AP National News

By ALI ZERDIN Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenians have finished voting to elect a new president. Opinion polls gave a right-wing politician the lead going into Sunday’s election but no clear winner in sight. The populist opposition politician wasn’t expected to receive enough votes to avoid a runoff election. Some 1.7 million voters

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two Russian Indigenous Siberians were so scared of having to fight the war in Ukraine, they chanced everything to take a small boat across the treacherous Bering Sea to reach American soil, Alaska’s senior U.S. senator said after talking with the two. The two, identified as

By The Associated Press Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies hoped to be in this position. Alex Bregman and the Houston Astros probably expected it. Both playing their best ball of the season, the Phillies and Astros surged Saturday within one win of the World Series. Harper delivered a go-ahead double as the Phillies, who

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police identified a suspect in a shooting inside a hospital Saturday morning during which two employees were killed and the alleged gunman was wounded. The Dallas Morning News reports police detained 30-year-old Nestor Hernandez at Methodist Dallas Medical Center. A hospital system spokesman says a gunman shot the two employees about

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Roslyn plowed over the Pacific as a powerful Category 4 storm just offshore from the Mexican resort of Puerto Vallarta while heading for a Sunday landfall a little to the north. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Roslyn had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph) late Saturday, but

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s powerful 37-year-old crown prince will not attend an upcoming summit in Algeria after his doctors advised him not to travel. That’s according to an Algerian presidency statement early Sunday. Saudi Arabia offered no immediate acknowledgment of the comments by Algeria about the

TORONTO (AP) — Flights at the Toronto island airport have been suspended and passengers are being evacuated after police reported a possible explosive device was found near the airport’s ferry terminal.  Police say two people have been detained and they are cooperating with the investigation.  Police say they were called shortly before 4 p.m. Saturday

LEAVENWORTH, Wash. (AP) — Wildlife authorities have killed a black bear after it charged and injured a woman near the town of Leavenworth in central Washington state. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife said a woman had let out her dog at Saturday morning when an adult female bear charged her. The woman suffered

By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and founder and owner of the Red Bull Formula One racing team, has died. He was 78. Officials with the Red Bull racing team at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas,

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Police say a man has died in a California shooting after a Sacramento high school football game. Investigators believe the shooting broke out Friday night after a disturbance involving about 20 people near the end of the game at Grant Union High School. Officers found a firearm and shattered glass in

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Alaska faces accusations he sexually harassed a former assistant while he was a borough mayor. The Anchorage Daily News reports the lawsuit filed Friday accuses Charlie Pierce of “constant unwanted physical touching, sexual remarks, and sexual advances.” The case did not show up in online court

DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say two Dallas hospital employees were killed in a shooting inside the hospital and that the suspected gunman was shot and wounded by police. Methodist Health System spokesperson Ryan Owens said in a statement that the gunman shot the two employees about 11 a.m. Saturday and a hospital police officer then

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and founder and owner of the Red Bull Formula One racing team, has died. He was 78. Officials with the Red Bull racing team at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, said Saturday that Mateschitz had died.

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say four Ukrainians have been arrested on suspicion of illegal digging for artifacts at one of the country’s richest archeological sites. Authorities said Saturday that the Ukrainians were arrested Friday at the protected Isar site, close to North Macedonia’s southern border with Greece. Police say they

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHAEL BLOOD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington DC and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that country’s

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds rallied in Washington and tens of thousands in Berlin on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that country’s morality police. On the U.S. National

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The wife of an off-duty police officer killed in a North Carolina mass shooting has recalled how she tried to save him after he was shot. Jasmin Torres spoke Saturday at a memorial service in Raleigh for her husband Gabriel Torres. Torres was in his car