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As Mexican protesters block Congress over judicial overhaul, lawmakers head to vote in nearby gym 09/03/2024 11:44pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� After protesters blocked the entrance to Mexico���s Congress on Tuesday in an attempt to stop a controversial judicial overhaul, lawmakers took the first steps to jam through the proposal at a nearby gymnasium. The plan would make judges stand for election, something critics say Shohei Ohtani, Angels fans can get 'closure' in slugger's return to Big A with Dodgers, Roberts says 09/03/2024 10:41pm • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ��� Shohei Ohtani has returned to the stadium and the city where he did just about everything except win. The two-way superstar was back at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night for his first regular-season game as a visitor with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ohtani left the Angels as a fre 4 people killed on Chicago-area L train likely didn't even see the shooter, official says 09/03/2024 10:26pm • FOREST PARK, Ill. (AP) ��� A man suspected of killing four people aboard a Chicago-area transit train shot them at close range while they were asleep, officials said Tuesday. The shooting took place before 5:30 a.m. Monday aboard the Chicago area���s L system, on a Blue Line train that was moving n Phoenix weathers 100 days of 100-plus degree temps as heat scorches western US 09/03/2024 10:15pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Cam Ferguson gets to his spot on the street adjacent to Chase Field ��� home of Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks ��� about four hours before first pitch to set up his usual display of cold water, sports drinks, peanuts and candy. By game time, it's about 103 degrees Fahr Texas deputy was fatally shot at Houston intersection while driving to work, police say 09/03/2024 10:13pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� A Texas deputy constable who was driving to work in his personal vehicle was fatally shot Tuesday by a man who walked up to his car at a Houston intersection and fired multiple times, police said. A suspect in the shooting later led authorities on a chase that ended about 60 miles ( Afghan refugee pleads no contest to 2 murders in case that shocked Albuquerque's Muslim community 09/03/2024 09:43pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� An Afghan refugee convicted of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings in 2022 that shook Albuquerque���s Muslim community pleaded no contest Tuesday to two homicide charges stemming from the other killings. Prosecutors said Muhammad Syed, 53, entered the pleas Another New Jersey offshore wind project runs into turbulence as Leading Light seeks pause 09/03/2024 09:26pm • Another offshore wind project in New Jersey is encountering turbulence. Leading Light Wind is asking the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to give it a pause through late December on its plan to build an offshore wind farm off the coast of Long Beach Island. In a filing with the utilities board m At least 7 cars hit and 6 people injured in random gunfire on Interstate 5 near Seattle 09/03/2024 07:53pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� At least seven vehicles traveling along Interstate 5 just south of Seattle were hit by gunfire overnight, leaving at least six people injured before a suspect was taken into custody, officials said Tuesday. The state patrol did not release any information on the suspect in the shoot Neighbor charged with murder of couple who went missing from California nudist resort 09/03/2024 07:17pm • SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) ��� A man was charged Tuesday with the murder of two of his neighbors in a Southern California nudist community. Michael Royce Sparks, 62, was charged with two counts of murder with special circumstances in the deaths of Stephanie Menard, 73, and her husband, Daniel, 79, Love for American football reached Brazilian Amazon long before the NFL game in Sao Paulo 09/03/2024 07:02pm • MANAUS, Brazil (AP) ��� Pedro Canuto wears his pads and practices passing the football a few hundred yards from where boats filled with tourists are navigating the Amazon River into the rainforest. A quarterback for Manaus FA, arguably the best American football team in the region, the 20-year-old Grand Canyon pipeline repairs completed; overnight lodging set to resume 09/03/2024 06:13pm • GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) ��� Pipeline repairs at Grand Canyon National Park are holding and officials plan to lift the suspension of overnight lodging on the South Rim on Thursday, a week after hotels had to begin turning away visitors during one of the park���s busiest times of the ye Police say 11-year-old used 2 guns to kill former Louisiana mayor and his daughter 09/03/2024 06:02pm • MINDEN, La. (AP) ��� An 11-year-old boy is suspected of using two guns to fatally shoot a woman and her father, an 82-year-old man who once served as mayor, city council member and deputy sheriff in Louisiana, police said Tuesday. A 911 caller told police on Sunday morning that there were two dead p Supreme Court won't allow Oklahoma to reclaim federal money in dispute over abortion referrals 09/03/2024 05:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Oklahoma's emergency appeal seeking to restore a $4.5 million grant for family planning services in an ongoing dispute over the state���s refusal to refer pregnant women to a nationwide hotline that provides information about abortion and oth 8-year-old Utah boy dies after shooting himself in car while mother was inside convenience store 09/03/2024 05:20pm • LEHI, Utah (AP) ��� An 8-year-old boy has died after accidentally shooting himself with a loaded gun left in a car while his mother was inside a Utah convenience store, police said. The boy was alone in the car about 7:40 p.m. Monday in Lehi ��� a city about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Salt La Small plane reported 'controllability' issues before crashing in Oregon, killing 3, officials say 09/03/2024 04:46pm • FAIRVIEW, Ore. (AP) ��� A small plane that crashed into a row of townhomes, killing three people just east of Portland, Oregon, had reported ���controllability��� issues before going down, federal authorities said Tuesday. The pilot reported those issues after taking off from the Troutdale Airport a