Trump calls accuser a ‘nut job’ in recording played for jury
By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors heard former President Donald Trump blast a woman who accused him of…
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Some call NYC subway choking criminal, others hold judgment
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The choking death of a man at the hands of another New York subway rider…
Continue Reading New York, California probing workplace discrimination at NFL
NEW YORK (AP) — The attorneys general of New York and California announced Thursday that they are investigating allegations of workplace…
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New York, California probing workplace discrimination at NFL
By KAREN MATTHEWS and ADAM BEAM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in New York and California launched an investigation of the…
Continue Reading Proud Boys’ Tarrio guilty of Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and…
Continue Reading Cycling body to review transgender rules after US race
AIGLE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Cycling Union says it will review its rules regulating transgender athletes and expects to make a fresh…
Continue Reading Spain expresses backing for Colombia peace plan
By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has given his full backing to Colombian President Gustavo…
Continue Reading Oakland teachers union on strike; schools open without them
By TERRY CHEA OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — More than 3,000 teachers and other workers in the Oakland Unified School District went on strike Thursday,…
Continue Reading BMW: Don’t drive older models with Takata air bag inflators
DETROIT (AP) — BMW is warning the owners of about 90,000 older vehicles in the U.S. not to drive them due to an increasing threat that the air bags…
Continue Reading Debt limit deadline looms as Democrats, GOP spar on spending
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are trying hard to pressure Republicans into resolving the menacing impasse on…
Continue Reading In latest abortion law chapter: Bill signings, court rulings
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press In Montana, a court rebuffed one abortion restriction, but the governor quickly signed others into law. In…
Continue Reading Maryland Rep. David Trone announces US Senate run
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Rep. David Trone says he will run for the U.S. Senate seat that will be open with…
Continue Reading Investor buys Caribbean isles once owned by Jeffrey Epstein
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. investor has bought two Caribbean islands that were once owned by the late Jeffrey Epstein and where…
Continue Reading Sheriff: Last of 4 escaped Mississippi prisoners found
CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff says the last of four prisoners who escaped from a prison last month has been found at a home…
Continue Reading European Central Bank raises interest rates but slows pace
By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has slowed the pace of its interest rate increases, stepping…
Continue Reading Anxiety knocks regional banks, shares slump
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Anxiety about a rush of withdrawals by customers of regional banks continues to roil the financial sector as…
Continue ReadingMan dies after being put in a chokehold by another rider on New York City subway, officials say. The DA is investigating
By Brynn Gingras, Laura Ly, Maria Santana and Ray Sanchez, CNN After his mother was murdered in 2007, Jordan Neely eked out a living as a well-known…
Continue Reading Explosion rips roof off pharmaceutical plant; worker missing
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) — Officials say an explosion at a pharmaceutical plant in Massachusetts left one worker missing and sent four people to the…
Continue ReadingLast of 4 escaped Mississippi detention center inmates captured
By Rebekah Riess, CNN The last of four men who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month was taken into custody Thursday morning, according to an…
Continue Reading Denmark to boost military spending to upgrade facilities
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s centrist government wants to spend 38 billion kroner ($5.6 billion) over the next decade to modernize…
Continue Reading Prosecutors: Signs of mental illness in Berlin school attack
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say a man who seriously wounded two young girls in an attack at a school in Berlin may have been suffering from a…
Continue Reading Waymo robotaxis make more inroads in Phoenix, San Francisco
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Self-driving car pioneer Waymo announced Thursday that its robotaxis will be able to carry passengers through…
Continue Reading 2 people killed in train accident in western Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Two people were killed and several experienced a psychologically damaging shock in a train accident near the western German city of…
Continue Reading UK holds local elections amid storm over new voter ID rules
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in England are voting Thursday in local elections, the first test of electoral…
Continue ReadingTest scores for 8th-grade students decline in US history and civics following prior declines in math and reading, report says
By Laura Ly, CNN Test scores for eighth-grade students in the US declined in both US history and civics in 2022, according to a new report from the…
Continue Reading At CPAC, Hungary’s Orban decries LGBTQ+ rights, migration
By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s populist prime minister has likened liberalism to a “virus” in an opening…
Continue Reading5 things to know for May 4: Atlanta shooting, Inflation, Ukraine, EVs, McDonald’s
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Thousands of people are planning to line the streets of London this weekend to witness the coronation of King Charles III.…
Continue Reading WHO fires scientist who led COVID search over sex misconduct
By JAMEY KEATEN GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it has fired the scientist who led a high-profile delegation from the U.N. health…
Continue Reading Shell posts $9.6 billion profit even as energy prices slide
LONDON (AP) — Global energy giant Shell says it earned nearly $10 billion in the first quarter, becoming the latest fossil fuel company to post…
Continue Reading India to talk with China, Russia before Central Asia meet
By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press PANAJI, India (AP) — India’s foreign minister is expected to hold bilateral talks with counterparts from China…
Continue Reading Biden, Harris meet with CEOs about AI risks
By MATT O’BRIEN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris met on Thursday with the heads of Google,…
Continue Reading Stock market today: Asia mixed after Wall St sinks
By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Friday after Wall Street sank on worries about the health of U.S.…
Continue Reading Iranian president meets Palestinian officials in Syria
By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A Palestinian official says Iran’s president has met with senior…
Continue Reading US joins UN in suspending food aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The United States Agency for International Development has suspended all food assistance to the northern Ethiopian…
Continue Reading India army patrols streets to defuse clashes in remote state
By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GUWAHATI, India (AP) — The governor of a remote Indian state issued orders allowing district magistrates to…
Continue ReadingTeachers in Oakland, California, begin strike over pay and social issues
By Jason Hanna, Cheri Mossburg and Taylor Romine, CNN Public school educators in Oakland, California, went on strike Thursday after contract…
Continue Reading Israelis block roads in protest against Netanyahu legal plan
By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israelis have blocked roads and demonstrated against a contentious government plan to…
Continue ReadingAtlanta mass shooting led to a military vet in jail, an apology from his mother and trauma among hospital patients and staff
By Ryan Young, Gary Tuchman, Elizabeth Wolfe, Sara Smart and Holly Yan, CNN An eight-hour manhunt that threw a major American city into fear and…
Continue Reading Ukraine leader wages political war on Russia on Europe trips
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has taken his campaign against Russia to the…
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Twin sisters earn Valedictorian/Salutatorian honors at Rancho San Juan High School
SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV)- The Salinas Union High School District announced that two Seniors earned the 2023 Valedictorian and Salutatorian…
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28-year-old man killed in Abbott Street crash identified
SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV)- UPDATE ON MAY 3, 2023, AT 10:11 AM- The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man that was killed in a crash…
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CHP: Deadly crash near Castroville caused by driver making unsafe movement into other lane
CASTROVILLE, Calif. (KION-TV) Update: May 3, 2023, at 2:45 p.m.- CHP has released new details in a crash that left one person dead on Highway 1…
Continue ReadingJudge denies new trial for Texas man convicted of fatally shooting a protester at a 2020 Black Lives Matter rally
By Rosa Flores and Andy Rose, CNN Amid promises from Texas’ governor to pardon an Army sergeant convicted of murdering a protester at Black…
Continue Reading Spain’s Juan Carlos I offers cautionary tale for Charles III
By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A playboy past that was once brushed under the carpet, a popular son whose telegenic…
Continue Reading Forces kill 3 Palestinians behind deaths of British-Israelis
By ISABEL DEBRE and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops on Thursday killed three Palestinian militants wanted…
Continue Reading ‘Not my king’: UK republicans want coronation to be the last
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — On his way to be crowned this week, King Charles III will travel by gilded coach through streets…
Continue Reading DIARY: Waiting to leave Sudan, a hotel became a sanctuary
By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — We were a diverse group of more than a dozen people, hunkered down in a small hotel in…
Continue Reading Pollock, Suárez homer late, Mariners beat A’s 7-2 in 10
By BEN ROSS Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Eugenio Suárez hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning after AJ Pollock tied the game with a…
Continue Reading 8 people die in overnight fire in Czech city of Brno
PRAGUE (AP) — Police says eight people have died in an overnight fire in the second largest city in the Czech Republic. The fire broke out about…
Continue Reading Deadly bus crash with truck kills 17, injures 29 in Egypt
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian media and local officials say a passenger bus has slammed into a slowly moving truck on a highway in southwestern Egypt,…
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