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Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach
A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the ...
Stormy and potential flooding for Friday
Although your Friday in our neck of the woods is starting out on a fairly nice note, that is not the expectation for later on. It’s been a stormy morning for the ...
Israel launches air strikes at Iran
Israel launched airstrikes at Iran targeting the country’s nuclear infrastructure and killing at least two of Iran’s top military officers.
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Virginia’s primaries
Virginia Democrats will settle a crowded six-way primary for lieutenant governor on Tuesday as well as a contested nomination fight for state attorney general. Meanwhile, voters ...
Air India’s sole crash survivor narrates his escape
The lone passenger who survived the Air India crash that killed 241 people onboard couldn’t believe he was alive when he opened his eyes, surrounded by flames, debris and charred ...
Israeli strikes on Iran lead to new test of Trump’s ability to deliver on ‘America first’ agenda
Just hours before Israel launched strikes on Iran early Friday, President Donald Trump was still holding onto tattered threads of hope that a long-simmering dispute over Tehran’s ...
A golf course with a 6-lane highway? Welcome to the US Open at Oakmont, where I-76 somehow blends in
For a six-lane interstate carving its way through a world-famous golf course, the Pennsylvania Turnpike at Oakmont is surprisingly unintrusive. From an overhead view, the sight ...
Big offense and big hearts fuel Murray State Racers as their improbable CWS run is about to begin
Like Fresno State, Stony Brook and Oral Roberts before them, the Murray State Racers are about to be embraced as the College World Series’ lovable underdogs by local fans ...
Stanley Cup Final is becoming a showcase for the Oilers’ Leon Draisaitl
This is becoming Leon Draisaitl’s Stanley Cup Final for the Edmonton Oilers. The standout German forward has scored the overtime goal in each of their two wins in the ...
First millennial saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7, the pope says
Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo Acutis. Leo made the announcement during a meeting of ...
South African president to visit flood sites with death toll at 78 and expected to climb
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will visit the sites Friday of devastating floods that have left at least 78 people dead in the southeast of the country as ...
Israel’s attack on Iran was years in the making. How did they get here?
Israel’s massive strike on Iran on Friday morning came after decades of hostilities between the bitter enemies. Israeli Prime ...