WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — Officials say storms and flooding in West Virginia have caused at least one death and washed out about 200 tombstones at a cemetery. The Wood County Sheriff's Office said 49-year-old Valerie Ann Swisher was killed when the vehicle she was driving got stuck in high water ...
By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — He surveyed the Arizona crowd that had paid to catch a wrestling glimpse of the planet's mightiest heavyweight, as measured in both box-office heft and ink-stained muscles. Then The Rock let the abuse fly. And as with so many public ...
By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer
There's a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are as broadly smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can.
Achieving such a concept — commonly referred to as AGI — is ...
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A major spring storm was expected to drop more than a foot of snow in parts of New England on Wednesday night, while heavy rains soaked the East Coast and cleanup work continued in several states wracked by tornadoes and other ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Tucked away inside the teachers lounge at a New Hampshire elementary school, Amber Warner was having her teeth checked out for the first time.
The 5-year-old sat back on what looked like a beach chair and wore a pair of dark ...
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer
Monday's total solar eclipse might become one of the most filmed and photographed events of the year.
As the moon passes in front of the sun, plunging a swath of North America into a few minutes of darkness, throngs will take pictures or videos of the ...
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee would become the latest state to require public school students to watch a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group, or something comparable, under legislation that is headed to ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A stretch of a major interstate highway will be closed for several days after a tractor-trailer carrying an oversize load struck a railroad bridge in Philadelphia.
The truck crashed on I-95 northbound around 1:30 p.m. Monday in the city's Port Richmond section. No ...
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Katie Britt confided Tuesday that she counts some Democratic colleagues among her best friends in the Senate and said such cross-party relationships are essential to governing, especially as social media fuels widening ...
By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A teenage girl who had been kidnapped by her father was following a sheriff's deputy's instructions and appeared to be surrendering when other deputies fatally shot her during a gun battle on a Southern California highway, according to ...
By JACK DURA Associated Press
Relations between South Dakota tribes and Republican Gov. Kristi Noem have long been strained, but they have become even more contentious recently as Noem has pointedly criticized tribal leaders, accusing some of profiting from drug dealing and questioning their ...
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Despite Florida's reputation as a newly bona fide red state, Democrats have new hope that a ballot question seeking to preserve abortion rights will put the state back in play as the nation's largest presidential election ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and JILL COLVIN Associated Press
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump again used language denounced by Democrats to hammer President Joe Biden over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday as he campaigned in two midwestern swing states likely to be ...
By JONATHAN J. COOPER and TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Voters in four states weighed in Tuesday on their parties' presidential nominees, a largely symbolic vote now that both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have locked up the Democratic and ...
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico election officials violated public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to provide voter rolls to a conservative group and its public online database, a federal judge has ruled.
The opinion ...
By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was being shaped Tuesday as residents of Jackson County, Missouri, decide whether to extend a sales tax to help to pay for a new downtown ballpark and major renovations to Arrowhead ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock.
It's not quite a time zone like those on Earth, but an entire frame of time reference for the moon. Because ...
SALEM, Ind. (AP) — The mother of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana in 2022 was ordered held without bond Tuesday during a strange initial court appearance in which she claimed she was under federal surveillance for several months before her ...
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press
Thousands of homes and businesses were without power Tuesday as severe weather roared through several states, causing at least one death and spawning possible tornadoes.
In West Virginia, about 140,000 customers were without electricity Tuesday ...
By RIO YAMAT Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — From its lavish opening in 1957 on a Las Vegas Boulevard surrounded by wide-open desert, to its sleepier years amid a boom in megaresorts, the Tropicana Las Vegas has been a familiar landmark home to colorful events in a city known for ...