By EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Nurullah crossed the border into Iran to earn money for his family, like so many men from his village in western Afghanistan. On Sunday, he stood on the side of the road crying. The 55-year-old was heading home to bury his wife, three children and
Continue ReadingBY ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Ultramarathon runner Pat Farmer has ended a 8,950-mile run at the central Australian sandstone landmark Uluru after a seven-month journey to raise public support for the creation of an Indigenous advocacy body in the constitution. Australians will vote on Saturday at a referendum that would enshrine
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Disney announced the three companies that will build the homes for its Rancho Mirage community, Cotino. Shea Homes, Davidson Communities, and Woodbridge Pacific Group will help Disney fulfill its first phase of the development, which includes more than 300 homes and a collection of neighborhood parks. Check out some of the renderings of the Cotino
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Two Guatemalan migrants are dead and three others — along with a Honduran man —have been wounded after a shooting in northern Mexico near the U.S. border that apparently involved Mexican army soldiers. Prosecutors in the northern state of Chihuahua said four soldiers have been turned over to testify in the
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by David A. Andelman (CNN) — To put it simply, the United States cannot readily support two major wars while preparing for the possibility of a third. That’s a hard, indeed ineluctable reality — one that is becoming increasingly and painfully evident by the hour. America’s military industrial base is already stretched by the ongoing war
Continue ReadingCNN By Muhammad Darwish, Nic Robertson, Artemis Moshtaghian, Amir Tal, Ivana Kottasová and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Kfar Aza, Israel (CNN) — Bodies of Israeli residents and Hamas attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after the Palestinian militant group launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel. Hamas
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who questioned the evidence given to the jury that sentenced him to death for killing an 80-year-old woman decades ago has been executed. Jedidiah Murphy received a lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. Murphy was condemned for the
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Corey Seager and Adolis García homered early, Nathan Eovaldi pitched seven smooth innings in another playoff clincher and the Texas Rangers completed an AL Division Series sweep of the Baltimore Orioles with a 7-1 victory in Game 3. The wild-card Rangers have won all five
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A fire burning in a London airport’s parking structure has caused a partial collapse, and five people have been injured. All flights at Luton Airport were suspended until noon Wednesday, the airport said. Four firefighters and an airline official were admitted to hospitals for smoke inhalation. Video showed police and fire department
Continue ReadingBy Muhammad Darwish, Nic Robertson, Artemis Moshtaghian, Amir Tal and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Kfar Aza, Israel (CNN) — Bodies of Israeli residents and Hamas attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after the Palestinian militant group launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel. Hamas sent waves of heavily
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake asked for a show of hands. Who’s been canceled? Who’s lost friends? Has strained relations with family? Been indicted? Sued for defamation? “If your hand did not go up in any of that, then I do think you need to work a little harder.
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Kari Lake, an ally of former President Donald Trump and one of the Republican Party’s most prominent election deniers, on Tuesday launched her 2024 bid for Senate from Arizona. Lake is vying for the seat held by independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who shed her Democratic Party affiliation in December
Continue ReadingBy Devon M. Sayers, Denise Royal and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — The Tallahassee NAACP and civil rights attorney Ben Crump are asking authorities to drop felony voter fraud charges against a 69-year-old Black woman who was arrested last month as part of a Florida elections investigation. Investigators allege Marsha Ervin, after serving a prison
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Louise Meriwether, the author and activist whose debut novel “Daddy Was a Number Runner” is widely regarded as a groundbreaking and vital portrait of race, gender and class, has died. She was 100. Her book was published in 1970 and sold hundreds of thousands of
Continue ReadingBy Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A Navy sailor pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending sensitive US military information to a Chinese intelligence officer, the Justice Department announced. Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, of Monterey Park, California, pleaded guilty to conspiring with the Chinese officer and receiving a bribe. Zhao worked at Naval Base Ventura
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is defending her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic by presenting statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings. The governor said at a Tuesday news conference that
Continue ReadingBY ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Ultramarathon runner Pat Farmer has ended a 8,950-mile run at the central Australian sandstone landmark Uluru after a seven-month journey to raise public support for the creation of an Indigenous advocacy body in the constitution. Australians will vote on Saturday at a referendum that would enshrine
Continue ReadingBy EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press CHAHAK, Afghanistan (AP) — Another strong earthquake has shaken part of western Afghanistan where a quake on Saturday killed more than 2,000. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday morning was about 28 kilometers, or 17 miles, outside Herat, the capital of Herat province. The epicenter of Saturday’s quake was about 25
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Former Los Angeles Dodgers legend Steve Garvey formally announced a run for the US Senate in California Tuesday morning. The Palm Desert resident is running for the seat left open by the late Senator Dianne Feinstein. Garvey, 74, has been talking to party leaders and donors for several months about a potential bid for office. Garvey joined
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Phillips, the author, commentator and political strategist whose landmark 1969 book, “The Emerging Republican Majority,” became a blueprint for GOP thinking in the 1970s and beyond, has died. He was 82. Phillips foresaw Richard Nixon’s 1968 victory as the beginning of a paradigm shift
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