AP Entertainment Writer COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — A man charged with murder vehemently denied in court testimony that he sent his 17-year-old son into a Los Angeles restaurant in 2022 to rob and kill hip-hop star PnB Rock. “I understand you’re trying to put together your story,” Freddie Trone told a prosecutor during cross-examination in
Continue ReadingAP Education Writer WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — She was a teenager, and the mother of a 2-year-old, when a knock came on the door of the trailer she called home. Two women were there to tell her about a federally funded preschool program called Head Start that was opening near her home in Chugiak. Would
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s longtime attorney general and a former sheriff known for his work hunting down the Green River Killer are vying to become the next governor of a Democratic stronghold that hasn’t had an open race for the state’s top job in more than a decade. Democratic attorney general Bob
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russell Vought, a key architect of the controversial Project 2025 plan, speaks as a general marshaling troops to tame a “woke and weaponized” federal government. Vought has said political opposition is “enemy fire that’s coming over the target” and has urged allies to be “fearless at the point of attack.” He
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A chief architect of Project 2025, the controversial conservative blueprint to remake the federal government, Russell Vought is likely to be appointed to a high-ranking post in a second Trump administration. Vought is among the small cadre of Trump advisers who has a mechanic’s understanding of how Washington operates. He’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press One Republican strategist who has run campaigns against Donald Trump says he recognizes what the former president is doing against Vice President Kamala Harris, even as Trump swings back and forth between attacking her record and questioning her racial identity. It’s what he’s done against other opponents. “He figures out what their perceived
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Facing the need to win battleground Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris is swearing off any prior assertion that she opposed fracking, but that hasn’t stopped Republican Donald Trump from wielding her now-abandoned position to win over voters in a state where the natural gas industry means jobs. Last week,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2022, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer welcomed a Chinese battery company’s plan to build a $2.36 billion factory and bring a couple thousand jobs to Big Rapids. But now the project is in the crosshairs of some U.S. lawmakers and local residents. They suspect the Chinese company could spy for
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men were taken into custody Sunday afternoon in Montgomery County, according to a social media post from the Montgomery County Sheriffs Office. Around 11:30 a.m. the sheriffs office posted on its Facebook page that law enforcement was looking for two suspects in the area around Stella and White Road. The
Continue ReadingBy Mike Valerio, Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea claims it is sending 250 new tactical ballistic missile launchers toward its border with South Korea, in the latest bellicose declaration by leader Kim Jong Un against its neighbor. Photographs published by the North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun showed
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has elevated the nation’s terrorism threat alert level from “possible” to “probable,” citing concerns about increasing radicalization among young people and community tensions over the Israel-Hamas war. Monday is the first time the threat level has been elevated to the midpoint of the five-tier National Terrorism
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The charismatic Thai politician who led his progressive party to a stunning general election victory a year ago is urging supporters not to lose hope — even if it is disbanded by a legal order. Thailand’s Constitutional Court will rule Wednesday on whether the Move Forward Party violated the constitution
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has marked the delivery of 250 nuclear-capable missile launchers to frontline military units as leader Kim Jong Un said his country should prepare for prolonged confrontation with the United States. State media said Monday the launchers were freshly produced by North Korea’s munitions factories and designed
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Justin Steele pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning and the Chicago Cubs topped the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 for their fourth win in five games. Mike Tauchman and Miguel Amaya both homered in the sixth and finished with two hits and two runs scored to help the Cubs overcome
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Eric Cheung, CNN Hong Kong/Taipei (CNN) — Following a military blockade, panic and chaos rip through a besieged island: residents scramble to withdraw cash, foreign nationals rush to be evacuated, riots break out in prisons and television networks are hacked into broadcasting enemy propaganda. These fictitious scenes have stirred emotion and
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CNN By Saskya Vandoorne, Teele Rebane, Sophie Tanno, Zeena Saifi, Lucas Lilieholm and Alireza Hajihosseini, CNN (CNN) — Several countries including the United States, the United Kingdom and France have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon as heightened tensions in the region spark fears of a widening Middle East conflict. The warnings come after the
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As Tropical Storm Debby intensifies, the American Red Cross has deployed responders from Missouri and Arkansas to assist those affected by the impending disaster.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once retrieved a bear that was killed by a motorist and left it in New York’s Central Park with a bicycle on top, sparking a mystery that consumed the city a decade ago. Kennedy described the 2014 incident in a video that
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican journalist who covered one of the country’s most dangerous crime beats has been killed, and two of his government-assigned bodyguards wounded. The web news page operated by reporter Alejandro Martínez confirmed his death. The police department in the city of Celaya says he was shot to death Sunday by
Continue ReadingBy AnneClaire Stapleton and Mitch McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Mali has severed diplomatic ties with Ukraine after the country supplied intelligence to Malian rebels involved in an ambush against Wagner Group forces in July. “The transitional government of the Republic of Mali condemns the hostility of the authorities of Ukraine who do not observe that Mali
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