NHL’s move to Salt Lake City is latest sports downsizing
Sometimes, smaller is better.
Hunter Biden to go on trial in gun case, days after Trump was convicted
WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden will go on trial on gun charges Monday in Delaware within walking distance of his father’s campaign headquarters in Wilmington, less than a week after former President Donald Trump’s felony conviction in New York.
Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban
Donald Trump has joined TikTok, the social media app that he tried to ban during his presidency but that he more recently has embraced as he and his campaign try to reach younger voters before November’s general election.
Police: 1 dead, 24 wounded in Akron shooting
Two dozen people were wounded and one person was killed in a shooting at a large birthday party in Akron, Ohio, early Sunday, officials said.
Departing House members ask: ‘Why am I here?’
WASHINGTON — At some point during a routine seven-hour trip from his Oregon district to Washington, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, 75, a Democrat who has served in Congress for almost three decades, experienced a depressing epiphany.
Teacher placed on leave over ‘mock slave auction’ in classroom
A fifth-grade teacher in Massachusetts who held a “mock slave auction” and used a racial slur in a classroom has been placed on paid administrative leave, the district superintendent said.
Can billions in new subsidies keep family farms in business?
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has a line about the state of small-scale agriculture in America these days.
A felon in the Oval Office would test the American system
WASHINGTON — Revolutionary hero Patrick Henry knew this day would come. He might not have anticipated all the particulars, such as the porn actor in the hotel room and the illicit payoff to keep her quiet. But he feared that eventually a criminal might occupy the presidency and use his powers to thwart anyone who sought to hold him accountable. “Away with your president,” he declared, “we shall have a king.”
Google rolls back AI search feature after flubs and flaws
SAN FRANCISCO — When Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced a generative artificial intelligence feature for the company’s search engine last month, he and his colleagues demonstrated the new capability with six text-based queries that the public could try out.
Idaho man in ‘Doomsday’ killings is sentenced to death
An Idaho judge Saturday sentenced a man to death, two days after he was found guilty of first-degree murder and other charges in the 2019 killings of his first wife and two of his current wife’s children, capping a case that drew scrutiny because of the couple’s “doomsday” religious beliefs.
After Biden’s push for truce, Netanyahu calls Israel’s war plans unchanged
JERUSALEM — A day after President Joe Biden called on Israel and Hamas to reach a truce, declaring that it was “time for this war to end,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday reiterated that Israel would not agree to a permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip as long as Hamas still retains governing and military power.
Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s energy system, again
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces struck several of Ukraine’s energy facilities with drones and missiles early Saturday, in a major air assault that targeted cities across the country, including some near the borders with NATO members.
Trump has few ways to overturn his conviction as a New York felon
NEW YORK — “This is long from over,” Donald Trump, the former president and current felon, declared Thursday, moments after a Manhattan jury convicted him on 34 counts of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal.
‘Did you tase him in the face!?’ Inside ‘Goon Squad’ deputies’ group chat
BRANDON, Miss. — Between vacation photos and cookout invitations posted on their private text thread, a group of Mississippi sheriff’s deputies who called themselves the Goon Squad traded pictures of rotting corpses and joked about rape and shocking people with Tasers.
Trump’s conviction fuses the GOP even closer to him
A day after Donald Trump’s conviction, it quickly became clear that Republicans across the country would not run away from his newfound status as a felon.
Biden endorses Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Declaring Hamas no longer capable of carrying out a major terrorist attack on Israel, President Joe Biden said Friday that it was time for a permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and endorsed a new plan he said Israel had offered to win the release of hostages and end the fighting.
Trump convicted on all counts to become America’s first felon president
NEW YORK — Donald Trump was convicted Thursday of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 presidential campaign, capping an extraordinary trial that tested the resilience of the U.S. justice system and transformed the former commander in chief into a felon.
Its future in doubt, the freewheeling ‘Inside the NBA’ is on edge instead
MINNEAPOLIS — The future of “Inside the NBA” was already a sensitive topic when Charles Barkley stepped into an elevator in Minneapolis after Game 2 of the Western Conference finals late Friday. Barkley’s on-air candor as an analyst is a key reason that the studio show has become so influential and beloved among basketball fans and around the league.
Judge’s instructions will be a road map for jury weighing Trump’s fate
NEW YORK — It’s all up to the jury now.
Alito refuses calls for recusal over display of provocative flags
WASHINGTON — Justice Samuel Alito declined Wednesday to recuse himself from two cases arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol after reports that flags displayed outside his houses appeared to support the “Stop the Steal” movement.
