Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The TikTok videos haunt 26-year-old Christy Kishbaugh. One seared into her memory shows a young mom talking about how several Idaho emergency rooms rejected her because of the state’s abortion ban, leaving her to bleed for weeks after a miscarriage. Kishbaugh sends videos like that to friends, saying “Can
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — A restaurateur has pleaded guilty to displaying a Nazi symbol during a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney earlier in October. The 56-year-old man was photographed at the Oct. 6 rally in Sydney’s central business district holding a sign that replaced the Star of David on the Israeli flag with a blue swastika. It
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris went to a Philadelphia suburb for a CNN town hall to take questions from undecided voters. The event Wednesday night was arranged after Donald Trump declined to participate in a second debate with her. Harris left no doubt that she believes Trump is a fascist and she widened
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Widespread flooding and landslides set off by a tropical storm in the northeastern Philippines on Thursday left at least 24 people dead, swept away cars and prompted authorities to scramble for motorboats to rescue trapped villagers, some on roofs. The government shut down schools and offices — except those
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A journalism trade publication is reporting that the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times has resigned. Mariel Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review in an interview Wednesday that she resigned because the LA Times’ owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president. A
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The top election official in one of the nation’s most politically important counties says she was forced out of her role just weeks before the November presidential election, disputing an official statement that she asked for a leave after experiencing “stress issues.” The abrupt departure of Cari-Ann Burgess as the interim registrar of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says trash carried by a North Korean balloon has fallen on the presidential compound in central Seoul. It’s the second time since North Korea began floating trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea since late May in a resumption of Cold War-style psychological campaign. South Korea’s presidential security
Continue ReadingAP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are recommending that people 50 and older get a shot against bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other dangerous illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on a recommendation made by a scientific panel Wednesday. It lowers the minimum recommended age for
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Cardi B says she has been hospitalized with a medical emergency and will have to miss a Saturday night headlining performance at an Atlanta music festival. “I am so sad to share this news, but I’ve been in the hospital recovering from a medical emergency the last couple of days and
Continue ReadingSHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting her two young sons last year. Tiffanie Lucas entered guilty pleas to murder charges in Bullitt County Court, news outlets reported. She had previously entered a not guilty plea by reason of insanity and was scheduled to stand trial in December before
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Police in Mexico have captured a man suspected of strangling an Illinois attorney to death in 2016. The U.S. Marshals Service announced Wednesday that Mexican authorities arrested John Panaligan in Tepic on Monday. Panaligan had been on the marshals’ 15 Most Wanted Fugitives List since 2020. Investigators allege he strangled 36-year-old
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court has ruled people whose mail ballots are rejected for not following technical procedures in state law can cast provisional ballots. That decision Wednesday is sure to affect some of the thousands of mail-in votes experts say are likely to be rejected this fall for not following
Continue ReadingRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli army has accused six Al Jazeera journalists covering the war in Gaza of also being current or former paid fighters for Palestinian militant groups. Al Jazeera rejected the claims made Wednesday. Israel cited documents it purportedly found in Gaza, and other intelligence it gathered, in making the accusations.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man is facing new federal charges after being arrested in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people last month. Federal officials say Wednesday that Nathaniel McGuire has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction, maliciously damaging a building with an explosive, and possessing unregistered
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan,” has died at age 86. Ely’s daughter, Kirsten Casale Ely, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that her father died Sept. 29 at his home in Los Alamos, California, an unincorporated
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s large-scale blackouts that left 10 million people without power this month may not have happened if the government had built out more solar power to boost its failing electric grid as promised, some experts say. In a nation with plentiful sunshine, Cuban officials have long had the opportunity to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In anticipation of three Taylor Swift concerts, which could draw around 150,000 visitors to New Orleans’ Superdome this weekend, state authorities on Wednesday began clearing a nearby homeless encampment. Roughly 75 people who were living in tents beneath an overpass would be relocated roughly two blocks away, Louisiana State
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ASTON, Pa. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to lay out her campaign’s closing argument by returning to the site near the White House where Donald Trump spoke before a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. She is hoping it will crystalize for voters the fight between defending
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to turn over his Manhattan apartment, luxury watches and a Mercedes to two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him. But how exactly will that work? Lawyers in the case say the details will be decided in coming days. Either Giuliani will deliver
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julia Mendez carefully positioned three candles in a row under a sign welcoming fans to Dodger Stadium. Then she pulled out a foil-wrapped burrito and rested it against the post. “I know he ate a burrito all his life,” said the 70-year-old fan from North Hollywood who had
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