Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats are pumping $25 million into expanded voter outreach across 10 states as part of their effort to protect their narrow Senate majority. The new spending from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, first shared with The Associated Press, comes less than two months until the Nov. 5 election. It also
Continue ReadingAP National Writers BLUFFTON, South Carolina (AP) — On the first day of his American National Government class, Prof. Kevin Dopf asks how many of his students are United States citizens. Every hand shoots up. “So, how did all you people become citizens?” he asks. “Did you pass a test?” “No,” one young woman says
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Libertarian President Javier Milei of Argentina has presented the 2025 budget to Congress, outlining policy priorities that reflected his key pledge to kill the country’s chronic fiscal deficit and signaled a new phase of confrontation with lawmakers. In an unprecedented move, Milei personally pitched the budget to Congress
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a record as Wall Street geared up for Federal Reserve’s most anticipated meeting in years. Tokyo’s Nikkei index fell 2% to 35,828.54 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong advanced 1.4% to 17,661.70. Markets in mainland China and
Continue ReadingAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of her new memoir, Hillary Clinton offers up what sounds like a far-off wish: “I hope I’m alive to see the United States elect a female president.” Turns out her book went to the printers a tad too soon. Clinton wrote that sentence before Kamala
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreck of the Titanic testified Monday that he felt pressured to get the vessel ready to dive and refused to pilot it for a journey several years earlier. “’I’m not getting in it,’” Tony Nissen said he told Stockton Rush,
Continue ReadingKeith Urban’s 12th studio album and Kathryn Hahn starring in the “WandaVision” spinoff “Agatha All Along” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases. Others include season two of the “Frasier” reboot on Paramount+, the debut of “The Golden Bachelorette” and
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Germany has begun new controls at all of its land borders as part of a crackdown on migration, placing restrictions on a wide area of free movement known as the Schengen Zone and stirring anger among its European neighbors. From Monday, as well as existing border controls with Austria,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — Law enforcement officials are set to release new information about one of the victims whose remains were found along a coastal highway in New York’s Long Island more than a decade ago, a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings. Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney says
Continue ReadingMcALLEN, Texas (AP) — For three days, the staff of an Orlando medical clinic encouraged a woman with abdominal pain who called the triage line to go to the hospital. She resisted, scared of a 2023 Florida law that required hospitals to ask whether a patient was in the U.S. with legal permission. The clinic
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer TikTok faced off with the U.S. government in federal court on Monday, arguing a law that could ban the platform in a few short months was unconstitutional. But the Justice Department said during the hearing the measure is needed to eliminate a national security risk posed by the popular social media company.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The strongest typhoon to hit Shanghai since 1949 has flooded roads with water and broken tree branches and knocked out power to some homes. Flights, ferries and train services were suspended in the megacity and in neighboring provinces, disrupting travel during the Mid-Autumn Festival. More than 60,000 emergency responders
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An apparent attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump as he played golf in Florida has rocked a presidential campaign already marred by violence and raised questions about how such a thing could have happened for the second time in as many months. U.S. Secret Service agents opened fire
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CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Hartsburg, Missouri man was seriously injured in a crash in Callaway County Sunday morning. According to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Caleb Ellingsworth, 26 of Hartsburg was riding a motorcycle on Route CC, North of CO Rd 449 at 6 a.m. The crash occurred when Ellingsworth
Continue ReadingBy Cindy Von Quednow, CNN (CNN) — A Massachusetts State Police recruit died after suffering a medical emergency during a training exercise, the department said. Enrique Delgado-Garcia, 25, was participating in a “defensive tactics training exercise” Thursday when he suffered a “medical crisis,” Lt. Sean Quirk told CNN in an email. An on-site medical team
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Shanghai was brought to a standstill on Monday by what authorities say was the strongest typhoon to directly hit the Chinese financial hub in more than seven decades, with flights, trains and highways suspended during a national holiday. Typhoon Bebinca made landfall in an industrial suburb southeast
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer The last Emmys — in January, the 75th edition — went reunion crazy on such a big birthday, with cast reunions of such classic series as “Cheers,” “The Sopranos,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and “All in the Family.” The latest Emmys said: “Hold my applause.” “Shogun,” “Baby Reindeer” and “The Bear”
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Jackson Ragen and Paul Rothrock each scored a goal to help the Seattle Sounders beat Sporting Kansas City 2-0. The Sounders have won back-to-back games and three of four since returning from the Leagues Cup break. Seattle, which is 9-1-2 in its last 12 games, moved past the Houston Dynamo and Vancouver
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Four people were wounded at a Brooklyn train station Sunday when police officers shot at a man threatening them with a knife. Authorities said the injured included the man with the blade, one of the officers and two innocent bystanders. The confrontation began when two officers confronted a man
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump wasn’t harmed by Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt as he golfed near his Florida club. But the second attack on his life in barely two months is likely to further unsettle an election cycle already marked by upheaval. The man suspected in the incident
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