By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer ATKINSON, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Republican governor described Don Bolduc as a “conspiracy theory extremist” just two months ago. But now, a week before Election Day, Gov. Chris Sununu is vowing to support him. And the leader of the GOP’s campaign to retake the U.S. Senate stood
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets mostly rose Monday ahead of what is expected to be a Federal Reserve decision this week to raise interest rates again amid investor hopes the U.S. central bank will scale back plans for more increases. Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul advanced while Hong Kong
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets mostly rose Monday ahead of what is expected to be a Federal Reserve decision this week to raise interest rates again amid investor hopes the U.S. central bank will scale back plans for more increases. Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul advanced while Hong Kong
Continue Reading By JILL PAINTER LOPEZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James scored 26 points and Anthony Davis added 23 to help the Los Angeles Lakers to their first win of the season with a 121-110 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night. Russell Westbrook had 18 points for the Lakers (1-5), who had
Continue Reading By CLAIRE SAVAGE and CARRIE ANTLFINGER Associated Press / Report for America MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee’s top election official surveyed about 20 poll workers gathered in a classroom in a city building stuffed with election supplies, then spoke frankly about the tense environment they may face next week when the city expects more people watching
Continue Reading By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education in lengthy arguments Monday in which the justices are wrestling with difficult questions of race. The justices scheduled at least an hour and forty minutes of arguments and were
Continue Reading By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education. It’s a topic a number of the justices have already said a lot about. The cases say that Harvard University and the University
Continue Reading By GARY FIELDS Associated Press Those of us of a certain age remember the threat. The 1960s were a time of domestic turmoil, yes. But they came, too, with a darker, existential menace: atomic bombs, ICBMs, thermonuclear war, annihilation. The buzzwords of destruction, with the Soviet Union seen as the architect of it all. Nuclear
Continue Reading By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Asssociated Press DETROIT (AP) — In one of the country’s premier battleground states, a last-ditch effort from Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon has helped her pull closer with incumbent Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Dixon, who has never held elected office before, went silent across the state after draining her resources in the
Continue Reading By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored 30 points on his 26th birthday in another stellar scoring performance, leading the Phoenix Suns over the Houston Rockets 124-109 on Sunday night. The two-time All-Star — who’s already in his eighth NBA season after being drafted in 2015 at 19 years old
Continue ReadingCNN, IRNA, IRANWIRE, HENGAW ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM: @ATASHSHAHKARAMI By Niamh Kennedy and Abdul Nasir, CNN Violent clashes broke out between security forces and student protesters at university campuses across Iran on Sunday, according to activist and human rights groups in the country. Students continued to protest in large numbers at
Continue Reading By DANIEL COLE Associated Press SAINTES-MARIE DE LA MER, France (AP) — In a makeshift arena in the French coastal village Aigues-Mortes, young men in dazzling collared shirts come face-to-face with a raging bull. Surrounded by the city’s medieval walls, the men dodge and duck the animal’s charges while spectators let out collective gasps. Part
Continue Reading By DOUG PADILLA Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Trevor Zegras scored his second goal of the game at 2:15 of overtime and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Sunday night to end a seven-game losing streak. Zegras scored the first of two Ducks goals in the third period as Anaheim
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN The Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire shared at a Thursday event the hoax claim that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and use litter boxes in schools. Don Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general who is challenging Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, made the comments while
Continue Reading By AJIT SOLANKI, KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press MORBI, India (AP) — Military teams were searching Monday for people missing after a century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed into a river Sunday in the western Indian state of Gujarat, sending hundreds plunging into the water and killing at least 132 in one of the
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — One of Arizona’s biggest concerns against New York was the Rangers’ dangerous power play, led Mika Zibanejad. The Coyotes managed to kill off an early penalty, but were hit with another at a crucial junction. The puck ended up on Zibanajed’s stick and he made
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Es posible que una de las icónicas pinturas modernistas de Piet Mondrian haya estado colgada boca abajo durante décadas, según una investigación de un historiador del arte, pero la obra de arte no se va a voltear en el corto plazo. La pintura, llamada “New York City I” presenta la clásica
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — It wasn’t Christian McCaffrey’s touchdown pass to Brandon Aiyuk early in the second quarter that impressed Jimmy Garoppolo the most. It’s more about how quickly McCaffrey has picked up San Francisco’s offense. “A lot of our guys on offense have been doing it for years
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Cuando llegue el día de las elecciones en Florida, Donald Trump votará por un republicano cuya desaparición política pronto podría estar tramando. Meses después de que Trump le dijera a The Wall Street Journal que apoyaría la candidatura de reelección del gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, parece cada vez más probable
Continue Reading By FOSTER KLUG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In one moment, thousands of Halloween revelers crammed into the narrow, vibrant streets of Seoul’s most cosmopolitan neighborhood, eager to show off their capes, wizard hats and bat wings. In the next, a surge of panic spread as an unmanageable mass of
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