Standing on a portable stage erected at home plate of the Milwaukee Brewers ballpark, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers recently praised the professional baseball team as an "essential part" of the state's "culture and identity" and "economic success." With fanfare, Evers then signed off on $500 million in public aid for the stadium's renovation, adding to [...]
WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, Fu Xiangdong was a young Chinese virology student who came to the United States to study biochemistry. More than three decades later, he had a prestigious professorship in California and was conducting promising research on Parkinson's disease. Now Fu is doing his research at a Chinese university. His American career [...]
WASHINGTON — This Congress started with showy bluster, a bitter 15-round, multiday spectacle to elect a House speaker, a Republican who vowed to "never quit," and then did just that. House lawmakers proceeded not only to oust the GOP speaker, they also punished their own colleagues with censures and expulsion, launched an impeachment inquiry into [...]
Near fields awash with strawberries and greens, Ileana Miranda and her family pay $72 a month to get water piped into their home in a rural California community — and that’s before they consume a drop. They pay to bring it from more than a mile away because the groundwater beneath them has been contaminated [...]
Conditions were mostly nice this year for travelers flying ahead of and on Christmas, but some naughty disruptions again plagued those flying with Southwest Airlines. For millions of people traveling over the holiday, this year was much better than last. Christmas morning put a bow on a relatively smooth weekend. Only 157 flights within, into [...]
Ohio’s top law enforcement officer said he is encouraged by the early results of the state’s expansion of digital ballistic testing in July. Attorney General Dave Yost said in the six months since state crime labs linked up with the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, investigators are turning up results that are helping solve gun [...]
BEXLEY — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been visiting hospitals and speaking with families helped and harmed by gender-affirming care as he decides what action to take on legislation preventing minors from obtaining such treatments, he told The Associated Press in a year-end interview. "I'm trying to learn as much as I can to [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When a toilet is flushed in California, the water can end up in a lot of places: an ice skating rink near Disneyland, ski slopes around Lake Tahoe, farmland in the Central Valley, and — coming soon — kitchen faucets. California regulators last week approved new rules to let water agencies recycle [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — From June 25 to July 2, 2021, the Pacific Northwest experienced a record-breaking heat wave that sent the normally temperate region into Death Valley-like extremes that took a heavy toll on trees as well as people. Seattle and Portland, Ore., recorded their hottest-ever temperatures, reaching 108 and 116 degrees, respectively. In [...]