Florida Senate passes gambling agreement with Seminole Tribe
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Sports betting in Florida is a step closer to legalization after the Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday approving a ...
US Space Force missile-warning satellite rockets into orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A $1 billion missile-warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force rocketed toward orbit Tuesday....
Bill Gates’ leadership roles stay intact despite allegations
SEATTLE (AP) — Despite allegations suggesting Bill Gates inappropriately pursued women who worked for him, don’t expect changes to his roles at the tw...
Rocket from Gaza kills 2; Israel topples 6-story building
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A rocket launched from Gaza killed two Thai workers in southern Israel on Tuesday, police said, hours after Israeli airst...
US envoy: Fear of Taliban conquering Kabul are overblown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Predictions that the Taliban will quickly overrun Afghan government forces and conquer Kabul once U.S. and coalition forces have ful...
‘Shared roots’: West Virginia senators key to Biden agenda
WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s known her for as long as he can remember, once challenging “Shel” to a heart-pumping zipline race down a rugged mountaintop....
Vote? Not yet. Invest? Yes. Fidelity launches teen accounts
NEW YORK (AP) — Looking to draw in the next generation of investors, Fidelity Investments is launching a new type of account for teenagers to save, sp...
UK job market improving as lockdown measures are eased
LONDON (AP) — Further evidence emerged Tuesday to show that the British economy is recovering strongly, with the number of people on payroll increasin...
Israeli police: 2 killed in strike launched from Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A strike launched from Gaza on Tuesday killed two Thai workers inside a packaging plant in southern Israel, police said, ...
Israeli medics: 10 wounded, 4 seriously, in strike from Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A strike launched from Gaza on Tuesday wounded 10 people in southern Israel, four of them seriously, Israeli medics repor...
Palestinians go on strike as Israel, Hamas trade fire
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians across Israel and the occupied territories went on strike in a rare collective action against Israel’s polic...
Report says Myanmar internet a ‘virtual battlefield’
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military rulers are seeking to limit access to the internet to an internal network of only “whitelisted” sites to quash oppos...
Israel, Hamas trade fire in Gaza; Palestinians go on strike
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes on what it said were militant targets in Gaza, leveling a six-story building, and...
Israel, Hamas trade fire in Gaza as war rages on
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes on what it said were militant targets in Gaza, leveling a six-story building in d...
Gambling bill dies as Alabama legislative session ends
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Monday ended the 2021 legislative session without a vote on a gambling bill, and Gov. Kay Ivey indicated ...
Amid threats to members, House to vote on new security
WASHINGTON (AP) — Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, says it took time for him to stop con...
Prison group sues to keep immigrant detention center open
SEATTLE (AP) — Private prison corporation GEO Group has sued Washington state, saying a new law mandating the closure of the immigrant detention cente...
Biden boosting world vaccine sharing commitment to 80M doses
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world in the c...
Asia shares rise despite ongoing pandemic, inflation worries
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares rose Tuesday, partly on bargain-hunting from the recent global market falls amid continuing pessimism about the conronavirus...
Biden raises cease-fire, civilian toll in call to Netanyahu
President Joe Biden expressed support for a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne...
AP source: NTSB chairman to step down at end of June
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board will step down from his position at the end of June, and the Biden administ...
California places Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ under review
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s Department of Motor Vehicles is reviewing whether Tesla is violating a state regulation by advertising its vehicles as...
Canadian National’s $33.6B bid to buy US railroad hits snag
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Regulators on Monday dealt a procedural blow to Canadian National’s $33.6 billion plan to acquire Kansas City Southern railroad....
Black elite family drama ‘Our Kind of People’ set for fall
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Affluent and well-connected Black families are the focus of “Our Kind of People,” a new Fox drama series from “Empire” creator Lee ...
Arizona sheriff’s immigration patrols to cost public $200M
PHOENIX (AP) — The costs to taxpayers from a racial profiling lawsuit stemming from former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration patrols in metro Phoenix a...
Biden plan would pick winners, losers in move to green jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Georgia, school bus-maker Blue Bird has visions of going from selling a few hundred electric buses annually to 15,000. In Michiga...
Cuomo set to earn $5M from book on COVID-19 crisis
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo disclosed Monday that he was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book last yea...
Walz, legislative leaders reach $52 billion budget deal
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The leaders of the Minnesota Legislature and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz announced a $52 billion deal for the state’s next two-yea...
At Athens Varsity, answer to ‘What’ll ya have?’ is bulldozer
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Chili dogs, onion rings and frosted orange milkshakes could soon be in shorter supply for students at the University of Georgia....
Indiana ending enhanced pandemic jobless aid next month
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana is dropping out of a federal program that provides an extra $300 in weekly payments to unemployed workers and other progra...