By ALEXA ST. JOHN, SEAN MURPHY and JIM SALTER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A tornado destroyed homes and toppled trees and power lines when it roared through a small Oklahoma town, one of several twisters that erupted in the central United States amid a series of powerful storms that forecasters warned could stretch
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s family poisonous mushrooms pleaded not guilty in an Australian court on Tuesday to three charges of murder and five charges of attempted murder. Erin Patterson, 49, appeared briefly in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court by video link from a Melbourne prison, where she has been
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indian voters across 93 constituencies were casting ballots on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mounted an increasingly shrill election campaign, ramping up polarizing rhetoric in incendiary speeches that have targeted the Muslim minority. In recent campaign rallies, Modi has
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani continued his power surge with his fourth home run in three games and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Miami Marlins 6-3 on Monday night in Walker Buehler’s first start in nearly two years. Ohtani became the first big leaguer to reach 11
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian markets forged higher Tuesday after another day of gains on Wall Street, although Hong Kong’s benchmark faltered. U.S. futures were nearly flat and oil prices edged higher. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225, reopening after a national holiday, jumped 1.6% to 38,835.10. Gains were led by semiconductor companies like Tokyo Electron,
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia on Tuesday falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during NATO’s air war over Kosovo. U.S. jets dropped five bombs on the Chinese Embassy
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It wasn’t the brilliant outing Walker Buehler was hoping for, but the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher is happy he’s back on the mound. Making his first major league start in nearly two years Monday night, Buehler went four innings and struck out four in the
Continue ReadingBy ALEXA ST. JOHN, SEAN MURPHY and JIM SALTER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Powerful storms have erupted in the central United States, bringing tornadoes to rural Oklahoma and large hail in parts of Kansas, with forecasters warning that the dangerous weather could stretch into the early hours of Tuesday amid a rare high-risk
Continue ReadingBy KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Voters in Northern Macedonia go to the polls Wednesday for a double election — presidential and parliamentary. Center-right candidates are favored to win both contests, which have focused in part on the country’s long struggle to join the European Union. The opposition center-right has pushed
Continue ReadingBy ERIC HE Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Corey Seager hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning and the Texas Rangers rallied past the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Monday night. The defending World Series champions were trailing 2-0 until Seager drilled a full-count pitch from Lucas Erceg (1-2) over the right-center wall with
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — When Justin Steele got hurt on opening day, the big question for the Chicago Cubs centered on the state of their rotation without their ace left-hander. That concern faded away over time. Steele returned to one of baseball’s best rotations on Monday night, starting Chicago’s 6-3
Continue ReadingCNN By Ebony Davis, CNN (CNN) — Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan on Monday said he will vote for President Joe Biden in November, arguing former President Donald Trump “has disqualified himself through his conduct and his character.” “Unlike Trump, I’ve belonged to the GOP my entire life. This November, I am voting
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS Associated Press Vladimir Putin begins his fifth term as Russian president in an opulent Kremlin inauguration Tuesday, after destroying his political opponents, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and consolidating all power in his hands. Already in office for nearly a quarter-century and the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin, Putin’s new
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Several competitive and expensive primary races will be decided Tuesday in Indiana’s election. Ukrainian-born two-term U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, who represents Indiana’s 5th District, faces a tough race to defend her incumbency. She recently voted against sending $61 billion in aid to Ukraine. The presumptive presidential nominees,
Continue ReadingBy KAREN MATTHEWS and STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Monday deadline for pro-Palestinian protesters to leave an encampment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology cleared many demonstrators only to have the site retaken while protesters at the Rhode Island School of Design began occupying a building in the ongoing protest movement connected
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders will be Joe Biden’s most powerful emissary to progressives and to younger voters this election year. Sanders and Biden share a bond that was forged through a hard-fought Democratic presidential primary in 2020 and fortified through policy achievements over the last three years. The
Continue ReadingBy SIBI ARASU and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press CHENNAI, India (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi has wielded near-total control over Indian politics since coming to power 10 years ago, with one exception: He has failed to win over the country’s wealthier southern region. Five states across southern India account for roughly 20% of the
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota Senate ethics panel is expected to begin considering what to do with a lawmaker who’s charged with burglary for allegedly breaking into her estranged stepmother’s house. The panel holds its first hearing Tuesday to discuss whether to investigate further. Prosecutors say Democratic Sen.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump returns to his hush money trial Tuesday facing a threat of jail time for additional gag order violations as prosecutors gear up to summon big-name witnesses in the final weeks of the case. Stormy Daniels, the
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Australia has accused a Chinese fighter jet of firing flares into the path of a naval helicopter last weekend over international waters of the Yellow Sea, an action that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese blasted as “completely unacceptable.” The Australian MH-60R Seahawk helicopter was on patrol enforcing
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