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Las Vegas ballpark pitch revives debate over public funding for sports stadiums

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A proposal to help finance a new ballpark for Major League Baseball’s Athletics in Las Vegas has revived nationwide debates about public funding for private stadiums. And that has pitted Nevada’s powerful tourism industry and labor unions against some progressive groups, raising concerns

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Indian officials end rescue work for 2 wrecked passenger trains that killed over 300 people

By RAFIQ MAQBOOL and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press BALASORE, India (AP) — With rescue work finished, authorities began clearing the mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 300 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country’s deadliest rail accidents in decades, officials said Sunday. Investigators are looking

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Michigan wildfire prompts evacuations, threatens multiple buildings

GRAYLING TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A wildfire in Michigan has burned more than 1,000 acres and prompted emergency evacuations and road closures. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said Saturday the wildfire in Grayling Township is moving west and southwest. A department statement says the blaze threatens multiple buildings as emergency personnel conduct evacuations. The

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China defends buzzing American warship in Taiwan Strait, accuses US of provoking Beijing

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — China’s defense minister defended sailing a warship across the path of an American destroyer and Canadian frigate transiting the Taiwan Strait, telling a gathering of some of the world’s top defense officials in Singapore on Sunday that such so-called “freedom of navigation” patrols are a provocation to

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DeSantis signs Bible, Pence hops on motorcycle at ‘Roast and Ride’ event in Iowa

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, HANNAH FINGERHUT and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Amid plates of sliced pork, statement-making leather ensembles and piles of political T-shirts, eight Republican presidential hopefuls descended on Iowa to pitch themselves to voters and, in Mike Pence’s case, hop on a motorcycle. The former vice president and

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Haley says US forces ‘need to align’ with countries including Russia; campaign says she misspoke

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley suggested in an interview that United States forces “need to align” with non-European countries including Russia to enhance global security, a remark her campaign characterized as a gaffe. Asked by WMUR-TV for a segment Wednesday on regions of the world to

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