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US moves soldiers to Alaska island amid Russian military activity increase in the area 09/17/2024 08:20pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching American territory. Eight Russian military planes and fo Election 2024 Latest: Trump and Harris resume campaigning after apparent assassination attempt 09/17/2024 08:15pm • The presidential campaign is moving forward after a second apparent attempt on Donald Trump ���s life over the weekend. Trump was heading to Michigan on Tuesday for a town hall while Vice President Kamala Harris answered questions at a forum for Black journalists in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, authori US nuclear repository is among the federally owned spots identified for renewable energy projects 09/17/2024 07:57pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday that it is teaming up with yet another energy company as part of a mission to transform portions of government-owned property once used for the nation's nuclear weapons program into prime real estate for renewable energy ende Brazil court drops a suspect in Amazon slayings of a British journalist and an Indigenous advocate 09/17/2024 07:56pm • BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) ��� A federal court in Brazil dismissed charges Tuesday against one of three men arrested for the killings of Indigenous peoples expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon, ruling there wasn���t enough evidence to try him. Oseney da Costa de Oliveir Harbaugh, Herbert see benefits to Chargers remaining East to prepare for matchup against Steelers 09/17/2024 07:36pm • Most coaches and players would dread having to spend a week on the road. Jim Harbaugh and the Los Angeles Chargers are relishing it. With games in the Eastern time zone for two straight weeks, the Chargers are staying in Charlotte, North Carolina, this week before facing the Pittsburgh Steelers on S After shooting at Georgia high school, students will return next week for half-days 09/17/2024 07:21pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Students at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta will return to campus for half-days beginning next week, Barrow County school officials announced, after a Sept. 4 shooting that killed four people and injured nine others. The school system northeast of Atlanta said the Winder high A key employee says the Titan sub tragedy could have been prevented 09/17/2024 06:59pm • A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified Tuesday that the tragedy could have been prevented if a federal safety agency had investigated his complaint. David Lochridge, OceanGate���s former operations director, said he felt let down 'Firehose' storm hits part of North Carolina and scientists see climate change 09/17/2024 06:46pm • The Carolinas braced for a storm that forecasters warned could bring heavy rain ��� as much as 6 to 8 inches in some spots. But one narrow band got a ���firehose��� that dumped as much as 20 inches in a so-called 1,000-year flood that shocked many with its intensity. The storm that left homes floode Overseas threats hit the Ohio city where Trump and Vance lied about Haitians eating pets 09/17/2024 06:34pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) ��� Ohio stationed state police at Springfield schools Tuesday in response to a rash of bomb threats ��� the vast majority that officials said came from overseas ���- after former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance falsely said legal Haitian immigr For families of Key Bridge collapse victims, a search for justice begins 09/17/2024 06:33pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Years after immigrating to the U.S. and settling in the Baltimore area, Maria del Carmen Castell��n was working toward a new chapter of her family���s American dream, hoping to expand her successful food truck business into a Salvadoran restaurant. Her husband, Miguel Luna, was The Secret Service again faces scrutiny after another gunman targets Trump 09/17/2024 06:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� For the second time in more than two months, the Secret Service that protects the highest echelon of American leaders is under scrutiny ��� this time after a gunman hid in the shrubs along the fence of former President Donald Trump's golf course for 12 hours. The man didn't get a AP PHOTOS: Hallmarks of climate change seen in floods, fires and drought around the globe 09/17/2024 06:02pm • The hallmarks of climate change ��� extreme heat and drought; larger, more intense wildfires and supercharged hurricanes, typhoons and rainstorms that lead to catastrophic flooding ��� are being seen and felt around the globe. Drought in Brazil. Wildfires in Portugal, Peru and the Western U.S. Sever Railroads and regulators must address the dangers of long trains, report says 09/17/2024 05:55pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� As freight trains have grown longer, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a type of derailment caused by the forces of railcars pushing and pulling against each other, the National Academies of Sciences said Tuesday in a long-awaited report that urges regulators, Congr The marquee cross-country road trips have begun in the expanded Big Ten 09/17/2024 05:36pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Indiana fans converged on the restaurants and hotels of Pasadena's famed Colorado Boulevard last weekend. On Saturday night, they cheered their Hoosiers to a blowout victory at the Rose Bowl. A big contingent of Southern California fans will invade Ann Arbor, Michigan, this w Fire destroys 105-year-old post office on Standing Rock Reservation 09/17/2024 05:24pm • SELFRIDGE, N.D. (AP) ��� A fire destroyed the 105-year-old post office in Selfridge, North Dakota, early Monday. State and federal authorities are investigating the cause of the fire, KFYR-TV reported. Five trucks, a tanker and multiple volunteers responded to the fire. No one was injured and the fi