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McDonald’s agreed to Trump event but says it isn’t endorsing a presidential candidate
McDonald’s Corp. agreed to host former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania store over the weekend but said it isn’t endorsing a candidate in the U.S. presidential race. Trump staffed the fry station Sunday at a McDonald’s in suburban Philadelphia before answering questions through the drive-thru window. The restaurant was...
New Mexico authorities rescue hundreds after flooding strands many in high water and leaves 2 deadVideo
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A southeastern New Mexico community began to dry out Monday after historic rainfall over the weekend produced severe flooding that left at least two people dead and hundreds stranded on rooftops. Waterlogged vehicles were still submerged along some city streets in Roswell, while others were seen smashed...
Helicopter crashes into radio tower in Houston, killing 4Video
HOUSTON — Four people aboard a helicopter were killed when it crashed into a radio tower in Houston and burst into flames, officials said. The helicopter went down just before 8 p.m. Sunday in a neighborhood east of downtown after taking off from Ellington Field, about 15 miles away, Mayor...
Duke’s Cooper Flagg makes preseason AP All-America team as ACC, Big 12, SEC each place 2 players
Alabama’s Mark Sears and North Carolina’s RJ Davis looked into the possibility of leaving for the NBA before deciding to return for another college season. Their decisions helped their teams earn top-10 rankings in the AP Top 25 and earned both players some preseason honors, too. Sears was a near-unanimous...
Yankees and Dodgers meet in World Series for 12th time in matchup of Broadway and Hollywood
NEW YORK — Broadway vs. Hollywood. Subway vs. Freeway. Judge vs. Ohtani. New York neighbors who became cross-country rivals, the Yankees and Dodgers renew their starry struggle in the World Series for the first time in 43 years. “When you’re playing for the Dodgers and playing for the Yankees, it...
NBA season set to begin with the Celtics seeking a 19th title and several challengers looming
Jayson Tatum was already a proven winner before last season. In Tatum’s first six seasons, no NBA player won more games with one team than he did. Tatum played in 334 wins with the Boston Celtics over that span, including playoffs. He was a perennial All-Star, a legitimate MVP candidate,...
Browns QB Deshaun Watson ruptured his Achilles tendon and is out for the season, AP source says
CLEVELAND — Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will miss the rest of Cleveland’s season after rupturing his right Achilles tendon on Sunday against Cincinnati, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Monday. Watson was injured on a non-contact play in the second quarter of Cleveland’s 21-14 loss...
AP Top 25: Oregon is No. 1 for first time since 2012; Vanderbilt enters poll and Michigan drops out
Oregon became the fourth team this season to hold the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press college football poll, moving into the top spot on Sunday for the first time in 12 years after Texas lost at home to Georgia. Vanderbilt made its first appearance since the 2013 season,...
Lebanon assesses damage after Israel strikes Hezbollah-run financial institution
BEIRUT — Lebanese were surveying the damage on Monday after overnight Israeli strikes hit nearly a dozen branches of a Hezbollah-run financial institution that Israel says is used to fund attacks but where many ordinary people keep their savings. The strikes targeted Al-Qard Al-Hassan branches in the southern neighborhoods of...
Some Jewish voters in presidential swing states reconsider their longtime devotion to Democrats
HARRISBURG — For Rona Kaufman, the signs are everywhere that more Jews feel abandoned by the Democratic Party and may vote for Republican Donald Trump. It’s in her Facebook feed. It’s in the discomfort she observed during a question-and-answer at a recent Democratic Party campaign event in Pittsburgh. It’s in...
‘You are not my king,’ Indigenous Australian senator yells at visiting King Charles
CANBERRA, Australia — An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the British royal visited Australia’s parliament on Monday. Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers have taken Indigenous land and bones....
Most voters think the economy is poor, but split on whether Trump or Harris can fix it: AP-NORC poll
WASHINGTON — Voters remain largely divided over whether they prefer Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris to handle key economic issues, although Harris earns slightly better marks on elements such as taxes for the middle class, according to a new poll. A majority of registered voters in the survey...
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame turns up starpower to induct Cher, Foreigner, Mary J. Blige, Ozzy and more
CLEVELAND — Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Zendaya bookended Saturday’s inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, giving a little stardust to an eclectic lineup that included pop icon Cher, heavy metal’s Ozzy Osbourne, hip-hop soul queen Mary J. Blige, soft rockers Foreigner and 83-year-old soul icon Dionne...
Republicans and Democrats are both preparing for long legal battles over the 2024 election results
WASHINGTON — Republican Donald Trump, who still refuses to accept that he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, says he wants a presidential victory Nov. 5 to be so overwhelming that the results are “too big to rig.” “We want a landslide,” he recently told supporters in Georgia....
Arnold Palmer’s daughter reacts to Donald Trump’s references to her father
One of the late golf legend Arnold Palmer’s daughters calls Donald Trump’s references to her father’s genitalia “a poor choice of approaches” to honoring his memory, adding that she wasn’t upset by the remarks. “There’s nothing much to say. I’m not really upset,” Peg Palmer Wears, 68, told The Associated...
Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm
HAVANA — Many Cubans waited in anguish and some took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their third day. Their concerns were heightened as a Hurricane Oscar hit Cuba’s eastern coast with winds and heavy rain. In Santo Suárez, part of a populous neighborhood in southwestern...
Dodgers finish off Mets with win in NLCS and advance to face Yankees in World Series
LOS ANGELES — Tommy Edman and Will Smith homered to send Shohei Ohtani into the World Series for the first time, and the Los Angeles Dodgers eliminated the New York Mets with a 10-5 victory in Game 6 of the NL Championship Series on Sunday night. The Dodgers clinched their...
Raiders QB Aidan O’Connell’s start ends with thumb injury
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Aidan O’Connell was looking forward to securing his hold on the starting quarterback job for the Las Vegas Raiders, only to suffer a thumb injury in the first quarter of a 20-15 loss at the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. O’Connell was hurt when his right hand...
New York Liberty win their 1st WNBA championship, beating Minnesota 67-62Video
NEW YORK — The New York Liberty finally have a WNBA championship after beating the Minnesota Lynx, 67-62, in overtime of a decisive Game 5 on Sunday night. Jonquel Jones scored 17 points to lead New York, which was one of the original franchises in the league. The Liberty made...
Commanders’ Jayden Daniels to get further tests for rib injury
LANDOVER, Md. — Jayden Daniels will undergo further tests Monday after leaving the Washington Commanders’ game against the Carolina Panthers with a rib injury, coach Dan Quinn said, repeatedly adding he had no further update on the rookie quarterback’s status. “I can not give you an update on Jayden, but...
Nick Chubb scores TD for Browns in return after serious knee injury ended his 2023 seasonVideo
CLEVELAND — Nick Chubb made it all the way back like he promised. Cleveland’s star running back, whose 2023 season ended with a knee injury in Week 2 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, returned to the field Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals, providing a lift for Browns fans and a team...
49ers lose Brandon Aiyuk to feared serious knee injury
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The emotional lift of Ricky Pearsall’s return to the field 50 days after he was shot lasted less than a half. Then the San Francisco 49ers had to deal with some more bad news at receiver. Brandon Aiyuk went down with a right knee injury in...
Tropical Storm Oscar dumps heavy rain on eastern Cuba as it heads toward the BahamasVideo
HAVANA — Tropical Storm Oscar dumped heavy rain across eastern Cuba on Monday after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage. Its maximum sustained winds were blowing at 50 mph (85 kph) on Monday as Oscar moved west at 2...
J.T. Poston ends long day in Las Vegas with 3rd career PGA Tour titleVideo
LAS VEGAS — J.T. Poston used a burst of birdies to build a comfortable lead in the morning and afternoon, first for a three-shot lead after 54 holes and then to give himself a big enough cushion to hold on for a 4-under-par 67 and a one-shot victory Sunday in...
Musk offers voters $1 million a day to sign PAC petition backing the Constitution. Is that legal?Video
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X and owner of X who’s gone all-in on Republican Donald Trump’s candidacy for the White House, has already committed at least $70 million to help the former president. Now he’s pledging to give away $1 million a day to voters...
