WASHINGTON (AP) — In 1976’s “ Rocky,” heavyweight champion Apollo Creed arrives for the title fight dressed as George Washington, reenacting the crossing of the Delaware as models…
Read more How Americans Celebrated the Bicentennial — With Fireworks, a Freedom Train and FarrahDENVER (AP) — Days before the beginning of Pride Month in June, a glamorous drag queen with long, wavy red hair, a matching mustache and carabiner earrings stared…
Read more Patagonia Is Suing Pattie Gonia, a Drag Queen Performer With an Environmental MessageA fiery North Dakota derailment that happened two years ago demonstrated yet again why the National Transportation Safety Board has been urging the rail industry for decades to…
Read more NTSB Says Fiery 2024 North Dakota Derailment Proves the Need to Replace Flawed Tank CarsGENEVA (AP) — French and Swiss authorities will impose a week of pandemic-like border restrictions as U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders attend a G7 summit starting…
Read more G7 Summit at Swiss-French Border Brings Tight Security in Case Violent Protests OccurST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The chief federal judge for Minnesota issued a stern warning Thursday to the chief federal prosecutor for the state, as well as to…
Read more A Chief Judge Warns Minnesota’s Top Prosecutor and ICE: Obey Court Orders or Face ContemptA nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who disappeared after U.S. Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Buffalo doughnut shop was found dead five days later, prompting…
Read more Buffalo Probes Death of a Nearly Blind Myanmar Refugee Dropped at a Doughnut ShopFORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A ground-dwelling bird known for elaborate mating dances on the southern Great Plains will no longer be federally protected after the Trump administration…
Read more Trump Administration Ends Protections for Rare Dancing Prairie BirdLONDON, Ohio (AP) — A fire at an Ohio hog farm complex has killed about 6,000 of the animals, an official said. A large column of smoke could…
Read more Fire at an Ohio Farm Complex Kills About 6,000 Hogs and Smoke Is Visible for MilesWASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. and Iran head into their next round of nuclear talks in Geneva, a new AP-NORC poll finds that many U.S. adults continue…
Read more Most Americans See Iran as an Enemy but Doubt Trump’s Judgment on Military Force, AP-NORC Poll FindsLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Vegas Golden Knights were without five players from the Olympic gold medal-game Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL’s return…
Read more Golden Knights Sit 5 From Olympic Gold-Medal Game in NHL Return Against KingsPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lawyers for student protesters detained in Pennsylvania for four days after a scuffle with police say their clients had no idea the stocky older man…
Read more Lawyers Say Pennsylvania Student Protesters Did Not Know a Man Who Joined Scrum Was the Police ChiefSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has ruled that ExxonMobil can bring a defamation lawsuit against California’s attorney general over comments about the company’s plastic…
Read more Federal Judge in Texas Allows Lawsuit Against California Attorney General Over ExxonMobil RemarksPEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — Cal Raleigh has already gone deep this spring, yet the switch-hitting Seattle Mariners catcher isn’t focused on trying to hit 60 home runs again…
Read more Cal Raleigh Not Focused on Trying for Another 60-Homer Season in SeattleThe club placed its longtime captain on injured reserve on Wednesday. The move comes after Crosby sustained a lower-body injury during the Olympic hockey tournament at the Milan…
Read more Penguins Captain Sidney Crosby Placed on Injured Reserve After Getting Hurt at the OlympicsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA moved its grounded Artemis moon rocket from the launch pad back to its hangar Wednesday for more repairs. The slow-motion trek at…
Read more NASA moves its Artemis II moon rocket off the launch pad for more repairsIn the hit show’s fifth and final season in 2024, Dutton rode off into the proverbial sunset at peace, building a new life ranching on his own terms…
Read more Luke Grimes Returns as Fan Favorite Kayce Dutton in New ‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff, ‘Marshals’ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers training at a local gun range largely went unnoticed by residents of one Southern California city for more than…
Read more Residents Want Local Governments to End Contracts That Let ICE Train on Their Gun RangesSecretary of State Marco Rubio flies into the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis on Wednesday for talks with regional leaders who, like others around the world,…
Read more Rubio Flies Into the Caribbean for Talks With Leaders Unsettled by Trump PoliciesINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The New York Jets don’t plan to let running back Breece Hall hit the open market at the start of the league year, while the…
Read more Jets Plan to Use a Tag on Hall, While Futures for Walker and Montgomery Remain UncertainKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than a dozen senior European officials arrived in the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday in a show of support on the fourth anniversary of…
Read more European Officials Visit Ukraine to Show Support as Country Marks 4 Years of Russia’s All-Out War
