Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has signed a sweeping bill that supporters say builds on the state’s existing gun laws. The bill signed Thursday includes a crackdown on hard to trace “ghost guns” while safeguarding the rights of gun owners. The law is part of an effort to respond to a
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden visited some American athletes at an Olympic training center in Paris on Thursday, wishing rugby and track and field competitors good luck and even taking part in a stationary relay drill with runners. Biden arrived in Paris a day before the Summer Games’ opening ceremony on the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — New federal court rulings are narrowing the Biden administration’s enforcement of a rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination and allowing critics to limit it even further school by school. A federal judge in Missouri blocked enforcement of the rule in six additional states, bringing the total to 21.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — New federal court rulings are narrowing the Biden administration’s enforcement of a rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination and allowing critics to limit it even further school by school. A federal judge in Missouri blocked enforcement of the rule in six additional states, bringing the total to 21.
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The feuding this week among officials in the Olympics, the anti-doping world and the United States government over eradicating drugs from sports is hardly new. They’ve been going at it for decades. The tension reached a new level on the eve of the Paris Games when the International Olympic
Continue ReadingThe union representing workers at Lear Corp.’s Missouri plant that makes seats for General Motors vehicles says it has reached a tentative agreement with the company, ending a strike that was in its fourth day. About 480 workers at the Lear Corp. plant who walked out at midnight Sunday were back at work Thursday. They
Continue ReadingThe union representing workers at Lear Corp.’s Missouri plant that makes seats for General Motors vehicles says it has reached a tentative agreement with the company, ending a strike that was in its fourth day. About 480 workers at the Lear Corp. plant who walked out at midnight Sunday were back at work Thursday. They
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow has ordered the head of a Defense Ministry’s construction division to be detained for two months on suspicion of abuse of power, Russian news agencies reported. It is the latest in a series of arrests of high-ranking ministry officials this year. Andrei Belkov heads the Military Construction Company,
Continue ReadingBy Ed Lavandera and Ashley Killough, CNN (CNN) — CenterPoint Energy executives apologized and promised to do better Thursday after power outages from Hurricane Beryl wreaked havoc for millions across the Houston area earlier this month. Appearing before the Public Utility Commission of Texas in Austin, the company’s chief executive was apologetic and outlined a
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda since 1986. Personal Birth date: August 15, 1944 Birth place: Ntungamo, Uganda Birth name: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Father: Amos Kaguta, a cattle keeper Mother: Esteri Kokundeka Marriage: Janet (Kataaha) Museveni (August 1973-present) Children: Muhoozi Kainerugaba and three
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The trial has started for the daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley, who is accused of abandoning her baby after giving birth in the woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022. But attorneys for 27-year-old Alexandra Eckersley, who was homeless, say she didn’t know
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is putting her own stamp on the campaign that she inherited from President Joe Biden. From her music to her stump speech, she’s reshaping the message around her background and image. Democrats have been energized by her first outings on the campaign trail as she’s visited
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of migrants and homeless Parisians climbed aboard buses to be driven out of the city. They are latest group of people sleeping on the streets to be moved to the fringes of Paris ahead of the Olympic opening ceremony. They’re to be set up in temporary lodging until at
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lupita Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sandra Oh will help reopen the newly revitalized Delacorte Theater in Central Park in a free production of “Twelfth Night.” Director Saheem Ali picked William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night” to christen the return in the summer of 2025. The
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — As long as she’s been on the political scene, Vice President and likely Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has proudly repped the salmon pink and apple green of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Alpha Kappa Alpha is a historic African American sorority, founded on the campus of Howard University, Harris’ alma
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The Ohio Supreme Court says consumers can’t expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones. By a 4-3 vote, the court on Thursday has rejected claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat. The man says the restaurant failed to warn
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Transit and environmental advocacy groups in New York have filed lawsuits challenging Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to block a plan for a new $15 congestion toll on Manhattan drivers. The two separate lawsuits were filed Thursday in New York Supreme Court. One suit comes from the Riders Alliance, the
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Major League Baseball Players Association lost in its attempt to get a federal judge to confirm an arbitration decision denying an attempt by an agent at Bad Bunny’s Rimas Sports firm to block his decertification by the union. U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman wrote Thursday that the arbitrator’s decision
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Senate committee has voted to authorize an investigation into the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care and to subpoena the company’s CEO. The subpoena would compel Dr. Ralph de la Torre to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at a hearing Sept. 12. Steward said in
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Foul play is not suspected in the death of a Springfield, Missouri, man whose body was found Wednesday in a wooded near a Camden County hotel.
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