AP National News

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Elections are being held for three open congressional seats in Ohio and Florida. In Ohio, Republican coal lobbyist Mike Carey and Democratic state Rep. Allison Russo are seeking the Columbus-area 15th Congressional District seat held by Republican Steve Stivers, who resigned to lead the Ohio

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Voters in Minneapolis are deciding whether to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety. The election comes more than a year after George Floyd’s death launched a movement to defund or abolish police across the country. Mayor Jacob Frey

By WILL WEISSERT and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The first major test of how voters feel about Joe Biden’s presidency is unfolding in Virginia. Tuesday’s governor’s race was supposed to be an easy Democratic win but is instead ending in suspense. Polls show Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who served as governor from

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse faces multiple charges for shooting three men, killing two, during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. The homicide charges include one count of reckless homicide and one count of intentional homicide. He’s also charged with one count of attempted

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Robot food delivery is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Hundreds of little robots __ knee-high and able to hold around four large pizzas __ are now navigating college campuses and even some city sidewalks in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere. While

By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse headed toward opening statements Tuesday after a jury was seated in just a day despite the polarizing nature of the case. About a dozen prospective jurors were dismissed after expressing strong opinions about the case

By ROBERT JABLON and DON THOMPSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has ruled for top drug manufacturers as local governments seek billions of dollars to cover their costs from the nation’s opioid epidemic. Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson issued a tentative ruling on Monday that said the governments hadn’t

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized Monday in Washington D.C., after falling and hitting his head while helping Howard University students who are protesting living conditions on campus. A spokesman says the 80-year-old Chicago civil rights leader was entering a campus building when he fell and hit

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A jury has been selected in the trial of a Missouri man charged with killing his Chinese wife. Joseph Elledge, of Columbia, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 28-year-old Mengqi Ji. Elledge reported his wife missing in October 2019, prompting numerous searches before her body was found in

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed amid cautious trading ahead of a Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting. Benchmarks in Japan, Australia and China fell, while shares rose in South Korea. Investors were also watching for any action from the Reserve Bank of Australia, which kept its key

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Huawei Technologies Co. is gearing up to provide smart services and 5G technology to industries such as healthcare for new revenue streams that might offset the damage to its smartphone business from U.S. sanctions. In the southern city of Guangzhou, the company teamed up with a Chinese hospital to equip it

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has joined a conservative Republican lawmaker’s campaign to investigate books that cover race, gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools. State Rep. Matt Krause of Fort Worth, who chairs the House General Investigating Committee, has written to the state education agency and local school officials to

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has attacked the credibility of French President Emmanuel Macron as a newspaper quoted a text message that suggested France anticipated “bad news” about a now-scuttled submarine deal. Macron this week accused Morrison of lying to him in June about the fate

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of revelers clad in white and clutching candles are crowding into the main cemetery at Haiti’s capital to pay their respects to the dead during an annual Vodou festival. Many in the crowd on Monday surrounded the tomb of the first person buried in the

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say one migrant was shot to death and four were wounded when a pickup truck carrying over a dozen migrants tried to avoid an immigration checkpoint in southern Mexico and ram a National Guard vehicle. The Guard says the truck ignored orders to

By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A jury has been seated in the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three people during a protest against racial injustice on the streets of Kenosha last year. Rittenhouse was 17 when he traveled from his home in Illinois, just

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man who fatally tortured a Chihuahua puppy and posted a video about it online has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. The U.S. attorney’s office says 19-year-old Angel Ramos-Corrales of Riverside was sentenced Monday for a February assault during which he broke the skull and ribs

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by a Texas online freelance journalist. Priscilla Villarreal said officials in Laredo, Texas, violated her constitutional rights when they arrested her in 2017. She was arrested for alleged violation of a little-known Texas law governing the seeking

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Bill Luckett was an attorney, small-town mayor, candidate for Mississippi governor, storyteller, blues promoter and business partner and friend of Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman. Luckett died Thursday at age 73, a year after being diagnosed with cancer. Instead of a funeral, his family is

An Army veteran who plotted to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. Prosecutors say 28-year-old Mark Domingo of Los Angeles was sentenced Monday. Authorities say the former combat infantryman wanted to bomb an April 2019 rally in Long Beach, but the plot was foiled