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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, an 18-year-old Illinois man accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a protest over police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year. Prosecutors say Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, fatally shot Joseph

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Workers at three Starbucks stores in Buffalo, New York, will hold union elections next month after winning a case before the National Labor Relations Board. If the effort is successful, the stores would be the first of Starbucks’ 8,000 company-owned U.S. stores to unionize. The Seattle coffee giant opposes

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press South Dakota’s labor secretary says officials had decided to give Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter another chance to win her state real estate appraiser license even before a meeting in the governor’s mansion that has spurred conflict of interest questions. Secretary of Labor and Regulation Marcia Hultman testified Thursday before a

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A. Linwood Holton Jr., Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and a crusader against racial discrimination, has died. He was 98. His family says he died peacefully Thursday at his Kilmarnock, Virginia, home. Holton was Virginia’s governor from 1970 to 1974. A moderate, he declared an

By TOM KRISHER and HOPE YEN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The government has reported that the number of U.S. traffic deaths in the first half of 2021 hit 20,160, the highest first-half total since 2006. The estimated number was 18.4% higher than the first half of last year. That percentage increase was the biggest

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, who was elected in 1992 as a self described “mom in tennis shoes,” has been fighting for paid family and medical leave for decades. For much of this year she appeared to be close to winning. A proposal

By The Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Linwood Holton, Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction, has died. His family says in a statement that he died peacefully Thursday at his home in Kilmarnock. He was 98. The statement did not specify the cause of death. Holton was a moderate who raised taxes and worked

ATLANTA (AP) — Houston’s 7-2 win over Atlanta in World Series Game 2 drew 10,539,000 viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox streaming apps. Wednesday night’s game averaged a 5.8 rating, 14 share and 10,280,000 viewers on Fox, up 13% from 9,105,000 for Tampa Bay’s 6-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the second

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press ESCUINTLA, Mexico (AP) — A few thousand migrants have resumed their walk north through southern Mexico, and the chatter of stroller wheels on pavement accompanies the slap of feet. Still-sleeping children slumped as the caravan lurched forward Thursday. Others perched on parents’ shoulders. Aid workers travelling with the caravan

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is stepping back into the hotly contested Virginia governor’s race, but from afar. According to a person familiar with his plans, Trump will hold a tele-rally for Republican Glenn Youngkin. Youngkin is running neck-and-neck with Democrat Terry McAuliffe. Throughout the campaign, Youngkin

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm so big it could swallow Earth, extends surprisingly deep beneath the planet’s cloud tops. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has discovered that the monster storm, though shrinking, still has a depth of between 200 miles and 300 miles. Scientists reported