Man who stormed Capitol while free on attempted murder charge gets over 3 years in prison for riot
A North Carolina man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while awaiting trial for shooting a teenager in the head was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years in prison for attacking police officers with a flagpole during the riot. Matthew Jason Beddingfield, 22, was free on pretrial release for...
Leslie Van Houten, follower of cult leader Charles Manson, released from California prison
LOS ANGELES — Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten walked out of a California prison Tuesday after serving more than 50 years of a life sentence for her participation in two infamous murders. Van Houten “was released to parole supervision,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a...
A surging river floods Vermont’s capital as crews rescue more than 100 peopleVideo
ANDOVER, Vt. — A storm that dumped up to two months of rain in two days in Vermont and other parts of the Northeast brought more flooding Tuesday to communities marooned by water, including the state capital, where officials kept watch on a dam just upstream. There were signs of...
Wisconsin boy killed in sawmill accident was doing work allowed by state law, records suggest
MADISON, Wis. — A 16-year-old boy killed in an accident at a Wisconsin sawmill appears to have been doing work allowed by state child labor laws when he was injured, police records obtained Tuesday show. Michael Schuls was attempting to unjam a wood-stacking machine at Florence Hardwoods on June 29...
Powerball jackpot climbs to $725M — 2nd highest this year
The Powerball jackpot rose to $725 million after no one secured the jackpot in Monday night’s drawing. The winning numbers were white balls 2, 24, 34, 53, 58 and red Powerball 13. Two people, one in California and one in Iowa, matched all five white balls but missed on the...
U.S. formally rejoins UNESCO after 5-year absence
WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Tuesday formally rejoined the U.N.’s scientific, educational and cultural organization after a five-year absence. The U.S. return to the Paris-based UNESCO was based mainly on concerns that China has filled a leadership gap since the U.S. withdrew during the Trump administration. UNESCO’s governing board voted...
In Srebrenica, thousands gather to remember 1995 massacre and bury newly identified dead
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Tens of thousands of people from around Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica Tuesday for the annual ritual of commemorating the 1995 massacre and to give a dignified burial to the victims unearthed from mass graves and only recently identified through DNA analysis. Twenty-eight years after they...
Trump lawyers ask judge to postpone classified docs trial, likely until after 2024 election
MIAMI — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a judge to postpone his criminal trial without setting a new date as he stands accused of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate. In a late Monday filing, Trump’s defense attorneys said the case was “extraordinary,” with a...
MyPillow auctions equipment after retailers pull its products
MyPillow is auctioning off hundreds of pieces of equipment and subleasing manufacturing space after several shopping networks and major retailers took the company’s products off shelves. The Minnesota-based manufacturer recently listed more than 850 “surplus equipment” items on the online auction site K-Bid. Sewing machines, industrial fabric spreaders, forklifts and...
How Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget breakdown over school vouchers was a rare misstep
PHILADELPHIA — In the span of a week, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro managed to agitate everybody. His Democratic allies and labor supporters initially felt burned by his pursuit of a private-school voucher program. When he agreed to veto it, top Republicans cried foul. The budget controversy feels like a rare...
Iowa Legislature considers 6-week abortion ban in special session
DES MOINES, Iowa — Protesters gathered in the Iowa Capitol rotunda as the Legislature began a special session Tuesday focused exclusively on abortion restrictions, where Republican lawmakers will work to push through a new ban on abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. The day will be a marathon of...
Court sides with Amish families in case that pits septic tank rules against religious beliefs
MINNEAPOLIS — Members of a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota don’t need to install septic systems to dispose of their “gray water,” the state Court of Appeals ruled Monday in a long-running religious freedom case that went all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel...
Greenpeace activists fined for parachuting into stadium before Germany-France match
BERLIN — A German surgeon has been ordered to pay a fine of 7,200 euros — $7,900 — for parachuting into the stadium before a European Championship match in Munich two years ago as part of a botched climate protest. A Munich regional court convicted the 40-year-old Greenpeace activist Tuesday...
NATO summit reaches agreement on admitting Sweden but faces division over Ukraine
VILNIUS, Lithuania — U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday hailed an agreement for Sweden to join NATO as more work remained to determine a path forward for Ukraine’s future with the alliance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized as “absurd” the absence of a timetable for his country’s entry. Biden described...
6 dead after helicopter carrying foreign tourists crashes near Mount Everest in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal — All six people on board a helicopter carrying Mexican tourists were killed when it crashed Tuesday near Mount Everest in Nepal, authorities said. The helicopter crashed in the Lamajura area. All the bodies were recovered and flown out of the area, said Basanta Bhattarai, the chief government...
German businessman’s dismembered body found in Thailand freezer with chainsaw and hedge clippers
BANGKOK — The dismembered body of a missing German businessman was found in a freezer inside a house in southern Thailand, police said Tuesday. Tawee Kudthalaeng, the police chief in the town of Nong Prue, said the body of 62-year-old Hans-Peter Mack was discovered at about 11 p.m. Monday. Mack...
Threats of a strike heating up even before UAW begins negotiations with automakers
DETROIT — Whenever the United Auto Workers union begins negotiating a new contract with Detroit’s three automakers, threats of a strike are typically heard on the floor of the old Chrysler transmission plant in Kokomo, Indiana. This year, the talk is a little louder. Besides the usual haggling over wages,...
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books
WASHINGTON — For colleges and libraries seeking a boldfaced name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation’s highest court. She has benefited too — from schools’ purchases of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of the...
Tourists told to stay away from erupting volcano in Iceland because of poisonous gases
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Authorities in Iceland on Tuesday warned tourists and other spectators to stay away from a newly erupting volcano that is spewing lava and noxious gases from a fissure in the country’s southwest. The eruption began on Monday afternoon after thousands of earthquakes in the area, meteorological authorities...
Grand jurors who will consider Trump charges to be selected Tuesday
The selection of two Fulton County grand juries will be made Tuesday, with one of the panels expected to decide whether to hand up an indictment for alleged criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election. One set of jurors is likely to be asked to bring formal charges against former...
Rep. George Santos compares himself to civil rights hero Rosa Parks because he refused to sit in the back of CongressVideo
Rep. George Santos says he’s the new Rosa Parks — because he wouldn’t go sit in the back of Congress. The controversial Long Island Republican absurdly compared himself to the civil rights icon, who famously challenged segregation by refusing to move to the back of a public bus in Montgomery,...
Republican’s hold on nominations leaves Marines without confirmed leader for 1st time in 100 yearsVideo
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marine Corps is without a confirmed leader for the first time in a century as Gen. David Berger stepped down as commandant on Monday and a Republican senator is blocking approval of his successor. Berger took over as the 38th commandant in July 2019, and is...
Biden administration asks appeals court to block order limiting its contacts with social media
NEW ORLEANS — The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court Monday to temporarily block a lower court’s order limiting executive branch officials’ discussions with social media companies about controversial online posts. The request for an emergency stay was filed at the 5th U.S. District Court of Appeals shortly after...
Webb Space Telescope spots most distant black hole yet. More may be lurking
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet using the Webb Space Telescope, but that record isn’t expected to last. The black hole is at the center of a galaxy dating to within a mere 570 million years of the Big Bang. That’s 100 million...
Pennsylvania police searching for escaped homicide suspect find possible campsites near jail
WARREN — A homicide suspect who used bed sheets to escape from a northwestern Pennsylvania jail is likely still in the area and someone may be helping him to evade capture, police said after discovering possible campsites in nearby woods. Michael Burham, 34, fled the Warren County Prison late Thursday...
