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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched ballistic missiles toward the sea on Saturday, its neighbors said, a day after the U.S., South Korea and Japan ended their trilateral military drill that North Korea views as a security threat. South Korea’s military said it detected the launches of several missiles from North Korea’s eastern costal Wonsan area. It said South Korea has boosted its surveillance posture and was closely […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California labor leader behind a proposal to tax billionaires has been accused of harassing and intimidating several women who work for an affiliated union. The allegations against Dave Regan, president of the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, are detailed in an investigative report commissioned by SEIU California and obtained Friday by The Associated Press. It includes interviews with several current and former SEIU members and […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi police have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search and arrest warrants for the man and arrested him when they encountered him walking on the street. The state medical examiner’s office determined Thursday evening that the death […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan signed a contract extension this offseason that will keep him with the team for the long term. A person familiar with the deal said Friday that it was reached a while ago but was never announced by the team. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because it hadn’t been made public. The person didn’t say how long of […]

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republicans are working aggressively to make Abdul El-Sayed the face of the opposition. The Democratic Senate nominee from Michigan was a frequent punching bag during this week’s GOP convention, where a steady stream of Republicans singled him out. They attacked his progressive views, his ties to a far-left commentator and his Muslim faith, elevating his profile as they look to paint all Democrats as radical […]

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a Pacific mastodon. “I keep joking it wasn’t hard to find,” Lynch, a geomorphologist at Balance Hydrologics, said Friday. “It was just sitting there in the middle of the […]

By Janina Nuno Rios NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Alexander Zverev went from wondering whether his U.S. Open campaign was “pointless” to preparing for a second final at Flushing Meadows on Friday, as his dramatic turnaround had given him a chance to win a second Grand Slam title. The German had been pushed to dramatic five sets in each of his first two rounds but has since won four […]

By Dan Catchpole SEATTLE, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Boeing and its engineering union reached a tentative contract agreement on Friday, union officials said.  The four-year offer includes higher general wage increases than the first offer, which members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) overwhelmingly rejected in an Aug. 21 vote. (Reporting by Dan Catchpole in Seattle; Editing by Tom Hogue and Kim Coghill) Brought to you […]

Sept 12 (Reuters) – Iraq ordered the closure of the Shalamcheh border crossing between Iraq and Iran as a precautionary measure after the latest drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, two security sources told Reuters on Saturday. The sources said a wide-scale operation was underway to pursue perpetrators of the attack on Saudi Arabia. Riyadh said on Friday its vital East-West pipeline was attacked by drones that were launched from Iraq. […]