By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The truth, as it often is, was less strange than many had thought. After weeks of frenzied conspiracies about why Catherine, Princess of Wales, had been so long out of the public eye, she revealed the reason: She had been diagnosed with cancer, was in the early stages of
Continue ReadingBy DOUG PADILLA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts set a Dodgers record for leadoff home runs and Teoscar Hernández added his first two long balls for Los Angeles in a 6-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night. Betts hit his 29th leadoff homer for the Dodgers on the first
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Emily van Egmond scored deep into stoppage time to give the San Diego Wave a 1-0 victory over the Seattle Reign on Friday night. Alex Morgan appeared to score earlier in stoppage time but it was waived off before van Egmond broke through in the 98th minute. It
Continue ReadingBy ERIC HE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Dante Exum hit the winning 3-pointer with 27.5 seconds to go, Kyrie Irving had 30 points and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Sacramento Kings 107-103 on Friday night for their sixth straight win. Exum’s wide-open shot, set up by P.J. Washington, made it 106-103 and capped
Continue ReadingBy ALEX ESPINOZA Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — José Ramirez hit his first home run of the season, Andrés Giménez had three hits and the Cleveland Guardians beat the A’s 6-4 on Friday night in front of a sparse crowd at the Oakland Coliseum. Ramirez, an All-Star each of the past three seasons, hit
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court ruling curtailing subsidies for ultra-Orthodox men has rattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition and raised questions about its viability as the country presses on with the war in Gaza. Netanyahu has until Monday to present the court with a plan to dismantle what
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Matt Chapman homered twice, doubled and drove in five runs for the San Francisco Giants, who jumped on Joe Musgrove early in an 8-3 victory over the San Diego Padres on Friday night. Kyle Harrison (1-0), a 22-year-old lefty, got plenty of run support to
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press The largest uranium producer in the United States is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a long-contested project that largely has sat dormant since the 1980s. The work is unfolding as global instability and growing demand drive uranium prices higher. The Biden administration and
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The rapid collapse of a Baltimore bridge that was struck by large cargo ship highlighted the importance that bridges play in the daily lives of many Americans. Six construction workers who were on the bridge are presumed dead. The drivers of more than 30,000 vehicles that
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press ENID, Okla. (AP) — The typical topics for discussion among city leaders in the northwest Oklahoma community of Enid are how to lure a new movie theater, the cost of operating a downtown arena and plans for a solar farm on the edge of town. But the issue looming large
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB, MICHAEL CASEY, JEFF MCMURRAY and CHRISTOPHER KELLER Associated Press After a yearlong closure, a bridge over the Puyallup River reopened in 2019 with a sturdy new span and a brand new name. It even won a national award. But today, the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge is closed again after federal officials
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is raising gobs of cash. And it has an election-year strategy that, in a nutshell, aims to spend more — and spend faster. Not only has Biden aimed to show himself off as a fundraising juggernaut this month,
Continue ReadingBy SERKAN GURBUZ and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Teams of engineers are working on the intricate and careful process of hauling away the twisted steel and shattered concrete of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland while also trying to recover the bodies of four workers still missing and presumed dead. The
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Sweden became the newest member of NATO earlier this month, joining 31 nations in the security alliance, including the United States. Well, make that 49 of the 50 United States. Because in a quirk of geography and history, Hawaii is not technically covered by the NATO pact. If a
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Representatives of two armed groups in Congo signed solemn pledges this week to both their violence-wracked country and the wider world: We will do better to respect and protect civilians. The envoys made commitments that their forces will work to end sexual violence, food insecurity and conditions
Continue ReadingBy Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A team of 14 armed officers with camera traps, a thermal imaging drone and a shoot-to-kill order ran through the woods earlier this month in search of a fugitive. But their target was no serial killer — it was a brown bear that had injured five people as it
Continue ReadingBy Sebastian Shukla, CNN (CNN) — The four men accused of a deadly terror attack on Moscow’s Crocus City concert hall last week were quickly identified by Russian authorities as being from Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia. In the hours after the attack, videos began surfacing on Russian social media channels of the police detaining and
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese government health officials raided a factory Saturday producing health supplements that they say have killed at least five people and hospitalized more than 100 others. About a dozen people wearing dark suits solemnly walked into the Osaka plant of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. in the raid shown
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S.-based missionary group Mountain Gateway says it will file appeals against the convictions of 11 members of the group who were jailed in December by Nicaragua on money laundering charges. The 11 are Nicaraguans. The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has often used charges of money laundering to expel
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Leon Marchand repeated as champion in the 400-yard individual medley, and he led Arizona State to its first national relay title at the NCAA men’s swimming and diving championships on Friday night. Marchand went 3:32.12 in the IM for a pool record and his seventh NCAA title. It was a one-two finish
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