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Lawyers for man charged with killing Charlie Kirk try to sow doubt about DNA evidence

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk redoubled their efforts Friday to raise doubts about DNA evidence that authorities said links Tyler Robinson to the suspected murder weapon. A Utah judge is deciding whether prosecutors have enough evidence to put Robinson on trial on a charge of aggravated murder. Kirk, 31, was killed as he spoke to a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. One of Robinson’s attorneys, Michael Burt, has repeatedly questioned the reliability of DNA tests cited by prosecutors during this ...

Detainees tell their lawyer an ICE officer shot a Houston driver through a passenger window

HOUSTON (AP) — Three men inside a van who witnessed the fatal shooting of the driver by an immigration officer in Houston said the Mexican man was shot through a passenger window and that the officer was never threatened, a lawyer who has spoken with them said Friday. The shooting Tuesday during an attempted traffic stop by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Houston has revived critical voices deriding the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and how ICE operates. Immigration arrests around the country recently surged to 10,000 over a five-day period, fueled in ...

Trump will let bipartisan housing bill become law without signing in protest over GOP voter ID law

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will let the bipartisan housing bill approved by Congress become law without his signature, saying Friday that he was refusing to put his name on it because of the little progress made in passing a strict voter ID bill that he has been pushing. “I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” Trump posted on social media. Trump had 10 days until the Friday deadline to sign the ...

Donald Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape US voting process

President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission that resisted his efforts to require would-be voters to document their U.S. citizenship before registering. The White House on Friday confirmed the executive action against members of the Election Assistance Commission, which distributes federal grants to states, oversees the testing of voting systems and maintains the national voter registration form. Though the move likely won’t have major effects on the November midterms, it’s the latest instance of the Republican president trying to exert ...

El Nino powers up as forecasters predict historic strength and a rainier winter for the US South

WASHINGTON (AP) — An intensifying El Nino, nature’s heat-releasing thermostat that spikes global temperatures, is heading to historically strong levels, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. In its monthly update, NOAA said this year’s El Nino, a natural warming of the equatorial Pacific that alters weather patterns across the globe, has an 81% chance of becoming “very strong” — the top category available — by fall. It should rank among the most intense El Ninos since the weather agency started tracking them in 1950. Its biggest impacts ...