COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Attorney General Dave Yost told the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday that rushing a lawsuit filed against him by a coalition of civil rights organizations seeking to place a package of voter protections on the November ballot is unjustified. In a court filing, Yost said the July 3 cutoff for the “Ohio Voters Bill of …
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How Donald Trump went from a diminished ex-president to the GOP’s dominant front-runner
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — When he left the White House, Donald Trump was a pariah. After years of bending Washington to his will with a single tweet, Trump was, at least for a moment, diminished. He was a one-term Republican president rejected by voters and then shunned by large swaths of his party after his refusal to accept his 2020 …
Read More »Oklahoma’s oldest Native American school, Bacone College, is threatened by debts and disrepair
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — The hallways of Bacone College are cold and dark. In the main hall, there are no lectures to be heard, only the steady hum of the space heater keeping the administrative offices warm. Students aren’t attending classes here this semester, but work still needs to be done. In the college’s historic buildings, there are leaks to …
Read More »Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick rule at pre-Grammy gala hosted by Clive Davis
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The night began with a rare sight: tennis champion Serena Williams was flustered. “I’m a little nervous… I can’t breathe,” she said through an exasperated smile. “I’m usually really good at this.” The overwhelming task was not opening the famed Clive Davis pre-Grammys gala at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California — though that no …
Read More »Kenya’s president blames corruption and incompetence for huge fireball that hurt hundreds in Nairobi
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president says corruption and officials’ incompetence allowed a liquid petroleum plant to operate in one of Nairobi’s most crowded residential neighborhoods, where its explosion and fire killed three people and injured more than 280 others. President William Ruto said the officials who gave licenses to the plant must be dismissed and prosecuted. Police are also …
Read More »2nd defendant pleads guilty in drive-by shootings on homes of Democratic lawmakers
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A second defendant has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of state and local lawmakers in Albuquerque after the 2022 election, the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Demetrio Trujillo pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy, election interference and firearms-related charges, officials said. The 42-year-old …
Read More »Fiscalía busca a responsables de enterrar vivo a un perro callejero en un cementerio de Perú
LIMA (AP) — La fiscalía peruana inició el jueves una investigación para hallar a los autores de un delito de crueldad contra animales, luego de conocerse que en un cementerio de la costa norte del Pacífico habían enterrado vivo a un perro callejero. El animal fue rescatado por un hombre que escuchó sus ladridos y gemidos. Un video difundido por …
Read More »Adrian Beltré to have Rangers logo on baseball Hall of Fame plaque. No team emblem for Jim Leyland
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Adrián Beltré will have a Texas Rangers’ logo on his baseball Hall of Fame plaque and Jim Leyland will not have any team emblem. The hall made the announcement Friday, 10 days after Beltré was elected by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Leyland was elected in December by the contemporary era committee for managers, executives …
Read More »Ucrania dice que Rusia se niega a devolver cadáveres de víctimas de avión derribado
KIEV, Ucrania (AP) — Rusia ha rechazado las solicitudes de Ucrania de que entregue los cadáveres de decenas de prisioneros de guerra que, según el Kremlin, murieron en un avión de transporte militar ruso derribado por las fuerzas ucranianas, dijo un funcionario de inteligencia ucraniano. En declaraciones televisadas eljueves por la noche, Andrii Yusov, portavoz de la inteligencia militar de …
Read More »Kansas is poised to expand tax credit for helping disabled workers after debate over low pay
Kansas is poised to expand an income tax credit for goods and services purchased from companies and nonprofits employing disabled workers, a year after a debate over how much the state should buck a national trend against paying those workers below the minimum wage. A bill approved by the Legislature this week with broad bipartisan support would increase the total …
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