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Royals focus on becoming 'Today' show, wearing their mindset on their chests 10/05/2024 05:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Kansas City Royals credit their transformation to becoming a “Today” show, wearing their mindset on their chests. Several Royals work through pregame practice in powder-blue T-shirts with the word “today” in white capital letters. “Just take it day by day. No need to Montgomery Co. renters raise alarm over high levels of nitrogen dioxide in apartments 10/05/2024 01:36pm • Leila invites a reporter into her two-bedroom apartment at Cider Mill, an 864-unit complex in Montgomery Village, where she lives with her three school-age children in a largely African immigrant and Latino neighborhood. She walks into her tiny kitchen and fires up all four gas burners on the sto At Israel's cafes and bars, life may seem normal. But the war has cast a pall nationwide 10/05/2024 12:04pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — At a busy Tel Aviv entertainment district, diners spill into outdoor seating and clink glasses as music fills the air. There’s laughter, there’s life. But all around the patrons, staring down from lampposts and shop windows, are pictures of hostages held in Gaza, stark Inside the North Carolina mountain town that Hurricane Helene nearly wiped off the map 10/05/2024 12:01pm • CHIMNEY ROCK VILLAGE, N.C. (AP) — The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making — heated and thrust upward from deep in the Earth, then carved and eroded by wind and water. But in just a few minutes, nature undid most of what it has taken humans a c Solar power companies are growing fast in Africa, where 600 million still lack electricity 10/05/2024 12:34am • FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world's worst infrastructure and the complications of climate San Francisco's first Black female mayor is in a pricey battle for a second term 10/05/2024 12:01am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When London Breed was elected as San Francisco's first Black woman mayor, it was a pinch-me moment for a poor girl from public housing whose ascension showed that no dream was impossible in the progressive, compassionate and equitable city. But the honeymoon was short-lived as Drought has dried a major Amazon River tributary to its lowest level in over 122 years 10/04/2024 10:06pm • MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — One of the Amazon River’s main tributaries has dropped to its lowest level ever recorded, Brazil’s geological service said Friday, reflecting a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon rainforest and other parts of the country. The level of the Negro River at the po Ex- Virginia cop who killed shoplifting suspect acquitted of manslaughter, guilty on firearm charge 10/04/2024 08:09pm • FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury on Friday acquitted a former police officer in Virginia of involuntary manslaughter after he fatally shot a shoplifting suspect outside a busy shopping mall. But the jury did convict the former police sergeant, Wesley Shifflett, of reckless handling of a firearm in co When will the power return? Weary Carolinas residents long for relief after Helene's fury 10/04/2024 07:48pm • ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The weary and worn residents of Julianne Johnson's neighborhood in Asheville have been getting by without electricity since Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeast last week and upended their lives. They've been cooking on propane stoves and using dry erase boards to kee Relatives say a whole family was killed in Israel's deadliest West Bank strike since Oct. 7 10/04/2024 03:31pm • TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a West Bank cafe that the military said targeted Palestinian militants also killed a family of four, including two young children, relatives told The Associated Press on Friday. The strike slammed into a three-story building in the Tulkarem refuge The US could have seen shortages and higher retail prices if a dockworkers strike had dragged on 10/04/2024 01:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. The union representing the striking U.S. dockworkers, the International Longshoremen’s Association, reached a deal Thursday to sus Amid Hurricane Helene's destruction, sports organizations launch relief efforts to aid storm victims 10/04/2024 01:07pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — N.C. State football player Davin Vann was on the move, tiptoeing his way between obstacles in the Wolfpack's indoor practice facility midway through a game week. And it had nothing to do with the upcoming visit from Wake Forest. Instead, he stepped carefully through and over b Helene’s powerful storm surge killed 12 near Tampa. They didn't have to die 10/04/2024 12:39pm • INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Aiden Bowles was stubborn, so even as Florida officials told residents of the barrier island north of St. Petersburg that Hurricane Helene's storm surge could be deadly, the retired restaurant owner stayed put. Caregiver Amanda Normand begged the 71-year-old widower Operator of a Thai bus that caught fire and killed 23 is charged, as investigators suspect gas leak 10/04/2024 05:47am • BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand on Friday said they have filed criminal charges against a bus operator in connection with a bus fire that killed 23 young students and teachers on a school trip earlier this week, as investigations suggested a gas leak may have caused the blaze. The owner of the b Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen 10/04/2024 05:37am • Hezbollah on Sunday confirmed the death of high-ranking official Nabil Kaouk in an Israeli airstrike, a day after the Lebanese militant group acknowledged the killings of multiple commanders, including longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah. Israel struck Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the militan