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Music Review: Waxahatchee's alt-country soars, finds joy in simple things on ‘Tigers Blood’ 03/21/2024 12:43pm • The indie artist Waxahatchee, known for her gut-wrenching alt-country, demonstrates mastery of her craft on her sixth studio album, “Tigers Blood.” The Alabama-raised singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield started her Waxahatchee project in 2010, following many years on the road with power pop-punk Russia fires 31 missiles at Kyiv in the first attack in weeks as people scramble for cover in subway 03/21/2024 12:13pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than two dozen missiles at Kyiv before dawn on Thursday, attacking the Ukrainian capital for the first time in six weeks and sending panicked residents flooding into the relative safety of the subway system in a scene reminiscent of the first weeks of the war Security and climate change drive a return to nuclear energy as over 30 nations sign summit pledge 03/21/2024 12:12pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — In the shadow of a massive monument glorifying nuclear power, over 30 nations from around the world pledged to use the controversial energy source to help achieve a climate-neutral globe while providing countries with an added sense of strategic security. The idea of a Nuclear Ener Their children disappeared in Argentina's dictatorship. These mothers have looked for them since 03/21/2024 08:03am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Forty-seven years ago, before her hair turned white and she had no need of a wheelchair to march around Argentina’s most iconic square, Nora Cortiñas made a promise to her son who disappeared: She would search for him until her last breath. Her commitment sums up Kenyan doctors stop providing emergency services at public hospitals as strike enters second week 03/21/2024 07:23am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan doctors stopped providing emergency services at public hospitals on Thursday, as they escalated a national strike that entered its second week. Thousands of doctors have stayed away from hospitals since last Thursday over poor pay and working conditions, despite a cour Gangs target peaceful communities in new attacks on Haiti's capital 03/21/2024 05:43am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Armed gangs launched new attacks in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, with heavy gunfire echoing across once-peaceful communities near the Haitian capital. Associated Press journalists reported seeing at least five bodies in and around the suburbs, and gangs Senegal votes Sunday in a presidential election that has fired up political tensions 03/21/2024 04:58am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal votes Sunday in a tightly contested presidential election that has fired up political tensions and tested one of West Africa’s most stable democracies. The election will take place after much uncertainty following President Macky Sall’s unsuccessful effort to dela South Korea will take final steps to suspend licenses of striking junior doctors starting next week 03/21/2024 01:49am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government will take final steps to suspend the licenses of striking junior doctors next week as they refuse to end their weekslong walkouts that have burdened the country’s medical services, officials said Thursday. More than 90% of the country’s 13,0 In Pennsylvania's Senate race, Casey puts 'greedflation' and corporations on the ballot 03/21/2024 12:14am • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania leaned into the podium, almost past the microphone, to make his point to the union crowd about how mad corporate leaders are at him. “But I got news for them,” Casey told Dauphin County Democrats and AFSCME members. “They shoul Today in History: March 21, Martin Luther King Jr. leads civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery 03/21/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Thursday, March 21, the 81st day of 2024. There are 285 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 21, 1965, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their third, successful march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. On th Biden is using the 'are you better off today' question to contrast himself with Trump 03/20/2024 11:34pm • DALLAS (AP) — President Joe Biden opened a new line of attack against former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, asking and answering the classic “are you better off today than you were four years ago” question to remind voters of what it was like when Trump was in office. The Democratic p Indonesia's defense minister, accused of abuses under dictatorship, is declared election winner 03/20/2024 10:52pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto was announced the winner of the presidential election in the world's third-largest democracy Wednesday over two former governors who vow to contest the result in court over alleged irregularities. Subianto, who was accused of a Prabowo Subianto's election as Indonesia's next president is official. Why is it being challenged? 03/20/2024 10:25pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s electoral commission announced on Wednesday that Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a former general linked to past human rights abuses, was elected president. The results immediately drew allegations of fraud from Subianto’s political rivals. Former Jakar Purdue faces the ghost of a shocking March Madness loss. Virginia has some advice on how to move on 03/20/2024 09:26pm • Purdue had just fallen unexpectedly in the Big Ten Tournament last week and Braden Smith sat down alongside star Zach Edey and coach Matt Painter to meet reporters. It took three questions to conjure a March Madness specter: the Boilermakers’ improbable loss as a No. 1 seed to 16th-seeded Fairl Biden touts Arizona as America's 'future' as government invests $8.5 billion in chipmaker Intel 03/20/2024 09:14pm • CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday celebrated an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants around the country, talking up the investment in the political battleground state of Arizona and calling it a