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Biden rolls out asylum restrictions, months in the making, to help 'gain control' of the border
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections. The...
How Biden's new order to halt asylum at the US border is supposed to work
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a halt to asylum processing at the U.S. border with Mexico when illegal entries reach a threshold that he deems excessive. The measure takes effect immediately because the new policy is triggered when arrests for illegal...
India's popular but polarizing leader Narendra Modi is extending his decade in power. Who is he?
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who claimed victory for his alliance in an election seen as a referendum on his decade in power, is a popular but polarizing leader who has presided over a fast-growing economy while advancing Hindu nationalism. Modi, 73, is...
Prosecutors spend first day of testimony in Hunter Biden's gun trial detailing his drug problems
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday painted President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as deceptive and driven by addiction, a man whose dark habits ensnared loved ones and who knew what he was doing when he lied on a federal form to purchase a gun in 2018. Jurors also...
Arizona voters will decide if local police can arrest people for crossing into the US from Mexico
PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a proposal asking voters to make it a state crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location other than a port of entry, sending the measure to the Nov. 5 ballot. The...
Trump's lawyers ask judge to lift gag order imposed during New York trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are asking a New York judge to lift the gag order that barred the former president from commenting about witnesses, jurors and others tied to the criminal case that led to his conviction for falsifying records to cover up a potential sex scandal. ...
The Latest | Slovenia recognizes a Palestinian state, and new fighting flares in central Gaza
Slovenia is the latest European country to recognize a Palestinian state. The country’s parliament voted Tuesday in support of the move, following in the recent steps of Spain, Ireland and Norway. Slovenia's prime minister has said he sped up efforts to recognize a State of...
After publishing an article critical of Israel, Columbia Law Review's website is shut down by board
NEW YORK (AP) — Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime. ...
Ippei Mizuhara spoke for baseball star Shohei Ohtani. He also stole nearly $17M from him
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — As an interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara was supposed to bridge the gap between baseball star Shohei Ohtani and his English-speaking teammates and fans as the duo traveled from Southern California to ballparks across the U.S. Instead, Mizuhara exploited the...
New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating
The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year's surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated. The group of 57 scientists from around the world used United Nations-approved methods to examine what's behind last year's...
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Kim, Bashaw win New Jersey primaries for Senate seat held by embattled Menendez
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Democratic Rep. Andy Kim won his party’s nomination for a U.S. Senate seat Tuesday in New Jersey, setting up a general election contest against wealthy hotel operator Curtis Bashaw, who defeated a Trump-backed candidate for the Republican nomination. ...
Biden and Trump win Democratic, Republican elections in some of 2024's last primary contests
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won Democratic and Republican primaries in a handful of states Tuesday, among some of the last contests on the 2024 primary calendar. Trump, appearing on the ballot for the first time since his historic...
3-term incumbent Jon Tester wins Montana Democratic Senate primary
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester has won Montana Democratic Senate primary. The three-term incumbent is expected to face off against Republican newcomer Tim Sheehy in what is shaping up to be an expensive campaign that could determine which party holds the political power...
MLB bans Tucupita Marcano for life for betting on baseball, four others get one-year suspensions
NEW YORK (AP) — San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano was banned from baseball for life for betting on the sport and four others were suspended for one year by Major League Baseball on Tuesday in the game’s biggest gambling scandal in decades. MLB said Marcano placed 387...
Former prosecutor settles lawsuit against Netflix over Central Park Five series
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein and Netflix announced Tuesday they've settled the defamation lawsuit she filed four years ago over her portrayal in the streaming service's miniseries about the five Black and Latino teenagers known as the now-exonerated Central Park...
Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown
BEIJING (AP) — Beijing's Tiananmen Square had checkpoints and police vehicles Tuesday as China tried to silence the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong police arrested four people and swarmed a handful of others who tried to protest or commemorate as the...
Atlanta officials say water repairs are done after 5 days of outages and service is being restored
ATLANTA (AP) — City of Atlanta officials say workers finished repairs on a ruptured water main on Tuesday and that water problems in the city are coming to an end after five days. The city said Tuesday night that workers had placed new pipes after a leak that sent a gushing river...
Arizona voters will decide if local police can arrest people for crossing into the US from Mexico
PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a proposal asking voters to make it a state crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location other than a port of entry, sending the measure to the Nov. 5 ballot. The...
New Mexico primary holds implications for Legislature and prosecutor in Alec Baldwin case
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico voters picked their partisan favorites in Tuesday's primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. The votes in the first Senate election since redistricting in 2021 hold implications for Native...
Republicans who see Trump conviction as politically motivated vow to ‘indict the left’
NEW YORK (AP) — In the days since Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in his criminal hush money trial, Republicans who view the case as politically motivated have coalesced around a new rallying cry: Prosecute the left. Candidates, officeholders and members of the former...
