Associated Press stories, Page 78
CIA tracked Iranian leaders for months before strikes, AP source says
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The CIA had been tracking the movements of senior Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for months. That’s according to a person familiar with the operation who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity. The intelligence was...
South Carolina’s Staley says school is working to bring 3 former players home from Israel
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said on social media Saturday that the school is working to try and help a few former players return home from Israel where they are playing professionally. The trio of former Gamecocks — Tiffany Mitchell, Destiny Littleton and Mikiah Herbert Harrigan — as well as...
Trump expects his Fed pick and AI to deliver a replay of the ’90s boom. Economists have doubts
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, his Treasury secretary and his choice to lead the Federal Reserve believe they can coax the U.S. economy into partying like it’s 1999. They are putting their faith in artificial intelligence to duplicate what happened when another technology arrived in the 1990s: the internet. Back...
Stranded travelers scramble to make new connections as war shuts much of Middle East to air travel
Hundreds of thousands of stranded travelers scrambled to make new connections and get through to airlines on jammed phone lines after the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel shut down much of the Middle East to air travel. Tourists and business travelers crowded hotels and airports, with...
Iran vows revenge after the killing of its top leader and trades strikes with Israel in widening war
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran vowed revenge Sunday after the killing of its supreme leader and traded strikes with Israel as part of a widening war prompted by a surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment a day earlier. Blasts in Tehran sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky...
Suspect in Texas shooting wore ‘Property of Allah’ clothing and Iranian flag emblem
AUSTIN, Texas — The gunman who killed two people early Sunday at a bar in Texas in a mass shooting that left 14 others wounded was wearing a sweatshirt that said “Property of Allah,” and another shirt with an Iranian flag design, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press....
Israeli strikes rock Tehran as Iran’s counterattacks widen after the killing of its supreme leader
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An explosion rocked Iran’s capital Sunday as Israel said it would carry out “non-stop strikes” against its leaders and military. Iran meanwhile fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states in retaliation for the killing of its supreme leader in the surprise U.S. and...
Shane Lowry and Austin Smotherman tied for the Cognizant Classic lead at 13 under
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Shane Lowry has yet another chance to win at PGA National. The native of Ireland who now calls South Florida home had a bogey-free round of 8-under-par 63 on Saturday, moving to 13-under and finishing with a share of the lead following three rounds of...
Trump’s ‘America First’ campaign battle cry gives way to military strikes abroad
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, whose fierce denunciation of military adventurism abroad fueled his unlikely rise to the top of the Republican Party, risks becoming ensnared by that very type of conflict. The U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran Saturday cemented Trump’s decade-long transformation from a candidate who in 2016...
Huff, Lorient lead West Virginia past No. 19 BYU, 79-71
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Honor Huff scored 19 points, Brenen Lorient added 18 and West Virginia led the entire second half and beat No. 19 BYU, 79-71, on Saturday night. DJ Thomas added 13 points, and Jasper Floyd and Chance Moore had 11 apiece for the Mountaineers (17-12, 8-8 Big 12)....
Late heroics from Josh Reed, Freddie Dilione send Penn State to surprise win over Iowa
Josh Reed scored a career-high 25 points, shooting 9 of 12, and Penn State rallied to beat Iowa, 71-69, on Saturday, ending the Nittany Lions’ three-game losing streak. Freddie Dilione V scored 15 points, and Ivan Juric scored 11 for the Nittany Lions (12-17, 3-15 Big Ten). Penn State finished...
War powers debate intensifies after Trump orders attack on Iran without approval by Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump’s military attack on Iran unless the administration wins their approval for what they warn is a potentially illegal campaign that risks pulling the United States into a...
What to know about U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran
The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in what President Donald Trump said was a massive operation to destroy the country’s military capabilities and eliminate the threat of it creating a nuclear weapon. He urged Iranians to “take over your government.” Iran launched counterattacks, firing drones and missiles at...
NASCAR returns to road racing with Tyler Reddick on pole and chasing Cup Series history against Shane van Gisbergen
AUSTIN, Texas — Shane van Gisbergen was so dominant on road courses last season than many had looked at NASCAR’s first road race of 2026 like it was already settled: SVG in a runaway. Hold on. Tyler Reddick’s pursuit of racing history may yet have a say in that. Reddick...
Families tell of life in Texas detention center: Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7
LAREDO, Texas — A month after ICE agents sent the young Ecuadorian mother and her 7-year-old daughter to a sprawling detention center 1,300 miles from their Minnesota home, they were finally free. But when the bus pulled up to a migrant shelter in the border city of Laredo, dropping off...
From box office bomb to media powerhouse: Skydance’s 20-year rise to overtake Paramount, Warner Bros
NEW YORK — In its debut film, Skydance Productions released a special effects-laden World War I drama about fighter pilots with a starring role for an unknown actor, the company’s founder, David Ellison. It was a box office bomb. Twenty years later, in a twist fit for Hollywood itself, the...
Calls for peace and flashes of anger after US and Israeli attacks kill Iran’s Khamenei
BRUSSELS — World leaders urged peace and a return to talks Sunday as the military strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran raised concerns that the violence could spread across the region, with Iran vowing devastating blows after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Massive explosions...
Russia condemns U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran as ‘unprovoked act of armed aggression’
Russia on Saturday condemned the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran as “a preplanned and unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent U.N. member state,” demanding an immediate halt to the military campaign and a return to diplomacy. In a statement posted to Telegram, the Foreign Ministry accused Washington...
A Supreme Court case over whether marijuana users can own guns is creating unusual alliances
WASHINGTON — Gun rights and cannabis legalization are usually on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but both movements have brought about seismic shifts in the United States in recent decades. Now those forces are lining up for a rare overlap in a case coming before the Supreme Court on...
US and Israel launch a major attack on Iran and Trump urges Iranians to ‘take over your government’
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran on Saturday, with President Donald Trump calling on the Iranian public to “seize control of your destiny” and rise up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979. Some of the...
Read President Trump’s statement on Iran in full
President Donald Trump said in an 8-minute video posted on his Truth Social that the U.S. has begun “major combat operations in Iran.” He claimed Iran has continued to develop its nuclear program and plans to develop missiles to reach U.S. and appealed to the Iranian people to “take over...
Iran’s supreme leader is dead following major attack by U.S. and Israel
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died following a major attack by Israel and the United States, Iranian state media confirmed early Sunday, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability. President Donald Trump announced the death...
Trump orders U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in clash over AI safety
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology and imposed other major penalties, culminating an unusually public clash between the government and the company over AI safety. President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials took to social...
Trump’s ‘pretty much’ decided whom to endorse in Texas’ Senate primary but isn’t yet saying a name
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump — who has long seemed like he just can’t seem to choose among friends in the Texas Senate Republican primary — says he’s “pretty much” decided whom to endorse in the critical March 3 contest. But as the showman president is wont to do, he...
Deaths on a boat off Cuba spotlight Florida anti-government groups
MIAMI — A stolen boat, with 10 people aboard, loaded with weapons, departs the Florida Keys but gunfire erupts before reaching Cuba. The explanation, according to the Cuban government, is the men aboard were terrorists who wanted to infiltrate the country. The fatal shooting broke out Wednesday amid heightened tensions...
