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At least 1 person is dead and 2 are missing as Tropical Storm Franklin batters Dominican Republic 08/24/2023 01:07am • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Tropical Storm Franklin unleashed heavy floods and landslides in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday after making landfall in the country's southern region, killing at least one person and leaving two others missing. The storm began to slowly spin away late The first 2024 Republican presidential debate is in the books. Here's what happened 08/24/2023 12:19am • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Follow along for live updates on the first 2024 Republican presidential debate. The field's early front-runner, Donald Trump, skipped the event and conducted an interview with Tucker Carlson instead. What to know — GOP candidates tangle in Milwaukee as they vie to be the l Pakistani children rescued from a broken cable car say they repeatedly feared they would die 08/23/2023 11:50pm • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Schoolchildren who were rescued from a broken cable car dangling high above a valley in Pakistan said Wednesday they repeatedly feared they were about to die during the 16-hour ordeal despite attempts by their parents to reassure them over cellphones. Several of the chil Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed dead in a plane crash outside Moscow 08/23/2023 11:40pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military earlier this year, was presumed dead Wednesday after a plane crash north of Moscow that killed all 10 people on board. Prigozhin was on the plane, according to Russia’s civil PeaceHealth to shutter only hospital in Eugene, Oregon; nurse's union calls it 'disastrous' 08/23/2023 09:31pm • EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — PeaceHealth announced this week it is closing the only hospital in Eugene, Oregon, and moving services 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) to its Springfield location. PeaceHealth said Tuesday the hospital serving the city of about 178,000 people is underutilized, the Register-Guard repo Oil production boosts government income in New Mexico, as legislators build savings 'bridge' 08/23/2023 08:39pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Record-breaking oil production in New Mexico is likely to provide state government with a new multibillion-dollar surplus during the upcoming budget year, economists for the state announced Wednesday. Annual state general fund income would increase to $13 billion for the fisc Gunfire in Pittsburgh neighborhood prompts standoff and evacuations; 1 person later pronounced dead 08/23/2023 07:47pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man facing eviction opened fire at officers from inside a Pittsburgh home Wednesday, shooting down police drones and prompting evacuations in the neighborhood, in a gunbattle and siege that lasted much of the day and ended with authorities saying he was dead. City emergency me Tensions high in San Francisco as city seeks reversal of ban on clearing homeless encampments 08/23/2023 07:31pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tensions flared Wednesday as lawyers for San Francisco argued in appellate court that the city can no longer maintain safe, clean streets while trying to get homeless people indoors after a federal judge banned the city from clearing tent encampments until there are more shelt Ambulance dispatcher dies after being shot in parking lot over weekend; estranged husband charged 08/23/2023 07:15pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A dispatcher died Wednesday after being shot at a Little Rock-area ambulance service's parking lot over the weekend, and her estranged husband was charged in her death. Cassandra Pena-Romero, 27, who was shot at the Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services parking lot in do Deadly heat wave in the central US strains infrastructure, transportation and the Texas power grid 08/23/2023 07:04pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Deadly heat that has gripped Texas for much of the summer has spread into other parts of the central U.S. this week where it is forecast to stay for days, with triple-digit temperatures buckling roads, straining water systems and threatening the power grid of the nation's ener At March on Washington's 60th anniversary, leaders seek energy of original movement for civil rights 08/23/2023 06:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixty years ago, Andrew Young and his staff had just emerged from an exhausting campaign against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. But they didn’t feel no ways tired, as the Black spiritual says. The foot soldiers were on a “freedom high,” Young recalls. “They wa At March on Washington's 60th anniversary, leaders seek energy of original movement for civil rights 08/23/2023 06:45pm • Sixty years ago, Andrew Young and his staff had just emerged from an exhausting campaign against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. But they didn’t feel no ways tired, as the Black spiritual says. The foot soldiers were on a “freedom high,” Young recalls. “They wanted to keep on marc Nvidia's rising star gets even brighter with another stellar quarter propelled by sales of AI chips 08/23/2023 06:33pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Computer chip maker Nvidia has rocketed into the constellation of Big Tech’s brightest stars while riding the artificial intelligence craze that’s fueling red-hot demand for its technology. The latest evidence of Nvidia’s ascendance emerged with Wednesday’s release of Business Highlights: Nvidia posts strong quarterly earnings; the Fed faces tough call on rates 08/23/2023 06:03pm • ___ Nvidia’s rising star gets even brighter with another stellar quarter propelled by sales of AI chips SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Computer chip maker Nvidia has rocketed into the constellation of Big Tech’s brightest stars while riding the artificial intelligence craze that’s fueling red-hot dema Who takes advantage of Donald Trump's absence and other things to watch in the Republican debate 08/23/2023 05:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Eight Republican candidates will meet on the debate stage for the first time Wednesday night in what may be the biggest moment in the GOP's young 2024 presidential primary so far. The overwhelming front-runner in the contest, former President Donald Trump, won't participate. He say