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Gov. Abbott says Texas wildfires may have destroyed up to 500 structures 03/01/2024 10:22pm • STINNETT, Texas (AP) — Wildfires may have destroyed as many as 500 structures in the Texas Panhandle, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday, describing how the largest blaze in state history scorched everything in its path, leaving ashes in its wake. Texas officials warned that the threat was no Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death in rare case against medical responders 03/01/2024 10:04pm • BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison in a rare prosecution of medical responders following the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020. McClain was walking d Biden approves military airdrops of aid into Gaza after chaotic encounter left more than 100 dead 03/01/2024 09:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will begin airdropping emergency humanitarian assistance into Gaza, President Joe Biden said Friday, a day after more than 100 Palestinians were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops. The president announced the move after at least 115 Palestinians were World Trade Organization ends meeting in UAE after failing to reach major agreements 03/01/2024 08:55pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Negotiators taking part in a World Trade Organization meeting in the United Arab Emirates ended their summit early Saturday after failing to reach agreements on several major initiatives, the latest sign of turmoil within the global body. The WTO delayed its clo Georgia's largest county is still repairing damage from January cyberattack 03/01/2024 06:37pm • Georgia's largest county is still repairing damage inflicted on its government a month ago by hackers who shut down office phone lines, left clerks unable to issue vehicle registrations or marriage licenses and threatened to publicly release sensitive data they claimed to have stolen unless official Boeing confirms it's in talks to buy Spirit AeroSystems, its key supplier on the troubled 737 Max 03/01/2024 06:28pm • DALLAS (AP) — Boeing said Friday that it is in preliminary talks to buy Spirit AeroSystems, which builds fuselages for Boeing 737 Max jetliners, including the one that suffered a door-panel blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight in January. Boeing used to own Spirit, and it said that bringing the su Dengue cases in Peru are surging, fueled by mosquitoes and high temperatures brought by El Niño 03/01/2024 06:25pm • PIURA, Peru (AP) — Residents of Pedregal Grande, a poor neighborhood in the Peruvian city of Piura, receive water for only 30 minutes a day because of shortages, forcing them to collect it in plastic tanks that have become breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Scorching temperatures and a lack of air QBs Williams, Maye and Daniels could go 1-2-3 in NFL draft. Or WR Harrison could bump them down 03/01/2024 06:12pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels arrived in Indianapolis as Heisman Trophy winners. Drake Maye is seeking to add to his family's impressive athletic legacy. And the only player who might prevent those three talented quarterbacks from going 1-2-3 in this year's NFL draft appear Jill Biden casts Donald Trump as a threat to women as she opens a tour of battleground states 03/01/2024 04:38pm • ATLANTA (AP) — First lady Jill Biden warned Friday that returning Donald Trump to the White House would threaten women who already have watched the former president’s Supreme Court picks nix a federal right to abortion services. Trump has “spent a lifetime tearing us down and devaluing our exi One year after buying a failed bank, New York Community Bancorp is struggling 03/01/2024 04:38pm • A New York bank is under severe pressure Friday close to one year after absorbing a large chunk of another bank 30 miles (50 kilometers) away that had failed. Shares of New York Community Bancorp plunged after longtime CEO Thomas Cangemi, who has spent much of this year reassuring investors about t Teen girl dies in 'train surfing incident' near Silver Spring Metro station 03/01/2024 04:10pm • A teen girl died Friday morning in an "apparent train surfing incident" near the Silver Spring Metro station, according to the transit agency. Train surfing is defined as riding on the outside or on top of a moving railcar. "We are deeply saddened to learn that a teenage girl lost her life thi Why Missouri currently doesn't allow pregnant women to be legally divorced 03/01/2024 02:28pm • A Missouri lawmaker has introduced legislation to clarify that the state’s judges can grant divorces even when one spouse is pregnant. The notion that they can’t already has sparked anger from people who see it as an antiquated policy that controls women unfairly, possibly trapping them in abusi New Jersey gambling regulator who advised nation on integrity and oversight retires 03/01/2024 12:17pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — David Rebuck, who oversaw New Jersey's development of nation-leading internet gambling and sports betting industries and advised more than two dozen states on setting up and regulating their own gambling operations, retired Friday after 13 years as one of America's most Protests, poisoning and prison: The life and death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny 03/01/2024 10:14am • Alexei Navalny, Russia's top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, was buried Friday in a Moscow suburb in a funeral that drew thousands of mourners amid a heavy police presence. Navalny, who was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism, died Feb. 16, according to Court worker serving an eviction notice and a police officer fatally shot in Missouri, police say 03/01/2024 10:12am • INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A court employee trying to serve an eviction notice at a home in Independence, Missouri, was shot and killed Thursday and two police officers who responded to help him also were shot, one fatally. “I’m very tragically sorry to report that we lost one of our own,” Ind