Election 2024: Donald Trump wins Missouri caucuses

Election 2024: Donald Trump wins Missouri caucuses

Donald Trump won Missouri’s Republican caucuses, one of three events Saturday that will award delegates for the GOP presidential nomination. The former president, who is especially strong in caucuses, added to his delegate lead with that victory and made gains at a party convention in Michigan. Idaho was scheduled to hold its caucuses later Saturday. … Read more

Texas wildfires: Fire grows to second-largest in state history

Texas wildfires: Fire grows to second-largest in state history

A fast-moving wildfire burning through the Texas Panhandle grew into the second-largest blaze in state history Wednesday, forcing evacuations and triggering power outages as firefighters struggled to contain the widening flames. The sprawling blaze was part of a cluster of fires that burned out of control and threatened rural towns, where local officials spent the … Read more

Wendy Williams documentary producers didn’t know she had dementia

Wendy Williams documentary producers didn’t know she had dementia

If you watched Lifetime’s Wendy Williams docuseries that premiered over the weekend and felt uncomfortable, you weren’t alone. “Where is Wendy Williams?” premiered over the weekend and featured numerous scenes of the former talk show host unsteady, belligerent, confused and also drunk. Her manager would regularly find liquor bottles hidden throughout her apartment, behavior that … Read more

Biden and Utah’s governor call for less bitterness and more bipartisanship in the nation’s politics

Biden and Utah’s governor call for less bitterness and more bipartisanship in the nation’s politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox disagree on many issues but they were united Saturday in calling for less bitterness in politics and more bipartisanship. “Politics has gotten too personally bitter,” said Biden, who has practiced politics since he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972. “It’s just not … Read more

Border Patrol releases hundreds of migrants after San Diego runs out of aid money

Border Patrol releases hundreds of migrants after San Diego runs out of aid money

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Hundreds of migrants were dropped off Friday at a San Diego bus stop instead of at a reception center that had been serving as a staging area because it ran out of local funding sooner than expected, showing how even the largest city on the country’s southern border is struggling to … Read more

Kayakers paddle in Death Valley after rains replenish lake

Kayakers paddle in Death Valley after rains replenish lake

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Kayakers have been paddling in one of the driest places on Earth after a series of record rainstorms battered California’s Death Valley and replenished Lake Manly. Park Ranger Nichole Andler said Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, … Read more

NRA, Wayne LaPierre found liable in lawsuit over lavish spending

NRA, Wayne LaPierre found liable in lawsuit over lavish spending

NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime head of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, misspent millions of dollars of the organization’s money, using the funds to pay for an extravagant lifestyle that included exotic getaways and trips on private planes and superyachts, a New York jury determined Friday. The jury ordered LaPierre, 74, to repay … Read more

Classified documents: Trump’s lawyers claim presidential immunity protects him

Classified documents: Trump’s lawyers claim presidential immunity protects him

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team filed multiple motions Thursday night urging a Florida judge to dismiss the criminal case charging him with illegally retaining classified documents, claiming in part that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution — an argument they have already submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in his election … Read more

Odysseus lunar lander makes moon landing, but signal weak

Odysseus lunar lander makes moon landing, but signal weak

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lander on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back until flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact. Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built and managed the craft, confirmed that it … Read more

More Alabama IVF providers pause treatment after court ruling on frozen embryos

More Alabama IVF providers pause treatment after court ruling on frozen embryos

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Additional in vitro fertilization providers in Alabama paused services Thursday, sending patients scrambling to make other plans in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that said frozen embryos could be considered children under state law. Doctors and patients have been grappling with shock and fear this week as they … Read more