By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Residents are surveying the damage to their homes as cleanup efforts continue this weekend after several tornadoes ripped across the Midwest, killing at least three people and destroying neighborhoods. Powerful tornadoes, large hail and damaging wind gusts – part of a storm system that stretched from Texas to Pennsylvania
Continue ReadingCNN By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Residents are surveying the damage to their homes as cleanup efforts continue this weekend after several tornadoes ripped across the Midwest, killing at least three people and destroying neighborhoods. Powerful tornadoes, large hail and damaging wind gusts – part of a storm system that stretched from Texas to
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Maria Sakkari outlasted Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2 after blowing three match points in the second set of their rain-delayed semifinal Friday night to reach the BNP Paribas Open final. Sakkari will play top-ranked Iga Swiatek in Sunday’s final. Swiatek routed Marta Kostyuk 6-2, 6-1 to improve to 19-2
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Elijah Pepper had 25 points and second-seeded UC Davis held off Hawaii 68-65 in the Big West Conference semifinals Friday night. The Aggies advance to Saturday’s conference championship game to face fourth-seeded Long Beach State, which beat top-seeded UC Irvine, 83-79. Pepper shot 10 for 23, including
Continue ReadingBy Sarita Harilela and Sophie Jeong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced 12 people to between 54 and 82 months in prison over the storming of the city’s legislature council building during a pro-democracy protest in 2019, the city’s public broadcaster RTHK said. RTHK said the defendants were convicted
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Alexei Navalny’s team is used to working independently. The most potent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin was frequently absent for long stretches after being arrested, assaulted, poisoned, or imprisoned. But when Navalny died suddenly in February at age 47 in a remote Arctic prison, his
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS Associated Press Voters across Russia cast ballots Saturday on the second day of an election set to formalize six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin, who faces no serious challengers after crushing political dissent over his nearly 25 years of rule. The election comes against the backdrop of a ruthless
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Washington State had failed to reach 60 points just once this season. That is, until Friday night. Colorado held Washington State to a season low in points, KJ Simpson scored 16 points and the Buffaloes defeated the 22nd-ranked Cougars 58-52 in the Pac-12 Tournament semifinals.
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Mice accidentally introduced to a remote island near Antarctica 200 years ago are breeding out of control because of climate change, and they are eating seabirds and causing major harm in a special nature reserve with “unique biodiversity.” Now conservationists are planning a mass
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has sentenced 12 people to prison Saturday over the storming of the city’s legislative council building at the height of the anti-government protests in 2019. The storming on July 1, 2019 — the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s return to
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Assemblyman Anthony Rendon likes to spend his spare time away from the Capitol in Sacramento with his 4-year-old daughter back home near Los Angeles. Last weekend, he took her ice skating and to an indoor playground, then let her get a donut after
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Assemblyman Anthony Rendon likes to spend his spare time away from the Capitol in Sacramento with his 4-year-old daughter back home near Los Angeles. Last weekend, he took her ice skating and to an indoor playground, then let her get a donut after
Continue ReadingBy Kareem El Damanhoury and Julia Vargas Jones, CNN São Paulo, Brazil (CNN) — Former President Jair Bolsonaro presented top Brazilian military leaders with a plan to stage a coup after he lost the 2022 election, newly released court documents have alleged. The country’s Supreme Court released the testimonies from former army commander Marco Antonio Freire
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — An independent commission has been reviewing the events leading up to Maine’s deadliest mass shooting. Army reservist Robert Card killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 25, 2023. The main takeaways from the report released Friday are that
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Aboubacar Traore had 20 points as fourth-seeded Long Beach State upset top-seeded UC Irvine 83-79 Friday in the Big West Conference semifinals. The Beach (20-14) advance Saturday’s conference championship game. Traore had eight rebounds and seven assists for the Beach. Jadon Jones scored 15 points and added
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has sentenced 12 people to prison Saturday over the storming of the city’s legislative council building at the height of the anti-government protests in 2019. The storming on July 1, 2019 — the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s return to
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The grandly colonnaded old city hall was designed by an Irish architect. A neighborhood near the wharves is still known as the Irish Channel. Landmark towers and spires of Catholic churches built for Irish immigrants dot the skyline. New Orleans is well known for a culture
Continue ReadingBy KIRK KERN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jaedon LeDee scored 22 points and San Diego State beat No. 18 Utah State 86-70 on Friday night to reach the final of the Mountain West Conference Tournament. Lamont Butler added 16 points and Micah Parrish had 15 points for the Aztecs (24-9). “This team has
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — America’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parades are being held Saturday. While the St. Patrick’s Day holiday is March 17, it’s celebrated early when it lands on a Sunday. Enormous crowds are expected in Savannah, Georgia. A humble St. Patrick’s parade held in 1824 has grown to become the South’s largest. In
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Last month, when the wife of a Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Nevada talked candidly about the abortion she had before the two met — and the long journey of regret and healing that followed — many Republicans welcomed it as a more compassionate
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