Southeast Texas expects more rain after days of flooding
Swollen rivers continued rising in southeast Texas on Saturday after a night of evacuations and rescues from floodwaters that swamped roads, stranded cars and inundated homes in the region.
Parts of Gaza in ‘full-blown famine,’ U.N. aid official says
JERUSALEM — The leader of the World Food Program said parts of the Gaza Strip are experiencing a “full-blown famine” that is spreading across the territory after almost seven months of war that have made delivering aid extremely challenging.
Last of escaped zebras captured with white bread, oats and ‘positivity’
The last of four zebras that escaped from a trailer in North Bend, Washington, was safely corralled Friday with the help of a former rodeo bullfighter, a lookout on a mountain bike and a package of white bread.
Premier League: A race the whole world is watching
The teams might bear the names of English towns, the stadiums might sit on English soil and the stands might still be primarily filled with English fans, but the Premier League slipped its borders long ago. The world’s most popular sports league has, for some time, been a global soccer competition that just happens to be staged in England.
Horse racing’s loudest critic is favored in its biggest race
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In the world according to Mike Repole, everyone involved in horse racing is a dummy. Except him, Mike from Queens or the Commish, as some of his followers on X call him.
Mississippi’s first serious bid to expand Medicaid collapses
ATLANTA — Mississippi’s first serious attempt to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act collapsed Thursday night, after an agreement reached by state lawmakers earlier in the week disintegrated and last-minute scrambling for a compromise failed.
New mutations identified in bird flu virus
The bird flu virus sweeping across dairy farms in multiple states has acquired dozens of new mutations, including some that may make it more adept at spreading between species and less susceptible to antiviral drugs, according to a new study.
Trump and his one-time confidant meet again, this time in a courtroom
NEW YORK — Her voice low, her posture tense, the woman who spent years steering Donald Trump through strife and scandal stepped to the witness stand Friday carrying a different burden. She was there under the fluorescent lights of a dreary Manhattan courtroom, seated 15 feet from the former president she once fiercely defended, to testify at his criminal trial.
Catching up with players cast aside by Sanders
Chase Sowell walked into the University of Colorado’s football facility on the Sunday after the 2023 spring game and saw more than a dozen teammates lined up against a wall.
Strongest US challenge to big tech’s power nears climax in Google trial
WASHINGTON — The biggest U.S. challenge so far to the vast power of today’s tech giants is nearing its conclusion.
‘The Fall Guy’ Review: Ryan Gosling Goes Pow! Splat! Ouch!
Like a certain energized bunny, Ryan Gosling’s charmer in “The Fall Guy” just keeps going as he runs and leaps, tumbles and punches and vaults through the air like a rocket. The actor has shed his “Barbie” pretty-in-pink look, if not his signature heat-seeking moves to play Colt Seavers, a stuntman with a long resume, six-packs on his six-packs and a disregard for personal safety. Plunging 12 stories in a building atrium, though, is just another bruising day on the job for Colt until, oops, he nearly goes splat.
Trump, repeating 2020 election lies, will not commit to accepting 2024 results
Former President Donald Trump told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday that he would not commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election, as he again repeated his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
The Fed is eyeing the job market, but it’s difficult to read
The Federal Reserve spent much of 2022 and 2023 narrowly focusing on inflation as policymakers set interest rates: Prices were rising way too fast, so they became the central bank’s top priority. But now that inflation has cooled, officials are more clearly factoring the job market into their decisions again.
Jury hears tape of Trump and Cohen discussing hush-money deal
NEW YORK — Two voices reverberated in the courtroom. The first was loud, deep and unctuous, the second was casual — until money came up. They were discussing a deal made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence a woman who claimed to have had an extramarital affair with the Republican candidate.
Biden denounces violence on campus, breaking silence after rash of arrests
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden broke days of silence on Thursday to finally speak out on the wave of protests on American college campuses against Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip that have inflamed much of the country, denouncing violence and antisemitism even as he defended the right to peaceful dissent.
California boat captain is sentenced to 4 years in fire that killed 34
The captain of a dive boat that caught fire off the coast of Southern California in 2019, killing all 33 of its passengers and a crew member, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison after a lengthy hearing that included emotional testimony from relatives of the victims.
The Miami Grand Prix matures after needed changes
After the first Miami Grand Prix in 2022, Tom Garfinkel, the managing partner of the event, knew changes were needed.
In bankruptcy, Giuliani set a $43,000 monthly budget. Creditors are skeptical
Besieged by creditors and with his income drying up, Rudy Giuliani laid out an austerity program of sorts in January for a federal bankruptcy court.
NASCAR and its race teams fight over the sport’s future
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When Michael Jordan and his right-hand man, Curtis Polk, bought a NASCAR team in 2020 with driver Denny Hamlin, they were prepared to endure short-term losses. Drivers, mechanics and a sales staff had to be hired. The Next Generation cars that were introduced in 2022 would cost top teams about $18 million a year to run before paying a driver, and their team, 23XI, had two. Paying for a new building to house the cars would cost tens of millions of dollars more.
Blinken turns up pressure on Hamas to accept Gaza cease-fire deal
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered twin messages to Hamas and Israel on Wednesday, pressing Hamas to accept a cease-fire proposal while at the same time urging Israeli leaders to put off a major ground invasion into the thickly populated southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.
