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PHOENIX (AP) — Skylar Diggins-Smith scored a career-high 35 points, Diana Taurasi hit 6 of 10 from 3-point range and finished with 28 points and the Phoenix Mercury used a dominant fourth quarter to beat the Seattle Storm 94-78 Friday night. Sophie Cunningham hit five 3-pointers — her 10th consecutive game with at least two
Continue Reading By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Diamondbacks were refreshed and ready after the four-day All-Star break, playing arguably their best game of the season in a lopsided 10-1 victory over the Washington Nationals. Carson Kelly started the team’s offensive onslaught with a laser-beam double to lead off the bottom of
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BANGKOK (AP) — Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has won his fourth and final no-confidence vote in Parliament, ahead of a general election next year. The vote on Saturday came after four days of debate targeting Prayuth and 10 of his Cabinet members. The opposition has blamed his government’s economic mismanagement for rising public debts
Continue Reading By BILL BARROW Associated Press ALTO, Georgia (AP) — After a bruising opening to his general election campaign for the U.S. Senate, Georgia Republican Herschel Walker is trying to deflect attention back onto Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. He’s trying to saddle the incumbent with the weight of high inflation and President Joe Biden’s poor standing
Continue Reading By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Through eight hearings, 20 live witnesses and dozens of hours of recorded testimony, the House Jan. 6 panel has focused its case squarely on former President Donald Trump. The panel has unveiled stunning evidence about the Capitol insurrection over six weeks of hearings, laying out in vivid detail
Continue Reading By CALVIN WOODWARD and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — To understand how Donald Trump’s desperation and lies became a potent danger to democracy, consider the ginger mints. Mints featured in one of the absurdist but toxic episodes fleshed out in the Jan. 6 hearings, which now pause even as the Justice Department presses
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis On paper, it looked like a fantastic deal. In 2017, the Chinese government was offering to spend $100 million to build an ornate Chinese garden at the National Arboretum in Washington DC. Complete with temples, pavilions and a 70-foot white pagoda, the project thrilled local officials, who hoped it would attract thousands of
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By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new president has always aspired to the pinnacle of power, enduring setback after setback but managing to recover from seemingly impossible defeats. Ranil Wickremesinghe has moved quickly to consolidate his position after lawmakers elected him this week to finish the
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new president has always aspired to the pinnacle of power, enduring setback after setback but managing to recover from seemingly impossible defeats. Ranil Wickremesinghe has moved quickly to consolidate his position after lawmakers elected him this week to finish the
Continue Reading SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A small plane hit a utility pole and crashed Friday on a street in a San Francisco Bay neighborhood, seriously injuring the pilot, authorities said. The plane went down at about 7:15 p.m. near Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose, authorities said. “It hit a fire pole,” police Sgt. Patrick Guire
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Chinese court has overruled a rare legal challenge brought by an unmarried Beijing woman seeking the right to freeze her eggs. The Chaoyang Intermediate People’s Court in Beijing said in a judgment that the hospital did not violate the woman’s rights in denying her access
Continue Reading By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Shohei Ohtani looked unhittable. Then, with a stunning outburst, the Atlanta Braves showed why they are the reigning World Series champions and one of the hottest teams in baseball. Ohtani threw six dominant innings, only to surrender homers to Matt Olson and Orlando Arcia in a
Continue Reading By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Bestselling author Wes Moore won the Democratic primary for Maryland governor on Friday, setting up a general election contest against Republican Dan Cox, a hard-line conservative endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Moore, the author of the book “The Other Wes Moore” and the former CEO
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has always aspired to the pinnacle of power, enduring setback after setback but managing to recover from seemingly impossible defeats. He has moved quickly to consolidate his position after lawmakers elected him this week to finish
Continue Reading By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yu Darvish always makes the New York Mets look light on offense. General manager Billy Eppler is trying to do something about that — no matter which opponent is on the mound. Darvish dominated the Mets again, and Eric Hosmer hit a two-run homer off
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The Palm Springs Police Department is putting renewed focus on active shooter training for its officers. Since late June, officers have been going through rigorous assessments to determine their strengths and weaknesses. “This particular assessment is probably the first one we’ve done in about 7 years,” said Lieutenant Gustavo Araiza of the Palm Springs Police
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The community is mourning the lives of a young couple, who was killed in a Coachella shooting this week.“They loved each other dearly.” 16-year-old Brandon Anguiano and 17-year-old Jestine Carrillo were described as being inseparable. “They did everything together. They woke up together, they went to bed together,” said Carrillo’s mother Amanda. Jestine Carrillo &
Continue Reading HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A small plane towing a banner crashed in the ocean Friday during a lifeguard competition that turned into a real-life rescue along Southern California’s popular Huntington Beach. Corinne Baginski was at the beach for her 17-year-old daughter’s races in the junior lifeguarding division around 1:30 p.m. when she heard the
Continue Reading MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A man who claimed to have a gun and threatened to shoot someone at a business was shot to death Friday by Riverside County sheriff’s deputies, the department said. Deputies were called to a shopping center in Moreno Valley shortly after 11 a.m. and saw the suspect in the parking
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is expected to win his fourth and final no-confidence vote in Parliament on Saturday, ahead of a general election next year. The vote comes after four days of debate targeting Prayuth and 10 of his Cabinet members. The opposition has blamed his government’s economic mismanagement for rising
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