By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes have hammered neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety. Humanitarian groups are pleading for the creation of corridors that would allow them to deliver aid, saying hospitals are overwhelmed with wounded people and running out of
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers cobbled together a 100-win regular season, using a strong offense to compensate for a banged-up starting rotation. Time is running out for that formula to produce even one postseason win. The Dodgers are down to their last chance in Game 3 of
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Lawyers are delivering closing arguments in the trial of the first two officers to be prosecuted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. McClain, a Black man, was stopped in a Denver suburb while walking home from a store wearing a face mask. A 911 caller reported
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Republican attorney general will oppose a proposed amendment protecting the right to an abortion if it makes next year’s ballot. Attorney General Ashley Moody didn’t tell the state Supreme Court why she’ll oppose it. She notified justices Monday that a petition has reached enough signatures to trigger a language review.
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s interview with prosecutors over his handling of classified documents signals that a sprawling investigation that has included questioning of some of his closest aides and at least one cabinet member is nearing a conclusion. The White House revealed Monday night that
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks this season, affecting one turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that avian influenza, which is deadly to commercial poultry, was confirmed in a flock
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were seriously hurt Tuesday after a fire broke out at a training facility north of Los Angeles. The deputies were listed in critical condition after being injured at the training center in Castaic, a community roughly 35 miles (55 kilometers)
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were seriously hurt Tuesday after a fire broke out at a training facility north of Los Angeles. The deputies were listed in critical condition after being injured at the training center in Castaic, a community roughly 35 miles (55 kilometers)
Continue ReadingBy RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press Dorothy Hoffner, a 104-year-old Chicago woman whose recent skydive could see her certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to ever jump from a plane, has died. Hoffner’s close friend, Joe Conant, said she was found dead Monday morning by staff at the Brookdale Lake View senior living
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose Tuesday after pressure relaxed on Wall Street from the bond market. The S&P 500 gained 22.58, or 0.5%, to 4,358.24. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 134.65, or 0.4%, to 33,739.30, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 78.60, or 0.6%, to 13,562.84. Some
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI, TARA COPP and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is dispatching his top diplomat to Israel on an urgent mission to show U.S. support after major terrorist attacks by Hamas militants, the State Department said Tuesday. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Secretary of State Antony Blinken would
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein has kicked off his statewide campaign tour nine months after the Democrat entered the race. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper introduced the sitting attorney general to a small group of supporters on the Shaw University campus Tuesday in Raleigh.
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Lidia has become a major hurricane with winds of 115 mph as it takes aim at Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta. Lidia is strengthening and may have winds of 105 mph when it hits land later Tuesday. The hurricane is expected to sweep over a spit of land around
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Loved ones are remembering a late North Dakota lawmaker and his wife and two children who died last week in a plane crash in Utah. Funeral services were set for Tuesday in Bismarck for state Sen. Doug Larsen, his wife Amy and their sons, 11-year-old Christian
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN and ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants. Humanitarian groups pleaded for the creation
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten and Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Republican lawmakers in North Carolina on Tuesday enacted major changes to the state’s election laws, triggering immediate legal challenges from Democrats and voting rights groups. Two new laws – passed in a state that could prove consequential in next year’s presidential election – will change the
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel and the war it launched has raised new questions about the influence of its main sponsor, Iran, and whether it had anything to do with the assault. From Tel Aviv to Washington, however, no one is willing to directly blame Iran as
Continue ReadingBy JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press New York (AP) — More than 30 years after the musical “Harmony” was written, it finally prepares to make its Broadway debut. The show was almost lost to history — like its subject. The historical show written by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman tells the true story of the forgotten
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, Abeer Salman and Kareem Khadder, CNN (CNN) — A humanitarian crisis is swiftly unfolding in Gaza, as trapped residents, many cut off from food and electricity, face a fourth day of Israeli airstrikes in response to Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel, which killed at least 1,200 people per public broadcaster Kan, and
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Residents and visitors in Italy’s capital can ride a city bus this month that recounts how a 12-year-old boy escaped Nazi deportation from Rome’s Jewish neighborhood 80 years ago thanks to sympathetic tram drivers. German soldiers rounded up about 1,200 members of the city’s tiny Jewish community
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