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By MATT YORK Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Heat never scared me before. I’ve spent 23 years covering Phoenix as a photographer for The Associated Press, shooting golf tournaments, baseball games and other outdoor sporting events, the city’s growing homeless population, immigration and crime. And, of course, heat. Like most people around here, I talk
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — In the national reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd three years ago, about 2,000 protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and urged the mostly white Francis Howell School District to address racial discrimination. The school board responded with a
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will flip from majority conservative to liberal control in August and Democrats have high hopes the change will lead to the state’s abortion ban being overturned and its maps redrawn to weaken GOP control of the Legislature and congressional districts. Democrats in the
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Endy Rodríguez appears right at home in the majors after acknowledging he was nervous playing in his first couple of big league games. The 23-year-old rookie catcher hit his first career homer and was behind the plate as five Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers combined on a
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Against a pitcher the caliber of Cristian Javier, Oakland manager Mark Kotsay appreciated his club’s patient approach to work counts and finally create some scoring chances. Jace Peterson hit a go-ahead two-run single in the sixth, Zack Gelof hit his first major league home run
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — As the Taliban swept back into power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Fahima Sultani and her fellow university students tried for days to get into the Kabul airport, only to be turned away by gun-wielding extremists. “No education, just go back home,” she recalled one
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Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — El 21 de julio se estrena en los cines de Estados Unidos la película “Oppenheimer”, dirigida por Christopher Nolan, que recrea cómo el científico J. Robert Oppenheimer lideró el proyecto de creación de la bomba atómica para Estados Unidos, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Se une así a una larga
Continue ReadingBy SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Counting of ballots began Sunday in Cambodia’s general election in which longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen’s party is all but assured a landslide victory thanks to the effective suppression and intimidation of any real opposition. His critics say the process has made
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Un festival de música en Malasia fue cancelado después de que el cantante de la banda británica The 1975, Matty Healy, criticara las leyes anti-LGBTQ del país y besara a un compañero de banda en el escenario. El incidente de este viernes por la noche en el escenario del Festival Good
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By Andy Rose and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Police in Oregon say a suspect is dead after opening fire in a hospital in downtown Portland Saturday, a shooting that left one person dead and another injured. Authorities say the suspect, who fled Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center after the shooting, was stopped in a
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer Three-time defending SailGP champion Tom Slingsby and Team Australia navigated through a tight course and marginal conditions to take the lead of the Oracle Los Angeles Sail Grand Prix with finishes of first, second and fourth Saturday in fleet races on the Port of L.A.’s Outer Harbor. Minutes after
Continue ReadingBy DAVE HOGG Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Luis Campusano had four hits, including a home run, and the San Diego Padres routed the Detroit Tigers 14-3 on Saturday night for the 4,000th victory in franchise history. Manny Machado and Ha-Seong Kim also homered for the Padres, who trailed 3-0 after two innings. Jackson Wolf
Continue ReadingARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Arike Ogunbowale scored 12 of her 25 points in the third quarter as Dallas pulled away from the Los Angeles Sparks and the Wings won 98-84 Saturday night for their fifth victory in a row. Satou Sabally added 26 points, 11 rebounds and six assists while Natasha Howard had 28 points
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK STEVENS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — CJ Abrams homered on his bobblehead night, Josiah Gray earned his first win since June 30 and the Washington Nationals routed the San Francisco Giants 10-1 on Saturday night. With a victory Sunday, Washington can complete its first series sweep since taking both games from Toronto in
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A 2-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba infection this week, according to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DPBH) and a Facebook post from the child’s mother. According to the DPBH release, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that Naegleria fowleri, also known as
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — La selección femenina de Estados Unidos (USWNT) debutó en la Copa Mundial Femenina de la FIFA 2023 y las expectativas en el equipo no podrían ser más grandes. Primeramente, EE.UU. llegó como la selección defensora del título y, además, como la bicampeona del certamen, pues ganó los mundiales femeninos de 2015
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN (CNN) — People often bemoan gray hair and wrinkled skin as some of the most unpleasant side effects of aging. It may be discouraging to watch your youthful visage slip away, but the status of your strength, balance and flexibility is of much greater concern. Significant declines in these areas
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon say a security guard at a Portland hospital died after being shot by an armed person Saturday. The suspect was later traced to the nearby community of Gresham, where officers shot and killed the person. The suspect’s name has not been released, and police declined to speculate on
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Al menos 10 muertos y más de una treintena de heridos dejó en la madrugada de este sábado el accidente de un autobús de pasajeros que cayó a un precipicio cerca del municipio de El Playón, en el departamento de Santander, informó Lina Huari, directora de la Agencia
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam in the Women’s World Cup drew 6.26 million viewers, making it the most-watched soccer telecast in the U.S. since last year’s men’s World Cup final. It is also the largest combined English- and Spanish-language audience for a U.S. women’s group stage match. Saturday afternoon’s
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