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Texas coastal residents told to expect power outages, flooding as Beryl moves closer to landfall

MATAGORDA, Texas (AP) - Texas officials are telling coastal residents to expect power outages and floodings as Beryl was forecast to regain hurricane strength before making landfall early Monday. The ...

Marty Hastings Jul 07, 2024

France is voting in key elections that could see a historic far-right win or a hung parliament

PARIS (AP) - Voting has begun in mainland France on Sunday in pivotal runoff elections that could hand a historic victory to Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally and its inward-looking, anti-immig...

Jul 07, 2024

4 killed in shooting during party at a Kentucky home; suspect died after a vehicle chase, police say

FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) - Four people were killed and three others were wounded in an early Saturday shooting during a party at a home in northern Kentucky, police said. The shooting suspect later died aft...

Jul 06, 2024

New UK Prime Minister Starmer says controversial Rwanda deportation plan is 'dead and buried'

LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday that he is scrapping a controversial Conservative policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda. "The Rwanda scheme was dead and buried befo...

Jul 06, 2024

Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian leads hard-liner Saeed Jalili in Iran presidential runoff election

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian's lead against hard-liner Saeed Jalili widened early Saturday to over 2 million votes as counting continued in Iran's president...

Jul 05, 2024

Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024? Arkansas organizers have joined the list

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Organizers of an effort to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban on Friday said they submitted enough signatures to get the measure on the November ballot. Arkansans for Limited G...

Jul 05, 2024

President Biden scrambles to save his reelection with a trip to Wisconsin and a network TV interview

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - President Joe Biden, fighting to save his endangered reelection effort Friday, defiantly declared that "I'm staying in the race" during a campaign rally in a critical battleground...

Jul 05, 2024

2 killed and 3 injured in July Fourth attack in California beach city

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Two people were killed and three others injured in an attack that broke out during a neighborhood Fourth of July gathering in a Southern California beach city, police s...

Jul 05, 2024

Defending Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz comes back to beat Frances Tiafoe in the third round

LONDON (AP) - Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz came back to eliminate Frances Tiafoe 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2 to reach Wimbledon's fourth round on Friday in an entertaining match between two pals ...

Jul 05, 2024

Kansas’ top court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering a state right to abortion access

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas' highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care providers and banning a common second-trimester procedure,...

Jul 05, 2024