Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As he bid farewell to Washington in January 2021, deeply unpopular and diminished, Donald Trump was already hinting at a comeback. “Goodbye. We love you. We will be back in some form,” Trump told supporters at Joint Base Andrews, where he’d arranged a 21-gun salute as part
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The roiling debate over the strength of democratic restraints to keep Donald Trump in check when he returns to the White House in January has put a renewed focus on a divisive Supreme Court ruling that some fear could enable his worst impulses. Trump’s sweeping election victory has relit
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Welcome toBeyoncé country. When it comes to the 2025 Grammy Award nominations, “Cowboy Carter” rules the nation. She leads the nods with 11, bringing her career total to 99 nominations. That makes her the most nominated artist in Grammy history. “Cowboy Carter” is up for album and country
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Welcome toBeyoncé country. When it comes to the 2025 Grammy Award nominations, “Cowboy Carter” rules the nation. She leads the nods with 11, bringing her career total to 99 nominations. That makes her the most nominated artist in Grammy history. “Cowboy Carter” is up for album and country
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine is testing the legal limits of restrictions on so-called super PACs. Voters on Election Day approved a referendum limiting donations to political action committees that spend independently in candidate elections, setting the stage for a legal showdown. The law imposes a $5,000 limit for donations to super PACs
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Savannah Britt owes about $27,000 on loans she took out to attend college at Rutgers University, a debt she was hoping to see reduced by President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness efforts. Her payments are currently on hold while courts untangle challenges to the loan forgiveness program. But as the weeks tick down
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Sponsorship deals were far from Jonny Bottorff’s mind when he transferred to Northern Arizona University on a football scholarship. As money-making opportunities for college athletes have boomed since then, the offensive lineman has earned a few hundred dollars through name, image and likeness deals, but nothing that has changed his
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. presidents usually at least pay lip service to being leaders of the free world, at the helm of a mighty democracy and military that allies worldwide can rally around and reasonably depend on for support in return. Not so under President-elect Donald Trump, a critic of many existing U.S.
Continue ReadingBy Alex Stambaugh and Eugenia Yosef, CNN (CNN) — France condemned the brief detention of two consulate members after it said Israeli police forced their way into a French-owned holy site in Jerusalem, in what is the latest diplomatic spat in a series of events that have sent relations between the two plummeting. France’s Foreign
Continue ReadingAssociated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Israeli fans were assaulted after a soccer game in Amsterdam by hordes of young people apparently riled up by calls on social media to target Jewish people, Dutch authorities said Friday. Five people were treated at hospitals and dozens were arrested after the attacks, which were condemned as antisemitic by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — It’s Friday night in Downtown Santiago, the capital of Chile, and a group of 15 people gather around a table. They share a bottle of wine as the smell of tobacco and incense fill the air. Black candles burn atop an altar decorated with chalices and knives. The members
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Yinxing battered the northern Philippines with floods and landslides before blowing away from the country, leaving two airports damaged and aggravating a calamity caused by back-to-back storms that hit in recent weeks. Officials said Friday that there were no immediate reports of casualties from the onslaught caused by Yinxing, the
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — North Korean troops deployed to Russia’s Kursk region have fought Kyiv’s forces on the battlefield, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday, adding that the clashes resulted in fatalities. Zelensky said 11,000 North Korean soldiers are in the region, where Ukraine’s three-month military incursion into Russian territory has
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Brock Boeser left Vancouver’s 4-2 win against the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night in the first period after being checked in the head. Boeser had just played the puck in the neutral zone when the two-time All-Star forward was leveled by Tanner Jeannot, who received a match penalty for an
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Development Programs is warning that Myanmar’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict between government forces and a powerful ethnic group, could face an imminent acute famine. It says in a report issued Thursday that “a perfect storm is brewing” which has put
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 2% of Kenya’s population lives with a disability, and it often affects mobility. But there is little or no accommodation on public transport. Users of the minibuses and minivans that carry most of the commuter traffic in the capital, Nairobi, say they are sometimes physically lifted on
Continue ReadingANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels and right-hander Kyle Hendricks finalized a $2.5 million, one-year contract on Thursday. Hendricks had spent his entire big league career with the Chicago Cubs. He is 97-81 with a 3.68 ERA in 270 starts and six relief appearances over 11 seasons. He was the last Cubs player
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Continue ReadingWCIV By Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility. The rhesus macaque primates are all still on the loose as of Friday after escaping from the Alpha Genesis Primate
Continue ReadingBy Eugenia Yosef, Edward Szekeres, Lauren Kent and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Amsterdam has banned demonstrations for three days after Israeli soccer fans were beaten and injured in violent clashes in the city overnight, which Dutch authorities condemned Friday as antisemitic. Dutch police said they had launched a major investigation into multiple incidents following
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