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Tornado damages Pfizer plant in North Carolina as scorching heat and floods sock other parts of US 07/22/2023 03:17am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A tornado heavily damaged a major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina on Wednesday, while torrential rain flooded communities in Kentucky and an area from California to South Florida endured more scorching heat. Pfizer confirmed that the large manufacturing complex Spanish general election tipped to put the far right back in office for the first time since Franco 07/22/2023 02:19am • MADRID (AP) — Voters in Spain go to the polls Sunday in an election that could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the populist right, a shift that would represent a major upheaval after five years under a left-wing government. Here's what you need to know about the vote. Today in History: July 24, Apollo 11 returns home from the moon 07/22/2023 12:07am • Today in History Today is Monday, July 24, the 205th day of 2023. There are 160 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland, a passenger ship carrying more than 2,500 people, rolled onto its side while docked at the Clark Street Bridge on the Chicago R Texas A&M University president resigns after Black journalist’s hiring at campus unravels 07/21/2023 08:50pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University on Friday announced the resignation of its president in the fallout over a Black journalist who said her celebrated hiring at one of the nation's largest campuses quickly unraveled due to pushback over her past work promoting diversity. President Ka Man who ambushed Fargo officers likely had bigger and bloodier attack in mind, attorney general says 07/21/2023 05:47pm • FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The heavily armed man who ambushed Fargo police officers investigating a fender bender last week likely had a bigger and bloodier attack in mind, with at least two fairs taking place at the time in and around North Dakota's largest city, authorities said Friday. Mohamad Barakat A storm packing winds over 80 mph derails a train in a small Oklahoma town 07/21/2023 05:14pm • FAIRMONT, Okla. (AP) — A storm packing winds over 80 miles per hour (130 kilometers per hour) blew through northern Oklahoma early Friday morning, derailing a train, bringing down trees and pushing planes around at an Air Force base. BNSF Railway told The Associated Press that 29 rail cars deraile Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other tech firms agree to AI safeguards set by the White House 07/21/2023 04:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that new commitments by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies that are leading the development of artificial intelligence technology to meet a set of AI safeguards brokered by his White House are an important step toward managing the AI is the wild card in Hollywood's strikes. Here's an explanation of its unsettling role 07/21/2023 04:33pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Artificial intelligence has surged to the forefront of Hollywood’s labor fights. Standing alongside more traditional disputes over pay models, benefits and job protections, AI technology is the wild card in the contract breakdowns that have led actors and writers unions to go Rapper Quando Rondo crashes car while awaiting trial. Prosecutors want him back in jail 07/21/2023 04:14pm • SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutors want the rapper Quando Rondo sent back to jail after he crashed a car while free on bond pending trial on gang and drug charges. The 24-year-old rapper, whose given name Tyquian Terrel Bowman, was indicted last month in his hometown of Savannah. He was released fr Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren't they widespread? 07/21/2023 04:06pm • Back in 2015, California's dry earth was crunching under a fourth year of drought. Then-Governor Jerry Brown ordered an unprecedented 25% reduction in home water use. Farmers, who use the most water, volunteered too to avoid deeper, mandatory cuts. Brown also set a goal for the state to get half it Mid Atlantic Daybook 07/21/2023 03:59pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Friday, Jul. 21. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Mid-Atlantic bureau is reachable at 202-641-9660 an Death of Dale Earnhardt in 2001 Daytona 500 picked as NASCAR's most pivotal moment 07/21/2023 02:11pm • The 2001 Daytona 500 remains the bleakest day in NASCAR history. The death of Dale Earnhardt from a crash on the last lap of the race robbed a family of its patriarch and the industry of the greatest stock car star of his era. But beyond the seven championships, The Intimidator persona and fierce r 'Bittersweet act of resilience': Artists organize events after Smithsonian cancels literature festival 07/21/2023 12:49pm • Since the cancellation of the Asian American Literature Festival at the The Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Center, organizers have been hard at work putting together a few smaller events to show their support for the artists originally scheduled to take part in the event. UN expert decries the practice of taking boys from their mothers at detention camps in Syria 07/21/2023 11:51am • GENEVA (AP) — A U.N.-backed human rights advocate says hundreds of boys — some as young as 11 — held in detention camps run by U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria have been wrongly separated from their mothers on the “unproven" belief that they pose a security risk. Fionnua Fire damages building that houses office of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul 07/21/2023 11:50am • BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A fire has caused heavy damage Friday morning to a building that houses the Bowling Green office of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul as well as a local law firm. Fire crews were called to the building on State Steet around 2 a.m. Friday and found a heavy blaze that required additi