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Truex determined to rebound from winless season with GibbsVideo
LOS ANGELES — Martin Truex Jr. contemplated retirement during last year’s winless season and needed until June to decide to return in 2023. He announced his plans in his typically understated way, with a one-sentence statement: “I’m back in the 19 next year,” it read. Truex prefers to make his...
Wall Street rallies after swerving on Fed chair’s commentsVideo
NEW YORK — Wall Street rallied Tuesday after the Federal Reserve signaled last week’s stunningly strong jobs report won’t by itself change where interest rates are heading, as some investors had feared. The S&P 500 climbed 1.3% following a shaky day where stocks pinballed between losses and gains as Fed...
Conservative groups look beyond Trump for 2024 GOP nominee
NEW YORK — Two major conservative groups have signaled they are open to supporting someone other than Donald Trump in the 2024 race for the White House, the latest sign from an increasingly vocal segment of the Republican Party that it’s time to move on from the former president. David...
West Virginia House OKs bill to encourage more birth centers
CHARLESTON — Months after passing a near-total ban on abortion, West Virginia lawmakers are advancing a bill that would eliminate some of the red tape involved with opening birthing centers in the state. The state House of Delegates passed a bill Tuesday that would remove birthing centers from the state’s...
Big tech job cuts keep coming; Zoom latest to trim headcount
The tech industry started the year with a wave of job cuts, around 50,000 in January alone, and there doesn’t appear to be any let up this month. The computer maker Dell said this week that it’s cutting about 6,600 jobs. Large and small tech companies went on a hiring...
Jessica Pegula details health crisis for Bills and Sabres co-owner Kim PegulaVideo
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Pro tennis player Jessica Pegula revealed that her mother, Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres co-owner and president Kim Pegula, went into cardiac arrest in June and is still recovering while dealing with significant language and memory issues. In an essay that The Players’ Tribune published Tuesday, Jessica...
Navy divers begin pulling up Chinese spy balloon debrisVideo
WASHINGTON — Navy divers began pulling pieces of the downed Chinese spy balloon from the depths of the ocean floor on Tuesday, using sophisticated reconnaissance drones dubbed the Kingfish and the Swordfish to locate the debris. After collecting all of the balloon’s white fabric and shell structure found floating on...
Biden aims to deliver reassurance in State of Union address
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is ready to offer a reassuring assessment of the nation’s condition rather than roll out flashy policy proposals as he delivers his second State of the Union address on Tuesday night, seeking to overcome pessimism in the country and concerns about his own leadership. His...
Race to find survivors as quake aid pours into Turkey, Syria; death toll soars above 7,200Video
NURDAGI, Turkey — Search teams and aid poured into Turkey and Syria on Tuesday as rescuers working in freezing temperatures and sometimes using their bare hands dug through the remains of buildings flattened by a powerful earthquake. The death toll soared above 7,200 and was still expected to rise. But...
Disney faces losing control of its kingdom with Florida bill
ORLANDO, Fla. — Disney’s government in Florida has been the envy of any private business, with its unprecedented powers in deciding what to build and how to build it at the Walt Disney World Resort, issuing bonds and holding the ability to build its own nuclear plant if it wanted....
St. Andrews to leave the 700-year-old Swilcan Bridge alone
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — What was shaping up as one the biggest controversies in golf this year also turned out to be the shortest one. The Swilcan Bridge on the 18th hole at St. Andrews will be left alone. The outrage, bordering on horror, began with social media images of...
Newspapers dying? Ralph Nader’s giving birth to one
NEW YORK — At age 88, Ralph Nader believes his neighbors in northwest Connecticut are tired of electronics and miss the feel of holding a newspaper to read about their town. So at a time when local newspapers are dying at an alarming rate, the longtime activist is helping give...
How Gronk and Shaq plan to party at the Super Bowl
LOS ANGELES — Rob Gronkowski might be retired from the NFL, but the former all-pro football player is still in the game during the league’s championship week. The four-time Super Bowl winner — who calls himself the “MVP of Fun” — will host a music festival called “Gronk Beach” in...
Newborn, toddler saved from rubble in quake-hit Syrian town
JINDERIS, Syria — Residents in a northwest Syrian town discovered a crying infant whose mother appears to have given birth to her while buried underneath the rubble of a five-story apartment building leveled by this week’s devastating earthquake, relatives and a doctor said Tuesday. The newborn girl was found buried...
Tickets for Beyoncé’s 1st concert of world tour sell out
STOCKHOLM — Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé’s upcoming “Renaissance” world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand. The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London,...
Study: 15 million people live under threat of glacial floods
As glaciers melt and pour massive amounts of water into nearby lakes, 15 million people across the globe live under the threat of a sudden and deadly outburst flood, a new study finds. More than half of those living in the shadow of the disaster called glacial lake outburst floods...
Court denies aid for Hiroshima A-bomb survivors’ children
TOKYO — A Japanese court on Tuesday rejected a damage suit filed by a group of children of Hiroshima atomic bombing survivors seeking government support for medical costs, saying the hereditary impact of radiation exposure is still unknown. A group of 28 plaintiffs whose parents suffered radiation exposure in the...
LGBTQ groups demand Japan adopt equal rights law by G-7
TOKYO — Japanese LGBTQ people and rights groups condemned a recent discriminatory remark by a senior aide of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, demanding his government enact laws to ban discrimination against sexual minorities, legalize same-sex marriage and guarantee equal rights before Japan hosts a Group of Seven summit in May....
Switching up salsas for the Super Bowl by adding fruit
Certain foods are inextricably linked with game day parties: chicken wings, nachos, chili, guacamole … and salsa. Bowls and bowls of salsa. And while you can always pop open a jar, homemade salsa is extremely simple to make. The only skill it requires is a willingness to chop, mince and...
Biden to focus on vets, cancer patients, others in speech
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will outline some new steps Tuesday to go after illegal drugs, help veterans and cancer patients, and provide more access to mental health care. It will be a somewhat new version of steps Biden outlined in these four areas during last year’s State of the...
Super Bowl gambling surging as states legalize it? You bet
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — As legal sports gambling proliferates, the number of Americans betting on the Super Bowl and the total amount they’re wagering is surging — although most of the action is still off the books. An estimated 1 in 5 American adults will make some sort of bet,...
Residents worry about going home, toxic gas from derailmentVideo
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Brittany Dailey stood outside her hotel watching black smoke darken the sky 10 miles to the west as crews burned toxic chemicals from tanker cars that derailed just down the street from her home. The faint smell of chlorine hung in the air Monday night while...
Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts aware of significance of this Super Bowl duel
PHOENIX — Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni is thrilled young aspiring football players all over the world will get to watch two Black quarterbacks face each other for the first time in the Super Bowl. He’s also pleased they get to watch two really, really good quarterbacks. “I’m really excited...
Watch: President Biden’s State of the Union address
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to deliver his second State of the Union address on Tuesday night. The annual speech, delivered before a joint session of Congress, typically provides a president with his single largest audience of the year, usually in the tens of millions. An estimated 38.2...
Paris mayor: No Russian team at 2024 Games if war continues
PARIS — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo says there should be no Russian delegation allowed at the Paris Olympics next year if Moscow continues its war against Ukraine. Hidalgo previously said Russian competitors could take part under a neutral flag but she backpedaled on Tuesday in an interview with French media...
