Month: July 2024

By Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela | Venezuelan government leaders ratcheted up their attacks on their opponents Tuesday, with some suggesting the opposition’s most influential leader and a presidential candidate be arrested, as foreign countries including key ally Brazil and the U.S. decried a lack of transparency over the disputed presidential election. A day after President

By Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. | At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by Interior Department officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools. The investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland found marked and

By Associated Press With plans for athletes to swim the Seine River through the heart of Paris, Olympic organizers essentially bet against climate change’s extreme weather. Now it’s looking like they’ll lose — by ditching the swimming portion of triathlon races. And some scientists and engineers are saying told you so. Heavy rains — something

By Associated Press NEW YORK — It is not easy to be an outsider in country music, but Orville Peck has made a career out of it. On his third album, “Stampede,” his nonconformist spirit has led to collaborations with everyone from Willie Nelson and Elton John to Mickey Guyton and Kylie Minogue. When the

By Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois sheriff whose deputy shot Sonya Massey, the unarmed Black woman who called 911 for help in her Springfield home, apologized to the community during a gathering Monday night, saying, “I offer up no excuses.” Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell faced a hostile crowd of more than 500

By Associated Press NEW YORK — The director of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 vision for a complete overhaul of the federal government stepped down Tuesday after blowback from Donald Trump’s campaign, which has tried to disavow the program created by many of the former president’s allies and former aides. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Secret Service’s acting director told lawmakers Tuesday that he considered it indefensible that the roof used by the gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was unsecured and said it was regrettable that local law enforcement had not alerted his agency before the shooting that an

By Associated Press ATLANTA — Vice President Kamala Harris told a cheering, boisterous, packed arena on Tuesday that the next few months would be a serious fight and acknowledged the Democrats were right now the underdogs — but assured the crowd they would win in November. “We have a fight in front of us,” the

By Associated Press BEIRUT — Israel on Tuesday carried out a rare strike on Beirut, which it said killed a top Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The strike in the Lebanese capital killed at least one woman and two children

By Associated Press NEW YORK — More drops for Big Tech stocks dragged on Wall Street Tuesday, overshadowing gains for much of the U.S. stock market. The S&P 500 slipped 0.5%, even though two out of every three stocks within the index rose. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 203 points, or 0.5%, and the

By Associated Press American consumers felt more confident in July as expectations over the near-term future rebounded. However, in a reversal of recent trends, feelings about current conditions weakened. The Conference Board, a business research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 100.3 in July from a downwardly revised 97.8 in June.

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. job openings fell slightly last month, a sign that the American labor market continues to cool in the face of high interest rates. There were 8.18 million job vacancies in June, down from 8.23 million in May, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. The June number was stronger than expected:

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday that is designed to protect children from dangerous online content, pushing forward with what would be the first major effort by Congress in decades to hold tech companies more accountable for the harm that they cause. The bill, which passed 91-3, has been pushed

By Associated Press NEW YORK — A “side hustle” can be one way to try out a new business idea before taking a full-fledged jump. Nearly 1 in 3 Americans earn money on the side in addition to working full time, a Bankrate survey found. But having a side hustle can be tricky to maintain.

By Tracy Bicknell-Holmes Boise State University The Conversation via AP The phenomenal growth in artificial intelligence tools has made it easy to create a story quickly, complicating a reader’s ability to determine if a news source or article is truthful or reliable. For instance, earlier this year, people were sharing an article about the supposed

By Associated Press PARIS — Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz are getting the hang of this doubles thing, improving to 2-0 as a team at the Paris Olympics and moving into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-7 (2), 10-2 match tiebreaker victory over Tallon Griekspoor and Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands on Tuesday night. Playing

By Associated Press PARIS — “The Redemption Tour” ended in a familiar spot for Simone Biles: atop the Olympic podium. Again. The American gymnastics star and her singular brilliance powered a dominant U.S. women’s team in the finals inside a raucous Bercy Arena on Tuesday night. With Biles at her show-stopping best, the Americans’ total