CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers speedily approved funding for the state veterans home, a program to help kids at risk of dropping out of school and other proposals on Monday after gaveling in for a special session called by Republican Gov. Jim Justice. The GOP-controlled ...

Iowa (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten) at No. 3 Ohio State (4-0, 1-0), Saturday, 3:30 ET (CBS) BetMGM College Football Odds: Ohio State by 19 1/2. Series record: Ohio State leads 47-15-3. What's at stake Iowa will be the toughest test yet for the Buckeyes, who has blown out every opponent so far. Last ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz and JD Vance focused their criticism on the top of the ticket on Tuesday as they engaged in a policy-heavy discussion that may be the last debate of the 2024 presidential campaign. It was the first encounter between Minnesota's Democratic ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Republican challenger David McCormick will meet Thursday night for their first debate in an expensive race for a swing-state seat that could help determine control of the Senate in November's election. Casey, perhaps ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Three residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania county sued Tuesday to overturn a local official's announcement that she will prevent all four of its drop boxes from being deployed for use by those voting by mail and absentee ballot in the Nov. 5 election. The lawsuit ...

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of two doctors charged in the investigation of the death of Matthew Perry is expected to plead guilty Wednesday in a federal court in Los Angeles to conspiring to distribute the surgical anesthetic ketamine. Dr. Mark ...

By ERIK VERDUZCO, JEFF AMY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden will survey the devastation in North and South Carolina on Wednesday as rescuers continue their search for anyone still unaccounted for after Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic ...

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, CHRIS MEGERIAN, WILL WEISSSERT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a debate that evoked a calmer era in American politics, Tim Walz and JD Vance on Tuesday went after each other's running mates and sought to shore up their campaigns' vulnerabilities ...

By BILL BARROW, ZEKE MILLER and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz and JD Vance focused their criticism on the top of the ticket on Tuesday as they engaged in a policy-heavy discussion that may be the last debate of the 2024 ...

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press As the rain from Hurricane Helene came down harder and harder, workers inside a plastics factory in rural Tennessee kept working. It wasn't until water flooded into the parking lot and the power went out that the plant shut down and sent workers ...

By AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After a year of war between Israel and Hamas, U.S. public opinion on the conflict remains polarized, a new survey by the Pearson Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds, with Democrats ...

BY JEFF MARTIN, KEVIN McGILL and ALANNA DURKIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia prison officials are "deliberately indifferent" to unchecked deadly violence, widespread drug use, extortion and sexual abuse at state lockups, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday, threatening to ...

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — What lies beneath the Great Lakes' waves is largely unknown, but there's a new push to learn more about thousands of shipwrecks, underwater infrastructure and the impacts of climate change on the bottom of the world's largest freshwater ...

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump is going back to Butler, where the world last saw him pump his fist and beseech followers to "fight," even as blood streaked his face from a would-be assassin's bullet. In announcing his return, the former president and ...

By JOSH BOAK and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple news reports indicate that Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz lied about being in Hong Kong during the turbulence surrounding the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, part of a broader pattern of ...

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Playful large white beluga whales bring joy and healing to Hudson Bay. Their happy chirps leap out in an environment and economy threatened by the warming water melting sea ice, starving polar bears and changing the entire food ...

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California state Assembly approved a bill Tuesday backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom aimed at preventing gas prices from spiking, particularly in late summer months when demand for gas goes up. The legislation ...

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press BATH, Maine (AP) — A woman who lost her husband and son in Maine's deadliest shooting is seeking the gunman's health and military records through the probate process. A judge on Tuesday granted Cynthia Young's petition to become a special administrator of ...

SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber-optic cables have been shut down by Hurricane Helene with no reopening date in sight. Sibelco and The Quartz Corp both shut down operations in ...

By ERIK VERDUZCO, JEFF AMY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Cadaver dogs and search crews trudged through knee-deep muck and debris in the mountains of western North Carolina on Tuesday looking for more victims of Hurricane Helene days after the storm carved a ...