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Updated: November 8, 2022 @ 7:36 pm
DENVER (AP) — Colorado voters are deciding Tuesday whether theirs will become the second state, after Oregon, to create a legalized system for the use of psychedelic mushrooms.
A ballot initiative would decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms for those 21 and older and create state-regulated “healing centers” where participants can experience the drug under the supervision of a licensed “facilitator.” The measure would establish a regulated system for using substances like psilocybin and psilocin, the hallucinogenic chemicals found in some mushrooms. It also would allow private personal use of the drugs.
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A printing malfunction at 60 polling places across Arizona’s most populous county slowed down voting Tuesday. Election officials are assuring voters that every ballot will be counted. Still, the issue in Maricopa County has given rise to conspiracy theories about the integrity of the vote in the pivotal state. Former President Donald Trump, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and others weighed in to claim that Democrats were trying to subvert the vote of Republicans, who tend to show up in greater numbers in person on Election Day. Maricopa County’s recorder says he’s sorry for the inconvenience. Stephen Richer says, “Every legal vote will be tabulated. I promise.”
Officials say investigators found a man and a woman shot dead in a suspected murder-suicide at a Texas medical examiner’s office. Dallas County sheriff’s investigators say the pair were found dead in the county examiner’s complex Tuesday. Sheriff’s Investigator William Fritz says officers were dispatched to the office shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday. He said the investigation determined that the man had walked into the complex and shot his wife, who was employed there. No identities have been released. No one else was reported injured.
Republican Jim Banks wins reelection to U.S. House in Indiana’s 3rd Congressional District.
Australian Jeff Fenech is finally joining an elite group of boxers to have won world titles in four weight divisions — more than 30 years after the fact. In 1991 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas on a Mike Tyson undercard, judges declared his super featherweight bout with Ghana’s Azumah Nelson a draw. But Fenech has been awarded the title retroactively at a World Boxing Council convention in Acapulco, Mexico, where WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman formed a “special committee” to review the fight. The convention was told: “All the ring officials from all over the world score the bout in favor of Jeff Fenech,. The WBC board of governors approve the motion to crown Jeff Fenech to become a four-time world champion.”
Pennsylvania’s Senate race is the most expensive in the country — and it’s not even close
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Rand Paul easily secured a third term in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night, quashing Democratic challenger Charles Booker, who was underfunded and hamstrung by national headwinds facing his party.
The partisan makeup of Arizona’s U.S. House delegation is up for grabs when voters head to the polls. Republicans are hoping to shift the 5-4 Democratic tilt on Tuesday by picking up two and possibly three seats. Redistricting after the 2020 Census has given GOP candidates a leg up in three Arizona districts while Democrats see better chances in just one district, although it still favors Republicans. Democrats Tom O’Halleran and Greg Stanton face challenges and retiring Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick’s southeastern Arizona seat can go either way as the GOP’s Juan Ciscomani faces Democrat Kirsten Engel. Rep. David Schweikert faces Democrat Jevin Hodge and is the only Republican incumbent fighting a serious challenge.
Election machine mishaps and delays in vote counting became the latest fodder for political misinformation on Election Day. News of problems with vote tabulating machines in Arizona spurred baseless conspiracy theories about vote rigging, while the near certainty that many races won’t be decided on Election Day led to misleading allegations of fraud. Disinformation researchers say the false claims are likely to stick around and further erode faith in U.S. elections. While voters faced a wave of misinformation about voting and elections this year, the experts say misinformation ahead of the 2024 presidential election is likely to be even worse.
Occasionally American elections provide a moment of national unity. This is not one of those occasions. The 2022 midterms have been bitter, fractious and exceedingly expensive. President Joe Biden, who has presided over unified Democratic control of Washington for the first time in over a decade, has been buffeted by out-of-control inflation, growing worries about rising crime and the lingering effects of a once-in-a-century pandemic. Republicans, meanwhile, have had to deal with a bitter rift between the party’s establishment wing and President Donald Trump, whose enthusiastic support for far-right first time candidates has fueled divisive primaries.
A Kansas man scheduled to go to trial in Washington, D.C., this month on multiple felony charges in connection with the Capitol riot pleaded guilty to one count on Tuesday.
The sixth-ranked Oregon Ducks were all but written off two months ago. It was understandable given their 49-3 loss to now No. 1 Georgia in the season opener. They’re back and playing just like everyone thought they would. Behind quarterback Bo Nix, the Ducks have reeled off eight straight wins and averaged more than 40 points in the process. It doesn’t get any easier from here. Oregon hosts No. 24 Washington this weekend, before games with No. 13 Utah and rival Oregon State. Take care of all that and a fourth straight appearance in the Pac-12 title game will be in store.
NASA is again postponing the launch of its new moon rocket because of a storm threatening the Florida coast. Fuel leaks have kept the rocket grounded since August. Then Hurricane Ian forced the rocket back to the hangar at Kennedy Space Center. NASA was aiming to launch the test flight early next Monday. But the space agency said Tuesday said it was moving the next attempt to at least next Wednesday because of Tropical Storm Nicole, which could hit Florida’s Atlantic coastline as a hurricane. The rocket will send an empty crew capsule around the moon and back in a flight test before astronauts climb aboard in a couple years.
Kentucky football’s win at Missouri offered plenty of reason to be excited about the program’s future.
Georgia was the new No. 1 in the College Football Playoff rankings, followed by Ohio State, Michigan and TCU. The Bulldogs rise from three to one was no surprise after their dominant victory against the previously top-ranked Volunteers. Clemson, which was No. 4 in the selection committee’s first rankings last week, also lost. That cleared the way for changes in the top four. Ohio State stayed at two. The Buckeyes’ Big Ten rival, Michigan moved up from five to three. TCU jumped three spots to No. 4, putting the nation’s four unbeatens at the top of the rankings. Tennessee fell to No. 5.
WASHINGTON — Russia and the U.S. expect to meet in the coming weeks to talk about resuming inspections of atomic weapons sites under the New START treaty, a small step toward reviving arms-control talks suspended since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Steph Curry put on a marvelous display in the Warriors’ comeback win over the Kings Monday night, scoring 47 points including a pair of free throws that were the final points of the 116-113 victory.
Republican Rand Paul wins reelection to U.S. Senate from Kentucky.
In the 38 states that elect them, secretaries of state often don’t see much campaign fanfare. But this year, there’s a lot of buzz about the 27 races this year for secretary of state, which usually serves as a state’s chief elections officer. AP’s Nick Riccardi is covering what he says was “once a sleepy office.” Riccardi says that former President Donald Trump’s decision to wade into a number of secretary of state races this year has raised the stakes for the contests. Trump false claims that he won the 2020 election, and his unsuccessful efforts to get state officials to overturn his losses, spurred him to get involved this year.
Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, has had to fend off spirited attacks by his Republican challenger, Heidi Ganahl, in his quest for a second term in Tuesday’s election. Ganahl ran a campaign targeting Polis’ pandemic record, surging crime and the fentanyl crisis. Polis insisted Colorado’s best days are ahead, arguing that the state quickly emerged from the coronavirus shutdown poised for strong economic growth. And he championed first-term successes in health care affordability, fully-funded kindergarten and preschool. Ganahl, herself a business entrepreneur who as a University of Colorado regent is the only Republican statewide elected official, faced an uphill battle in a state that’s trended blue over the past decade.
President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s transition has added a team of economists that includes at least two members likely to allay market worries about potential business and financial policies the incoming leftist leader might be considering. Investors look favorably on both André Lara Resende and Pérsio Arida. They are conservative economists who were among the architects of the Real Plan in the 1990s that implemented a new Brazilian currency and tamed hyperinflation. Da Silva will be taking office Jan. 1 facing an adverse global economy, fierce political opposition and limited room to maneuver with a strained government budget.
President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s transition has added a team of economists that includes at least two members likely to allay market worries about potential business and financial policies the incoming leftist leader might be considering. Investors look favorably on both André Lara Resende and Pérsio Arida. They are conservative economists who were among the architects of the Real Plan in the 1990s that implemented a new Brazilian currency and tamed hyperinflation. Da Silva will be taking office Jan. 1 facing an adverse global economy, fierce political opposition and limited room to maneuver with a strained government budget.
EL PASO, Texas — Win or lose Tuesday, Beto O’Rourke’s legacy in this border town is already cemented as a hometown boy whose quest for higher office helped reclaim the narrative of an underdog city, supporters and analysts here say.
The morning of June 7, 2021 — the same day Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son were found murdered at the family estate in Colleton County — a partner of Murdaugh’s law firm confronted him about missing legal fees.
Fierce competition for control of Congress underway as polls begin to close in key eastern states, including Georgia.
Republican Tim Scott wins reelection to U.S. Senate from South Carolina.
The U.N. General Assembly has scheduled a vote for Monday on a resolution that would call for Russia to be held accountable for violating international law by invading Ukraine, including by paying reparations. The draft resolution obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press would recognize the need to establish “an international mechanism for reparation for damage, loss or injury” arising from Russia’s “wrongful acts” against Ukraine. It would recommend that the assembly’s 193 member nations create “an international register” to document claims of damage, loss or injury to Ukrainians caused by Russia. Russia’s veto power in the Security Council has blocked the U.N.’s most powerful body from taking any action on the war, but thre are no no vetoes in the General Assembly.
Tuesday, Nov. 8
Tuesday, Nov. 8
A trial is underway for two Native Hawaiian men charged with a hate crime in the 2014 beating of a white man who bought a house in their remote village on Maui. Attorneys for Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi AkiJr. don’t dispute the assault but say it wasn’t a hate crime. Prosecutors say Alo-Kaonohi punched and kicked Christopher Kunzelman and Aki hit him with a shovel when Kunzelman tried to fix up the oceanfront house he purchased in Kahakuloa village. Attorneys for the men say they were motivated by Kunzelman’s attitude not by his race.
ORLANDO, Fla. — With the approach of Tropical Storm Nicole potentially targeting landfall along the Space Coast, NASA officials opted to delay any attempt to launch the Artemis I mission to the moon from Kennedy Space Center until at least Nov. 16.
ORLANDO, Fla. — With the approach of Tropical Storm Nicole potentially targeting landfall along the Space Coast, NASA officials opted to delay any attempt to launch the Artemis I mission to the moon from Kennedy Space Center until at least Nov. 16.
WASHINGTON — Republicans are favored to take at least one chamber of Congress, shifting the balance of power in Washington, as voters head to the polls in the first major test of the country’s democracy since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Members of parmilitary groups operating in Syria say an air strike on a convoy carrying fuel across the border from Iraq has killed at least 10 people. Two paramilitaryofficials tell The Associated Press that the strike late Tuesday hit a convoy of about 15 trucks that crossed into Syria near Al-Qaim. It is not immediately clear where the convoy was coming from or what group carried out the attack. The strike comes a day after a U.S. citizen, 45-year-old Stephen Edward Troell, was fatally shot in central Baghdad.
Pennsylvania voters are about to send dozens of new representatives and senators to the Legislature. That’s thanks to dozens of retirements and district maps revamped by the state’s redistricting commission. Republicans hold solid leads in both chambers, 29 to 21 in the Senate and 113 to 90 in the House. The GOP is generally expected to retain majority control of both chambers for the coming two-year session when Tuesday’s votes are all counted. Democrats have not held a majority in either chamber since 2010. Most Pennsylvania polls close at 8 p.m.
SAN DIEGO — Economic headwinds combined with lingering supply chain constraints have resulted in a sales dip of 16.1 percent in new car and trucks sales in California through the first three quarters of this year compared to the same period in 2021.
LOS ANGELES — Disney+ is still growing fast as the streaming service takes the Walt Disney Co. into the future of entertainment. But the effort to stay dominant in the age of Netflix is costing the Burbank giant in a big way.
SEATTLE — A student was killed Tuesday in what is believed to be a targeted attack at a north Seattle high school, officials say. A suspect has been arrested.
MADRID (AP) – Results from Spanish football:
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If things ever go sideways in her career as a country singer, Ashley McBryde has a solid backup plan in place: a reality series starring her and Martina McBride, the veteran country star so frequently mistaken as a relative that McBryde owns a website — isashleymcbryderela…