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VICTOR, Iowa (AP) — A train struck a semi-truck in eastern Iowa on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring another, authorities said. The crash occurred at the crossing of a state highway and the Iowa Interstate Railroad in a rural area about 70 miles (113 kilometers) east of Des Moines, according to Poweshiek County Sheriff Matt Maschmann. One person in the semi-truck died and another was transported with “serious injuries,” […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred worries the owners’ salary cap proposal could lead to a work stoppage like the one that caused the cancellation of the 1994 World Series and says the plan is needed because management concluded that the luxury tax system in place since 2003 no longer is working. Owners last week made their first cap proposal since 1994, when a 7 1/2-month strike caused […]

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Thousands of students, teachers and social activists clashed with police in the Chilean capital Wednesday during a massive march against President José Antonio Kast’s education cuts and austerity measures. Since taking office on March 11, ultraconservative Kast has pledged to cut roughly $6 billion in public spending over 18 months in an effort to improve the country’s fiscal accounts. As part of this ambitious austerity plan, […]

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s government endorsed a plan Wednesday to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park in Ontario to aquariums in the United States and Spain — a plan that could save them from mass euthanasia if the deal goes through. There are 30 belugas and four dolphins left in the Marineland park and zoo in Niagara Falls, Ontario, which announced in early 2023 that […]

MONTREAL (AP) — A 3-year-old girl died from injuries she sustained when strong winds tossed an inflatable castle into the air during a party at a Montreal park last weekend. Eleven people were injured with six of them sent to hospital when a bouncy castle and a tent were tossed by high winds on May 31 at Parc Ouellet in LaSalle, a borough in southwest Montreal, emergency medical services said. […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Steve Hilton has painted California as a state bursting with potential that has lost its way under Democratic leadership in his bid to be the state’s first Republican governor in more than 15 years. “We have a responsibility to revive California so it is once again that symbol of everything that is great about our nation: energy and optimism and ambition,” he said Tuesday in an […]

NEW YORK (AP) — “This is ‘60 Minutes,’” Harry Reasoner announced on Sept. 24, 1968, introducing his new CBS News show alongside fellow correspondent Mike Wallace. “It’s kind of a magazine for television.” He added: “We do think this is sort of a new approach.” More than a half-century and 58 seasons later, that same term — “new approach” — is being deployed by CBS News leader Bari Weiss to […]

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will not testify before Congress next week about the league’s broadcast deals and its recent practice of airing games on paywalled streaming services. Goodell declined an invitation to appear at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on June 10 “due to ongoing litigation related to the topic of the hearing,” the league’s general counsel, Ted Ullyot, wrote in a letter Wednesday to the committee chairman, Rep. Jim […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House for the first time Wednesday approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long conflict that has reordered politics at home and abroad. House Speaker Mike Johnson had tried to prevent an outcome that would show the mounting opposition to the war, abruptly shutting […]