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Smithsonian Solstice Saturday returns to celebrate long summer days all night long 06/19/2023 07:03am • At museums up and down the National Mall you'll find parties, performances and late-night exhibitions to celebrate Smithsonian Solstice Saturday, June 24. Solstice Saturday allows visitors to explore multiple museums and exhibits after regular business hours to celebrate the June solstice (the da Drivers agree that Palou's 74-point IndyCar lead isn't insurmountable 06/19/2023 05:56am • ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Alex Palou isn’t taking anything for granted and his competitors aren’t conceding a thing. But someone’s going to have to make a heck of a charge in the second half of the season to prevent Palou from winning his second IndyCar Series championship in three years. Pa What if things could turn out differently? How the multiverse got into our heads and didn't let go 06/19/2023 12:03am • “Let’s do things differently this time.” Those are the first words you hear at the beginning of this month’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” an otherworldly meditation on multiple realities and how our lives might unfold. The message is clear from the get-go: We have choices. Thin Cameron Smith has strong finish at U.S. Open as he looks toward British Open title defense 06/18/2023 11:10pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cameron Smith's strong play during the final nine holes of the U.S. Open Sunday could give him a boost when he defends his British Open title next month. Smith shot 3 under on the more difficult back nine at Los Angeles Country Club to close with a 67. The Australian finished ti At least 6 killed, dozens injured in weekend shootings across US 06/18/2023 08:12pm • At least six people including a Pennsylvania state trooper were killed and dozens injured in a string of weekend violence and mass shootings across the U.S. The shootings in suburban Chicago, Washington state, Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Southern California and Baltimore follow a surge in homicides and Heat wave has US South sweltering, from tornado-ravaged West Texas town to Florida beaches 06/17/2023 08:45pm • Communities from Houston to New Orleans opened cooling centers to bring relief as steamy hot temperatures settled across a broad swath of the U.S. South on Saturday, and beachgoers fled a waterspout that swept ashore on a Florida beach. Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, visited Perryton in the Texas Panh Herta wins pole as repaved track produces eventful qualifying day at Road America 06/17/2023 08:38pm • ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — The venue that bills itself as “America’s National Park of Speed” is delivering faster times after its first repaving in nearly three decades. It's also producing a bit more frustration. Colton Herta of Andretti Autosport earned the pole position for Sunday’s Indy Collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia to reopen within 2 weeks, governor says 06/17/2023 05:53pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will reopen within two weeks, Pennsylvania's governor said Saturday, after joining President Joe Biden on a helicopter tour over the critical segment of the highway closed to East Coast traffic since last weekend. “We are A beginner's guide to Juneteenth: How can all Americans celebrate? 06/17/2023 10:05am • For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil war, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation P Some Republicans are angry about Trump's prosecution yet ready to vote for someone else in 2024 06/17/2023 08:13am • PELLA, Iowa (AP) — Kathleen Evenhouse took a break from her work in the corner of a small-town Iowa coffee shop to slam the federal criminal indictment of Donald Trump as patently political, the work of a U.S. Justice Department she says is awash in hypocrisy. “I think we're playing a game as a Max Homa, Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth miss cut at U.S. Open 06/16/2023 11:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Homa didn't make the cut in his home U.S. Open. The Burbank-born, Valencia-raised Homa shot a 6-over 76 on Friday to finish his two rounds at 4-over 144, missing the cut by two shots. Phil Mickelson and Jordan Spieth both missed the cut by one shot, sending them home from Lo Ayaka Furue takes the lead into the weekend at the Meijer LPGA Classic 06/16/2023 07:03pm • BELMONT, Mich. (AP) — Ayaka Furue of Japan shot a bogey-free 5-under 67 on Friday at Blythefield Country Club to take a one-stroke lead into the weekend in the Meijer LPGA Classic. Part of a five-way tie for the first-round lead, the 5-foot Furue had an 11-under 133 total in the final event before TV news owner apologizes for Pride Month memo that told Michigan staff to cover fewer LGBTQ+ events 06/16/2023 01:10pm • GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The general manager of a television news station in western Michigan has apologized after staff received a memo telling reporters to cover fewer LGBTQ+ events during Pride Month because coverage could be “polarizing.” The memo to staff at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids aske Mahomes, Kelce and the Chiefs enjoy spoils of Super Bowl win during wild offseason 06/15/2023 03:05pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Whoever came up with the saying, “To the victor go the spoils,” could never have had the Kansas City Chiefs in mind. They wouldn't have believed the amount of spoils that have come their way since their Super Bowl title. There was Patrick Mahomes, the All-Pro quarterbac Darlington Raceway president Kerry Tharp retiring at end of season 06/15/2023 10:06am • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Darlington Raceway president Kerry Tharp is retiring after a nearly two-decade NASCAR career. Tharp and NASCAR announced his decision to leave after this season on Thursday. Tharp moved from having little interest in the sport — “I'd change the channel if it were on TV,�