Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After one of the most chaotic and least productive U.S. House sessions in modern history, voters made a surprising choice in elections — they overwhelmingly stuck with the status quo. Republicans will hold onto a thin majority in the House. While the chamber’s exact partisan divide is still coming into
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — China’s leader Xi Jinping met for the last time with U.S. President Joe Biden but was already looking ahead to President-elect Donald Trump and his “America first” policies, saying Beijing “is ready to work with a new administration.” The two leaders gathered Saturday on the sidelines of the annual
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state’s high school graduation exams on Election Day, they joined a growing trend that has steadily chipped away at the use of high-stakes tests for the past two decades. The vote leaves just seven states with mandated graduation exams, a number that could
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others, authorities said. The fire occurred late Friday at a hospital in Jhansi city in India’s Uttar Pradesh state. Officials said the blaze spread quickly through the
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Election certification meetings on Friday in Nevada’s two most populous counties were roiled by voting conspiracies while local officials in the state’s rural counties quietly approved election results that favored President-elect Donald Trump. Friday was the deadline for counties in the battleground state to finalize election results. All 17 counties met
Continue ReadingFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A federally protected female Mexican wolf was found dead in an area near the northern Arizona city of Flagstaff, alarming environmentalists who worry someone may have deliberately killed the animal. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Arizona Game and Fish Department announced in a joint statement Friday that the animal
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Jim Costa won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing California on Friday. Costa was first elected to the U.S. House in 2005 after spending roughly 24 years in the state Legislature. He defended his seat against Republican Michael Maher, who also challenged Costa in 2022. Costa serves on the House Committee on
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Jared Golden won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Maine on Friday. Golden is one of just a handful of Democratic House members who represents a district that Republican Donald Trump carried in 2020, making his northern Maine seat a key target for Republicans. He faced Republican Austin Theriault, a former NASCAR
Continue ReadingST. HELENS, Ore. (AP) — A school district in northwest Oregon has put its superintendent and high school principal on leave and accepted the school board chair’s resignation. The moves come after students and parents have protested following the arrests of two teachers on sexual abuse charges. St. Helens police say officers arrested one current
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The usual suspects abstained from voting on a seemingly uncontroversial United Nations resolution that denounced violence against women and girls on Thursday — Iran, Russia, North Korea. But the country casting the sole vote against the nonbinding resolution, drafted by France and the Netherlands, took the world by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran successfully sought a meeting with Elon Musk, according to a U.S. official, one in a series of steps that appeared aimed at easing tensions with President-elect Donald Trump. Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani met with Musk — a Trump ally named this week to advise his administration on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATiONS (AP) — The United States has stepped up its campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping force, spurred by escalating gang violence that shut all air traffic to the capital Port-au-Prince this week. The U.S. proposed a U.N. peacekeeping mission in early September as one way
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disgruntled X users are again flocking to Bluesky, a newer social media platform that grew out of the former Twitter before billionaire Elon Musk took it over in 2022. While it remains small compared to established online spaces such as X, it has emerged as an alternative for those looking for
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DALLAS (AP) — The first batch of artwork from the Boy Scouts of America’s collection has raised over $3.7 million at auction to help pay the compensation owed to those who were sexually abused while in scouting. The 25 works offered up by Heritage Auctions on Friday are among over 300 from the
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Josh Harder won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing California on Friday, defeating Republican Kevin Lincoln. Harder, who had been a venture capitalist, was first elected in 2018, when he defeated a four-term GOP incumbent. Lincoln is the mayor of Stockton. Democrats have a voter registration advantage in the 9th Congressional District,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democratic Rep. Jared Golden has won reelection to Congress. Friday’s outcome marks the third time Golden has won thanks to the lesser choices of some voters under Maine’s ranked choice system. The retabulated votes gave the incumbent Marine Corps veteran a majority over Republican challenger Austin Theriault. The Republican’s
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The projected cost of the Buffalo Bills’ new stadium has ballooned to what team officials told The Associated Press is “north of $2.1 billion.” Owners Terry and Kim Pegula are responsible for picking up the more than $560 million in overruns. Bills president Pete Guelli was not
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has named his campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt to serve as his White House press secretary. The 27-year-old Leavitt would be the youngest White House press secretary in history. The press secretary typically serves as the public face of the administration and historically has
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A climate change activist who dumped red powder on a case containing the original copy of the U.S. Constitution has been sentenced to two years in prison for his role in the publicity stunt earlier this year at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.; Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas; Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. ___ CNN’s
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