MLB places Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías on administrative leave after arrest
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Julio Urías was placed on administrative leave indefinitely by Major League Baseball on…
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Google reaches tentative settlement with all 50 states over alleged app store monopoly
By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer All 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have reached an agreement in principle with Google to…
Continue ReadingTexas prison lockdown over drug murders renews worries about lack of air conditioning in heat wave
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say the Texas prison system’s 100 units have been placed on a statewide lockdown due…
Continue ReadingAnother twist in the Alex Murdaugh double murder case. Did the clerk tamper with the jury?
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh’s double murder case has been full of twists and turns. But one of the…
Continue ReadingPence rails against Trump’s ‘siren song of populism’ as he tries to energize his 2024 campaign
By JILL COLVIN and ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is casting the 2024 election as a…
Continue ReadingProsecutors seeking new indictment for Hunter Biden before end of September
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors plan to seek a grand jury indictment of President Joe Biden’s son…
Continue ReadingMexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for…
Continue ReadingA look at the uranium-based ammunition the US is sending to Ukraine
By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Kremlin spokesman says the U.S. decision to supply depleted uranium ammunition to Ukraine is…
Continue ReadingAn Idaho woman convicted of killing two of her children and another woman is appealing the case
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman sentenced to life in prison in the murders of her two youngest children and a woman she saw as a romantic rival says…
Continue ReadingSafeSport Center ‘in potential crisis’ according to panel’s survey of Olympic system
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer A wide-ranging survey into the state of the U.S. Olympic system leveled criticism at the U.S. Center for SafeSport,…
Continue ReadingProsecutors ask a judge to revoke bond of mother of Virginia boy who shot his first-grade teacher
By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to revoke the bond for the mother of a…
Continue ReadingA football coach who got job back after Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field has resigned
By ED KOMENDA Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A high school football coach in Washington state who won his job back after the U.S. Supreme Court…
Continue ReadingBryant Gumbel’s ‘Real Sports,’ HBO’s longest-running show, will end after 29 seasons
NEW YORK (AP) — Bryant Gumbel’s “Real Sports” newsmagazine was the longest-running show on HBO, and soon it will be no more. The network…
Continue ReadingThe Burning Man party is over. Now a massive cleanup begins
By ED KOMENDA, GABE STERN and SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The rain clouds have passed and the temple has burned. Now it’s…
Continue ReadingMoroccan senate president delays historic trip to Israel due to illness and says he will return
JERUSALEM (AP) — Morocco’s senate president has postponed a historic visit to Israel due to health reasons. Israel officials announced the delay…
Continue ReadingSchools dismiss early, teach online as blast of heat hits northeastern US
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press A blast of late summer heat caused disruptions Wednesday for schools from Michigan to Virginia, with some districts…
Continue ReadingBiden administration cancels remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge
By BECKY BOHRER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In an aggressive move that angered Republicans, the Biden administration…
Continue ReadingFather of Pakistani sought over death of 10-year-old daughter in UK asks him to surrender, cooperate
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani man whose son is being sought by Pakistani and U.K. police in connection with last month’s death of his 10-year-old…
Continue ReadingIn ‘brutal’ US Open heat, Daniil Medvedev warns during his win that a player is ‘gonna die’
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Soaked with sweat as the temperature neared 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 Celsius) on the hottest…
Continue ReadingTenor Stephen Gould says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer
By The Associated Press Tenor Stephen Gould says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer. Gould withdrew this summer from the Bayreuth…
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