April 12, 2023 4:20 am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys defending Fox in a defamation case related to false claims about the 2020 election withheld critical information about the role company founder Rupert Murdoch played at Fox News, a revelation that angered the judge when it came up at a pretrial hearing. It was not clear whether the development Tuesday would affect a trial scheduled to begin Thursday with jury selection. The role of Fox executives is at the heart of the case. The company’s attorneys have sought to insulate members of the Murdoch family, arguing that their roles at the parent company, Fox Corp., put them at a distance from the Fox News shows that aired the bogus claims.
April 12, 2023 4:20 am
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Body camera video shows Louisville police officers being fired upon as they arrive at the bank where five people were killed and the harrowing minutes while officers confront the shooter and work to rescue a wounded colleague. Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey walked reporters through edited footage at a news conference Tuesday. Two patrol officers who responded to the shooting were wounded, one of them struck in the head by a bullet Monday morning. Four of the people shot died at the scene, and a fifth died Monday night in a hospital. The gunman, an employee of the bank, was shot and killed by police.
April 12, 2023 4:18 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top immigration official will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants last month. Federal prosecutors say he was remiss in not preventing the disaster despite earlier indications of problems at his agency’s detention centers. The decision to file charges against Francisco Garduño was announced late Tuesday. It followed repeated calls from within Mexico, and from some Central American nations, not to stop the case at the five low-level officials and guards, and a Venezuelan migrant, already facing homicide charges in the case. Anger initially focused on two guards who fled the fire without unlocking the cell door to let migrants out. But Mexico’s president said earlier Tuesday they didn’t have the keys.
April 12, 2023 4:16 am
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Commissioners in Memphis have voted to reinstate one of two Black Democrats kicked out of the Republican-led Tennessee House. The Shelby County Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to send Justin Pearson back to the Legislature in Nashville. Republicans banished Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones last week over their role in a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting. The Nashville Metropolitan Council took only a few minutes Monday to restore Jones to office. He was quickly reinstated to his House seat.
April 12, 2023 4:14 am
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will follow his colleague in a return to the Legislature. Justin Pearson will be sworn in and back at work Thursday at the Capitol. The Memphis lawmaker is coming back a week after he and Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville were banished for a gun control protest on the House floor that propelled them into the national spotlight. The protest followed a Nashville school shooting that killed three children and three adults. On Monday, the Nashville Metropolitan Council restored Jones to office. He was reinstated to his House seat the same day. The positions are interim. Both plan to run in special elections for their seats.
April 12, 2023 1:23 am
A Wheeling, West Virginia woman who is accused of crashing her car into other cars and assaulting police elected to stand trial on those accusations. Manasha Bradley, 29 faces multiple felony charges of aggravated assault and fleeing from an officer. Unable to come to a plea agreement, Bradley requested a jury trial. According to the criminal complaint, Bradley struck several vehicles and traffic delineators while trying to exit a concert at The Pavilion at Star Lake back in October of 2022. She got stuck in traffic several times trying to get out of the facility and assaulted several other people including police. She was eventually apprehended when she crashed her vehicle into a swampy area a few miles away. Bradley is free on $75,000 bond.
April 11, 2023 5:21 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — New data details the nation’s worsening tide of sexually transmitted infections, but health officials are hoping an old drug will help the fight. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday released data about some of the most common infectious diseases in the U.S. The numbers show how chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis infections have been accelerating across the country. Meanwhile, the CDC is considering recommending the antibiotic doxycycline to be used after sex to prevent those infections. The pills are already used to treat some infections. Researchers have found that taking them soon after unprotected sex can sometimes prevent infections from happening at all.
April 11, 2023 5:19 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has filed a federal lawsuit against Rep. Jim Jordan, accusing the Republican of a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” him over his prosecution of former President Donald Trump. Bragg, a Democrat, is asking a judge to invalidate subpoenas that Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has or plans to issue as part of an investigation of the district attorney’s handling of the Trump case. The House Judiciary panel is scheduled to hold a hearing in Manhattan on Monday on crime in New York City and what it alleges are Bragg’s “pro-crime, anti-victim” policies.
April 11, 2023 4:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll shows that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults are at least somewhat likely to go electric when it comes time to buy a new vehicle. They say the main deterrents are high prices and too few charging stations. The poll shows that even with tax credits of up to $7,500 to buy a new EV, it will be difficult for President Joe Biden and the auto industry to persuade drivers to ditch their gas-burning cars and trucks for vehicles without tailpipe emissions. The poll comes from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
April 11, 2023 4:25 am
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One of the two Black Democrats who were expelled last week from the GOP-led Tennessee House has been reinstated. Nashville’s governing council voted Monday to send Justin Jones straight back to the Legislature. He quickly returned to the chamber after being sworn in on the Capitol steps. The council vote returns Jones to the Capitol after just four days. Republicans banished the two over their role in a gun-control protest on the House floor in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting. The other lawmaker, Justin Pearson, could be reappointed Wednesday.
