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Osprey’s safety issues spiked over 5 years and caused deaths, but pilots still want to fly it
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — Over a New Mexico training range named the Hornet, two Osprey aircraft speed 100 feet off the ground, banking hard over valleys and hills as they close in on a dusty landing zone. A flight engineer in the back braces a .50-caliber machine gun...
Texans send Cowboys to 5th straight loss
ARLINGTON, Texas — Derek Barnett forced the first fumble and returned the second for a touchdown on the definitive defensive play of the game for the Houston Texans. Joe Mixon did his thing, and C.J. Stroud didn’t have to do much to extend the misery of the Dallas Cowboys. Mixon...
Texas proposal would give schools the option to use Bible teachings in lessons
AUSTIN — Texas public schools could use teachings from the Bible in lessons as an option for students from kindergarten through fifth grade under a proposal that drew hours of testimony Monday and follows Republican-led efforts in other states to incorporate more religious teaching into classrooms. Teachers and parents gave...
Georgia appeals court cancels hearing in election interference case against Trump
ATHENS, Ga. — A Georgia appeals court on Monday canceled oral arguments that were scheduled for next month on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against President-elect Donald Trump. Trump and other...
Browns’ season sinks deeper with questions about the team’s effort and a possible shakeupVideo
CLEVELAND — As owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam postured and politicked the past few months to find funding to help them get a new, domed, multipurpose stadium built in Cleveland’s suburbs, their football team collapsed. The Browns are a bust. A season that seemingly crashed weeks ago sunk to a...
Debris falls from roof at home of Cowboys before game against Texans; no injuries reportedVideo
ARLINGTON, Texas — A piece of the roof at the home of the Dallas Cowboys fell to the field while the retractable portion of it was being opened at least three hours before a game against Houston on Monday night, officials said. AT&T Stadium was mostly empty when the incident...
Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight draws record betting for a combat sports event
LAS VEGAS — Jake Paul’s unanimous victory over former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson might have been disappointing from a competitive standpoint, but it drew record betting. BetMGM said the fight between the YouTube star and the 58-year-old Tyson, who showed his age by being a sitting target, was its most-bet...
Trump says he is naming former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy to be transportation secretary
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he is naming former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy as his nominee to be transportation secretary, as he continues to roll out picks for his Cabinet. Duffy is a former reality TV star who was one of Trump’s most visible defenders...
Kissing the ring? MSNBC ‘Morning Joe’ hosts say they met with Trump to reopen lines of communicationVideo
MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, fierce critics of President-elect Donald Trump, say they traveled to Mar-a-Lago for a meeting with him to reopen lines of communication that would better serve their morning show viewers. With feelings still raw two weeks after the election, their journey to Trump’s Florida...
Officials say 2 taken to hospitals after small plane accident in Bucks County
DOYLESTOWN — Two people were taken to hospitals after a small plane struck an unoccupied plane at an eastern Pennsylvania airport, authorities said. Police in Bucks County’s Buckingham Township said first responders were sent to Doylestown Airport shortly before 12:30 p.m. Monday on a report of a single-engine plane crash...
2 killed and 1 critically wounded in New York City knife rampage. A suspect is in custody
NEW YORK — A man stabbed three people on Monday morning across a swath of Manhattan, killing two and critically wounding the third without uttering a word to his victims, officials said. The 51-year-old suspect was in police custody after being found with blood on his clothes and the two...
New Jersey internet gambling sets another revenue record at $213 million
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — New Jersey’s internet gambling market set another record in October, the latest proof that people are betting more of their money online rather than coming to Atlantic City to gamble it in person. Figures released Monday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show the...
Ron DeSantis aims to appoint Marco Rubio’s Senate replacement by early January
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Floridians will likely know who their next U.S. senator will be by the beginning of January, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Monday. With Florida’s senior Sen. Marco Rubio tapped to be President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state, it’s up to the governor to appoint his replacement,...
Spencer Lawton, the Savannah prosecutor who tried ‘Midnight in the Garden’ case, dies at 81
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Spencer Lawton Jr., a former Georgia district attorney who worked to expand the rights of crime victims and prosecuted a Savannah killing made famous by the book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” has died. He was 81. Lawton died Wednesday at his home in...
Kansas remains No. 1 in AP poll, top 10 shuffled with losses by 3 teams; Wisconsin joins rankings
Kansas strengthened its grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25. The rest of the top 10 turned into a jumble of teams swapping places. The Jayhawks picked up five first-place votes in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll released Monday, receiving 49 from a 61-person media panel....
Israeli airstrike hits central Beirut near key government buildings and embassies
BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike late Monday slammed into a densely populated residential area in Lebanon’s capital close to the U.N. headquarters, Parliament, the prime minister’s office and several embassies. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said two missiles hit the area of Zoqaq al-Blat neighborhood of Beirut. The strike comes...
Grocery chains vie for place on Thanksgiving tables with turkey dinner deals, store brands
NEW YORK — With Thanksgiving less than two weeks away, Walmart, Target, Aldi and other grocers are competing for a place on holiday tables with turkey dinner deals and other promotions to tempt Americans who haven’t recovered from recent food price inflation. Walmart, the nation’s largest food retailer, first bundled...
Giants bench QB Daniel Jones, will start Tommy DeVito vs. the Bucs
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants are benching struggling quarterback Daniel Jones and will start fan favorite Tommy DeVito against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this week in an attempt to break a five-game losing streak. Giants coach Brian Daboll announced the decision Monday. Daboll had hinted there might...
Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia among 14 newcomers on baseball Hall of Fame ballot
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and pitcher CC Sabathia are among 14 new candidates on the Hall of Fame ballot released Monday, joining 14 holdovers led by reliever Billy Wagner. Pitcher Félix Hernández, outfielder Carlos González and infielders Dustin Pedroia and Hanley Ramírez also are among the newcomers joined...
Abuse survivors urge the Vatican to globalize the zero-tolerance policy it approved in the U.S.
ROME — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on Monday to adopt the same zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002, arguing that there’s no reason why children around the world shouldn’t be kept just as safe from predator priests. The U.S. norms,...
India’s capital chokes as air pollution levels hit 50 times the safe limit
NEW DELHI — Authorities in India’s capital shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city on Monday after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season. Residents of New Delhi woke up to thick, toxic smog enveloping the city of some 33 million as...
Moscow warns U.S. over allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with long-range weapons
KYIV, Ukraine — President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied long-range missiles was met with ominous warnings from Moscow, a hint of menace from Kyiv and nods of approval from some Western allies. Biden’s shift in policy added an uncertain but potentially crucial new...
AP Top 25: Oregon is the unanimous No. 1 team again; Penn State stays at No. 4
Oregon remained the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday after its close call at Wisconsin, Notre Dame and Alabama each jumped up two spots and Georgia returned to the top 10. LSU is unranked for the first time in two years. The...
Zac Taylor insists his Bengals can still be a playoff team after loss to Chargers drops them to 4-7
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Even after yet another painful loss in a season full of heartbreakers for Cincinnati, head coach Zac Taylor insisted his beleaguered Bengals can still make the playoffs. Taylor’s Bengals (4-7) and their fans might be finding it increasingly hard to keep the faith after the Los Angeles...
From the Amazon rainforest, Biden declares nobody can reverse U.S. progress on clean energy
MANAUS, Brazil — Speaking from the Amazon rainforest, President Joe Biden declared Sunday that there’s no going back in America’s “clean energy revolution” even as the incoming Trump administration vows to spur fossil fuel production and scale back efforts against climate change. Biden, the first sitting U.S. president to visit...
