SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh year in a row to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that commercial crabbing will be delayed until at least Dec.
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh year in a row to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that commercial crabbing will be delayed until at least Dec.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Timothée Chalamet made a surprise appearance at his own look-alike contest in Lower Manhattan. The well-attended event on Sunday drew an order to disperse from police and at least one arrest. Flanked by bodyguards, Chalamet posed for photos with his high-cheeked, curly-haired doppelgängers, some of whom had dressed
Continue ReadingAP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Concerns seemed to vanish and Los Angeles Dodgers players wore smiles at Yankee Stadium as they prepared for Game 3 of the World Series: Shohei Ohtani was set to play Monday night despite a partially dislocated left shoulder. Ohtani got hurt sliding into second base when he was
Continue ReadingAP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Concerns seemed to vanish and Los Angeles Dodgers players wore smiles at Yankee Stadium as they prepared for Game 3 of the World Series: Shohei Ohtani was set to play Monday night despite a partially dislocated left shoulder. Ohtani got hurt sliding into second base when he was
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A member of the British Parliament has been suspended by the Labour Party after a video appeared to show him punching and knocking a man to the ground. Mike Amesbury, from a constituency in northwest England, was suspended Sunday pending an investigation into the incident early Saturday. Surveillance video obtained by the
Continue ReadingBy Jordan D. Brown, CNN (CNN) — A K-8 school in Swedeborg, Missouri, has renamed its building after its longtime favorite custodian in celebration of her retirement in July. The Swedeborg District III Elementary School building was renamed the “Claudene Wilson Learning Center” in August to honor her more than 32 years of service to the small
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — British chef Jamie Oliver is on the case of the stolen cheddar. Oliver, who rose to fame as “The Naked Chef” on TV by stripping food down to its essentials, got cheeky in an otherwise serious plea to his social media followers to help solve the mystery of the missing
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court refused to reinstate a Virginia purge program aimed at culling suspected noncitizens from the voter rolls, leaving in place a lower court ruling that found the program likely violated a federal prohibition on “systematic” removals in the 90 days before an election. The Sunday decision
Continue ReadingAssociated Press QUSAIR, Syria (AP) — A stream of refugees fleeing Lebanon to Syria crossed a narrow makeshift bridge on foot Sunday in the Qusair area of Syria’s Homs province after the official border crossing was put out of commission by an Israeli strike two days earlier. Only three functioning crossings remain between the countries,
Continue ReadingAP College Football Writer Miami edged ahead of Texas and climbed to No. 5 in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll on Sunday, its highest ranking since 2017, and Notre Dame, BYU and Texas A&M all moved into the top 10. Oregon, Georgia, Penn State and Ohio State remained the top four teams,
Continue ReadingAP Baseball Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Schmidt family has helped the New York Yankees take off this year. Sure, pitcher Clarke Schmidt is expected to start Game 3 of the World Series on Monday. But his dad, Dwight Schmidt, has also helped the Yankees get to this point — he’s piloting the team’s
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces thwarted an attempt at another cross-border incursion by Ukraine into southwestern Russia, a local official reported Sunday, months after Kyiv staged a bold assault on its nuclear-armed enemy that Moscow is still struggling to halt. An “armed group” sought Sunday to breach the border between Ukraine and Russia’s Bryansk
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump sat down Friday with prominent podcast host Joe Rogan for a conversational interview that ran for nearly three hours — and the former president delivered his standard bombardment of false claims, at least 32 in all. Many of those false claims are lies that were debunked months or even years
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters are considering whether to make the state the 40th jurisdiction to legalize sports betting. The November ballot measure highlights an emerging national debate about how best to tax the growing industry. Missouri’s proposed 10% tax rate is below the national average of 19% collected last year.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden slammed Elon Musk for hypocrisy on immigration after a published report that the Tesla CEO once worked illegally in the United States. The South Africa-born Musk denies the allegation. “That wealthiest man in the world turned out to be an illegal worker here. No, I’m serious. He was
Continue ReadingCHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — A small German-registered plane crashed on Sunday in a town near Moldova’s capital, killing the lone pilot onboard, aviation authorities said. The fatal accident happened shortly before 10.00 a.m. local time in the small town of Vadul lui Voda, about 23 kilometers (14 miles) east of the capital Chisinau, and the
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan and Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty. Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed almost continuously since 1955, has lost its parliamentary majority in the
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — A sense of urgency has been growing after the role of women emerged as a dominant theme when Catholics from across the globe were canvassed for their views ahead of a meeting of bishops and lay people – a synod – which formally concluded Sunday. The
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Venom: The Last Dance” showed less bite than expected at the box office, collecting $51 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, significantly down from the alien symbiote franchise’s previous entries. Projections for the third “Venom” film from Sony Pictures had been closer to $65
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