Nina Dobrev is 'ahead of schedule' in her recovery from a dirt bike accident (2024)

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — An election-year effort by Missouri Republicans to ban ranked choice voting and amplify their anti-immigration messaging will move forward following a judge’s decision Monday.

BOSTON — Back in Boston after spending the weekend home welcoming his new child, Brayan Bello returned to find his team in disarray.

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A Thai court will this week decide if the Southeast Asian nation will continue business as usual or be tipped into a renewed period of political uncertainty when it assesses whether Srettha Thavisin should continue as prime minister.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Monday gave final approval to a package of 10 bills meant to combat retail theft, an effort that divided Democrats as they confronted key issues in the upcoming November election.

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A super political action committee backing Republican Donald Trump plans to spend $100 million on advertising between now and Labor Day in seven swing states in what polls show is a newly competitive race against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Voters in Arizona will get to decide in November whether to add the right to an abortion up to about 24 weeks to the state constitution. The Arizona secretary of state’s office said Monday it certified nearly 578,000 signatures supporting the ballot measure. The coalition behind the measure says it's a huge win for voters. Arizona currently has a 15-week abortion ban. Opponents of the proposed amendment say it goes too far and could lead to unlimited and unregulated abortions in Arizona. Supporters say it would protect abortion access free from political interference.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Wake County judge ruled Monday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can remain on North Carolina’s November ballot as a third-party presidential candidate.

A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the southern reaches of the Red Sea. The attack early Tuesday happened around 115 kilometers south of the Houthi-held port city of Hodeida. Officials say the ship saw at least one explosive detonate in the distance, causing no damage. Though the Houthis didn’t immediately claim the attacks, it sometimes can take hours or even days to acknowledge their assaults. They’ve also claimed others that apparently haven’t happened. The attack comes as Yemen’s main sponsor, Iran, weighs a possible retaliatory attack against Israel over the assassination of Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh in late July.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter in 2016 inviting Indians to preorder Tesla Model 3s. Many rushed to do so, but never got their cars. Now some who paid a $1,000 deposit with their orders have lost faith and want their money back. Tesla’s travails in India reflect a global EV market that is fast changing. The company faces stiff competition from both traditional automakers and Chinese EV makers that are expanding worldwide. India has reduced import duties for EV makers that build a factory in India. For Tesla though, with slowing sales and too much capacity, building a factory only makes sense if it want to diversify away from its vast operations in China.

NEW YORK — A former Cornell University student was sentenced Monday for posting ominous online threats against Jewish students on campus, court documents show.

To ensure her trail cameras would stay operational during the hot Arizona summer, researcher Kinley Ragan trekked to 23 of them.

The Philippine government has filed a diplomatic protest after Chinese jets flew dangerously close and fired flares in the path of a Philippine air force patrol plane over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. The Department of Foreign Affairs said without elaborating Tuesday that a diplomatic protest has been transmitted to China. The Chinese air force jets’ actions against the Philippine military plane Thursday over the Scarborough Shoal was the first such aerial encounter since high-seas hostilities between Beijing and Manila in the busy seaway started to flare last year. China said the Philippine plane encroached into what it said was Chinese airspace over its shoal and its aircraft took action.

Democratic politicians are kickstarting an effort to turn out progressive Jewish voters for Kamala Harris.

LAS VEGAS — A growing and untamed wildfire that broke out Sunday is threatening at least 150 homes outside of Verdi, a small town northwest of Reno in Washoe County.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Monday were largely united in their support of a collection of bills meant to target the stealing and reselling of merchandise from stores throughout the state.

Political fights that will determine how schools operate for millions of Texas children — and whether their families can use public money for private education — were foreshadowed Monday during a legislative hearing in Austin.

Republican Jeb Brewer advances to November general election in Washington's 1st Congressional District.

Elon Musk’s much-awaited interview with former President Donald Trump was marred by technical glitches on Monday, with people unable to join the audio conversation on X’s Spaces platform. The interview, which was supposed to start at 8 p.m. EDT. Eighteen minutes in, Musk posted on X that the platform was under a “massive” DDOS, or denial-of-service attack, which is a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and knock it offline. Outage tracker Downdetector reported a spike in reports of X being inaccessible to users but it could not be immediately verified whether this was due to a malicious attack.

Colombia’s defense ministry says 66 soldiers who had been “kidnapped” by villagers in the south of the country were released unharmed and will continue to carry out operations against rebel groups in the province of Guaviare. Colombia’s army has long struggled to defeat rebel groups in the Guaviare area, which has been heavily affected by deforestation and cocaine trafficking. The rebels sometimes exert control over remote settlements in the area. In a message posted on the social platform X, the defense ministry said the soldiers had been held since Friday by villagers who were following orders from a local rebel group, known as the Jorge Suarez Briceño front.

NEW YORK — A stickup man who held up Brooklyn Bling Bishop Lamor Whitehead during a sermon is no Robin Hood — he’s just a “robbing hood,” said a federal judge who sentenced the crook to more than seven years behind bars.

Cancer victims exposed to the smoldering toxic 9/11 pile in Manhattan have become the forgotten casualties of the terror attack — and their numbers are growing as more die almost every day, attorney Dan Hansen says.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will make an evening stop in Boston this week as part of a three-day multi-state tour he’s undertaking to raise cash for the Harris-Walz presidential campaign.

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MONTEREY, Calif. – A bipartisan delegation that included U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., recently traveled to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reaffirm U.S. support, survey the damages of war and provide oversight of assistance.

FORT WORTH, Texas — An Arlington hospital refused to treat a woman who was experiencing an ectopic pregnancy, according to an administrative complaint filed against the hospital last week.

MIAMI — Tyreek Hill wants all the smoke with Noah Lyles — on the track.

The Amazon rainforest contains almost two years of global carbon emissions, but is under threat as a carbon sink, according to a new study. The report released Monday said deforestation is the biggest immediate threat to the world's largest rainforest, which has an area twice the size of India.

MINNEAPOLIS — Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer serving a sentence for the murder of George Floyd more than four years ago, has been moved without public explanation from a federal prison in Arizona to a transfer facility in Oklahoma, according to government records.

SACRAMENTO, California — Firefighters within 24 hours doubled the containment of the Crozier fire as the El Dorado County blaze burned into its seventh day on Monday but stayed within its footprint since Sunday morning.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — A former Broward Sheriff’s deputy accused of illegally leaking video of the 2017 Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport mass shooting to the website TMZ pleaded no contest Monday to charges of tampering with physical evidence and disclosure of confidential…

Officials say about 5,000 residents of resort town in the Canadian Rockies who fled their homes because of a wildfire can return to them on Friday. Jasper Mayor Richard Ireland said Monday that residents should prepare for “a new normal” but added essential services have been restored to the point where they can allow a blanket re-entry. About 25,000 people fled the town of Jasper and its national park on the night of July 22 as wildfires inched closer to the area. Two days later, wind-whipped flames overwhelmed crews and destroyed one-third of the town’s buildings. Key infrastructure, like schools and the water treatment plant, was spared.

USA Gymnastics officials 'disappointed' an arbitration panel won't reconsider asking Jordan Chiles to return her medal.

Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, a hero to election deniers, found guilty in breach of election computer.

USA Gymnastics officials say an arbitration panel won’t reconsider a decision asking gymnast Jordan Chiles to return the bronze medal she was awarded in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics. USA Gymnastics says it will continue efforts to let Chiles keep the medal. CAS voided an on-floor appeal from Chiles’ coach that vaulted her to third, saying the appeal came 4 seconds beyond the one-minute time limit for scoring inquiries. USA Gymnastics disputed the timing, saying in a statement Sunday that the agency submitted video evidence to CAS that showed Team USA coach Cecile Landi first appealed 13 seconds before the deadline.

Donald Trump returned on Monday to the social media platform X, more than three years after he was banned following his supporters’ Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, posting a rash of campaign videos ahead of a scheduled live X interview with tech billionaire Elon Musk.

When Waymo's robotaxis started occupying a parking lot next to Randol White's San Francisco apartment building, he was initially glad to see the self-driving cars.

The pilot of the plane that crashed down in Brazil last week has been buried in Sao Paulo, becoming the first person laid to rest among the 62 victims, as authorities continue working to determine what caused the accident. A hearse bearing the casket of Danilo Santos Romano rolled through the streets of Penha, a working class region of Sao Paulo’s east side, en route to the cemetery that lies beneath the apartment he shared with his wife. Family members and friends walked behind the vehicle and dozens of shop owners who knew him as a regular customer gathered on the sidewalks to applaud as it passed. Romano was 35.