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By Associated Press NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s defense attorney on Thursday accused Stormy Daniels of slowly altering the details of an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, trying to persuade jurors that a key prosecution witness in the former president’s hush money trial cannot be believed. “The details of your story keep changing, right?”

By Associated Press ROME — For a brief stretch on Thursday, Rafael Nadal looked every bit of a weary 37-year-old player nearing retirement. Struggling to produce pace off both sides with his groundstrokes, committing an uncharacteristically high number of unforced errors and unable to stay in rallies, Nadal dropped the first set of his first-round

By Associated Press JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a U.S. threat to withhold some arms would not prevent Israel from continuing its offensive in Gaza, indicating it might proceed with an invasion of the packed city of Rafah against the wishes of its closest ally. President Joe Biden has urged Israel

By Associated Press MANCHESTER, England — FIFA has been told to reschedule its expanded Club World Cup just over a year before the tournament is due to be staged in the United States. World players’ union FIFPRO and the World Leagues Association are demanding reform of the international match calendar, which is controlled by soccer’s

By Associated Press MARSEILLE, France — Joyful crowds gathered along the streets of France’s southern port of Marseille on Thursday to see torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame through the city’s most emblematic sites, a day after it arrived on a majestic three-mast ship for a welcoming ceremony. It was the first leg of an 11-week

By Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya | Armed with gardening hoes while others cradled bamboo seedlings, students gathered outside their school in Kenya’s capital. They hoped the fully grown bamboo would help to filter filthy air from one of Africa’s largest trash dumps next door. More than 100 bamboo plantings dot the ground around Dandora secondary

By Metro Creative Few sandwiches are more widely enjoyed than BLTs. When hosting parties, hosts often look for foods that will appeal to their guests, which makes BLTs a great appetizer option. Those hosts who want to take a chance on a less traditional “BLT” might want to consider the following recipe for “Inside-Out BLTs”

By Metro Creative It’s not uncommon for individuals engaged in strength training workout regimens to wonder how much time they should rest between sets, a situation that can only grow more difficult when going online, where advice ranges from 30 seconds to three minutes. But a 2016 study published in The Journal of Strength and

By Associated Press WASHINGTON | The Biden administration plans to propose a new rule Thursday aimed at speeding up the asylum claims process for some migrants — a potential prelude to broader actions from President Joe Biden later this year that would impose a bigger crackdown at the border. It’s meant to affect migrants with

By Associated Press ATLANTA | A Georgia man has been indicted on murder charges by grand jurors who said he intended to rape a nursing student whose body was found near a running trail on the University of Georgia campus. It is the first time such a motive has been revealed in the February killing

By Associated Press PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — As major floods engulfed entire cities in the northern part of the Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state last week, meteorologist Estael Sias knew the water would drain into capital Porto Alegre’s metropolitan region and that she would need to find a safe place. So she, her husband,

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tried and failed in sudden action Wednesday to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans tired of the political chaos. One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, Greene stood on the House floor and read

By Associated Press MIAMI — Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday. Senior Airman Roger Fortson,

By Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rory McIlroy won’t be returning to the PGA Tour board, saying Wednesday a plan to replace Webb Simpson was met with resistance from board members. Simpson, one of six player-directors, recently offered to give up his seat — but only if McIlroy were to replace him. McIlroy would have

By Associated Press PAVILION TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Severe storms tore through the central and southeast U.S. late Tuesday and Wednesday, spawning damaging tornadoes, producing massive hail, and killing one person in Tennessee and another in North Carolina when trees toppled onto their vehicles. The storm that rumbled across northeastern Tennessee brought high winds that knocked

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah — the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza — over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there. Biden, in an interview

By Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bobby Witt Jr. hit a home run and scored three times to lead the Kansas City Royals over the Milwaukee Brewers 6-4 on Wednesday. Both starting pitchers struggled out of the gate but settled down and limited the damage. The Royals’ Brady Singer (3-1) allowed one run on

By Associated Press NEW YORK — Wall Street’s lull stretched into a second day, as U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed close in a quiet Wednesday. The S&P 500 finished virtually unchanged after flipping between modest gains and losses through the day. It edged down by 0.03 to 5,187.67. It was coming off a very

By Associated Press STURTEVANT, Wisc. — President Joe Biden on Wednesday laced into Donald Trump over a failed project in the previous administration that was supposed to bring thousands of new jobs into southeastern Wisconsin and trumpeted new economic investments under his watch that are coming to the same spot. That location in the battleground

By Associated Press FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded, and some will get more than that. FTX said in a court filing late Tuesday that it owes about $11.2 billion to its creditors. The exchange estimates that

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden runs for reelection, he’s resurrecting proposals to reshape American life from the cradle to the grave by lowering the cost of child care, expanding preschool opportunities and making home aides more available to the elderly. The initiatives were once part of Build Back Better, Biden’s gargantuan

By Columbia Missourian via My Courier-Tribune JEFFERSON CITY — Bills that would prohibit state agencies from having DEI programs shined further light on party division in the House as they received initial approval Wednesday. The bills, spearheaded by HB 2619, sponsored by Rep. Cody Smith, R-Carthage, would prohibit state funding from being used to create