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Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire, flood risks 05/22/2024 01:04am • As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation's primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas. When the fires showed no sign of slowing, Pantex Plant officials urgently called on local contractors, who arrived within minutes with Fani Willis and judge presiding over Georgia Trump election case defeat challengers 05/22/2024 12:45am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who brought a sprawling racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and others, has won the Democratic primary in her bid for reelection. Willis defeated progressive attorney Christian Wise Smith in the Kahleah Copper scores 37 points, Mercury hand Aces first loss 98-88 05/22/2024 12:32am • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Kahleah Copper scored 37 points and the Phoenix Mercury handed the two-time defending champion Las Vegas Aces their first loss of the season 98-88 on Tuesday night. Copper, who had a career-high 38 points in her last game, had 14 in the fourth quarter, none bigger than her driving Cubs activate Dansby Swanson from the injured list, recall Luis V��zquez from Triple-A Iowa 05/22/2024 12:16am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Dansby Swanson tried to be helpful while he was on the 10-day injured list. Eventually, he ran out of patience. ���First few days was really nice. ... It was just sit and watch baseball and chat through things,��� he said. ���Then I really started going crazy after a while, not bein Sen. Cory Booker questions US prison labor policies, calls for change 05/21/2024 11:45pm • Prisoners should be learning professional skills that help prepare them for their release instead of being forced to work, sometimes picking crops in triple-digit heat for pennies an hour or nothing at all, Sen. Cory Booker said at a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on prison labor Tuesday. Am Lawsuit says ex-Officer Chauvin kneeled on woman's neck, just as he did when he killed George Floyd 05/21/2024 11:19pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A former employee sued the city of Minneapolis on Tuesday, alleging ex-police Officer Derek Chauvin hauled her from her minivan and pinned her to the ground with his knee in January 2020, just as he did four months later when he killed George Floyd. Patty Day, then employed by t Archer's return gives England wary optimism of retaining the T20 World Cup title 05/21/2024 10:59pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Fingers crossed. That was the common expression used about Jofra Archer by Rob Key, the managing director of England's men���s cricket, when he announced the squad for the Twenty20 World Cup. Key spoke for Archer, England and it supporters as he hoped the sleek paceman capable of bow The Latest | UN food aid collapses in Rafah as Israeli leaders decry war crime accusations 05/21/2024 10:38pm • The United Nations said Tuesday that it was no longer able to distribute food aid in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to lack of supplies and insecurity. The humanitarian crisis has escalated over the past two weeks since Israel launched an incursion into Rafah that closed a vital border crossin Andrew Abbott handcuffs Padres as Reds rebound from disastrous road trip to win 2-0 05/21/2024 10:16pm • CINCINNATI (AP) ��� Andrew Abbott threw seven shutout innings, Elly De La Cruz doubled home a run and the Cincinnati Reds shook off a disastrous road trip to beat the San Diego Padres 2-0 on Tuesday night. The Reds went 3-7 on their swing out West, losing series to the Giants, Diamondbacks and Dodge Weather forecasters warn Pakistanis to stay indoors ahead of new heat wave 05/21/2024 09:52pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Authorities in Pakistan on Tuesday urged people to stay indoors as the country is hit by an extreme heat wave that threatens to bring dangerously high temperatures and yet another round of glacial-driven floods. Pakistan���s most populous province, Punjab, is shutting all schools Justin Fields is eager to start over in Pittsburgh, even as a backup behind Russell Wilson 05/21/2024 09:21pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Justin Fields could sense his time in Chicago was up at his exit meeting in January. While Bears general manager Ryan Poles didn't outright tell Fields the organization was going to look for another quarterback after three uneven seasons with the talented but inconsistent Fields Resigned to a fate of constant displacement, India's river islanders return home in between floods 05/21/2024 09:12pm • MORIGAON, India (AP) ��� Yaad Ali is dreading the rainy season���s arrival this year. The 56-year-old farmer from northeastern India���s Assam state lives with his wife and son on Sandahkhaiti island on India���s Brahmaputra River. The island, like two thousand others on the river, floods with incre NFL's accelerator program gives minority coaches optimism that new system works 05/21/2024 08:47pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Getting lessons on how to manage a crisis and deal with the media will help Houston quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson and New York Giants offensive coordinator Mike Kafka when and if they interview for NFL head coaching jobs. That's exactly what the NFL 's coach accelerato UN halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in the southern Gaza city 05/21/2024 08:38pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� The United Nations suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Tuesday due to a lack of supplies and an untenable security situation caused by Israel���s expanding military operation. The U.N. warned that humanitarian operations across the territory were nearing Jailed Guatemalan journalist to AP: 'I can defend myself, because I am innocent' 05/21/2024 08:20pm • GUATEMALA CITY (AP) ��� Jos�� Rub��n Zamora has spent nearly two years locked in a dark 16- by 13-foot cell in a Guatemalan prison, allowed only one hour a day in the sunlight. The journalist���s money laundering conviction was tossed out, and last week a judge finally ordered his conditional releas