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By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Francisco Lindor hit a tiebreaking two-run home run in the seventh inning and the New York Mets won their fifth straight game, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-4 on Friday night. Lindor sent his second homer of the season 396 feet into right field off Daniel
Continue ReadingBy RICHARD J. MARCUS Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Justin Turner hit a solo homer and drove in another run with a single as the Toronto Blue Jays won for the fifth time in six games, beating the San Diego Padres 5-1 on Friday night. “The quality of at-bats have significantly spiked, one through
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is preparing in a rare Saturday session to approve $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, Democrats and Republicans joining together behind the legislation after a grueling months-long fight over renewed American support for repelling Russia’s invasion
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After its midnight deadline, the Senate voted early Saturday to reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse. The legislation approved
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Republicans in Wyoming are deciding which presidential candidate will get their state’s votes at the GOP national convention but there’s only one choice. Former President Donald Trump will be the only candidate listed on a presidential preference poll on Saturday at the state Republican convention in Cheyenne. The poll will
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel demonstrated its military dominance over adversary Iran in its apparent precision strikes that hit near military and nuclear targets deep in the heart of the country, meeting little significant challenge from Iran’s defenses and providing the world with new insights into both militaries’ capabilities. The
Continue ReadingBy CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — A year before I-Ting Quinn’s son was old enough for kindergarten, she and her husband had the option to enroll him in “transitional kindergarten,” a program offered for free by California elementary schools for some 4-year-olds. Instead, they kept their son, Ethan, in a private
Continue ReadingBy CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — A year before I-Ting Quinn’s son was old enough for kindergarten, she and her husband had the option to enroll him in “transitional kindergarten,” a program offered for free by California elementary schools for some 4-year-olds. Instead, they kept their son, Ethan, in a private
Continue ReadingBy BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hustle plays and production from up and down the lineup helped the New Orleans Pelicans overcome the absence of leading-scorer Zion Williamson, keep their season alive and avoid a historically significant loss. Brandon Ingram scored 24 points, Jonas Valanciunas added 19 points and 12 rebounds,
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — More than 50,000 people are expected to finish this weekend’s London Marathon, a record number over the course of the race’s 43-year history. That might not be the only record to fall on Sunday: in particular, expectations are high for the elite women’s race with a clutch of runners
Continue ReadingBy Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear on Hawaii’s presidential ballot following a Friday ruling that blocked an effort by Hawaii Democrats to disqualify his campaign’s ballot access petition. Hawaii marks the third state where Kennedy has officially qualified for ballot access. He gained ballot access in
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — On a weekend reprieve from the courtroom, former President Donald Trump is campaigning Saturday in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles and his rematch against President Joe Biden. Trump’s evening rally in Wilmington is his first since the start of his criminal hush money trial
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has agreed to unite behind former diplomat Edmundo González as its challenger to President Nicolás Maduro in this July 28 election. The bloc acted Friday, just one day before the deadline to formalize its candidate. The coalition known as the Unitary Democratic Platform says the decision was
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — When Washington state opened some of the nation’s first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr. was on electronic home detention in Spokane, where he had been indicted on federal drug charges. He would soon be off to prison to serve the lion’s share of
Continue ReadingBy STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former first lady Melania Trump is making a political comeback during the presidential campaign of her husband, former President Donald Trump. Melania Trump will appear at the Log Cabin Republicans event Saturday in Mar-a-Lago, the home she lives in with her husband in Palm
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — They call it Okap, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries. Sitting on the shimmering north coast, the city of Cap-Haïtien was abandoned as a capital during the waning years of the French colonial era and again when the Kingdom of Haiti fell after its
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S. Saturday as hundreds of shops celebrate Record Store Day during a surge of interest in vinyl and the day after the release of Taylor Swift’s latest album. There were no
Continue ReadingBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S. Saturday as hundreds of shops celebrate Record Store Day during a surge of interest in vinyl and the day after the release of Taylor Swift’s latest album. There were no
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan as a child and built a new life in Mississippi. Fishermen found the body of the 33-year-old Mabil floating in a river earlier this month. The case has prompted calls for a federal investigation into his disappearance and death
Continue ReadingBY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island’s Nassau County. Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county’s local governing body,
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