By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Grammy-winning rap artist Lil Durk was acquitted on Friday of all charges in a federal murder-for-hire case accusing him of orchestrating the revenge killing of a man shot dead in a daytime ambush in Los Angeles four years ago. Two co-defendants tried
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge who ruled 13 years ago that Hispanics were racially profiled in then-Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns has rejected a bid to end the court’s supervision of the sheriff’s office. Maricopa County failed to show that the objectives of the court’s orders — such a
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California labor leader behind a proposal to tax billionaires has been accused of harassing and intimidating several women who work for an affiliated union. The allegations against Dave Regan, president of the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, are detailed in an inve
Mississippi police have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search and arrest warrants for 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff and arrested him when th
Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a Pacific mastodon. “I keep joking it wasn’t hard to find,” Lynch, a geomor
A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.” The prayer was hardly unusual by North Carolina political
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected to take up a punishing Russian sanctions package next week, though prospects of passage are uncertain despite the overwhelming support the bill received in the Senate. The House Rules Committee has scheduled a meeting on the bill Monday, with a procedural vote
UNITED NATiONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to briefly extend the arms embargo on Sudan’s western Darfur region while negotiations continue on a contentious U.S. proposal to expand the embargo throughout the country to pressure the warring parties to end their more than
NEW YORK (AP) — An Iranian American jeweler from New York has been released from prison in Iran, but he is prohibited from leaving the country, according to his family and federal officials. Kamran Hekmati was let out of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on Sept. 5 after completing about half of a two-
A 15-year-old boy survived on top of an overturned skiff in Alaska’s frigid Bering Sea for roughly two days, losing his older brother and then his cousin to the ocean after the boat capsized while they were out fishing. The teen, identified by a relative as Derek Parker Aghnaanga, was finally hoiste
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In Nashville, Tennessee, the Republican-dominated state government and Democrat-controlled city government are engaged in an ugly battle for control of the city’s airport. But there’s one thing the two sides can agree on: Nashville International Airport should be renamed to h
Several dozen presidential briefing documents declassified Friday, the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, detail intelligence government officials had gathered about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida leading up to the hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people and upended American national securit
WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The contractor responsible for renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington told U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration that errors in its work and flaws in the repair plan caused the pool’s liner to peel and break loose, the New York Times repo
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal court on Friday ruled that the Energy Department exceeded its authority when it forced a Michigan coal-fired power plant to stay open past its scheduled retirement date last year. Energy Secretary Chris Wright had said the 64-year
By Diana Novak Jones Sept 11 (Reuters) – Arizona has sued L’Oreal SA and its U.S. subsidiary, alleging the cosmetics company hid evidence that its hair relaxer products could cause cancer in women, as it faces thousands of similar lawsuits from users and their families. Arizona Attorney General Kris
By Nichola Groom Sept 11 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out an order from President Donald Trump’s administration that had forced a Michigan coal plant to remain open beyond its planned retirement. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
NEW YORK (AP) — I stood amid the rubble of the World Trade Center, passing buckets of debris down a line of volunteers and first responders. It was hours after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A little white object poking out of the gray ash caught my attention. Scuffed and dirty, it was unmistakably a
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives will begin consideration next week of a sweeping Russia sanctions bill championed by the late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, which has passed the Senate but faces stiff opposition from House Democrats. The Hou
EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AP) — Four fighter jets rose into the air over a French military base and settled into formation at the start of a 40-day flight taking them through the icy Arctic and steamy tropics before ending in a desert. The aircraft left Istres air base in southern France on Tu
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices accelerated in August, while a key measure of underlying inflation posted its largest increase in four months, reinforcing expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next week. The Labor Department’s Consumer
When children forget their lunch, can’t solve a math problem or don’t know how to get somewhere, the instinct for parents can be to step in immediately. But sometimes, the problem is an opportunity. Developmental experts and educators say children need chances to struggle with everyday problems beca
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Six Nigerian nationals linked to an organized criminal network that allegedly swindled American women out of over $6 million through online romance scams will be extradited to the United States on Friday, South African police said. The men, who were arrested in the South African
By Maria Tsvetkova, Idrees Ali and Joseph Ax NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Twenty-five years after the deadliest attack on U.S. soil, Americans paused on Friday to commemorate the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field
NEW YORK (AP) — Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived. A judge recently set a 2028 date for Mohamme
Tourism officials are asking visitors to steer clear of one of Hawaii’s most picturesque islands as residents and businesses work to recover from the latest tropical storm to thrash the state. Intense wind and surging waves from Hurricane Lowell damaged oceanfront resorts, ripped apart roads and kno
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11, remembering the shock, the dead and the sweeping consequences of the al-Qaida attacks on symbols of U.S. might and prosperity. Friday’s milestone anniversary brings memorial rituals — wreath-laying, flag-flying, moments of sil
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to observe Friday’s 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by attending a ceremony at the Pentagon commemorating the lives lost when al-Qaida militants hijacked planes and killed nearly 3,000 people in three locations, upending American foreign polic
Oil Above $100 Puts US Politics and Saudi Security Under Pressure Higher fuel costs threaten the US economy ahead of the midterms as Houthi attacks expose Saudi energy infrastructure and export routes By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line Oil prices climbed back above $100 a barrel on Wednesday as a ren
President Trump Warns Iran Not To ‘Get Cute’ With Renewed Pickaxe Nuclear Site Activity By The Media Line Staff President Donald Trump warned Iran that the US could launch heavy strikes against the country if construction continues at Pickaxe Mountain, a suspected underground nuclear site where sate
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri voters will head into November’s general election under the congressional map used in 2022 and 2024, ending months of uncertainty after a Republican-led effort to strengthen the state’s representation in Congress triggered a series of lawsuits and conflicting court decisi
