By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The Associated Press used an “efficiency gap” analysis to examine congressional elections in 2024 and other recent presidential election years. The test — designed by Eric McGhee, a researcher at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, and Harvard Law School professor Nick Stephanopoulos — identifies states where one
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All Times EDT East Division W L Pct GB Toronto 75 54 .581 — Boston 70 59 .543 5 New York 69 59 .539 5½ Tampa Bay 62 67 .481 13 Baltimore 59 69 .461 15½ Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 77 53 .592 — Kansas City 66 63 .512 10½ Cleveland 64
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Adv23-24 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Aug. 25 COLLEGE SOCCER (MEN’S) 7 p.m. ACCN — Michigan St. at Pittsburgh COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN’S) 8 p.m. SECN — Wake Forest at Mississippi St. MLB BASEBALL 6:30 p.m. FS1 — Tampa Bay at Cleveland 10 p.m. MLBN — Regional
Continue Reading All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away RS RA DIFF Toronto 75 54 .581 — — 6-4 W-1 42-21 33-33 630 574 56 Boston 70 59 .543 5 +1 5-5 W-2 41-25 29-34 639 545 94 New York 69 59 .539 5½ +½ 7-3 L-2 37-27
Continue ReadingJACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (AP) — Powell signals the Federal Reserve is open to cutting rates but gives no indication of the timing in Jackson Hole speech.
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press As Texas Republicans and California Democrats redraw U.S. House districts to their advantage ahead of next year’s elections, they’re potentially disrupting a rare partisan balance in American politics. The 220-215 majority that Republicans won over Democrats in last year’s elections almost perfectly aligns with the share of the vote
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fall books mean more than literary fiction. The top releases this season range from a fairy tale newly told to memoirs about a famous writer’s indomitable mother and life after marriage to a famous rock star. Some books were a decade or more in the
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In the decade since she published her acclaimed debut novel, “The Turner House,” Angela Flournoy has confronted a few delays, welcome and otherwise, en route to completing her second book: her first child, a pandemic, speaking engagements, the occasional essay and, throughout, the challenges of
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By JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After three decades in Hollywood, Daniel Dae Kim has done spy thrillers, sci-fi epics and medical dramas. But there’s one role that’s eluded the Korean American actor: romantic leading man. “I’m still waiting to play a romantic lead after all these years,” Kim says with
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Senate gave final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map early Saturday, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature. President Donald Trump has pushed for the map to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in
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By The Associated Press The Justice Department on Friday released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case. The disclosure represents
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BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s newest panda twins have celebrated their first birthday with frozen vegetable treats and a candle made out of bamboo shoots. The two female cubs were born at the Berlin Zoo on Aug. 22 last year, and each was given both a Chinese and a German name. Meng Hao and Meng Tian
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KILIFI, Kenya (AP) — Five bodies were exhumed from shallow graves in coastal Kenya, at a site near where more than 400 bodies of followers of a doomsday cult were recovered two years ago. Government pathologist Dr. Richard Njoroge on Thursday said 10 human body parts were also recovered, scattered in nearby thickets at Kwa
Continue ReadingOULU, Finland (AP) — Finnish air guitarist Aapo “The Angus” Rautio plucked victory from thin air on Friday night, grabbing the world championship title for his homeland for the first time since 2000. This year’s Air Guitar World Championships reached the climax with a final Friday evening on a square in the western city of
Continue ReadingKEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — Buckle Inc. (BKE) on Friday reported fiscal second-quarter profit of $45 million. On a per-share basis, the Kearney, Nebraska-based company said it had net income of 89 cents. The teen clothing retailer posted revenue of $305.7 million in the period. Buckle shares have risen 8% since the
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By SAM MEDNICK and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The world’s leading authority on food crises said Friday the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it’s likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid. The Integrated Food
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By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Police in Sri Lanka arrested former President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday over allegations that the senior opposition politician misused public funds during his presidency, police said. Wickremesinghe, who was president from 2022 to 2024, is accused of using the funds to attend his wife’s graduation
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By AAMER MADHANI and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to prod Moscow and Kyiv closer to peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Four days later, the Republican president’s
Continue Reading TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ INTERLEAGUE Final Toronto 5 Miami 2 Final Tampa Bay 10 St. Louis 6 Final Chicago Cubs 3 L.A. Angels 2 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Boston 1 N.Y. Yankees 0 Final Detroit 7 Kansas City 5 Final Houston 10 Baltimore 7 Final Texas 4 Cleveland 3 Final Minnesota 9 Chicago White Sox
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Iowa Daybook for Friday, Aug. 22. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Des Moines bureau is reachable at 515-243-3281. Send daybook items to iowa@applanner.com. To
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nebraska Daybook for Friday, Aug. 22. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Kansas Daybook for Friday, Aug. 22. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Kansas City bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Kansas@applanner.com. To
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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said Friday its foreign minister spoke by phone with his French, German and British counterparts to avoid the reimposition of U.N. sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear program, just days ahead of a European deadline. The call by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi came as the
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Kansas City Royals (66-62, second in the AL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (76-53, first in the AL Central) Detroit; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Ryan Bergert (1-1, 2.75 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 51 strikeouts); Tigers: Casey Mize (12-4, 3.63 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 103 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tigers -159, Royals
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the “Missouri Pick 4 Evening” game were: 0, 2, 7, 8 (zero, two, seven, eight) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Thursday’s drawing of the “Nebraska Pick 5” game were: 3, 8, 27, 32, 33 (three, eight, twenty-seven, thirty-two, thirty-three) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the “Iowa Pick 4 Evening” game were: 0, 1, 7, 9 (zero, one, seven, nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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