Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of flights in and out of the U.S. have been canceled this week as Hurricane Milton barreled into the Gulf of Mexico and plowed across Florida. Many airports were forced to close their doors in the path of destruction. And airlines across the country grounded flights as a
Continue ReadingAP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — OMG! Look who’s headed to the National League Championship Series. From their playoff pumpkin to the purple Grimace seat and that catchy pop song by infielder Jose Iglesias, the merry New York Mets are riding a wave of good-luck charms and infectious camaraderie to unexpected October success. “Through
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Chargers (2-2) at Denver (3-2) Sunday, 4:05 p.m. EDT, CBS BetMGM NFL Odds: Chargers by 3. Series record: Broncos lead 73-55-1. Against the spread: Chargers 2-2; Broncos 4-1. Last meeting: Broncos beat Chargers 16-9 on Dec. 31, 2023, in Denver. Last week: Chargers had an early bye, Broncos beat Raiders 34-18. Chargers offense:
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Buffalo, New York, has been convicted of corruption. Jurors on Thursday found Joseph Bongiovanni guilty on seven of the 11 counts he faced. Bongiovanni was charged with using his position with the DEA to protect drug traffickers he believed were associated
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says his predecessor Donald Trump should “get a life” and try to help people impacted by a pair of devastating hurricanes, rather than spread misinformation about the federal response. Speaking Thursday at the White House on the government’s work to address Hurricanes Milton and Helene, Biden condemned
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida theme parks including Disney World, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld say they’ll open their gates on Friday after shutting down for Hurricane Milton. The three Orland-based parks say they’ll reopen after assessing the storm’s damage. All shut down on Wednesday. The parks say some Halloween special events won’t be
Continue ReadingLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Horse racing’s federal oversight agency and the Jockeys’ Guild are collaborating on an initiative to support jockeys’ well-being with access to mental-health care. The Guild and Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) have partnered with mental-health company Onrise to provide care for jockeys in their native languages. Jockeys can access therapists,
Continue ReadingLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Horse racing’s federal oversight agency and the Jockeys’ Guild are collaborating on an initiative to support jockeys’ well-being with access to mental-health care. The Guild and Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) have partnered with mental-health company Onrise to provide care for jockeys in their native languages. Jockeys can access therapists,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Hurricane Milton’s explosive formation stirred high anxiety for Florida less than two weeks after Helene raked the state and much of the Southeast. Authorities on Thursday were still assessing the damage, even as Gov. Ron DeSantis said it fell short of “the worst-case scenario.” Some numbers already tell some of Milton’s story, though
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A congressional candidate who says he was tricked by Democrats into running as a spoiler in a competitive House race in Minnesota is suspending his campaign and endorsing his Republican rival. Thomas Bowman, an independent running in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, said he’d come to the realization that he was a “pawn” for
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Even in an election year, most seem to agree on one aspect about Ali Abbasi’s much-debated Donald Trump film “The Apprentice”: Sebastian Stan is a remarkably good Trump and Jeremy Strong is chillingly riveting as the New York power broker Roy Cohn. One reviewer recently wrote Strong’s portrayal
Continue ReadingBy Ali Main and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that his youngest daughter, Tiffany, is pregnant. “She’s gonna have a baby. So that’s nice,” the former president said at the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan. Trump referred to his daughter as a “very exceptional young woman” and her husband,
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The judge in the federal January 6, 2021, criminal case against Donald Trump will wait at least seven days before releasing exhibits containing evidence that special counsel Jack Smith is using to argue that the former president is not immune from prosecution. Trump opposes the release of the heavily
Continue ReadingHUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials this week offered a $20,000 reward for information about the fatal shooting of a sea lion in Southern California over the summer. The wounded male sea lion was discovered Aug. 7 between two lifeguard stations at Bolsa Chica State Beach in Orange County, according to the National Oceanic
Continue ReadingAssociated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The city of Aurora is roughly the size of pre-evacuation Tampa, Florida. With 400,000 people spread over 164 square miles, it has swank subdivisions, working-class neighborhoods and the high-end resort where Donald Trump will hold a rally Friday to highlight a city turned into “a war zone” by immigrants,
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, MJ Lee and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the federal government is rushing to help those affected by Hurricane Milton — and had a stark message for his predecessor, who has been spreading falsehoods about the federal response. Asked by reporters after his remarks at
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The hosts of ABC’s “The View” are responding to Donald Trump a day after he insulted co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg. The co-hosts walked onto the set Thursday to the song “Dirty” by Christina Aguilera. Goldberg noted that was one of the words Trump used to attack
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US Federal Emergency Management Agency is rapidly spending its disaster funding as it responds to back-to-back major hurricanes Helene and Milton – coming on top of a nonstop disaster year filled with tornadoes, wildfires and floods. After getting a recent infusion of around $20 billion from Congress
Continue ReadingAssociated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The city of Aurora is roughly the size of pre-evacuation Tampa, Florida. With 400,000 people spread over 164 square miles, it has swank subdivisions, working-class neighborhoods and the high-end resort where Donald Trump will hold a rally Friday to highlight a city turned into “a war zone” by immigrants,
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court appeared unlikely to fully reverse a judge’s ruling that would end the immigration program known as DACA, which protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as minors. However, at a hearing Thursday in New Orleans, judges on the conservative 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals
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