Feds serve search warrant at South Carolina state Rep. RJ May III’s house, sources say (2024)

A man accused of stabbing an 11-year-old girl in London’s bustling theater district has been charged with attempted murder. Prosecutors say the man put the girl in a headlock and stabbed her eight times. The girl was seriously wounded. The 32-year-old Romanian citizen was held after appearing Tuesday in Westminster Magistrates' Court. The girl's mother was initially believed to be injured in the attack because she was covered in her daughter's blood. Police say there is no suggestion the attack was terror-related and officers don't believe the suspect knew the victim. Police thanked a shop employee and bystanders for stopping the attack.

Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to outmaneuver former President Donald Trump and address old vulnerabilities on her policy positions as she starts to fill in how she would govern if elected in November. Vice presidents rarely have policy portfolios of their own. Now, after four years of following President Joe Biden’s lead, Harris is taking a cautious approach to unveiling a policy vision in her own right. Meanwhile, at least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Trump campaign, including its report vetting JD Vance as a vice presidential candidate. So far, each has refused to reveal any details about what they received.

The Ukrainian military says the Russian army is intensifying its attacks in eastern Ukraine, even as the Kremlin’s forces try to check a stunning weeklong incursion into Russia by Kyiv’s troops. Ukraine’s General Staff said Tuesday that over the previous 24 hours Russian troops launched 52 assaults in the area of Pokrovsk, a town in Ukraine’s Donetsk region that is close to the front line. That’s roughly double the number of daily attacks there a week ago. The Ukrainian military claims its sensational charge onto Russian soil has already encompassed some 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russian territory. The operation's goals are a closely-guarded military secret.

A Northern Virginia sheriff’s office is investigating a burglary over the weekend at a campaign office for former President Donald Trump. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office says it happened Sunday at an Ashburn office being leased by the Trump for President 2024 campaign. It also serves as the headquarters of the Virginia 10th District Republican Committee. The sheriff's office says it has surveillance video that shows a suspect wearing dark clothing with a dark cap and carrying a backpack. It isn't clear whether anything was stolen, but an investigation continues. The campaign and the Republican committee have not commented.

Struggling Starbucks replaces its top executive, names Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol as next leader.

Starbucks said Tuesday that CEO Laxman Narasimhan is stepping down after a little more than a year in the job. The Seattle coffee giant said Brian Niccol, the chairman and CEO of Chiptole, will become Starbucks’ chairman and CEO on Sept. 9.

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla., Aug. 13, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Industrial SalesLeads announced today the July 2024 results for the new planned capital project spending report for the Industrial Manufacturing industry. The Firm tracks North American planned industrial capital project activit…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sending letters to school districts, urging them to restrict smartphone use on campuses. In South Carolina, education officials are expected to approve guidelines to restrict student phone use. The efforts are part of a broader push by states across the country to address digital distractions in the classroom and the impacts of social media on the mental health of teens. Cellphone bans are already in place at many schools but are not always enforced. The issue has garnered renewed attention after the U.S. surgeon general called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms that address mental health risks for young people.

A 3-month-old infant was the only member of her family to survive an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip late Monday. A few miles (kilometers) to the north, a man lost his wife and their twin newborns in another strike. More than 10 months into its war with Hamas, Israel’s relentless bombardment of the isolated territory has wiped out extended Palestinian families. It has left parents without children and children without parents, brothers or sisters. And some of the sole survivors are so young they will have no memory of those they lost.

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Tropical Storm Ernesto is battering the northeast Caribbean as it takes aim at Puerto Rico, where officials shuttered schools and government agencies. The storm was located some 350 miles east-southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico on Tuesday morning. It had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was moving west at 20 mph. Forecasters have warned of widespread flooding and possible landslides. Tropical storm warnings were in place for Puerto Rico, Vieques, Culebra, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, St. Barts and St. Maarten.

Cracks are widening in a public tiff between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister. The latest spat shows growing discontent with Netanyahu’s handling of the war at a sensitive time. Israel is bracing for Iranian retaliation after a blast in Tehran killed Hamas’ leader. Iran blames that attack on Israel. And a new round of cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas is set to begin later this week. Israeli media reported Monday that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant condemned Netanyahu’s “nonsense about ‘total victory.’” That's a phrase the prime minister has repeated during the 10-month-old war in Gaza. The comments were apparently made during a closed-door parliamentary hearing.

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Leicester, Southampton and Ipswich are the three promoted teams in the Premier League this season and all are big names in their own right as they return to the English top flight. Leicester delivered an underdog story for the ages in winning the title against all the odds in 2016 and is back after a season's absence. Southampton was also away for only one season after being a mainstay in the league for 11 years on the back of its famous conveyor belt of young talent. Ipswich is Ed Sheeran's local team and its back story in England’s top division is from pretty much a generation ago having last been there in 2002.

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To some Democratic Party strategists, last week felt like déjà vu. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was aggressively questioning aspects of the Democratic vice presidential nominee’s military service — attacks that were reminiscent of charges leveled two decades earlier on Sen. John Kerry shortly after he became the party’s presidential pick. The comparisons end there, however. The onslaught on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and that on Kerry actually highlight how much campaigning has evolved over 20 years and the media environment has changed — in ways that appear to diminish the effectiveness of assailing such aspects of a candidate’s biography. “It is a very different world,” said Tad Devine, a senior adviser to Kerry’s 2004 campaign.

Authorities in Bangladesh say a murder charge has been filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other officials over the killing of a grocery shop owner during student protests in July. S.M. Amir Hamza, described as a “well-wisher” of grocery store owner Abu Sayeed, filed the case at the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury on Tuesday. Hamza said Sayeed was killed on July 19 amid clashes during the student-led uprising, and that he filed the case because Sayeed’s family did not have the capacity to seek justice. Hasina, who stepped down and fled the country on Aug. 5, was named as a suspect in the petition along six other people including former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and top police officials.

A man who died when the helicopter he was flying crashed onto a hotel roof in Queensland, Australia, was an employee of the aviation company that owned the aircraft but didn't work as a pilot and hadn't flown in Australia before. Nautilus Aviation said Tuesday he was a member of its ground crew, and while he held a helicopter pilot’s license in New Zealand he wasn't authorized to fly the company's helicopters. About 400 people were evacuated from the DoubleTree Hilton in the far north Queensland city of Cairns on Monday when the helicopter hit the roof.

A senior U.N. official says Yemen’s Houthi rebels have stormed the headquarters of the U.N. Human Rights Office in the capital, Sanaa. U.N. Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said Tuesday the rebels took over the Office's premises in Sanaa on Aug. 3, after forcing U.N. Yemeni workers to hand over belongings, including documents, furniture and vehicles. A spokesman for the Houthis didn’t return phone calls and messages requesting comment. The seizure was the latest move in a crackdown by the Houthis on people working with the U.N., aid agencies and foreign embassies. The crackdown comes as the Iranian-backed rebels have been targeting shipping throughout the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.

Officials say Pakistani and Afghan Taliban forces have traded cross-border fire near a key northwestern crossing, killing a woman and two children on the Afghan side. There was no immediate word on casualties on the Pakistani side of the Torkham border which was shut, disrupting trade and movement of people between the two countries. Torkham, a key border crossing, is located in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. In Kabul, Abdul Mateen Qani, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry, said the clash took place Monday and accused Pakistani forces of targeting civilians. It was unclear who initiated the attack, though such cross-border fire is common along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

A timely drama from Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland tops the DVD releases for the week of Aug. 20.

LOS ANGELES — You might not know him by name, or at least by his real name, but Aaron Branch's career in comedy has gotten a lot more stable lately. Thanks to his character "Malcolm" on the Netflix show "Unstable" starring Rob Lowe as eccentric biotech entrepreneur Ellis Dragon, Branch's uni…

Leah Rudick struggled for years in New York City and Los Angeles trying to stand out in the competitive worlds of sketch and stand-up comedy.

PHILADELPHIA — Nobody could have predicted the twist ending.

Before Tobi Vail co-founded Bikini Kill in Olympia, Washington, in 1990, before that band and her Jigsaw zine helped launch the riot grrrl movement, she was a young Go-Go’s fan who just wanted to know where all the other rock ‘n’ roll girls were.

According to the recently published 2024 USA Wealth Report from global wealth advisory firm Henley & Partners in partnership with New World Wealth, approximately 5.5 million people in the United States have a seven-figure liquid net worth. That ranks the U.S. as number one in the world f…

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

PARÍS (AP) — Los fotógrafos de Associated Press han tomado cientos de miles de fotografías increíbles durante los Juegos Olímpicos de París. Los Juegos ofrecían algo para todo el mundo y AP estaba allí para capturarlo con imágenes de hitos icónicos, hazañas deportivas, puntos altos y bajos d…

Iran has rejected a call by three European countries demanding it to refrain from any retaliatory attacks that would further escalate regional tensions. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a joint statement Monday endorsing the latest push by mediators to broker an agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war. The European leaders called for the return of scores of hostages held by Hamas and the “unfettered” delivery of humanitarian aid. They also asked that Iran and its allies to refrain from retaliation that would further escalate regional tensions after the late-July killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

Despite court rulings that soliciting money is protected as free speech, some cities and at least one state are considering new restrictions on panhandling in traffic medians, arguing it’s a safety hazard.

IRVINE, Calif. — Shenai Aini’s life, for two months, has been in limbo.

Oliver Lackey opened a pharmacy in his hometown of Fairview, Oklahoma, so he could “provide the best patient care.” He set up shop a decade ago in the local grocery store with “zero prescriptions.” Before long, business took off — yet he was still struggling.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suffers the same unfavorable public opinion enveloping prime ministers around the globe. But he can smile on U.S. President Joe Biden for reminding Canadian voters that a political party delivering prosperity enhanced by diversity, equity and inclusion …

LOS ANGELES — California voters face a decision about how the state should punish people who are repeatedly convicted of stealing, or of crimes involving the deadly drug fentanyl. Proposition 36 on the November ballot asks voters to change certain parts of Proposition 47, an initiative passe…

Elizabeth Ling never sees the faces of most of the people she helps. They call from faraway places, most in a state of desperation.

BALTIMORE — With less than three months to Election Day, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. is still poised to win the seat of retiring U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger in November despite calls for him to step aside.

On May 13, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., published an open letter to Novo Nordisk on the front page of a leading Danish newspaper, urging the hometown company to live up to its altruistic standards by lowering U.S. prices for its blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drugs.

Dearborn's Dan Gheesling, the "Big Brother" winner and "Traitors" star, has launched a new podcast, "Talking a Big Game," alongside "Real Housewives" star Tamra Judge.