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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has declared a mistrial in the case of an Indianapolis man accused of fatally shooting five people, including a pregnant woman. Marion County Superior Judge Chris Miller declared the mistrial Tuesday in the trial of 20-year-old Raymond Ronald Lee Childs III after a witness verbally confronted the defendant in front

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Wales is set to get its first female leader. Eluned Morgan was chosen Wednesday to lead the governing Welsh Labour Party. She succeeds First Minister Vaughan Gething, who stepped down last week as party leader over a campaign donation scandal. Morgan is currently the Welsh health minister and was the

LONDON (AP) — Renowned British conductor John Eliot Gardiner has announced he is quitting the orchestra he has led for six decades. It comes almost a year after he allegedly hit a singer backstage after a concert. Gardiner said he was stepping down as leader and artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra “with

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Plans to hold a nonbinding referendum on Puerto Rico’s political status have come under scrutiny for its multimillion-dollar cost as election officials announced the order and description of choices on the upcoming ballot. The $1.3 million referendum that critics have described as “inconsequential” will feature three choices

NEKIMI, Wis. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man and a man from New York have been preliminarily identified as the victims of a fatal plane crash near the site of an airshow in eastern Wisconsin. The Winnebago County sheriff’s office says that the bodies of 37-year-old Sean Tommervik of Philadelphia and 32-year-old James G. Sullivan of

BANGKOK (AP) — A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was released from prison earlier this week. The Rev. Hkalam Samson was first arrested in December 2022 and later convicted on charges including terrorism. He was briefly released in April under a general amnesty but taken back into

NEW YORK (AP) — A fake protest encampment set up for a TV shoot on a New York City college campus sparked a real reaction from pro-Palestinian activists who organized their own demonstration against the filming at a New York City college. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the scenario unfolded this week at

THORNTON, Colo. (AP) — Police in suburban Denver say a man has been shot and killed by a police officer after they say he grabbed for another officer’s gun in its holster during a struggle. The shooting happened early Wednesday morning in Thornton. Police say the officer whose gun the suspect tried to get was

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Get ready to say willkommen to the next stars to enter the Kit Kat Club on Broadway — Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho. Producers of the Tony Award-nominated revival announced Monday that Lambert, the singer-songwriter who has fronted Queen, and Cravalho, the voice of the title character in

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A wealthy attorney who came close to being elected governor of Maine has been disbarred following the completion of his sentence for possessing thousands of images of child sexual abuse. A judge on Monday signed off on the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar recommendation against 77-year-old Eliot Cutler. Cutler

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s total population has declined for the 15th straight year. That’s according to government data released Thursday. The population dropped by more than a half-million people as the population ages and births remain low. Births in Japan hit a record low last year, and deaths were a record high. Japan’s

Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack in western New York was motivated by a Hezbollah leader’s endorsement of a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death, prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing new terrorism charges. The three-count indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in Buffalo