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Ethics probe into Matt Gaetz now reviewing allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use 06/18/2024 05:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee on Tuesday gave an unusual public update into its long-running investigation of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., saying its review now includes whether Gaetz engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts and sought to obstruct gover Plastic surgeon charged in death of wife who went into cardiac arrest while he worked on her 06/18/2024 05:30pm • PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A plastic surgeon in the Florida Panhandle was charged with his wife's death after she suffered a cardiac arrest and died days after he performed after-hours procedures on her in his clinic last year, authorities said. Benjamin Brown was arrested Monday on a charge of mansla New Mexico governor declares a state of emergency after wildfires damage at least 500 structures in mountainous Ruidoso 06/18/2024 04:49pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico governor declares a state of emergency after wildfires damage at least 500 structures in mountainous Ruidoso. What's a heat dome? Here's why so much of the US is broiling this week 06/18/2024 04:46pm • FENTON, Mich. (AP) — With much of the Midwest and the Northeast broiling — or about to broil — in extreme summer heat this week, meteorologists are talking about heat waves and heat domes. Both mean it's really hot — and people will hear those terms a lot more as the world heats up. What's Arrow McLaren makes another IndyCar driver change, signs 19-year-old Nolan Siegel to multiyear deal 06/18/2024 03:01pm • Arrow McLaren made yet another driver change Tuesday when it signed 19-year-old Nolan Siegel to drive the remainder of the IndyCar season. He will be the third driver to race the No. 6 this year. Siegel will replace F2 champion Theo Pourchaire beginning this weekend at Laguna Seca in California. Po Massachusetts authorities say emergency 911 service is disrupted statewide 06/18/2024 02:33pm • BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts authorities say emergency 911 service is disrupted statewide. Lawyer for man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie says client doesn't want offered plea deal 06/18/2024 02:10pm • MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The New Jersey man accused of repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie is not interested in an offered plea deal that would shorten his time in state prison but expose him to federal prison on a separate terrorism-related charge, his lawyer said Tuesday. Hadi Matar, 26, sat This law is a lifeline for pregnant workers even as an abortion dispute complicates its enforcement 06/18/2024 12:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Victoria Cornejo Barrera thought the legal helpline for workers sounded too good to be true. A month earlier, Cornejo Barrera had been forced to take leave from her job as head custodian at a South Carolina high school after she turned in a doctor's note asking to be exempt from t Music Review: Concert album from the Tomasz Stanko Quartet explains the jazz lineup’s staying power 06/18/2024 12:44pm • Jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko ’s first notes on the new album "September Night,” dark and slightly distant, sound as though they’re coming from the hereafter. Stanko died in 2018, and his new album is a previously unreleased recording of a 2004 concert by his quartet. Along with the trumpeter, Juneteenth: What's open, what's closed in the DC area 06/18/2024 12:20pm • On June 19, 1865, a Union general informed enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, that the Civil War had ended — two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery. June 19 — or Juneteenth — was recognized by Congress as the 12th This law is a lifeline for pregnant workers even as an abortion dispute complicates its enforcement 06/18/2024 12:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Victoria Cornejo Barrera thought the legal helpline for workers sounded too good to be true and wondered if it was a scam. A month earlier, Cornejo Barrera had been forced to take leave from her job as head custodian at a South Carolina high school after she turned in a doctor's n Pakistan bowler Rauf defends his actions after altercation with a man is shared on social media 06/18/2024 11:23am • ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan fast bowler Haris Rauf defended his actions after a video of an altercation between him and a group of men in the United States during the Twenty20 World Cup was shared on social media Tuesday. The video shows Rauf rushing across a hedge to confront several men after they Majority of Americans favor forgiving medical debt, AP-NORC poll finds 06/18/2024 08:19am • NEW YORK (AP) — Janille Williams wants to buy a house someday — but first, he has to pay down tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt. “I was hospitalized for a blood infection for three months more than ten years ago, and the bill was for more than $300,000,” said Williams, 38, a Fair You don't have to live in the tropics to grow peanuts 06/18/2024 08:11am • Peanuts are generally grown in southern climes. Most come from China, India, Nigeria and the southern U.S., which all fall squarely in climates in or similar to USDA hardiness zones 8-11. Which is to say, their summers are long enough to allow for the up to 150 days necessary for the plants to reac Ukraine claims its drones hit a Russian oil facility, sparking a huge blaze 06/18/2024 06:52am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine claimed responsibility Tuesday for an overnight drone attack on a Russian oil facility that started a massive blaze in the latest long-range strike by Kyiv’s forces on a border region. Ukraine has in recent months stepped up aerial assaults on Russian soil, targeting