AP National News

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An independent watchdog in the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it’s being brought in to investigate the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital city. Emergency repairs are underway after problems at Jackson’s main water treatment plant caused most customers to lose service

By JONATHAN LANDRUM JR. Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper PnB Rock was fatally shot during a robbery at a South Los Angeles restaurant where police believe a social media post may have tipped the assailant to his location. The Philadelphia artist, whose real name is Rakim Allen, was gunned down Monday at a

By MICHAEL TARM and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors began deliberating Tuesday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago, sorting through a month of evidence and arguments on charges accusing the singer of producing child pornography, enticing minors for sex and rigging his 2008 child porn trial. Standing at a podium a

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. Archaeologist Octavio del Rio said he and fellow diver Peter Broger saw

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — An FBI agent struggled to control his emotions Tuesday as he described on the witness stand seeing bodies inside Sandy Hook elementary school — a scene that the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones later claimed was staged by actors. FBI agent William Aldenberg was the first witness

By MARCIO SANCHEZ and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press OAK GLEN, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers searched for a person missing in a mudslide as tractors plowed through thick sludge and pushed boulders off roads after flash floods swept dirt, rocks and trees down fire-scarred slopes, washed away cars and buried buildings in Southern California. Cleanup efforts

By WILSON RING Associated Press Officials say the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education is investigating allegations of antisemitism at the University of Vermont. The complaint filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law alleges that some Jewish students at UVM who identify with Israel as the

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has gathered a crowd at the White House to celebrate last month’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. But that’s as a new government report on Tuesday showed how hard it could be to return inflation to prepandemic levels. Despite its

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A panel discussion between an Atlantic City casino executive and proponents of a smoking ban in the city’s casinos has been canceled after the casino boss pulled out. Mark Giannantonio, president of Resorts Casino, was to represent the industry on the panel during next week’s

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks tumbled to their worst day in more than two years Tuesday, knocking the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 1,250 points, following Wall Street’s humbling realization that inflation is not slowing as much as hoped. The S&P 500 sank 4.3%,

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year, plus fined him $10 million, after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies.” The findings of the league’s report, published

NEW YORK (AP) — A compilation of radio commentary by the late Rush Limbaugh, from his early years on the air to his decades as a leading voice in conservative politics, will be published Oct. 25. Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Wednesday that “Radio’s Greatest of All Time” will include

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank more than 1,000 points Tuesday as markets shuddered following Wall Street’s realization that inflation isn’t slowing as much as hoped. The sell-off knocked the benchmark S&P 500 3.7% lower in afternoon trading, threatening to snap a

By JILL LAWLESS and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II returned to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening, making its way through a drizzly London as crowds lined the route for a glimpse of the hearse and to bid her a final farewell. People parked their cars along a

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Income inequality in the U.S. increased last year for the first time in more than a decade. But childhood poverty was cut almost in half due to expansion of the federal government’s child tax credit and stimulus payments made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to new survey

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A third person has been arrested as part of the investigation into the assassination attempt on Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández. Agustina Díaz was arrested Monday. An official with knowledge of the case says she appears to have at least been a close friend of

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A white former police officer is on trial in Philadelphia over the fatal 2017 shooting of a Black motorist. Prosecutors say former Officer Eric Ruch Jr. shot and killed Dennis Plowden Jr. just six seconds after arriving on the scene _ even as other officers held their

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s governor says the federal government is moving ahead too quickly with potential new restrictions on the lobster fishing industry, and isn’t taking the industry’s concerns about the changes into account. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently announced it was seeking input on new rules

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee state staffers watched intently this summer while local school officials voted down a contentious Hillsdale College-linked charter school. According to public records, the staffers were aware their state commission would likely be in the tight spot soon of deciding whether to let

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — One of the nation’s leading researchers on the effects of fetal alcohol abuse says the birth mother of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz drank more in pregnancy than any woman he has documented. Dr. Kenneth Jones testified Tuesday that Brenda Woodard’s drinking led to Cruz