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Biden OKs $60M in aid after Baltimore bridge collapse as governor warns of 'very long road ahead'

Mar. 28, 2024 19:41 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore warned Thursday of a “very long road ahead” to recover from the loss of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge as the Biden administration approved $60 million in immediate federal aid after the deadly collapse. Meanwhile the U.S. Army...

Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill?

Mar. 28, 2024 11:23 AM EDT

Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor. Taylor Ware, a former Marine and...

UN top court orders Israel to open more land crossings for aid into Gaza

Mar. 28, 2024 19:11 PM EDT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court on Thursday ordered Israel to take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into the war-ravaged enclave. The International...

Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children

Mar. 28, 2024 06:24 AM EDT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is having on Palestinian children still left them stunned. One toddler died from a brain injury caused by...

Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

Mar. 28, 2024 17:08 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud on hundreds of thousands of customers that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world’s most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency. ...

Trump attends wake of slain New York officer, calls for 'law and order,' to show contrast with Biden

Mar. 28, 2024 17:10 PM EDT

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Donald Trump attended Thursday's wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and called for “law and order,” as part of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's attempt to show a contrast with President Joe Biden and focus on...

Biden's fundraiser with Obama and Clinton nets a record $25 million, his campaign says

Mar. 28, 2024 19:43 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said. The eye-popping amount was a major...

Black pastors see popular Easter services as an opportunity to rebuild in-person worship attendance

Mar. 28, 2024 08:15 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many churches moved their services online, the Rev. William H. Lamar IV initially shuddered at the thought that he needed to morph into a “video personality” to stay engaged with his parishioners. “I resisted...

House Republicans invite President Biden to testify at public hearing as impeachment inquiry stalls

Mar. 28, 2024 17:28 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to deliver on their stalled monthslong impeachment inquiry into the Biden family businesses. Rep. James Comer, chair of the House...

Trump's team cites First Amendment in contesting charges in Georgia election interference case

Mar. 28, 2024 15:06 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — The charges against Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that the First Amendment protects, a lawyer for the former president said Thursday as he argued that the indictment should be dismissed. ...

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Biden's fundraiser with Obama and Clinton nets a record $25 million, his campaign says

Mar. 28, 2024 19:43 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said. The eye-popping amount was a major...

Biden OKs $60M in aid after Baltimore bridge collapse as governor warns of 'very long road ahead'

Mar. 28, 2024 19:41 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore warned Thursday of a “very long road ahead” to recover from the loss of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge as the Biden administration approved $60 million in immediate federal aid after the deadly collapse. Meanwhile the U.S. Army...

California man convicted of killing his mother is captured in Mexico after ditching halfway house

Mar. 28, 2024 19:38 PM EDT

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man convicted of killing his mother as a teenager was captured in Mexico a week after he walked away from a halfway house, violating the conditions of his probation, authorities said. Ike Nicholas Souzer, 20, was arrested Wednesday in...

California supervisor who tried to get rid of Shasta County vote-counting machines survives recall

Mar. 28, 2024 19:34 PM EDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A local official in a rural Northern California survived a recall attempt spurred in part by his effort to get rid of the county's vote-counting machines following unfounded accusations of fraud amplified by former President Donald Trump. Kevin Crye was...

Mob in Mexico brutally beats suspected kidnapper hours before Holy Week procession

Mar. 28, 2024 19:32 PM EDT

TAXCO, Mexico (AP) — A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco on Thursday brutally beat a woman they suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, just hours before the city’s famous Holy Week procession. On the eve of Good Friday, men walk through the colonial streets of...

Youngkin vetoes Virginia bills mandating minimum wage increase, establishing marijuana retail sales

Mar. 28, 2024 19:29 PM EDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase. The development,...

Kentucky Senate approves expanding access to paid family leave

Mar. 28, 2024 19:28 PM EDT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A bipartisan bill aimed at expanding access to paid family leave won final passage Thursday as Kentucky's legislature shifted into overdrive before a two-week break. The Senate voted 36-0 to send the family leave legislation to Gov. Andy Beshear. ...

NYC will try gun scanners in subway system in effort to deter violence underground

Mar. 28, 2024 19:28 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials announced a pilot program on Thursday to deploy portable gun scanners in the subway system, part of an effort to deter violence underground and to make the system feel safer. The scanners will be introduced in certain stations after a legally...

AP Week in Pictures: North America

Mar. 28, 2024 19:28 PM EDT

March 22 - 28, 2024 People embrace after a vigil for the victims of a container ship collision into a bridge in Maryland, crowds throw colored powder during Holi celebrations in Los Angeles and a player hangs in the air as he dunks during a college basketball game in Nebraska. ...

Texas judge moves late fee case to DC, accusing banks of venue shopping for favorable ruling

Mar. 28, 2024 19:28 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A Texas federal judge on Thursday accused the major banking industry groups and U.S. Chamber of Commerce of venue shopping in their lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a major win for the federal regulator. The bureau had argued the only...