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Kari Lake wins GOP primary for closely watched Arizona Senate race, will face Gallego in November 07/31/2024 05:55am • PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona on Tuesday, setting up a fierce battle against Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego for a seat that could be crucial to deciding Senate control. In Maricopa County, which includes metro Phoenix and 60% of Arizona's Israel has a long history of targeted killings. Here's a look at some of them 07/31/2024 05:06am • JERUSALEM (AP) — A pair of strikes on militant leaders in Beirut and Tehran has escalated tensions in a region already on edge and adds to a long list of targeted killings attributed to Israel. Hamas said Israel was behind the assassination of its supreme leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran's capital, a At boisterous Georgia rally, Harris dares Trump to 'say it to my face' and show up for their debate 07/30/2024 10:52pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris told a cheering, boisterous, packed Atlanta arena on Tuesday that the next 98 days would be a fight, but they'd win come November, as she taunted Donald Trump for wavering on whether he'd show up for their upcoming debate. “The momentum in this race Former prisoners describe suffocating heat in Texas lockups as they plead for air conditioning 07/30/2024 09:38pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Describing Texas prisons as so hot that inmates would cool off by splashing themselves with toilet water or faking suicide attempts to get moved to cooler medical areas, advocates on Tuesday asked a federal judge to declare the state prison system's lack of air conditioning as Entrepreneur who sought to merge celebrities, social media and crypto faces fraud charges 07/30/2024 05:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A California entrepreneur who sought to merge the bitcoin culture with social media by letting people bet on the future reputation of celebrities and influencers has been arrested on a fraud charge. Nader Al-Naji, 32, was arrested in Los Angeles on Saturday on a wire fraud charge Water polo players wrestle for position at Olympics, but there is a line that rarely gets crossed 07/30/2024 02:19pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Italy's Tommaso Gianazza disappeared under the surface, popped up and then disappeared again. Croatia’s Matias Biljaka kept leaning and pushing on Gianazza — their heads right beside each other at times — as white water splashed around the centers. It looked as if Trump says he 'probably' will debate Harris but can 'make a case for not.' Her team says he's scared 07/30/2024 09:24am • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump seems to be backing away from his earlier commitment to debate Vice President Kamala Harris, questioning the value of a meetup and saying he “probably” will debate but he “can also make a case for not doing it” — prompting her campaign to say he's “scared.� Taiwan president urges democracies to unite at largest-ever gathering of foreign lawmakers in Taipei 07/30/2024 06:53am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te welcomed what he called the “largest-ever” delegation of foreign lawmakers to Taiwan and said Tuesday it showed the importance of democracies uniting, even as Beijing pressured members of the delegation not to visit. “This demonstrates t The Latest: Biden decries 'extremism' on the Supreme Court, lays out plans for reforms 07/29/2024 08:56pm • President Joe Biden decried “extremism” that he says has undermined public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court. He has called on Congress to quickly establish term limits and an enforceable ethics code for the court’s nine justices. He also called on lawmakers to ratify a constitutional amend Russia is relying on unwitting Americans to spread election disinformation, US officials say 07/29/2024 08:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kremlin is turning to unwitting Americans and commercial public relations firms in Russia to spread disinformation about the U.S. presidential race, top intelligence officials said Monday, detailing the latest efforts by America's adversaries to shape public opinion ahead of A parody ad shared by Elon Musk clones Kamala Harris' voice, raising concerns about AI in politics 07/29/2024 01:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A video that uses an artificial intelligence voice-cloning tool to mimic the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of AI to mislead with Election Day about three months away. The video gained attention after tech bil Nevada attorney general appeals to state high court in effort to revive fake electors case 07/27/2024 06:39pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — The top prosecutor in Nevada is asking the state Supreme Court to uphold the indictments of six Republicans charged with submitting a bogus certificate to Congress that declared Donald Trump the winner of the presidential battleground's 2020 election. Officials have said it was pa Misinformation and the Stock Market: Will AI Raise the Risk to Investors? 07/25/2024 08:00pm • The high stakes of message delivery and misinformation are not new phenomena. Hessian Colonel Johann Rall was too busy to read an intel note from a British sympathizer during a Christmas party in 1776. The note warned of an imminent risk: George Washington's march to Trenton, New Jersey. In the earl Manhattan diamond dealer charged in scheme to swap real diamonds for fakes 07/25/2024 06:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan diamond dealer with a history of gemstone fraud was indicted Thursday in what officials describe as a scheme to swindle his fellow merchants out of nearly half a million dollars by replacing their real diamonds with lab grown imitations. Prosecutors say Manashe Sezanay House Republicans vote to rebuke Kamala Harris over administration's handling of border policy 07/25/2024 04:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are moving quickly to emphasize Vice President Kamala Harris's role in the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S. border with Mexico, passing a resolution Thursday that condemns her performance in the job. The resolution, which is purely symbolic, echoes