TERLINGUA, Texas (AP) — A tall steel barrier rises over the brush in Texas’ Hudspeth County. Erected in mid-September, it is the first piece of border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region, a remote stretch of territory where landowners have mounted a major fight against President Donald Trump’s signature infrastructure project. Landowners worry that the […]
RUIDOSA, Texas (AP) — The message from the Trump administration has been clear: It is moving ahead with a $46 billion border wall project stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. But in Texas’ Big Bend region, the administration has run up against intense opposition from landowners, many of whom are unwilling […]
Asian shares were mixed Friday in holiday-thinned trading, while oil prices fell back from recent gains. U.S. futures edged higher. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 lost 0.8% to 68,512.30. The Shanghai Composite index lost 1.4% to 3,758.47, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng climbed 1.1% to 24,046.79. China is due to release its latest economic growth […]
A supersized El Niño’s decapitating winds and the Gulf of Mexico’s toasty, storm-fueling waters are battling over the future strength of Hurricane Isaias. And the storm’s tilt and eye show who’s winning. All Atlantic hurricane season there has been “this battle between shear and just the overall conducive conditions,” said Colorado State University hurricane researcher […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal law enforcement agents shot and wounded a person in New York City on Thursday, city police said. Few details were immediately available about the shooting, which happened around 4 p.m. in the Marble Hill neighborhood north of Manhattan. The person who was shot is conscious and being treated at a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Democratic nominee James Talarico stopped holding campaign events in the Texas Senate race, his Republican opponent Ken Paxton saw an opening to pounce. “Where is James Talarico?” he called out Wednesday during a rally with President Donald Trump in San Antonio. But that night, while flying back to Washington on Air […]
Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program and later in life was celebrated as a powerful symbol of women in technology, has died. She was 90. Hamilton died Sept. 30 at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her daughter, Lauren Hamilton, told […]
NEW YORK (AP) — By late afternoon, dozens of brown boxes in assorted sizes begin piling up in the lobby of my apartment building. Each bears the familiar smile — a cheerful curve stretching from “A” to “Z”— signaling a company that sells everything and promises satisfaction. The Amazon delivery box, found everywhere from suburban […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The FBI has seized scanning and phishing tools used by a group of hackers that officials say is associated with the Chinese government and responsible for disruptive cyber operations in the United States and abroad, including against the power industry, academia and critical infrastructure. The seizure of the tools, announced Wednesday […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball proposed to shorten the regular season to 154 games from 162 games starting in 2029 and to expand the Division Series to best-of-seven in bargaining with players on Thursday. Owners also proposed to allow higher-seeded teams in the first two rounds of the postseason to pick their opponents […]
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona congressional candidate says she was knocked unconscious and sexually assaulted this summer while she was repairing campaign signs overnight. Bernadette Greene-Placentia told investigators that two men raped her, and she kicked her feet up at one point to try to fight back. She said she felt the weight of one […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump planned to celebrate tech billionaires such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday, only to get upstaged hours before the event when Vice President JD Vance announced that Microsoft was being suspended from a program that allows companies to apply for green cards for skilled foreign workers with H-1B […]
The U.S. Army found many systemic breakdowns that led to last year’s midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington D.C. and recommended numerous steps the military should take to prevent future tragedies. The military has not publicly released its report on the deadliest plane crash on U.S. soil […]
Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence, has died. He was 56. Flowers’ family confirmed that he died Wednesday at his home in Mississippi, attorney Rob McDuff told The Associated […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a man shot dead by an immigration enforcement agent in the Chicago area last year moved to sue the government on Thursday for a shooting that they allege was unlawful and could have been prevented, according to attorneys for the family. Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, a 38-year-old Mexican national who […]
Golden hash browns, gravy-smothered biscuits and crispy waffles with a hearty helping of syrup are among the classic Southern comfort foods. But when hurricanes tear through Southeastern towns, the hot meals and bold yellow signs of the local Waffle House provide another kind of comfort. If a Waffle House stays open in town, even in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to thread a needle on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks by condemning Hamas’ “horrific war crimes” and denouncing Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. It did not go well. Instead, his comments further angered some Jewish critics who consider his strong opposition to […]
Be wary of hurricanes that start with the letter “I.” The ninth letter of the alphabet leads all others in the number of named Atlantic storms that have been retired over the decades due to their destruction or high death tolls. Next up is Isaias, which became the first hurricane of the Atlantic season on […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One person was shot Thursday at the federal courthouse in Tennessee’s largest city, police said. The shooting occurred at the courthouse in downtown Nashville, said Kris Mumford, a police spokesperson. No other details about injuries or the shooter were released. The U.S. Marshals Service inside the courthouse had no immediate comment. […]
President Donald Trump’s administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa as it accuses the company of fraud.
WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Long-time strawberry farmer Rod Koda has rows of plants on his California farm that are still producing fruit well after the harvest would typically end. The fields brimming with green near the Pacific Coast have produced nearly twice the amount of organic strawberries this year as other plots thanks to steam, […]
The Kremlin has long maintained a culture of secrecy when it comes to controlling public information, especially involving accidents — from industrial disasters to health emergencies. The suspicious death last week of a worker at a research lab in Siberia that has fueled global concerns about suspected pneumonic plague is just the latest example of […]
WOODFIN, N.C. (AP) — They’re piled on river banks, lodged in uprooted trees, embedded in sediment and jammed under logs. Many are tangled in mounds of debris up to two stories high. Two years after Hurricane Helene leveled forests, bulldozed houses and filled western North Carolina rivers with everything from cars to refrigerators, the work […]
