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California oil workers face an uncertain future in the state's energy transition 10/12/2025 07:42am • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Thirty years ago, Willie Cruz was shocked when he learned the Southern California oil refinery where he worked was shutting down. Cruz, now a 61-year-old living in Arizona, had spent five years working in the environmental department when Powerine Oil Company said it woul Matt Payne and Garth Tander win dramatic Bathurst 1000 after starting 18th 10/12/2025 04:28am • Matt Payne and Garth Tander won a dramatic Bathurst 1000 auto race in a Ford Mustang Sunday despite crossing the line in second place and after starting from 18th on the grid. James Golding was first across the line in a Chevrolet but was carrying a five-second time penalty that lifted Payne into fi A man in Brazil turned his childhood dream into a small cinema for film lovers 10/12/2025 01:05am • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Carlos Costa would never forget the summer day his grandmother took him to the movies. He was 6 years old when he first walked into a dark theater to watch ���O Trapalh��o nas Minas do Rei Salom��o,��� a 1977 Brazilian comedy that remains one of the country���s biggest box office What to know about National Guard deployments in Memphis, Tennessee, and other cities 10/11/2025 09:56pm • Judges have stalled President Donald Trump���s plans to deploy the National Guard in Chicago and in Portland, Oregon, but troops are now patrolling in Memphis, Tennessee, with the blessing of the state's governor. The troops, dressed in Guard fatigues and protective vests, with guns in their holster Southern California beachgoers watch helicopter spiral out of control, slam into palms 10/11/2025 09:31pm • HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) ��� A helicopter that was coasting above a popular Southern California beach Saturday suddenly lost control and began spiraling in midair, eventually losing altitude and slamming into a row of palms as stunned sunbathers and beachgoers looked on. Multiple videos posted Heavy rain in Mexico sets off floods and landslides, killing at least 41 10/11/2025 09:26pm • POZA RICA, Mexico (AP) ��� Some people in the low-lying working class neighborhoods of Poza Rica heard the wall of water before they saw it. The loudest sound was from the cars crashing together as they were swept along by the water that had escaped from the banks of the Cazones River and flooded th Tiger Woods has a seventh back surgery to have disk replaced 10/11/2025 08:33pm • Tiger Woods has gone through a seventh back surgery, this time to replace a disk in his lower back and had caused pain and mobility issues. Woods said in a social media post he had the surgery in New York and said it was the right decision for his his health and his troubled back. He did not m Hundreds told to evacuate as tropical storm remnants cause Colorado mountain streams to flood 10/11/2025 08:02pm • FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) ��� The remnants of a tropical storm brought flooding across parts of the Southwest on Saturday, prompting hundreds of evacuations in southwestern Colorado as mountain streams raged above their banks and crews toiled to protect property with sandbags. Hardest-hit areas inclu As the National Guard enters Memphis, memories of MLK and 1968 unrest resurface 10/11/2025 07:28pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� As National Guard troops arrive in Memphis, the memory of thousands of them with bayonetted rifles and tanks in 1968 is still fresh for Joe Calhoun. Back then, he marched in the streets with sanitation workers and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. King had come to support some Texas NHRA FallNationals Qualifying 10/11/2025 07:00pm • Saturday At Texas Motorplex Ennis, Texas Qualifying after two rounds Top Fuel 1. Shawn Langdon, 3.684 seconds, 338.88 mph vs. 16. Mitch King, 4.030, 302.30; 2. Shawn Reed, 3.685, 333.56 vs. 15. Kyle Satenstein, 3.948, 278.79; 3. Justin Ashley, 3.688, 338.02 vs. 14. Doug Foley, 3.826, 321.41; 4. Ant Hamlin's controversial move: Did he make the right call in NASCAR playoffs? 10/11/2025 06:27pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� The first thing Denny Hamlin said when he climbed from his car after advancing into the third round of NASCAR's playoffs was he wish he'd known not to pass Ross Chastain on the final lap. In racing Chastain for that position, it knocked Chastain out of the playoffs and gave the f Haaland grabs hat trick for Norway but Ronaldo's goalless for Portugal in World Cup qualifying 10/11/2025 05:46pm • Erling Haaland further enhanced his superstar reputation with a hat trick for Norway in a 5-0 home win against Israel while Cristiano Ronaldo drew a blank as Portugal beat Ireland 1-0 in World Cup qualifying on Saturday. Haaland moved onto 51 Norway goals in just 46 matches, as Ronaldo failed to inc Two powerful quakes strike off southern Philippines, killing at least 7 people 10/11/2025 03:16am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� Two powerful offshore earthquakes struck the same region in the southern Philippines hours apart on Friday with the first 7.4 magnitude temblor killing at least seven people, setting off landslides and prompting evacuations of coastal areas nearby because of a brief tsun Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 18 missing and feared dead, sheriff says 10/10/2025 11:28pm • McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) ��� A blast leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee, leaving behind a mass of twisted metal, burned-out shells of cars and at least 18 people missing and feared dead, authorities said. ���There���s nothing to describe. It���s gone,��� Humphreys County Sheriff Chris D Texas NHRA FallNationals Qualifying 10/10/2025 11:22pm • Friday At Texas Motorplex Ennis, Texas Qualifying after two rounds Top Fuel 1. Shawn Langdon, 3.684 seconds, 338.88 mph; 2. Shawn Reed, 3.685, 333.56; 3. Justin Ashley, 3.688, 338.02; 4. Antron Brown, 3.695, 336.70; 5. Doug Kalitta, 3.701, 338.37; 6. Brittany Force, 3.703, 340.57; 7. Steve Torrence