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Associated Press

Former US President and current GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump...
MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press

Trump’s lawyers say it is impossible for him to post bond covering $454 million civil fraud judgment

Trump's lawyers said “obtaining an appeal bond in the full amount” of the judgment “is not possible under the circumstances presented."
7 hours ago
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohi...
MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVIN Associated Press

Trump ramps up dark rhetoric in Ohio stump speech for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno

Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a "bloodbath" if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio.
13 hours ago
Local resident Yevhen, 34, looks at his home in an apartment house damaged in 2022 heavy battles wi...
Associated Press

With the election behind him, Putin says Russian forces aim to set up a buffer zone inside Ukraine

Tune in to Dave & Dujnovic!  Russian President Vladimir Putin said after extending his rule in an election that stifled opposition that Moscow will not relent in its invasion of Ukraine and plans to create a buffer zone along the border to help protect against long-range Ukrainian strikes and cross-border raids. The Kremlin’s forces have […]
14 hours ago
An array of hats decorated for St. Patrick's Day is displayed at a park in New Orleans during an Ir...
KEVIN McGILL Associated Press

When it’s St. Patrick’s Day in New Orleans, get ready to catch a cabbage

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The grandly colonnaded old city hall was designed by an Irish architect. A neighborhood near the wharves is still known as the Irish Channel. Landmark towers and spires of Catholic churches built for Irish immigrants dot the skyline. New Orleans is well known for a culture that evolved from early French […]
2 days ago
McDonald's global system outage...
COURTNEY BONNELL, AP

McDonald’s apologizes for global system outage that shut down some stores for hours

McDonald's apologized Friday for a global technology outage that shuttered some restaurants for hours.
3 days ago
Law enforcement should have seized a man's guns and put him in protective custody weeks before he c...
PATRICK WHITTLE, STEVE LeBLANC and NICK PERRY, AP

Law enforcement should have seized man’s guns weeks before he killed 18 in Maine, report finds

Police should have seized a man's guns weeks before he committed Maine's deadliest mass shooting, a report found Friday.
3 days ago
A bicycle sits covered with snow as a city bus moves along the westbound lanes of Speer Boulevard a...
COLLEEN SLEVIN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press

Colorado snow storm knocks out power for thousands even as I-70 reopens

A major storm is dumping heavy, wet snow in Colorado. Conditions are forcing flight cancellations and shuttered a highway that connects Denver to Colorado's ski resorts.
4 days ago
Pierce Brosnan, a cast member in "The Out-Laws," poses at a special screening of the film, June 26,...
Associated Press

Pierce Brosnan pleads guilty to walking off trail in Yellowstone, must pay $1,500

Some of the millions of people who visit Yellowstone each year get badly burned by ignoring signs warning them not to stray off the trail.
4 days ago
Manager Stephen Jarrett places pies on a counter at Michele's Pies, Wednesday, March 13, 2024,...
CURT ANDERSON Associated Press

What’s Pi Day all about? Math, science, pies and more

Math enthusiasts around the world, from college kids to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day on Thursday, which is March 14.
4 days ago
Former President Donald Trump, speaks to reporters as he leaves the courtroom during a lunch break ...
ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and TERRY SPENCER

Judge rejects Trump’s bid to throw out classified documents case

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Donald Trump to throw out out his classified documents criminal case.
4 days ago
In this image taken from video, hail fails on vehicles during a storm at the Red Rocks Ampitheatre,...
ISABELLA O'MALLEY

Facts about hail, the icy precipitation often encountered in spring and summer

Hail is a product of thunderstorms and the size of this precipitation depends on the strength of the updraft, which is the upward flow of air in a thunderstorm.
5 days ago
FILE - Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin speaks with reporters outside the White House, March...
HALELUYA HADERO AND MICHELLE CHAPMAN

Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says he’s putting together investor group to buy TikTok

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is trying to pull a group together to buy TikTok. This comes after Congress looked at banning it.
5 days ago
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KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press

Judge overseeing Georgia election interference case dismisses some charges against Trump

Tune in to Utah’s Morning News! ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case has dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump, but others remain. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote Wednesday in an order that six of the charges in the indictment must be quashed, including […]
6 days ago
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally Saturda...
JILL COLVIN Associated Press

Trump wins delegates needed to become GOP’s presumptive nominee for third straight election

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Donald Trump, whose single turbulent term in the White House transformed the Republican Party, tested the resilience of democratic institutions in the U.S. and threatened alliances abroad, will lead the GOP in a third consecutive presidential election after clinching the nomination Tuesday. With wins in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington […]
6 days ago
The Airbnb app icon is displayed on an iPad screen in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2021....
GAETANE LEWIS Associated Press

Airbnb is banning the use of indoor security cameras

Airbnb said Monday that it's banning the use of indoor security cameras in listings on its site around the world by the end of next month.
7 days ago
A flamingo tugs at one of its feathers at the Fort Worth Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, Feb. 23,...
Associated Press

How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April

Researchers and citizen scientists will observe how animals' routines at several zoos are disrupted during the April 8 total solar eclipse.
8 days ago
A skijoring team competes in Leadville, Colo., on Saturday, March 2, 2024....
THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press

What do you get when you cross rodeo with skiing? The wild and wacky skijoring

Nick Burri zipps past a series of gates at high speed and hurtling off jumps skijoring behind a quarter horse named Sirius.
9 days ago
The U.S. Capitol is shown in Washington, DC. Both houses of the U.S. Congress. The Religious Freedo...
Kevin Freking

Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadline

On Saturday, President Joe Biden signed into law a package of spending bills passed by the Senate.
9 days ago
n this Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019, photo an iPhone displays the apps for Facebook and Messenger in New O...
DEEPTI HAJELA and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Associated Press

For social platforms, the outage was short. But people’s stories vanished, and that’s no small thing

Even though the recent outage only lasted a handful of hours, it still meant people had less access to news and other important information.
11 days ago
Utah man arrested in connection with attempt to buy weapons for coup in South Sudan....
ANITA SNOW

A Utahn is charged with trying to illegally export arms for coup in South Sudan

A Utah man born in South Sudan is facing charges of conspiring to buy and illegally export millions of dollars worth of weapons to overthrow the African government.
11 days ago
Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson (3) throws during the first half of an NFL football game ...
ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer

Denver Broncos inform QB Russell Wilson they’ll release him when new league year begins

Two years ago, Russell Wilson declared he intended to play a dozen years in Denver, now, it doesn't seem that plan is going to work out.
14 days ago
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, center, sits with her attorney Jason Bowles, left, during testimony in the t...
MORGAN LEE Associated Press

Ammo supplier says he provided no live rounds in fatal shooting of cinematographer by Alec Baldwin

Ammo supplier testified that he provided dummy rounds to the "Rust" set where Alex Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer.
14 days ago
Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a Republican campaign ...
WILL WEISSERT Associated Press

Haley says she raised $12M in February, can’t point to long-term plan to beat Trump

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Friday that she raised $12 million in February, a haul that will likely allow her to remain in the Republican primary against former President Donald Trump past next week's Super Tuesday — even though she can't point to an upcoming state where she expects to beat him.
17 days ago
February, 29, otherwise know as leap year day, is shown on a calendar Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, in Ove...
LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer

What would happen without a Leap Day? More than you might think

Leap year. It's a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us. So how did it all begin and why?
19 days ago