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Tropical Weather Latest: Fast-moving Hurricane Helene is expected to be a major storm upon landfall
Helene strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday, and forecasters warned that the storm would intensify as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico on a path to Florida. The storm had already prompted residents to evacuate, schools to close and officials to declare emergencies in Florida and Georgia. ...
Takeaways from an AP and Texas Tribune report on 24 hours along the US-Mexico border
The Texas Tribune and The Associated Press spent 24 hours in five cities on Texas’ border with Mexico to measure the impact of a dramatic drop in migrant crossings. In Ciudad Juárez, across from El Paso, no one was camping where, just a few months earlier, hundreds of...
One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric
As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso. ...
Newsom’s hands-on approach to crime in California cities gains critics in Oakland
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s letter to Oakland city leaders last month urging them to change the city’s policy on police vehicle chases seemed out of the ordinary: a governor weighing in forcefully on a somewhat-obscure element of local policing. But it’s part of a larger, slowly...
Tim Walz is still introducing himself to voters. Here are things to know about Harris' VP pick
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kamala Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will face a national audience that's still getting to know him when he headlines the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday night. Walz wasn't widely known outside of Minnesota before Harris...
Trump praised Minnesota Gov. Walz in 2020 for response to unrest over Floyd's murder, audio shows
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — While former President Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance have been hammering Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over his response to the violence that erupted after George Floyd’s murder, Trump told the governor at the time that he fully agreed with how Walz handled it. ...
Here's a look at questions about Tim Walz's military record
CINCINNATI (AP) — Republicans are questioning Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's military record after Vice President Kamala Harris named him as her running mate this week. Here's a look at the issue: He retired before his unit's deployment to Iraq Walz served a...
The Latest: Tropical Storm Debby lingering over Georgia and the Carolinas
Tropical Storm Debby was lingering over coastal Georgia and the Carolinas on Wednesday, still dumping torrential rain in places before moving north. The system has already stirred up tornadoes and submerged streets in waist-high floodwaters. The storm was forecast to move relatively...
2 Georgia National Guard soldiers die in separate noncombat incidents in Iraq
ATLANTA (AP) — Two Georgia National Guard soldiers died Wednesday in Iraq in what the U.S. Army says were unrelated noncombat deaths. Spc. Travis Jordan Pameni, 23, of Douglasville died in Baghdad after an incident in another location, the Army said. Pameni was assigned to the 1st...
1 person killed in Colorado wildfires as blazes torch large areas of the U.S. West
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — A person was killed in one of several wildfires threatening heavily populated areas of the Colorado foothills, authorities said Wednesday, as almost 100 large blazes burned across the western U.S. The death came in a fire near the town of Lyons that blackened...
