By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dozens of Republicans are competing for five of North Carolina’s 14 congressional seats on Super Tuesday. There’s a good chance in the red state that several will be sent to Washington after the November election. Some turnover can be attributed to redistricting. The Republican-controlled General
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will face Congress publicly for the first time Thursday to explain his failure to quickly notify the president and other senior leaders about his hospitalization last month for complications from prostate cancer surgery. He is expected to hear some sharp questions and
Continue ReadingBy NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — With flashy celebrity ads and promises of deep discounts, a shop in Iran’s capital had offered consumers in the Islamic Republic one of the hottest products in the country — an iPhone that came out in 2021. But instead of getting their hands on the handsets,
Continue ReadingBy NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — With flashy celebrity ads and promises of deep discounts, a shop in Iran’s capital had offered consumers in the Islamic Republic one of the hottest products in the country — an iPhone that came out in 2021. But instead of getting their hands on the handsets,
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN New York (CNN) — The White House is formally calling on Fox News to walk back its coverage of bribery and corruption allegations against President Joe Biden. In a letter sent to the right-wing network’s top brass this week, which has not been previously reported, Ian Sams, a top White House spokesperson, noted that the ex-FBI informant who
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, SEUNG MIN KIM and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger Donald Trump both head to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday in a sign of how central immigration has become to the 2024 election and how much both candidates want to use
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Between bridge and tunnel tolls and parking fees, it can already cost a mint to drive a car into Manhattan. Is forking over another $15 enough to get people out of their cars and onto mass transit? That’s the hope among some New York officials. The
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press KUNA, Idaho (AP) — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members poked and prodded at his arms and legs, hands and feet, trying to find a vein through which they could end his
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press FRITCH, Texas. (AP) — The small town of Fritch is again picking through the rubble of a Texas wildfire, a decade after another destructive blaze burned hundreds of homes and left deep scars in the Panhandle community. Residents in and around Fritch and other rural towns fled
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia makes battlefield advances and Ukrainian soldiers run short on ammunition, U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for sending military aid to Kyiv, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Democrats are
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CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Anna-Maja Rappard, Kosta Gak and Brice Laine, CNN Near Orikhiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Pixelated in the thermal drone imagery, the quad bike races down a dirt track, its destination unclear. It swerves and is hit by a grenade, dropped from a Ukrainian drone. Russian soldiers appear to stagger away from it, one rolling. The imagery,
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — American administration and intelligence officials are concerned that Israel is planning a ground incursion into Lebanon that could be launched in the late spring or early summer if diplomatic efforts fail to push Hezbollah back from the northern border with Israel, senior administrations officials and officials familiar with the
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to stand before a political ethics committee at Parliament in a bid to showcase his leadership. Kishida is struggling to survive his governing party’s corruption scandal that has sent his support ratings to new lows. The scandal, considered the
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok and Hanna Ziady, CNN New Delhi/London (CNN) — Disney is joining forces with Asia’s richest man to create a new media giant in India that says it will reach a domestic audience of more than 750 million people. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and Disney have combined their digital streaming platforms and
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KELLY Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 32 points, Nikola Jokic had 14 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists in just three quarters for his fourth straight triple-double and the Denver Nuggets had a big run to beat the short-handed Sacramento Kings 117-96 on Wednesday night. Jokic had his 19th triple-double
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pilots lined up on a runway in Dubai on Wednesday and fired up their seven jet engines with an ear-splitting roar. But they weren’t preparing to fly an airplane — they were the aircraft. This city-state in the United Arab Emirates, known for being
Continue ReadingDEMING, N.M. (AP) — A missing teen with autism has been found in New Mexico — about 200 miles (322 kilometers) away from his home in southern Arizona, according to New Mexico State Police. The 13-year-old turned up at a Walmart in Deming on Tuesday after going missing the night before from his family’s home
Continue ReadingTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Authorities in Honduras say two buses collided head-on in a village in the Central American country’s west, and 17 people were killed and 14 were injured, four of them seriously. Officials say witnesses in La Montañita reported the two buses were traveling at a moderate speed when the accident happened Wednesday.
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The southern Great Barrier Reef is suffering from extensive coral bleaching due to heat stress, the reef’s managers said Wednesday, raising fears that a seventh mass bleaching event could be unfolding across the vast, ecologically important site. Aerial surveys conducted last weekend by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark has another career record on her astounding resume: the most points by any major college women’s player to ever take the court. For Hawkeyes coach Lisa Bluder and her peers, this one matters the most. Iowa’s superstar guard scored 33 points to lead the
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