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'I can taste the air': Hazardous smoke from wildfires hangs over millions in Canada, US

Jun. 07, 2023 18:15 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze, holding up flights at major airports, postponing Major League Baseball games and prompting people to fish out pandemic-era face...

After years of threats, a feud ends with a Black mom dead and her white neighbor arrested

Jun. 07, 2023 16:33 PM EDT

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud was arrested Tuesday, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, who is white, was arrested on...

Pence opens presidential bid with denunciation of Trump over Jan. 6 insurrection and abortion

Jun. 07, 2023 17:53 PM EDT

ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence opened his bid for the Republican nomination for president Wednesday with a firm denunciation of former President Donald Trump, accusing his two-time running mate of abandoning conservative principles and being guilty of dereliction of duty on...

Lionel Messi picks MLS's Inter Miami in a move that stuns soccer after exit from Paris Saint-Germain

Jun. 07, 2023 17:53 PM EDT

MIAMI (AP) — Lionel Messi has pulled off his latest stunning feat: He is headed to Major League Soccer and joining Inter Miami. After months — years, even — of speculation, Messi on Wednesday finally revealed his decision to join a Miami franchise that has been led by another...

DeSantis defends flying migrants to California as he meets with sheriffs near border

Jun. 07, 2023 18:20 PM EDT

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday defended his state's decision to fly migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to California, arguing that the state had essentially invited the migrants with its welcoming policies toward immigrants. DeSantis, a...

The story behind Juneteenth and how it became a federal holiday

Jun. 07, 2023 14:04 PM EDT

Americans will soon celebrate Juneteenth, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history with joy, in the form of parades, street...

Justice Jackson reports flowers from Oprah, designer clothing as Thomas delays filing disclosure

Jun. 07, 2023 15:47 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disclosed Wednesday that she received a $1,200 congratulatory floral display from Oprah Winfrey and $6,580 in designer clothing for a magazine photo shoot in her first months as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. The details...

GOP conservatives shutter House to protest McCarthy-Biden debt deal, setting up next budget brawl

Jun. 07, 2023 17:09 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — In fallout from the debt ceiling deal, Speaker Kevin McCarthy is suddenly confronting a new threat to his power as angry hard-right conservatives bring the House chamber to a halt, reviving their displeasure over the compromise struck with President Joe Biden and...

Actor Jay Johnston, known for 'Bob's Burgers' character, arrested on Capitol riot charges

Jun. 07, 2023 16:50 PM EDT

An actor known for his roles on the comedy television shows “Bob's Burgers” and “Mr. Show with Bob and David” was arrested Wednesday on charges that he joined a mob of Donald Trump supporters in confronting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot, court records show. Jay...

Gunman who opened fire after Virginia high school graduation targeted graduate, Richmond police say

Jun. 07, 2023 18:18 PM EDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A gunman who opened fire minutes after a high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia, targeted an 18-year-old graduate he had a long-running dispute with, police said Wednesday. Shawn Jackson, 18, and his father, Lorenzo Smith, 36, were both killed Tuesday in...

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CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after a brief, tumultuous tenure

Jun. 07, 2023 18:41 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The chief executive CNN pushed out of a job on Wednesday faced mounting problems in his first year leading the struggling network: viewership and profits were declining, programming blunders were growing and the network’s journalists were losing confidence by the day. ...

UN investigators compiling evidence on chemical weapons use by Islamic State extremists in Iraq

Jun. 07, 2023 18:37 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. investigators are compiling evidence on the development and use of chemical weapons by Islamic State extremists in Iraq after they seized about a third of the country in 2014, and are advancing work on the militant group’s gender-based violence and crimes against...

AP PHOTOS: From NYC's skyline to Washington DC's monuments, wildfire haze envelopes familiar sites

Jun. 07, 2023 18:34 PM EDT

As firefighters in Canada battled hundreds of wildfires, the smoke spreading south engulfed New York City, Washington D.C. and beyond in a yellowish haze on Wednesday as people, many wearing masks, passed by familiar landmarks obscured by the smoky fog. The New York City skyline...

Autopsy finds North Carolina man died of 'sudden cardiac arrest' during police confrontation

Jun. 07, 2023 18:26 PM EDT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A man who died after police officers in North Carolina's capital city repeatedly used stun guns on him died from "sudden cardiac arrest" related to cocaine intoxication and the police confrontation, according to the state's autopsy released on Wednesday. The...

Passengers evacuated from train after fire breaks out in Austrian tunnel

Jun. 07, 2023 18:24 PM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities evacuated hundreds of passengers from a train in a tunnel after a fire broke out Wednesday evening, and officials said around 50 people had slight injuries. Local authorities said the night train headed for Hamburg and Amsterdam with up to 370...

Workers at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan's Union Square vote to unionize, continuing trend

Jun. 07, 2023 18:20 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Workers at the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan's Union Square, one of the retail chain's signature stores and home to its corporate offices, have voted to unionize. They join employees at a handful of other Barnes & Noble stores in the Northeast who have...

DeSantis defends flying migrants to California as he meets with sheriffs near border

Jun. 07, 2023 18:20 PM EDT

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday defended his state's decision to fly migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to California, arguing that the state had essentially invited the migrants with its welcoming policies toward immigrants. DeSantis, a...

Former Baseball Hall of Fame President Ed Stack dead at 88

Jun. 07, 2023 18:20 PM EDT

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Edward W. Stack, the president of baseball's Hall of Fame from 1977-93, has died. He was 88. Stack, who had remained with the Hall as a board member after he stepped down as president, died Sunday at Port Washington, New York, the hall announced Wednesday....

Gunman who opened fire after Virginia high school graduation targeted graduate, Richmond police say

Jun. 07, 2023 18:18 PM EDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A gunman who opened fire minutes after a high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia, targeted an 18-year-old graduate he had a long-running dispute with, police said Wednesday. Shawn Jackson, 18, and his father, Lorenzo Smith, 36, were both killed Tuesday in...

'I can taste the air': Hazardous smoke from wildfires hangs over millions in Canada, US

Jun. 07, 2023 18:15 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze, holding up flights at major airports, postponing Major League Baseball games and prompting people to fish out pandemic-era face...