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By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A billionaire-backed proposal to build an eco-friendly California city from scratch is off to a bumpy start to put their idea before voters this November. The Solano County counsel’s office issued a ballot title and summary Thursday, allowing California Forever to start gathering signatures. California Forever

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — With Nevada counties struggling to find poll workers in a pivotal election year, the top election official in the Western swing state is taking a page from his counterparts elsewhere and is asking the legal community to help fill the gap. Secretary of State

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has told Australia’s Parliament that the strategic partnership between the two nations is more important than ever with the rule of law and peace in the region under threat from China. Marcos told a special joint sitting of the two chambers

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The biggest day of this year’s primary campaign is approaching. Sixteen states vote in contests known as Super Tuesday. The election promises to provide all sorts of clues to political junkies about the presidential race in November. Will Donald Trump keep rolling? Will Nikki Haley give in to pressure to

By SEAN MURPHY and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press FRITCH, Texas. (AP) — The small town of Fritch is again picking through the rubble of a Texas wildfire, a decade after another destructive blaze burned hundreds of homes and left deep scars in the Panhandle community. Residents in and around Fritch and other rural towns fled

By SCOTT SONNER AND OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The most powerful Pacific storm of the season started barreling into the Sierra Nevada on Thursday, packing multiple feet of snow and dangerous winds that forecasters say will create blizzard conditions likely to close major highways and trigger power outages into the

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As South Korea’s government made a last plea for junior doctors to end a walkout hours before a Thursday deadline, many were expected to defy orders to return to work, risking suspensions of medical licenses and prosecution. Thousands of medical interns and

By SEAN MURPHY and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press STINNETT, Texas (AP) — A dusting of snow covered a desolate landscape of scorched prairie, dead cattle and burned out homes in the Texas Panhandle on Thursday, giving firefighters brief relief in their desperate efforts to corral a blaze that has grown into the largest in state

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — In New Jersey, the Senate seat held by Democrat Bob Menendez has become competitive because he was indicted last year on federal corruption charges. And so far, Andy Kim, a Democratic congressman who’s seeking the nomination, is winning some important support on the county level.

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dozens of Republicans are competing for five of North Carolina’s 14 congressional seats on Super Tuesday. There’s a good chance in the red state that several will be sent to Washington after the November election. Some turnover can be attributed to redistricting. The Republican-controlled General

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin faced pointed bipartisan criticism at a congressional hearing Thursday for his failure to promptly notify President Joe Biden and other U.S. leaders about his hospital stay last month. Republicans demanded to know why no one has been disciplined. Members of the House

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — With flashy celebrity ads and promises of deep discounts, a shop in Iran’s capital had offered consumers in the Islamic Republic one of the hottest products in the country — an iPhone that came out in 2021. But instead of getting their hands on the handsets,

By SEUNG MIN KIM, JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — On the banks of the same Rio Grande but 300 miles apart, President Joe Biden and GOP challenger Donald Trump on Thursday surveyed the U.S.-Mexico border and tussled from a distance over who is to blame for the nation’s broken

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Between bridge and tunnel tolls and parking fees, it can already cost a mint to drive a car into Manhattan. Is forking over another $15 enough to get people out of their cars and onto mass transit? That’s the hope among some New York officials. The

By REBECCA BOONE and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press KUNA, Idaho (AP) — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members poked and prodded at his arms and legs, hands and feet, trying to find a vein through which they could end his

By STEPHEN GROVES and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia makes battlefield advances and Ukrainian soldiers run short on ammunition, U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for sending military aid to Kyiv, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Democrats are

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has renewed his apology and vowed to hold no more fundraising events himself during his leadership as he appeared at a political ethics committee at Parliament in a bid to showcase his leadership. Kishida is struggling to survive his governing party’s

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Authorities in Honduras say two buses collided head-on in a village in the Central American country’s west, and 17 people were killed and 14 were injured, four of them seriously. Officials say witnesses in La Montañita reported the two buses were traveling at a moderate speed when the accident happened Wednesday.

DEMING, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a missing teen with autism has been found in New Mexico — about 200 miles away from his home in southern Arizona. The 13-year-old turned up at a Walmart in Deming on Tuesday after going missing the night before from his family’s home in Tucson. In hopes of identifying

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark has another career record on her astounding resume: the most points by any major college women’s player to ever take the court. For Hawkeyes coach Lisa Bluder and her peers, this one matters the most. Iowa’s superstar guard scored 33 points to lead the