Traveling over Labor Day weekend? Have a back-up plan for cancellations and delays, and be patient
Many children have gone back to school in the U.S., and the days are getting shorter, but there is still one more excuse to use the swimsuits and beach towels before packing them up: Labor Day. Airports, highways, beaches and theme parks are expected to be packed for the long...
Latest fatal landslide in Alaska kills 1 and injures 3 in Ketchikan, a popular cruise ship stopVideo
ANCHORAGE — A landslide cut a path down a steep, thickly forested hillside and crashed into several homes in Ketchikan, killing one person and injuring three in the latest such disaster to strike mountainous southeast Alaska. The landslide Sunday afternoon prompted a mandatory evacuation of nearby homes in the city,...
Trump would veto legislation establishing a federal abortion ban, Vance says
NEW YORK — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump would not support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk. “I can absolutely commit that,” Vance said when asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether he could...
She’s the sitting vice president. She’s the candidate of change. How Harris is having it both ways
WASHINGTON — She’s the sitting vice president who has been in office for 3 1/2 years. She’s also the presidential candidate of just five weeks promising a “new way forward.” Kamala Harris is having it both ways as she hits the campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention, taking credit...
Trump is expected to tie Harris to chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal on 3rd anniversary of attack
Former President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to tie Vice President Kamala Harris to the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal on the third anniversary of the suicide bombing that killed 13 service members. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is expected to visit Arlington National Cemetery to pay his respects to...
Schools are competing with cellphones. Here’s how they think they could win
Isabella Pires first noticed what she calls the “gradual apathy pandemic” in eighth grade. Only a handful of classmates registered for service projects she helped organize at her Massachusetts school. Even fewer actually showed up. When she got to high school last fall, Isabella found the problem was even worse:...
Hurricane Hone sweeps past Hawaii, dumping enough rain to ease wildfire fearsVideo
HONOLULU — Hurricane Hone passed just south of Hawaii on Sunday, dumping so much rain that the National Weather Service called off its red flag warnings that strong winds could lead to wildfires on the drier sides of the islands. Hone (pronounced hoe-NEH) had top wind of 85 mph Sunday...
Harris campaign says it’s raised $540 million and saw a surge of donations during the convention
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign says it has now raised $540 million for its election battle against Republican nominee former President Donald Trump. The campaign has had no problems getting supporters to open their wallets since President Joe Biden announced on July 21 he was ending his campaign and quickly...
Tim Walz’s exit from Minnesota National Guard left openings for critics to pounce on his military record
WASHINGTON — John Kolb, a retired Minnesota National Guard colonel, knew Tim Walz by reputation as an “excellent leader” who adroitly guided the enlisted troops in his field artillery battalion. But Kolb was stunned by what he saw when Walz left the military and entered politics. Walz retired from the...
5 people die in shelling of a Russian border region while Russian fire hits a hotel with reporters
KYIV, Ukraine — Five people died in Ukrainian shelling in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, officials said Sunday, while Russian forces struck a hotel in eastern Ukraine, leaving one journalist missing and two others injured. Twelve other people were wounded in the Russian village of Rakitone, 38 kilometers (23 miles)...
Israel, Hezbollah trade their most intense fire in months and then pull back
JERUSALEM — Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah traded heavy fire early Sunday but backed off from sparking a widely feared all-out war, as both sides signaled their most intense exchange in months was over. The cross-border attacks came as high-level talks resumed in Egypt aimed at a cease-fire...
‘We were expendable’: Downwinders from world’s 1st atomic test are on a mission to tell their story
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cites. It was a decisive move that helped bring about the end of World War II, but survivors and the...
Schools are competing with cell phones. Here’s how they think they could win
Isabella Pires first noticed what she calls the “gradual apathy pandemic” in eighth grade. Only a handful of classmates registered for service projects she helped organize at her Massachusetts school. Even fewer actually showed up. When she got to high school last fall, Isabella found the problem was even worse:...
Behind the rhetoric, a presidential campaign is a competition about how to tell the American story
NEW YORK — Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination “on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth.” America, Barack Obama thundered, “is ready for a better story.” JD Vance insisted that the Biden administration “is not the end of our story,” and...
Path to the presidency: Keys to victory for Harris and Trump
The parties are over. Now it’s time for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to get down to business. With this year’s Democratic and Republican national conventions in the history books, both sides have wrapped up their warm-up acts and are now plunging into an intense stretch of politicking ahead of...
Israel says it’s staging airstrikes inside Lebanon targeting Hezbollah
JERUSALEM — Israel launched airstrikes inside Lebanon early Sunday that its military said targeted positions of the Shiite militia Hezbollah. In a statement, the Israeli military accused Hezbollah of “preparing to fire missiles and rockets toward Israeli territory.” “In a self-defense act to remove these threats, the (Israeli military) is...
Islamic State group claims knife attack in Solingen, Germany, that killed 3
SOLINGEN, Germany — The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Solingen, Germany that killed three people and wounded eight at a crowded festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary. The group said Saturday on its news site that the attacker targeted Christians and is a “soldier...
NASA decides to keep 2 astronauts in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule, and they’ll have to wait until next year for a ride home with SpaceX. What should have been a weeklong test flight for the pair will now last...
Government announces more covid-19 tests can be ordered through mail for no cost
WASHINGTON — On the heels of a summer wave of covid-19 cases, Americans will be able to get free virus test kits mailed to their homes, starting in late September. U.S. households will be able to order up to four covid-19 nasal swab tests when the federal program reopens, according...
The ‘joyful’ Democratic convention is over. The real test for Kamala Harris’ campaign now begins
CHICAGO — Over and over, from the massive stage in the electric convention hall, the Democrats this week predicted Kamala Harris would defeat Donald Trump. They described her as a historic figure, the embodiment of hope, “the president of joy.” But amid the extraordinary optimism, former first lady Michelle Obama...
Israeli evacuation orders cram Palestinians into shrinking ‘humanitarian zone’ where food is scarce
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Young girls screamed and elbowed each other in a crush of bodies in southern Gaza, trying desperately to reach the front of the food line. Men doled out rice and chicken as fast as they could, platefuls of the nourishment falling to the ground in...
Moscow and Kyiv swap prisoners of war as Ukraine marks independence anniversary
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia and Ukraine exchanged over 100 prisoners of war on Saturday as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow’s full-scale invasion. Ukraine said the 115 servicemen who were freed were conscripts, many of whom were taken prisoner in the first months of Russia’s invasion. Among them...
Iranian hackers targeted WhatsApp accounts of staffers in Biden, Trump administrations, Meta says
WASHINGTON — The same Iranian hacking group believed to have targeted both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns tried to go after the WhatsApp accounts of staffers in the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Meta Platforms said Friday. Meta said it discovered the network of...
Tropical Storm Hone to bring strong wind, heavy rain to Hawaii this weekend
HONOLULU — Tropical Storm Hone was expected to deliver strong winds and heavy rain to Hawaii this weekend, particularly to the Big Island and Maui, as it passes south of the island chain. Forecasters believe it will strengthen to a Category 1 hurricane for part of the time it skirts...
Attack at festival in German city kills 3, wounds at least 5 seriously
SOLINGEN, Germany — An attacker with a knife killed three people and seriously wounded at least five late Friday at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, authorities said. Witnesses alerted police shortly after 9:30 p.m. to an unknown perpetrator having wounded several people indiscriminately with a knife...
