Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Biden administration officials are meeting with port operators ahead of a possible strike at East and Gulf coast ports, ahead of a Monday deadline when a union contract expires. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su and Lael Brainard, director of White House National Economic Council, are
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The top election official in a northern Nevada county that is key to winning the presidential battleground state is taking a stress-related leave of absence with just over a month to go before Election Day. The announcement about Washoe County interim Registrar of Voters Cari-Ann Burgess creates a sense
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As floodwaters from Hurricane Helene quickly surrounded a small Tennessee hospital near a riverbank, workers first tried to get patients out by ambulance. Then, the road washed out. They tried to move people to the center of the low-slung building, but they were met by water. Once rescue boats
Continue ReadingTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s parliament has amended a law to strip power from courts over decisions made by an embattled election authority whose members are appointed by President Kais Saied. Nine days before the presidential election, a majority of members of parliament voted in favor of amending the young democracy’s first election law as
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s former top gambling regulator says gambling regulations need to be toughened to protect young adults from developing addictions. David Rebuck, the recently retired director of New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement, proposes a uniform age of 21 for all forms of gambling. This includes buying lottery
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — As a big young cohort comes of age in a troubled world, it’s coming with ideas about inclusion, participation and authority in the United Nations and other organizations. Those ideas are nudging the hierarchical, bureaucratic ways of an international order set up when young people’s grandparents were kids or
Continue ReadingAP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Chappell Roan has dropped out of the All Things Go music festival scheduled for this weekend. The decision comes as the breakout pop star has publicly grappled with her rising fame in recent weeks. She apologized to the fans who wanted to see her in New York and
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee voting and civil rights advocates says it won’t refile a federal lawsuit alleging that Tennessee’s U.S. House map and the boundaries for the state Senate amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. In a news release Friday, the plaintiffs whose lawsuit was dismissed last month said their efforts in
Continue ReadingBy Caroline Jaime, CNN (CNN) — Former OceanGate employee Matthew McCoy testified Friday that at a lunch meeting in September 2017, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told him that if he ran into any issues with the US Coast Guard ahead of the Titan expedition, Rush “would buy a congressman” and make the problems “go away.”
Continue ReadingAppalachian State’s home football game against Liberty in Boone, North Carolina, scheduled for Saturday was canceled because of the impacts of severe weather on the area from Tropical Storm Helene. The school announced the game would not be rescheduled. Heavy rain in the North Carolina mountains brought flooding to Boone and the town was under
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey says that her administration has formally seized a hospital through eminent domain to help keep it open and transition to a new owner. St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Boston is one of a group operated by Texas-based Steward Health Care, which had announced its bankruptcy in May. Healey
Continue ReadingNUCLA, Colo. (AP) — Wildfire investigators looking for the cause of blaze in western Colorado last month discovered the partially burned remains of a dog — leading to the conclusion that a man’s attempted cremation of his pet sparked a fire that destroyed one home. Law enforcement arrested the man earlier this month and he
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Editor’s note: Language around the custody status of some of the students has been clarified. DIXON, Mo. (KMIZ) Threats were reported at multiple Mid-Missouri schools on Thursday, with one school district canceling class as a result. The Dixon R-1 School District in Pulaski County will not hold classes on Friday after a threat was made
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Iranian operatives have been charged with hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as part of what the Justice Department says was a sweeping effort to undermine the former president and erode confidence in the U.S. electoral system. The action, coupled with sanctions and rewards for information leading to the accused
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm John came ashore on Mexico’s Pacific Coast on Thursday, coming back to life for a second landfall after its previous deadly passage through the country earlier in the week. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm’s sustained winds were 45 mph, and tropical force winds extended up to
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — Czechs are casting ballots in the second round of voting for a third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house. The main opposition group led by former populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis has the most candidates advancing from last week’s first round to the runoffs for 27 seats in the 81-seat Senate.
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Construction work on a high-voltage transmission linking Iowa and Wisconsin has been completed and the line is fully operational, a group of utilities announced Friday. American Transmission Company, Dairyland Power Cooperative and ITC Midwest began work on the 102-mile (164-kilometer) Cardinal-Hickory Creek line between Iowa’s Dubuque County and Wisconsin’s Dane County
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — A pair of paintings by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery were vandalized Friday when a group of climate activists splattered what appeared to be tomato soup on them, shortly after two other activists were sentenced over a similar attack two years ago. The paintings from Van
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut on Friday in a series of massive explosions that targeted the leader of the militant group and leveled multiple high-rise apartment buildings. At least six people were killed and 91 were wounded, Lebanon’s health ministry said. It was the biggest
Continue ReadingLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska would sell alcohol at Memorial Stadium in 2025 if the university’s Board of Regents gives its approval at its next meeting. The proposal is listed on the agenda for the October meeting in Kearney next Friday and was first reported by The Omaha World-Herald. Nebraska would become the last of
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