Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate has started its homework assignment of coming up with a comprehensive bill to guide energy policy in a rapidly growing state and amid a quickly changing power-generation world. The Special Committee on South Carolina’s Energy Future met for the first time Thursday and heard from
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals were a 106-loss laughingstock a year ago. But some smart trades and savvy free-agent signings, coupled with the growth of young stars such as Bobby Witt Jr., have the Royals in playoff contention with 35 games to go in the regular season. They
Continue Reading Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades ambushed a police convoy in eastern Punjab province, killing at least 11 officers and wounding several others. Punjab police say the attack happened in the Rahim Yar Khan district on Thursday as the officers were patrolling a deserted area in search
Continue Reading Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A local official says armed men killed at least 13 farmers in an attack in north-central Nigeria. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack that occurred in the state of Niger on Wednesday. Akilu Isyaku, a local government official, told a radio station that local herders and kidnappers
Continue Reading Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s two largest railroads are expected to soon start rolling their trains again after the government intervened to end a shutdown that arose from a labor dispute. After Canadian National and CPKC failed to reach new agreements with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference union by an overnight deadline early Thursday,
Continue Reading Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Pushing back against isolationism in his own ranks, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday the challenge of deterring America’s adversaries should be “front and center” for the next president, as he advocated maintaining a strong military and support for allies, especially in war-torn Ukraine. Speaking to a home-state
Continue Reading Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s new government has lifted restrictions on the video-sharing app TikTok, nine months after imposing a ban because it was disrupting “social harmony.” The decision was made Thursday following the initiative of the Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, who came to power last month, to lift the ban who
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two thieves swiped a ceremonial sword and a bullhorn from the office of St. John’s University Coach Rick Pitino, a spokesperson for the Catholic institution in the New York City borough of Queens said Thursday. Brian Browne said the theft happened Tuesday night shortly before 8 p.m. at the
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are more likely than Democrats to have a favorable opinion Robert F. Kennedy Jr, recent polls show, as allies of Donald Trump urge the independent presidential candidate to drop out and endorse the former Republican president. Americans have grown more negative about Kennedy in recent polls. Some polls earlier
Continue Reading Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Haiti have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting earlier this year of a U.S. missionary couple and a Haitian man who headed a nonprofit. The killings stunned many in the troubled Caribbean country. Police released a video on social media late on Wednesday, showing
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — The husband of Mamta Kafle Bhatt, a 28-year-old Virginia mother who has been missing for over three weeks, has been charged with concealing a body in connection with her disappearance, police say. The husband, Naresh Bhatt, was taken away in handcuffs outside the couple’s home Thursday morning, according to
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Daniela Larreal Chirinos, a five-time Olympic cyclist who represented Venezuela over the course of a decade, has died. She was 51. Authorities in Las Vegas say she was found dead in her home Aug. 15 after a worried friend called for a welfare check. The coroner’s office says it is investigating
Continue Reading Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A woman is suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections after she says she received a letter from a board investigator asking her to remove a “ballot selfie” from a post on X. The lawsuit was filed in federal court on Thursday. The lawsuit says Susan Hogarth voted
Continue Reading AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — To figure out what really works when nations try to fight climate change, researchers looked at 1,500 ways countries have tried to curb heat-trapping gases. They found that only a few had a real impact — and those that did usually required someone to pay a price. The study
Continue Reading AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains — and hopefully whatever variants cause trouble this winter, too. With the Food and Drug Administration’s clearance, Pfizer and Moderna are set to begin shipping millions of doses. A third U.S. manufacturer,
Continue Reading Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Haiti have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting earlier this year of a U.S. missionary couple and a Haitian man who headed a nonprofit. The killings stunned many in the troubled Caribbean country. Police released a video on social media late on Wednesday, showing
Continue Reading LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man dropped his lawsuit accusing former NBA star Dwight Howard of sexual assault after attorneys for Howard alleged the man deleted text messages showing their encounter was consensual. Stephen Harper dismissed the case in a filing in Gwinnett County court on Tuesday. The dismissal was with prejudice, meaning he
Continue Reading Associated Press SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — On a dirt road below the shrub-dotted hills of Arizona, Donald Trump used a stretch of wall and a pile of steel beams to draw a visual contrast between his approach to securing the border and that of his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump brought along
Continue Reading Associated Press Powdr Corp. is selling Vermont’s Killington Resort and Pico Mountain, the largest mountain resort in New England, to a group of local passholders. Powdr also said it plans to list three other resorts for sale in the coming weeks. Those are Eldora, in Colorado; Mt. Bachelor, in Oregon; and SilverStar, in British Columbia.
Continue Reading STERLING, Mass. (AP) — Firefighters and other rescue agencies have responded to the scene of an excavator buried under rocks and boulders at a quarry site in Massachusetts. Aerial images of the site in Sterling are being shown on local news stations. It wasn’t immediately known if anyone was inside the excavator. The Sterling Fire
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