Work begins to clean up train derailment in Montana’s Yellowstone River
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Work is underway to clean up rail cars carrying hazardous materials that fell into the Yellowstone River in southern Montana…
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Man fatally shot in New Mexico movie theater over seat dispute
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An argument over seating at an Albuquerque movie theater escalated into a shooting that left a man dead and sent…
Continue ReadingCanada’s largest city elects first woman of color as mayor
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Leftist candidate Olivia Chow has become the mayor of Canada’s largest city. Chow is Toronto’s…
Continue ReadingPlayers returning from LIV Golf is part of Saudis’ agreement with PGA Tour
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Now that the PGA Tour and European tour have a deal with the Saudis, one step is deciding how players can return from…
Continue ReadingPeg Yorkin, feminist leader and philanthropist, dies at 96
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peg Yorkin, who donated $10 million to the feminist foundation she co-founded and pushed to bring the most common method of…
Continue ReadingStill Cruising: Tom premieres new ‘Mission Impossible’ adventure in Abu Dhabi
By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The red carpet unfurled Monday in Abu Dhabi for Hollywood action megastar…
Continue ReadingCalifornia’s law aimed at fast food wages is on hold. Lawmakers may have found a way around it
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A new California law aimed in part at boosting salaries for fast food workers has been…
Continue ReadingMalaria cases in Texas and Florida are the first US spread since 2003, CDC says
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The United States has seen five cases of malaria spread by mosquitos in the last two months —…
Continue ReadingKansas must undo gender changes for trans people in state records, attorney general says
By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The conservative Republican attorney general of Kansas says a new Kansas law requires the…
Continue ReadingNew York City drivers to pay extra tolls as part of first-in-the-nation effort to reduce congestion
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York has received a critical federal approval for its first-in-the-nation plan to charge big tolls to drive…
Continue ReadingChicago business executive and philanthropist Jim Crown killed in Colorado racetrack crash
WOODY CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Jim Crown, an executive and philanthropist who recently announced an effort to rally other Chicago business leaders to…
Continue ReadingJudge gives preliminary approval to $290 million deal JPMorgan Chase reached with Epstein victims
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York City gave preliminary approval Monday to a $290 million deal that JPMorgan Chase reached with sex…
Continue ReadingWas that actually a tsunami that hit Florida? Yes, but not the kind you think
By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press An unexpected culprit toppled beach chairs along the sand at normally calm Clearwater Beach, Florida,…
Continue ReadingVP Harris visits historic LGBTQ+ landmark, decries flurry of anti-trans bills in state legislatures
NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has visited the Stonewall Inn national monument to pay tribute to activists at the site of a watershed…
Continue ReadingFox News unveils primetime lineup with Jesse Watters in Tucker Carlson’s former time slot
Jesse Watters will fill the Fox News Channel time slot left vacant by the firing of Tucker Carlson, part of a dramatic revamp of the network’s…
Continue ReadingProsecutors seek the death penalty against man accused of slaying of 4 University of Idaho students
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors say they are seeking the death penalty against a man accused of stabbing four…
Continue ReadingMexico arrests former anti-kidnapping official in disappearance of 43 students in 2014
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico says it has arrested the former head of a federal anti-kidnapping unit in connection with the disappearance of 43…
Continue ReadingOhio mom charged in death of toddler left alone for 10 days, prosecutors say
CLEVELAND (AP) — Prosecutors in Ohio have announced murder charges against a woman in the death of her 16-month-old daughter. Authorities say the…
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court won’t let a North Carolina charter school force girls to wear skirts to school
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has left in place an appellate ruling barring a North Carolina public charter school from requiring girls to…
Continue ReadingWhat is a heat dome? Scorching temperatures in Texas are expected to spread to the north and east
By KEN MILLER Associated Press A National Weather Service forecaster says a heat wave that has taxed the Texas power grid and threatens to bring…
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