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The latest pieces of President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging Washington makeover are set for an airing Thursday in front of a federal panel that already has blessed other big-ticket plans from the designer-in-chief. The National Capital Planning Commission, which this spring approved Trump’s White House ballroom proposal after he razed the Executive Mansion’s East Wing without authorization, will discuss a proposed fence around Lafayette Park in front of the White House. […]

MURDOCK, Neb. (AP) — They aren’t toss-up races. Not even close. But Democrats are dreaming of pulling off upsets in what might be called “reach” House districts, where Republicans usually win and likely will again — but where races could tighten if a rare political wave gains strength in November. The party in power traditionally suffers losses during midterm elections. Democrats managed to avoid a predicted 2022 “red wave,” but […]

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial was expected to keep trying to reach a verdict Thursday and avoid a mistrial after telling the judge twice that they can’t agree whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three children. Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, doesn’t deny strangling her children in the basement of their home in 2023. Her attorney […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — There’s the mother of two who needs a full-time job to keep up with the bills, but can’t afford full-time childcare. There’s the medical technician who stopped buying groceries and turned to food banks so she could pay for her infant’s care. There’s the baby who remained in foster care, even after his mother completed the steps to bring him home. She had found a job, as […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife asked a judge on Wednesday to dismiss the drug trafficking indictment against them on the grounds that they have immunity as the leader and first lady of a foreign country. In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for Maduro said a judge was required by law to reject the indictment because it cannot be brought against a […]

The Kennedy Center took down Wednesday a sculpture known as Blue, the latest change to the cultural and performing arts center that stirred some pushback in President Donald Trump’s second term. The sculpture, a tall, blue stick figure poised in action — as if to kick a ball or, from a different angle, having just kicked one — was designed by sculptor Joel Shapiro and installed in 2019. The removal […]

By Janina Nuno Rios NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Linda Noskova eased to a 6-4 6-2 win over Thailand’s Lanlana Tararudee on Wednesday to reach the U.S. Open third round as the Wimbledon champion bids for a second consecutive Grand Slam title. The sixth seed was in control throughout but had to stay alert as the 22-year-old Tararudee came close to a earning a break point after both players […]

JAKARTA, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Nearly 800 Indonesians have fallen ill in separate incidents of food poisoning linked to the government’s free meals programme, a member of a parliamentary commission overseeing health said, including more than 500 students in East Java province this week. President Prabowo Subianto launched his multibillion-dollar programme last year to eradicate under-nutrition by giving free meals to tens of millions of children, but the scheme has […]

Sept 3 (Reuters) – American Cole Houshmand took the Fiji Pro title ahead of Gabriel Medina in pumping conditions at the Cloudbreak reef on Thursday, while in-form Canadian teenager Erin Brooks earned a second straight world tour title. Californian Houshmand had lost six times in the first round this year but turned his season around by beating reigning world champion Yago Dora in the quarter-finals and Medina in the title-decider. […]