AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The final round of the 90th Masters has arrived, and it’s a tight race for the green jacket. Rory McIlroy and Cameron Young enter the round tied atop the leaderboard, and six others are within four shots after a dramatic Saturday. Sam Burns is one shot off the lead, Shane Lowry […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Never-before-glimpsed views of the moon’s far side. Check. Total solar eclipse gracing the lunar scene. Check. New distance record for humanity. Check. With NASA’s lunar comeback a galactic-sized smash thanks to Artemis II, the world is wondering: What’s next? And how do you top that? “To people all around the world who […]
In parched southern Texas, a yearslong drought has depleted Corpus Christi’s water reserves so gravely that the city is scrambling to prevent a shortage that could force painful cutbacks for residents and hobble the refineries and petrochemical plants in a major energy port. Experts said the city didn’t expect such a bad drought, and new […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the January 2004 pilot of “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump said something he would never admit now. “It wasn’t always so easy,” he said in a voice-over, noting that by the late 1980s, “I was seriously in trouble” and “billions of dollars in debt.” It is one of the few times Trump […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The glass panels of the Lynching Victims Monolith are simple, etched with the names of more than 600 victims of documented racial killings in Mississippi, along with the attackers’ motives. One man, Malcolm Wright, was beaten to death in front of his family in 1949. His offense? “Hogging the road.” Further […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the January 2004 pilot of “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump said something he would never admit today. “It wasn’t always so easy,” he intones via voice-over, noting that by the late 1980s, “I was seriously in trouble” and “billions of dollars in debt.” It is one of the few times Trump has […]
Vice President JD Vance said negotiations between the United States and Iran ended early Sunday without a peace deal after the Iranians refused to accept U.S. terms to not develop a nuclear weapon. The high-stakes talks in Pakistan ended after 21 hours, Vance said, with the vice president in constant communication with U.S. President Donald […]
MIAMI (AP) — A hotel at one of Miami’s most exclusive locations was demolished Sunday to make way for something bigger. Demolition experts completed the controlled implosion of the former Mandarin Oriental, Miami on Brickell Key, a human-made island at the mouth of the Miami River, across from downtown. It marked the largest implosion for […]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — For years, a popular part of many cruises in southeast Alaska has been sailing up Tracy Arm, a long, narrow fjord marked by steep mountains, glittering waterfalls and calving glaciers. But this season, major cruise lines are skipping it. A massive landslide last summer sent parts of a glacier crashing into […]
As the tax-filing deadline nears, millions of Americans are expected to claim new federal income tax breaks for tips and overtime wages available for the first time under a wide-ranging tax law enacted by President Donald Trump. But many people won’t get those same deductions when they fill out their state income tax forms. That […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2011, President Barack Obama declared it was time for America to leave behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and “pivot” to Asia to counter the rise of China. Fifteen years later, the U.S. finds itself still at war in the Middle East and has pulled military assets from the Asia-Pacific […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world economy is experiencing a disorienting flashback to the 1970s. Oil prices are once again surging in the wake of war in the Middle East, driving up the cost of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel and threatening a return to stagflation – the toxic mix of higher prices and slower growth […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Still marveling over their moon mission, the Artemis II astronauts received a thunderous welcome home Saturday from hundreds who took part in NASA’s lunar comeback that set a record for deep space travel. The crew of four arrived at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Mission Control, flying in from […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge must reconsider the possible national security implications of halting construction of President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, a federal appeals court ruled on Saturday. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said it did not have enough information to […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — If Rory McIlroy is able to hang on and win his second consecutive Masters on Sunday, he’ll walk away with $4.5 million. That’s up from the $4.2 million he won last year. The Masters on Saturday announced its prize purse for this year’s championship at $22.5 million overall — the highest […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Two people were taken to the hospital Saturday after a reported stabbing and shooting at a major New York subway station, a fire official said. A New York Fire Department official said it happened shortly before 10 a.m. at the 42nd Street-Grand Central station. The official didn’t have information on the […]
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MUNIR AHMED, SAM METZ, E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, AND SAMY MAGDY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD Vance is headed to Pakistan for talks with Iranian officials aimed at shoring up a shaky ceasefire and paving the way for a permanent end to the fighting. It marks the first such meeting since the war began more than a month ago. The ceasefire brokered by […]
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Junelle Lewis was on the hunt for a reprieve from Seattle-area gas prices driven high by the Iran war when an app on her phone gave her the answer: the Tulalip Reservation north of the city, almost half an hour from her home. She didn’t hesitate. “I purposely drove here […]
DETROIT (AP) — After a few years of sharing a 2019 Chevrolet Trax, Dana Eble and Tyler Marcus are finally looking for a second car. But as they jump into the market, the young married couple isn’t sure what they can afford. “I just keep seeing a lot of different aspects of life getting more […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Hungary, President Donald Trump and his top officials used social media and an election-eve trip to Budapest to promote the country’s far-right prime minister in his reelection campaign. In Argentina, the U.S. administration worked to prop up the country’s financial markets to the tune of $20 billion — then Trump threatened […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Ever since President Donald Trump started purging diversity initiatives last year, the letters “DEI” have faded from corporate boardrooms and Democratic stump speeches. But that wasn’t the case for the past few days at the annual National Action Network conference in New York, where Democratic politicians and potential presidential candidates repeatedly […]
The long-term fallout of the war in Iran is only beginning to take shape, but this much is clear: The conflict has left the Middle East unsettled, alliances strained and the world facing uncertain shifts in the balance of economic and military power. Iran’s theocracy is tattered but alive, with new economic leverage. The U.S. […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including overhauling the major global financial institutions, remain unfulfilled promises, a U.N. report concludes. The report assessing next week’s spring meetings in Washington of the International Monetary Fund and the World […]
