By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration recently presented a vision for the country’s future in song and video. “The Promise of America is worth Protecting. The Future of our Homeland is worth Defending,” the Department of Homeland Security wrote on X. In the accompanying vintage-filtered montage, families gaze out wondrously at our
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By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, August 6 GOLF 6 p.m. GOLF — USGA: The 2025 U.S. Women’s Amateur, Round of 64, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Bandon, Ore. HORSE RACING 1 p.m. FS2 — NYRA: Saratoga Live LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL 11 a.m. ESPN — Little League World
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A British hiker who had to be airlifted to safety after he ignored signs and crossed warning barriers in the Italian Dolomites is paying a high price for his rescue. The 60-year-old, whose name has not been made public, was given a bill for €14,225 ($16,400) to pay
Continue Reading All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB New York 19 10 .655 — Atlanta 18 11 .621 1 Indiana 17 13 .567 2½ Washington 13 16 .448 6 Chicago 8 21 .276 11 Connecticut 5 23 .179 13½ WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota 25 5 .833 — Phoenix 18 11 .621
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By Alayna Treene, Josh Campbell, Paula Reid, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Top Trump administration officials will gather at the vice president’s residence Wednesday evening as they continue to weigh whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s recent conversation with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. The
Continue Reading All Times EDT East Division W L Pct GB Toronto 67 48 .583 — Boston 64 51 .557 3 New York 60 54 .526 6½ Tampa Bay 56 59 .487 11 Baltimore 51 63 .447 15½ Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 66 49 .574 — Cleveland 58 55 .513 7 Kansas City 56
Continue Reading All Times EDT East Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 65 48 .575 — New York 63 51 .553 2½ Miami 55 57 .491 9½ Atlanta 47 65 .420 17½ Washington 44 68 .393 20½ Central Division W L Pct GB Milwaukee 69 44 .611 — Chicago 65 48 .575 4 Cincinnati 60 54 .526
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By The Associated Press The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Department of Justice on Tuesday for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may show links to President Donald Trump and other former top officials. The Republican-controlled committee also issued subpoenas for depositions with former
Continue Reading All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away RS RA DIFF Toronto 67 48 .583 — — 4-6 W-2 38-19 29-29 556 520 36 Boston 64 51 .557 3 +3½ 9-1 W-7 39-21 25-30 574 489 85 New York 60 54 .526 6½ — 4-6 L-5 34-22
Continue Reading All Times EDT East Division W L Pct GB Toronto 67 48 .583 — Boston 64 51 .557 3 New York 60 54 .526 6½ Tampa Bay 56 59 .487 11 Baltimore 51 63 .447 15½ Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 66 49 .574 — Cleveland 58 55 .513 7 Kansas City 56
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By Lisa Meadows Click here for updates on this story ST. PAUL, Minnesota (WCCO) — A nonprofit river clean-up and conservation organization that has been traveling the Mississippi River has now parked its classroom barge in St. Paul, Minnesota. It looks like just a normal barge parked on the Mississippi River, but then you step
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By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press UMM AL-KHAIR, West Bank (AP) — Nearly two dozen Bedouin women, enrobed in black, sat on the floor of a modest hut that baked under the desert sun of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The room was quiet, the women still. The women are on a hunger strike to call for
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By Shania Shelton, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is planning to reinstall two Confederate monuments, following through on a push by President Donald Trump to restore statues that were removed in the wake of the George Floyd protests. Hours after the US National Park Service said Monday that it will restore
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By Mike Hellgren, Christian Olaniran Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The owner and operator of the Dali, the cargo ship that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on March 26, 2024, are suing the vessel’s shipbuilder, alleging that defective electrical equipment caused a power failure before
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By Christian Edwards and Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — A court in Moldova has sentenced a Kremlin-friendly regional politician to seven years in prison for funneling money from Russia to finance a political party. Evgenia Gutul, the leader of Gagauzia, a historically pro-Russian ethnic region in southern Moldova, was detained in March on suspicion of
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By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation tasked with examining the June 2023 implosion of the Titan submersible released its report on Tuesday, with the board chair stating that the deaths of the five people on board were “preventable.” The report lays responsibility for the tragedy largely at
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WBZ, BOSTON POLICE, CNN By Neal J. Riley, Neal J. Riley Click here for updates on this story BOSTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A 69-year-old Boston man is accused of trying to place a chemical-laced handkerchief over the mouth of a 13-year-old boy in what prosecutors are calling a “bizarre” assault. “It’s basically like facing your
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By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh ’s interim leader announced Tuesday that the parliamentary election will be in February, as the country marked a year since a student-led uprising led to the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Muhammad Yunus spoke in a televised address and said he would request
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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is no longer being considered as a replacement for Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair. “I love Scott, but he wants to stay where he is,” Trump said Tuesday in a CNBC interview Tuesday morning. “I’ll take him off, because I
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo i s the latest author to be welcomed into the inner circle of Oprah Winfrey book club picks. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she had selected Russo’s “Bridge of Sighs,” a 2007 novel centered in a rural New York community. Russo
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By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — This year, people are seeking emergency care for tick bites in the highest level since 2017, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and reported cases of Lyme disease have continued to rise through the years. Experts say the increases are driven by warmer
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — When American teenager Kerri Cunningham was dragged by her parents to Europe in the summer of 1993, she was less than impressed. Dragged might sound like dramatic wording, but that’s how 14-year-old Kerri saw it at the time. Kerri reacted to the vacation plans “from the teenage point of
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By JULIA FRANKEL and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted at wider military action in devastated Gaza on Tuesday, even as former Israeli army and intelligence chiefs called for an end to the nearly 22-month war. The new pressure on Netanyahu came as Gaza’s Health Ministry said the
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ST LOUIS (AP) — ST LOUIS (AP) — Spire Inc. (SR) on Tuesday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $20.9 million. On a per-share basis, the St. Louis-based company said it had net income of 29 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 1 cent per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average
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By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, LINLEY SANDERS and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mairekk Griffiths, a 26-year-old cook in a Denver suburb, doesn’t think he’ll ever pay a lot of attention to U.S. politics unless radical change happens. “If another party was likely to win, I’d be interested in that,” said Griffiths, who voted for
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By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Pro Football Writer EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Harrison Smith, just like anyone approaching middle age, has learned to accept the realities of getting older. The joints, for one, don’t quite move as effortlessly as they once did. So that’s where the 14th-year free safety for the Minnesota Vikings has aimed his
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has declared that it no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on the deployment of nuclear-capable intermediate range missiles, a warning that potentially sets the stage for a new arms race as tensions between Moscow and Washington rise again over Ukraine. In a statement Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry
Continue Reading TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ INTERLEAGUE Final Philadelphia 5 Baltimore 0 Final Houston 7 Miami 3 Final Cleveland 3 N.Y. Mets 2 Final Athletics 16 Washington 7 Final Toronto 10 Colorado 4 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Boston 6 Kansas City 2 Final Minnesota 6 Detroit 3 Final Texas 2 N.Y. Yankees 0 Final Tampa Bay 7
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