Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia voters are likely to be able to choose from six candidates for president. That’s because Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Thursday put Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz back on the ballot after they were removed, while saying the Green Party’s Jill Stein had qualified by another
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has met with Senegal’s president as part of a trip through three West African nations aimed at tackling irregular migration to Spain’s Canary Islands. More than 22,000 people have disembarked on its shores since January, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry, more than double the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Israel is carrying out large-scale military raids in parts of the occupied West Bank, where the decadeslong conflict with the Palestinians had worsened even before the outbreak of the war in Gaza. The operation appeared to be the largest since the start of the war. Israel says it is aimed at preventing attacks
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Nippon Steel Corp. is raising its capital commitment by more than $1 billion to spend on U.S. Steel’s plants amid entrenched political and labor opposition to the Japanese company’s acquisition of the American steelmaker. Nippon Steel’s $1.3 billion commitment Thursday to upgrade facilities in Pennsylvania and Indiana is on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has a message for America: The U.S. Postal Service is ready for a flood of election mail and is better positioned to do so than it was four years ago. The Postal Service has been undergoing rapid changes, including the opening of large hubs, but some of those changes
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. World Health Organization says it’s reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children. It comes after a baby contracted the first confirmed case in 25 years in the Palestinian territory. The WHO
Continue ReadingHERNANDO, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff’s department says it has set new security procedures since an inmate escaped and fled to Chicago. The fugitive, Joshua Zimmerman, was arrested last week after a 15-hour standoff with police at a restaurant near the Democratic National Convention. Zimmerman was wearing street clothes and was not handcuffed when
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — An inmate whose escape from a Kansas prison hidden in a dog crate became the subject of a book and TV movie has died behind bars. John Manard, who was 45, died Sunday at the La Palma Correctional Facility, a private prison in Eloy, Arizona. The Kansas Department of
Continue ReadingNEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Former New Jersey governor and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie will teach a course on running for office at Yale University this semester. The weekly seminar taught by Christie is titled “How to Run a Political Campaign” and is open to undergraduates as well as graduate students at Yale’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released footage showing that they boarded and intentionally set explosives aboard a Greek-flagged tanker that was earlier abandoned after they repeatedly attacked it, putting the Red Sea at risk of a major oil spill. The Houthis chanted their group’s motto as they set
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — A local official in northern Yemen says that floods that swept through a northern district this week have killed at least 33 people and damaged more than 200 houses. Heavy rains that began Tuesday as part of Yemen’s monsoon season have caused major flooding and unleashed rockslides in the Melhan district of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Next month’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump won’t have an audience, live microphones when candidates aren’t speaking, or written notes, according to rules that ABC News, the host network, shared this week with both campaigns. A copy of the rules was provided to
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writers Tom Brady’s pending bid to become a part owner of the Las Vegas Raiders has triggered restrictions on his access to teams around the NFL as part of his role as a Fox Sports broadcaster, a league spokesperson said Thursday. Brady is not permitted to attend in-person or online broadcast production meetings
Continue ReadingThe Kremlin says that Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Mongolia next week despite the country being a member of the International Criminal Court. The ICC issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest last year. The visit is scheduled for Sept. 3 and it will be Putin’s first trip to an ICC member state since the
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Darlington Raceway will honor late NASCAR Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough at his hometown track where he won five Southern 500s and left a legacy of success. Yarborough died at age 84 last New Year’s Eve. There will be the Oldsmobile Cutlass he drove to his third straight
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A woman who posted a video of herself singing outdoors in Afghanistan to protest the Taliban’s morality laws, which include a ban on women’s voices in public, says she won’t be silenced. The Taliban last week issued laws to prevent vice and promote virtue, including a requirement for a woman to conceal
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year mortgage eased for the second week in a row and remains at its lowest level in more than a year. That’s good news for prospective homebuyers facing home prices near all-time highs. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the rate fell to 6.35% from 6.46%
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s electoral authority says that the former governing nationalist conservative party violated campaign funding rules in the 2023 parliamentary vote. The State Electoral Commission imposed a penalty worth millions of dollars that would undercut the party’s resources for next year’s presidential election. The commission said Thursday that the campaign
Continue ReadingAssociated Press VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear watchdog says that Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands. That’s according to a confidential report by the International Atomic Energy Agency that was seen by The Associated Press on Thursday. The report says Tehran has
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president has ordered an investigation into the death of a man in custody after activists alleged he was tortured to death by police in the north of the country. The order came from reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, who was elected last month after he campaigned on a promise
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