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By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — Five puppies learning to be assistance dogs had a howling good time during a training exercise at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. During the Tuesday training, the quintet of pooches and their trainers walked through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint, rode an elevated tram and boarded an airplane.
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA POWELL CRAIN of AL.com PIEDMONT, Ala. (AP) — While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID pandemic, student performance in a rural Alabama school district was soaring. Piedmont City schools notched significant improvement in math, landing in the top spot among school districts across the country
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Marc Tyler Nobleman was supposed to talk to kids about the secret co-creator of Batman, with the aim of inspiring young students in suburban Atlanta’s Forsyth County to research and write. Then the school district told him he had to cut a key point from his presentation
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE and TERRY TANG Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Governors from the Southwestern United States are pursuing stronger business ties with Taiwan in hopes of attracting new foreign investments and jobs to their landlocked states. Trade missions this week have taken New Mexico. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Arizona counterpart Katie
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By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At the onset of his unprecedented third term, Xi Jinping stacked China’s top ranks with a slate of loyalists who he presumably hoped would smooth the paths to achieve his grand vision for China. Less than a year on, however, a storm of turbulence is roiling Xi’s
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY and YOUSEF MURAD Associated Press DERNA, Libya (AP) — Abdel-Hamid al-Hassadi survived the devastating flooding in eastern Libya but he lost some 90 people from his extended family. The 23-year-old law graduate rushed upstairs along with his mother and his elder brother, as heavy rains lashed the city of Derna on the
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Muncy’s base hit with two outs in the ninth inning Tuesday night scored Mookie Betts and gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers, extending their winning streak to five games. Betts got aboard with a single to center for
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman murdered 14 students and three staff members there on Valentine’s Day in 2018. Seeing his peers — and himself — struggle with returning to normal, he wanted to do something to help people manage their
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman murdered 14 students and three staff members there on Valentine’s Day in 2018. Seeing his peers — and himself — struggle with returning to normal, he wanted to do something to help people manage their
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By Melissa Alonso and Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — A band director was tased and arrested after he disregarded police requests to stop his band’s performance following a high school football game, according to a Birmingham Police Department spokesperson. The incident happened Thursday following a win by Minor High School at PD Jackson-Olin High School
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — If this was Blake Snell’s final start for the San Diego Padres at Petco Park, it sure was a memorable one. The NL Cy Young Award contender lowered his big league-leading ERA to 2.33 and struck out 10 in seven brilliant innings for the Padres,
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Even out on Puget Sound during an off-day fishing excursion last week, Luis Castillo did his share of winning: He pulled in the most salmon and left Mariners manager Scott Servais in awe and admiring his skill set yet again. No surprise to anybody in
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Corbin Carroll took off for third base and Ketel Marte bolted for second. A chaotic 10 seconds followed, with a bang-bang play, a dropped baseball, another dash by Carroll, an errant throw by Wilmer Flores, a scramble home by Marte, and finally, a raucous celebration for
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen and Krystina Shveda, CNN (CNN) — Millions of American homeowners could see insurance rates surge in the coming years in part due to worsening climate disasters, new data shows. An analysis of from nonprofit research group First Street Foundation found nearly 39 million homes and commercial properties – about 27% of properties
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says that his country will never give up its right “to have peaceful nuclear energy” and urged the United States “to demonstrate in a verifiable fashion” that it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal. Addressing the annual high-level meeting
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Brendan Rodgers singled against closer Josh Hader leading off the ninth inning to break up San Diego’s bid for a combined no-hitter Tuesday night against the Colorado Rockies. Padres left-hander Blake Snell carried the no-hit bid through seven innings and reliever Robert Suarez worked a perfect eighth in a scoreless game.
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for three Georgia Republicans who falsely claimed that Donald Trump won the state and that they were “duly elected and qualified” electors are set to argue Wednesday that criminal charges against them should be moved from state to federal court. David Shafer, Shawn Still and Cathy
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN and SARA BURNETT Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One of the biggest fights over abortion rights this year is in Virginia, where all of the state House and Senate seats are up for reelection. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin pushed to ban the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy but was blocked
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Crown Prince Akishino, the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, is on his way to Vietnam to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, as Tokyo pushes to deepen ties with developing and emerging nations to tackle regional and global challenges. During the
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to have his long-coveted meeting with President Joe Biden on Wednesday — bringing together the two leaders for the first time since the Israeli leader took office at the helm of his country’s far-right government late last
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