Search

Panamanians vote in an election dominated by a former president who was barred from running 05/05/2024 12:41pm • PANAMA CITY (AP) ��� Panamanians began voting Sunday in an election that has been consumed by unfolding drama surrounding the country���s former president, even though he is not on the ballot. As the sweltering sun beat down over the normally sleepy Central American nation, voters lined up outside p With a vest and a voice, helpers escort kids through San Francisco���s broken Tenderloin streets 05/05/2024 01:36am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Wearing a bright safety vest with the words ���Safe Passage��� on the back, Tatiana Alabsi strides through San Francisco���s Tenderloin neighborhood to its only public elementary school, navigating broken bottles and stained sleeping bags along tired streets that occasionally Ohtani gifts Roberts a toy Porsche before breaking club mark for most HRs by a Japanese-born player 05/05/2024 01:32am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Dave Roberts recently joked that Shohei Ohtani should gift Roberts a Porsche when Ohtani breaks his Dodgers' record for most home runs by a Japanese-born player. Ohtani obliged, just maybe not in the way Roberts imagined. Before Friday's game against the Atlanta Braves, the Dodg They study next to one of Africa's largest trash dumps. They're planting bamboo to try to cope 05/05/2024 12:23am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� 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 Largo woman found shot dead inside car 05/05/2024 12:02am • A 20-year-old Largo, Maryland, woman is dead after being found shot inside her car found in a ditch. According to Maryland State Police, Nyah Strong Hairston was located shortly before 10:45 p.m. Friday in her Nissan Versa near southbound Interstate 495 before Landover Road. She was found unre Hundreds rescued from flooding in Texas as waters continue rising in Houston 05/04/2024 09:29pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in murky water. Others prepared to evacuate their property. A wide region was swamped from Hou Biden and Trump offer worlds-apart contrasts on issues in 2024's rare contest between two presidents 05/04/2024 08:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Joe Biden and Donald Trump are two presidents with unfinished business and an itch to get it done. Their track records and plans on abortion, immigration, taxes, wars abroad ��� you name it ��� leave no doubt that the man voters choose in November will seek to shape the landscap Christopher Bell stops run of misfortune with pole qualifying run at Kansas Speedway 05/04/2024 07:41pm • KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) ��� Christopher Bell put four trying weeks of crashes and misfortune behind him Saturday, posting the fastest time in qualifying at Kansas Speedway to earn the pole for the third time in his last five NASCAR Cup Series visits to the track. Bell turned a lap of 183.107 mph in h Kyle Larson eyes Indy 500-Coke 600 double as busy May begins for him at Kansas Speedway 05/04/2024 06:14pm • KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) ��� Kyle Larson began what will become a busy month of May on a small dirt track nestled in a crook of the Missouri River, where he started outside of the top 10 in his sprint car Friday night and managed to climb to third place by the finish. By the end of the month, Larson h Max Verstappen ties Alain Prost's record with 6th pole-winning run to open an F1 season 05/04/2024 06:04pm • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) ��� Max Verstappen inched closer to a third consecutive win at the Miami Grand Prix on Saturday by continuing his long domination of Formula 1 qualifying. The three-time reigning F1 champion won his seventh consecutive pole, but first at Miami, where Verstappen failed to ea Labour's Sadiq Khan reelected as London mayor as UK's ruling Conservatives face more electoral pain 05/04/2024 04:55pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party's mayor of London, romped to victory Saturday, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U.K.'s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election. Khan won a little over a million votes, or n Logan Sargeant is the only American driver in F1. His seat is in jeopardy as he heads into home race 05/04/2024 04:39pm • MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) ��� The only American driver in Formula One had a somewhat decent showing in the Saturday sprint race ahead of the Miami Grand Prix. Then Logan Sargeant totally tanked in qualifying at a time his seat with Williams seems in serious jeopardy. The sprint race was won by three I-95 overpass in Connecticut scorched during a fuel truck inferno has been demolished 05/04/2024 03:51pm • NORWALK, Conn. (AP) ��� A bridge damaged in a fiery crash that kept Interstate 95 in Connecticut closed Thursday and Friday has been demolished. A live camera operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation on Saturday showed excavators and bucket loaders scooping up rubble from the destroy London, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Mayor Sadiq Khan wins historic third term 05/04/2024 03:27pm • LONDON (AP) ��� London Mayor Sadiq Khan has a lot of cleaning up to do. Khan, who made history Saturday by becoming the city's first mayor elected to a third term, has pledged to make the River Thames swimmable. It wasn't a top campaign issue but it's an audacious goal considering the waterway was 2024 NFL Draft Selections 05/04/2024 03:03pm • Thursday, April 25FIRST ROUND 1. Chicago (from Carolina), Caleb Williams, qb, Southern Cal. 2. Washington, Jayden Daniels, qb, LSU. 3. New England, Drake Maye, qb, North Carolina. 4. Arizona, Marvin Harrison Jr., wr, Ohio State. 5. L.A. Chargers, Joe Alt, ot, Notre Dame. 6. N.Y. Giants, Malik Nabers