Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The son of a South Carolina inmate is asking the governor to save his father from execution. Inmate Richard Moore is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Nov. 1 for the 1999 killing of a convenience store clerk during a robbery. Lyndall Moore says his father’s death sentence is
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — With the U.S. House narrowly divided, contests for Pennsylvania’s seats will be critical to determine who will control the chamber. Democrats are defending their 9-8 advantage in the state’s 17-seat delegation and the parties view five Pennsylvania races as competitive. Pennsylvania has one of the 16 House districts nationally
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told lawmakers Wednesday that Ukraine’s Western partners are increasing pressure to negotiate with Russia, but he hinted such talks would be unfavorable to Kyiv as he unveiled what he called his “victory plan” for the war. Major points of the plan include an invitation for Ukraine
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. Cartel gunmen stop youths on the street or in their cars and demand their phones. If they find a contact who’s a member of a rival faction, a chat with a wrong
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world’s second Sphere is planned to be built in the capital of the United Arab Emirates after the opening of the first giant dome entertainment complex in Las Vegas. Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism and Sphere Entertainment Co. announced the plan late Tuesday to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A U.N. official says disasters, including those wrought by fiercer storms, are threatening more people and could derail economic progress in the Asia Pacific region if governments would not invest more in disaster-prevention and mitigation. U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Kamal Kishore, who heads the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Yemen risks being dragged further into the military escalation in the Middle East that keeps intensifying and could spiral out of control, the U.N. special envoy for the Arab world’s poorest nation said Tuesday. Hans Grundberg told the U.N. Security Council that regrettably Yemen is part of the escalation
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A campaign to enshrine abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution has raised close to $22 million. Campaign reports filed Tuesday show Missourians for Constitutional Freedom brought in more than $14 million between July and the end of September. The proposed constitutional amendment would guarantee the right to an
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden says Kamala Harris would “cut her own path” once she wins the 2024 election, allowing for daylight between him and his vice president as Nov. 5 draws near. Biden’s comments on Tuesday may give Harris more license to stake out her own political and policy stances in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles city attorney’s office says it does not plan to file criminal charges against two people who were investigated in connection with the unlawful recording of a racist conversation that rocked City Hall in 2022 and prompted the city council president to resign after the audio was
Continue ReadingRAVENNA, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department will send election monitors to an Ohio county where a sheriff was recently accused of intimidating voters in a social media post. The Justice Department said Tuesday it will monitor Portage County’s compliance with federal voting rights laws during early voting and on Election Day. Federal officials
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer Dozens of people rallied outside the Michigan headquarters of WK Kellogg Co. Tuesday, demanding that the company remove artificial dyes from its breakfast cereals in the U.S. Kellogg, the maker of Froot Loops and Apple Jacks, announced nearly a decade ago that it would remove artificial colors and ingredients from its products
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing is moving toward raising up to $25 billion to shore up its troubled financial position. The company signaled Tuesday that it could raise that much money by issuing new stock or debt over the next three years. Boeing is also entering into a new $10 billion credit agreement with
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — An inmate convicted of the 1994 murder of a Japanese psychic and her son has been killed in his Hawaii prison cell. Authorities say staff at the Halawa Correctional Facility outside Honolulu found 59-year-old Raita Fukusaku bleeding on the floor of his cell early Monday. He was suffering head and neck trauma.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The president of one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. has removed responsibilities from his vice president. Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren says Navajo Vice President Richelle Montoya no longer represents his administration. The move was announced Tuesday during a news conference. The tribe has been mired by political upheaval
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asked a New York judge Tuesday to force prosecutors to disclose the names of his accusers in his sex trafficking case. The lawyers wrote in a letter to a Manhattan federal court judge that the hip-hop music maker needs to know the identities of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced Tuesday that more than 800 military personnel have seen their service records upgraded to honorable discharges after previously being kicked out of the military under its former “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. It is the latest development over the decades to undo past discrimination against LGBTQ service
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Voting rights advocates on Tuesday asked the state and federal departments of justice to investigate anonymous text messages apparently targeting young Wisconsin voters, warning them not to vote in a state where they are ineligible. Free Speech for People, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin,
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Small Business Administration has run out of money for the disaster assistance loans it offers small businesses, homeowners and renters, delaying much needed relief for people applying for aid in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The SBA offers Economic Injury Disaster
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Hunter Biden is reviving a lawsuit that accuses Fox News of illegally publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series. The president’s son filed the suit Tuesday in state court in Manhattan, adding two new defendants and arguing again that the dissemination of intimate images without his consent
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