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US envoy calls for Japan's help to quickly replenish US missile inventory, repair warships 06/11/2024 01:42am • TOKYO (AP) ��� The United States needs Japan's help to quickly replenish missile inventory and repair warships as conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine continue and Washington seeks to keep its deterrence credible in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. ambassador to Japan said. "It is clear that the Unite Republican contenders for Mitt Romney���s open US Senate seat clash over support for Trump 06/11/2024 01:37am • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� Three of the four Utah Republicans vying for the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney sought to portray themselves as the most loyal to former President Donald Trump during Monday���s primary debate, while the likely frontrunner stood out as someone willing to challenge par In Italy's Puglia region, women take the lead in challenging the local mafia at great personal risk 06/11/2024 12:29am • LECCE, Italy (AP) ��� It was a scene straight out of ���The Godfather.��� On the night of Feb. 1, a bloody goat head with a butcher���s knife through it was left on the doorstep of Judge Francesca Mariano���s home in southern Italy, with note beside it reading, ���like this.��� Mariano had already r Cop, judge, journalist, activist, prosecutor, volunteer: Women challenge the mafia in Italy's Puglia 06/11/2024 12:27am • A remarkable group of women is challenging the power structures of the Sacra Corona Unita, Italy���s fourth main organized crime group that operates in southern Puglia, the heel of Italy���s boot. They are doing it at great personal risk, arresting and prosecuting clan members, exposing their crime With 100M birds dead, poultry industry could serve as example as dairy farmers confront bird flu 06/11/2024 12:22am • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� As the U.S. dairy industry confronts a bird flu outbreak, with cases reported at dozens of farms and the disease spreading to people, the egg industry could serve as an example of how to slow the disease but also shows how difficult it can be to eradicate the virus. There h Who testified in Hunter Biden's trial on federal firearms charges 06/11/2024 12:11am • WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) ��� Jurors who are weighing whether President Joe Biden's son is guilty of federal firearms charges heard deeply personal testimony about dark moments in Hunter Biden's past. The case playing out in Wilmington, Delaware, stems from a gun the younger Biden bought in October 2018 Indian PM Modi names Cabinet for coalition government after his party lost majority 06/10/2024 11:49pm • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� India's Narendra Modi, newly sworn in for a third straight term, named a Cabinet on Monday that retained his top ministers in crucial portfolios despite his Hindu nationalist party losing their majority in a shock election result. There was no change in the top four ministries. S Macklin, meet McDavid: Expected top pick Celebrini chats with 2015 No. 1 choice at Stanley Cup Final 06/10/2024 11:48pm • SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) ��� Nine years after meeting Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews during the Stanley Cup Final in Chicago, Connor McDavid got to pay it forward Monday in his first appearance in the series. McDavid visited with Macklin Celebrini, the presumptive No. 1 pick in the 2024 NHL draft, and ot Bureau of Land Management shrinks proposed size of controversial Idaho wind farm project 06/10/2024 11:20pm • TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) ��� The federal Bureau of Land Management���s preferred alternative for a proposed large-scale wind energy farm in southern Idaho would shrink its size by nearly half and move it farther from a national historic site. The proposed Lava Ridge wind farm has drawn opposition fro Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle join Biden for early Juneteenth celebration on White House lawn 06/10/2024 10:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden celebrated the Juneteenth holiday early with a Monday concert on the White House South Lawn with singers including Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle. ���Black history is American history,��� Biden told the crowd. The Democratic president warned that some ���old Apple leaps into AI with an array of upcoming iPhone features and a ChatGPT deal to smarten up 06/10/2024 10:01pm • CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) ��� Apple has jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses, spotlighting a slew of features Monday designed to soup up the iPhone, iPad and Mac. And in a move befitting a company known for its marketing prowess, the AI technology coming as par Former longtime Georgia Tech athletic director and NFL coach Homer Rice dies at 97 06/10/2024 09:57pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Homer Rice, who as athletic director hired some of Georgia Tech's most successful coaches and implemented the school's Total Person Program, has died. He was 97. Rice died Monday, Georgia Tech announced on Monday night. Rice was Georgia Tech's athletic director from 1980-97. Among h Dan Hurley turns down offer from Lakers, will stay at UConn to seek 3rd straight NCAA title 06/10/2024 09:56pm • The Los Angeles Lakers offered Dan Hurley what would have seemed like a basketball coach's dream: a chance to coach one of the world's most popular franchises, possibly an opportunity to work with LeBron James and a salary that would have doubled his current one. Hurley passed. He's staying at Conne The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95 06/10/2024 09:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 95. His family said Lawson died on Sunday after a short Fight over constitutional provisions to guard against oil, gas pollution moves ahead in New Mexico 06/10/2024 08:54pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� A New Mexico judge cleared the way Monday for a landmark lawsuit to proceed that alleges the state has failed to meet its constitutional obligations for protecting against oil and gas pollution. Environmental groups and Native Americans who live near oil wells in the No. 2 p