed 17 people was horrible, but disagreed in their closing arguments on whether it was an act of evil worthy of execution or one of a broken

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Kevin Spacey sought Tuesday to poke holes in the story of fellow actor Anthony Rapp, who says Spacey made a sexual advance on him when he was a teenager. During an aggressive cross-examination at a civil trial in Manhattan, defense

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. The space agency attempted the test two weeks ago to see if in the future

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he wouldn’t sign a bill that keeps in place the state’s 1849 ban on abortion but creates new exceptions for rape and incest. Evers faces Republican Tim Michels, who supported the 1849 ban before changing positions after he won the

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say a ninth body has been recovered off a southern Greek island where a yacht full of migrants sank in a gale last week. Another six people are still believed missing. A coast guard statement said the body of a woman was located Tuesday near the wreck site on

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers for former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder are urging a judge to dismiss misdemeanor charges related to the Flint water crisis. Tuesday’s request comes a week after another judge took that step with seven other former officials. Snyder wasn’t covered because his case is with a different

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A raucous crowd of protesters packed the Los Angeles City Council chamber Tuesday, calling for the resignation of three members involved in a closed-door meeting in which racist language was used to describe colleagues — even the toddler of councilmember who wasn’t

By JORGE RUEDA and JUAN ARRAEZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Rescue workers in Venezuela are clearing rocks and mud from the streets of a north-central city that was hit by a massive landslide three days earlier. They are also expanding their search for any bodies buried under the sludge. Officials say the slide

PRAGUE (AP) — Ukrainians have rallied in Prague for the second straight evening to condemn this week’s barrage of Russian missile strikes against cities across Ukraine. They also demanded more weapons for their country’s protection. The protesters on Tuesday were holding blue-and-yellow crosses with the names of the cities hit by the Russian missiles. One

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Charging documents say a Missouri woman was held captive in a basement room for about a month and was raped repeatedly before she was able to escape. The suspect, 39-year-old Timothy M. Haslett of Excelsior Springs, Missouri, was arrested Friday and appeared in court by video conference on Tuesday. Judge

WASHINGTON (AP) — More families who are offered expensive health insurance premiums from their employers will get a discount if they sign up instead for coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace this fall.  The Treasury Department announced new rules that determine the tax breaks for certain families when they buy private health insurance plans