By The Associated Press President Donald Trump’s administration is warning Tuesday of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a government shutdown, reversing what has been longstanding policy for some 750,000 furloughed employees, according to a memo being circulated by the White House. The move was widely seen as a strongarm tactic to pressure
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By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tenor Rolando Villazón was singing the title role in Massenet’s “Werther” in 2006 at Nice, France, when he started thinking about how he would direct the opera. “I said, ‘oh, this last act is very difficult. He shot himself and keeps singing for 40 minutes.’ And
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs won 11 one-score games last season, a big reason why they wound up in the Super Bowl for a third straight year. They have lost all three of their one-score games this season. The margin between winning and losing in the NFL
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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Tuesday that he will not run for governor, opting instead to seek a third term as the state’s top law enforcement official. The governor’s race is wide open after Democratic incumbent Tony Evers, 73, announced this summer that he
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The Democratic governors of California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association because of its silence on President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops across state lines despite objections from the receiving states’ leaders. “If we cannot come together, on a bipartisan
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By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— HKN–WILD-TARASENKO DESCRIPTION: ST. PAUL, Minn. — Vladimir Tarasenko is seeking a reset for his career with the
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— HKN–WILD-TARASENKO DESCRIPTION: ST. PAUL, Minn. — Vladimir Tarasenko is seeking a reset for his career with the
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— HKN–WILD-TARASENKO DESCRIPTION: ST. PAUL, Minn. — Vladimir Tarasenko is seeking a reset for his career with the
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— HKN–WILD-TARASENKO DESCRIPTION: ST. PAUL, Minn. — Vladimir Tarasenko is seeking a reset for his career with the
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By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — The spring fashion season ended with silhouettes you could spot from a block away. As Paris Fashion Week wrapped up this week after myriad debuts and shake-ups, three trends took hold. Shoulders were broadened and jackets snapped to attention. Skin showed on the wearer’s terms. And
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Two men last weekend were wrongly charged under a far-reaching Florida immigration law that’s currently suspended by a judicial order, according to a Monday report from the state attorney general’s office. Both men were charged in separate instances in Bradenton under a Florida law that outlaws
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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — The lengths writer-director Derek Cianfrance goes to create immersive environments for his actors has grown into a kind of legend. After making the much-improvised doomed romance of “Blue Valentine” (2010), Michelle Williams said she would have to remind herself that she was never, actually, married to
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Andrew Garfield would like everyone to know about his gesticulating. Not in his performance as a Yale philosophy professor accused of sexual misconduct in “After the Hunt,” but while discussing an actor’s responsibility to comment on the work they’re putting out in the world. It’s
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia hosted a delegation of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban government Tuesday and issued a strong warning against a foreign military presence in the country. Speaking at the start of an international meeting on Afghanistan in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praised the Taliban government for efforts to
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by Yiyun Li are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Award. On Tuesday, the National Book Foundation a nnounced five nominees in each of five competitive categories, narrowing
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By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, Oct. 8 COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Missouri St. at MTSU 8 p.m. CBSSN — Liberty at UTEP COLLEGE GOLF 4:30 p.m. GOLF — 2025 NB3 Collegiate: Match Play – Final Day, Twin Warriors Golf Course, Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M.
Continue Reading All Times EDT Eastern Conference W L T Pts GF GA Philadelphia 20 7 6 66 57 33 Cincinnati 19 9 5 62 49 40 Inter Miami CF 17 7 8 59 72 53 Charlotte FC 18 13 2 56 53 46 New York City FC 17 11 5 56 49 42 Nashville 16 11
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for public television stations suffering from cuts in federal funding. Ross, a public television stalwart in the 1980s and ’90s, “dedicated his life to making art accessible to everyone,” said
Continue Reading All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Florida 1 1 0 0 2 3 2 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 Detroit 0 0 0 0
Continue Reading All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Buffalo 4 1 0 .800 153 113 New England 3 2 0 .600 125 101 Miami 1 4 0 .200 107 145 N.Y. Jets 0 5 0 .000 112 157 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 4 1 0 .800 163
Continue Reading All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB New York 2 0 1.000 — Brooklyn 1 0 1.000 ½ Philadelphia 0 2 .000 2 Toronto 0 1 .000 1½ Boston 0 0 .000 1 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Orlando 1 0 1.000 — Miami 0 2 .000 1½ Atlanta 0
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Continue Reading All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Florida 1 1 0 0 2 3 2 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 0 2 3 0 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 0
Continue Reading All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Div Buffalo 4 1 0 .800 153 113 3-1-0 1-0-0 3-1-0 1-0-0 2-1-0 New England 3 2 0 .600 125 101 1-2-0 2-0-0 2-2-0 1-0-0 2-0-0 Miami 1 4 0 .200 107 145 1-1-0 0-3-0 1-3-0 0-1-0 1-2-0 N.Y.
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MADRID (AP) — A building under renovation collapsed in central Madrid on Tuesday, killing two construction workers and leaving two others missing, the mayor of Spain’s capital said. Mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida said that emergency workers and police had recovered the body of a man and had located the body of another person trapped
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Attorney General Pam Bondi goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday as federal agents surge into American cities. Senators are sure to question her about political influence over a Justice Department that has already criminally charged one of President Donald Trump’s longtime foes and is facing intense White House pressure to
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By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Protesters gathered in several countries Tuesday to condemn the war in Gaza as Israelis marked the second anniversary of the Hamas attack that sparked the fighting that has claimed tens of thousands of lives and spilled violence across the Middle East. More than 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The newly elected mayor of a town in western Germany was found with life-threatening wounds on Tuesday. Investigators said there was no evidence of a political motive and that they suspected a family connection to the attack. Iris Stalzer was elected mayor of Herdecke on Sept. 28. She is a member of
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By TRISHA THOMAS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday his first foreign trip, to Turkey and Lebanon next month, would provide a historic opportunity to promote Christian unity while bringing a message of peace and hope to Lebanon’s long-suffering people and the broader Middle East. Leo
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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Embattled French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a fresh blow Tuesday with two of his former prime ministers sharply distancing themselves from him as he faced growing pressure to resign after the collapse of his latest government. Édouard Philippe was Macron’s first prime minister after
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