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PHOENIX (AP) — The biggest knock-down, drag-out primary election fight among the 90 Arizona Senate and House seats up for grabs in November features two sitting Republican lawmakers in a suburban north Phoenix district battling for the soul of the GOP. Sen. Heather Carter, known as one of the more moderate GOP lawmakers, is defending her seat against a challenge from Rep. Nancy Barto, a social conservative who has embraced anti-abortion and religious freedom legislation. Both have represented the 15th District, either in the Senate or House, fo...
David Heinemeier Hansson has made a name for himself as one of the tech industry's more prominent iconoclasts and industry critics. The Danish programmer is a successful entrepreneur who has testified before Congress to argue that Big Tech firms should be more regulated and started an anti-Facebook campaign. He is chief technology officer of BaseCamp, which makes workplace collaboration software, and is also the creator of a widely used software development framework called Ruby on Rails. Hansson spoke with The Associated Press to discuss...
FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) — The Army's Fort Riley will get a new commander later this month. Major Gen. Douglas A. Sims will assume command of Fort Riley, Kansas, and its 1st Infantry Division, which is known as the "Big Red One," on Aug. 14, officials said Sunday. Sims is a 1991 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy who has deployed several times to Iraq and Afghanistan. He will take over for Major Gen. John Kolasheski, who relinquished command of Fort Riley Saturday, so he could take over command of the Army's V Corps, which is based at Fort K...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Sunday imposed symbolic sanctions on a hawkish former expert with the White House National Security Council, Iranian state media reported. A statement from Iran's Foreign Ministry said the sanctions on Richard Goldberg were implemented because of his role in what it called "U.S. economic terrorism against interests of the Islamic Republic and its citizens," the IRNA news agency reported. Goldberg will not be eligible for Iranian visas or accounts in Iranian financial institutes, nor will he be qualified to have a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk's SpaceX company. It was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years, with the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit. The return clears the way for another SpaceX crew launch as early as next month and possible tourist flights next year. Test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob B...
LOS CERRILLOS, N.M. (AP) — Meandering along a dusty trail on the back of a horse, with a vast New Mexico landscape of layered mountains, red rocks and blooming claret cup cactuses spread across the horizon, one can temporarily forget the world is suffering from a pandemic. Perched on a saddle, moving with a horse's hooves drumming against the cracked desert dirt, "There really is nothing that feels more like freedom," said Harrold Grantham, owner of Broken Saddle Riding Company in Cerrillos. "You forget about everything going on for a while f...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tamar Braxton is thanking her boyfriend for "saving my life" after her hospitalization last month. Braxton posted a lengthy message on social media late Saturday that paid tribute to David Adefeso being her "angel on earth." She said she is grateful for Adefeso who found her "lifeless" in their home, saying it "couldn't have been easy" for him. The R&B singer did not provide details about her hospitalization. Police only confirmed they responded to a medical emergency July 16 at the downtown Los Angeles high rise that she c...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Lauren Robison had been waiting for the right moment. In awe of the views near the end of a hike through Black Canyon in Gunnison, she thought, "Yup, this is the one." It helped, too, that no one else was around. Robison planted her feet among some wildflowers. She took her shirt off. And her sports bra. She lifted up her arms and stood with her body facing the big, beautiful canyon. As a friend took her photo, the Colorado Springs woman was nervous. "Oh my gosh," she thought at first. "I have my shirt off in p...
NEW YORK (AP) — Seven St. Louis Cardinals players and six staff members tested positive for COVID-19, causing Major League Baseball to postpone the team's four-game series at Detroit. The series was to have been played at Comerica Park from Tuesday through Thursday. Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said Monday that five of those who tested positive did not show symptoms. Mozeliak said the others did — headaches, cough, sniffles, low-grade fever. St. Louis has been in quarantine since Thursday in Milwaukee, where the Cardinals' series las...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Right tackle Ja'Wuan James informed the Denver Broncos on Monday that he's opting out of the 2020 season over coronavirus concerns. The Broncos were counting on their headliner from last year's free agent class to bounce back from a balky right knee that limited him to just three appearances in 2019 after signing what was at the time the biggest contract ever for a left tackle, $51 million over four years. Elijah Wilkinson could be in line to fill in for James for a second straight season, although Wilkinson is still rec...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ Williams Cos. (WMB) on Monday reported second-quarter profit of $303 million. The Tulsa, Oklahoma-based company said it had net income of 25 cents per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 23 cents per share. The pipeline operator posted revenue of $1.78 billion in the period. Williams Cos. expects full-year earnings in the range of 95 cents to $1.20 per share. Williams Cos. shares have decreased 17% since the...
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police in suburban Denver have apologized after a group of Black girls was detained, and at least two handcuffed during a weekend investigation of a stolen car. Officers later determined that the vehicle they were seeking had the same license plate number but was from out-of-state. A video taken Sunday by a bystander shows the children, ranging in age from 6 to 17 years old, in a parking lot in Aurora, where there have recently been protests over the death of a Black man stopped by police last year, KUSA-TV reported. The v...
On Sunday, Norman Public Schools became the latest school district in Oklahoma to opt for an online-only start because of the virus. The district pushed back its start date by a week to Aug. 24 and said classes would be held virtually to begin. Oklahoma City is also starting its school year online because of the pandemic....
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Board of Education primary election has drawn more attention than usual after the panel voted against the governor's plan to delay the start of the school year due to the coronavirus pandemic. One member who had been running unopposed, Deena Horst, voted against Gov. Laura Kelly's order, and the next day a write-in challenger endorsed by a former governor joined the race, the Wichita Eagle reported. Five of the board's 10 seats are up for election, but just two have competitive primaries. Horst and two other board...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's reported coronavirus cases rose by 377 on Monday, and the state added another death due to the illness caused by the virus, the Oklahoma State Department of Health said. Oklahoma has confirmed 38,602 cases of COVID-19 and 551 deaths since the pandemic began. The death reported Monday was a man in Pottawatomie County who was 65 years old or older, the agency said. The true number of coronavirus cases in Oklahoma is likely higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be i...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has seen its rate of positive coronavirus tests inch up over the past month and is approaching 29,000 reported cases for the pandemic. The state Department of Health and Environment reported Monday that the state had another 1,064 cases since Friday, up 3.8% to 28,876. The department also reported another seven COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total to 365 for the pandemic. Kansas has seen its rolling seven-day average for new cases a day drop since peaking at a pandemic-high of an average of 479 cases for the s...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Twenty-three pillars of light shot into a cloudy El Paso sky to commemorate the lives lost during a shooting that targeted Mexicans at a Walmart one year ago — a memorial visible from both sides of the US-Mexico border. The white beams stood out against the orange glow of the border lights Sunday night as people lit paper lanterns and played music in a park in a ceremony marking a year since the attack. There was a service for the families of the victims, but the gathering was closed to the public. Events to com...
DENVER (AP) — A year after most of Colorado was drought-free, nearly all of the state is now experiencing a dry spell, according to data released by the U.S. Drought Monitor. The western corners of the state were abnormally dry during the summer of 2019, but the rest experienced no drought. Now, every part of the state except a sliver of Weld County is parched, The Colorado Sun reported Monday. Drought monitor author Richard Heim said it will take several years of heavy rain for the state to return to 2019 figures. Conditions have deteriorated...
Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES —"American Pickle": Seth Rogen plays dual roles in this film about a man from the 1920s who falls into a vat of pickle juice, wakes up fully preserved 100 years later and gets a chance to know his great-grandson — a Brooklyn-based app developer. Part "Being There" meets "Kate & Leopold," part Rogen-joint, "American Pickle," has a sweet-heart and a few fun gags that'll make this a ple...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The newest member of the Kansas Supreme Court has been sworn in. Keynen "K.J." Wall Jr. took the oath at the Kansas Judicial Center Monday. Chief Justice Marla Luckert presided at the ceremony. The ceremony was smaller than usual because of the room needed to allow social distancing due to the coronavirus. Wall wore a mask as he was sworn in. Gov. Laura Kelly appointed Wall in March to fill a vacancy created when former Chief Justice Lawton Nuss retired in December. Wall had been in private practice with the Forbes Law G...
DALLAS (AP) — Kim Peacock was once the purveyor of first-class luxury, but now her Arlington company has more than 87,000 pounds of nuts and no idea if her airline customers will ever want them again. So GNS Foods of Arlington, a supplier to American Airlines, is trying to unload dozens of pallets of mixed cashews, pistachios, pecans and almonds after the COVID-19 pandemic forced carriers to stop serving the first-class perk on flights. GNS opened a retail store at its factory and started peddling nuts online in hopes of getting rid of them a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Oversight Committee has invited the new postmaster general to appear at a hearing next month to examine operational changes to the U.S. Postal Service that are causing delays in mail deliveries across the country. The plan imposed by Louis DeJoy, a Republican fundraiser who took over the top job at the Postal Service in June, eliminates overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers and orders that mail be kept until the next day if postal distribution centers are running late. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New Y...
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn has been awarded a $10 million grant to research how to raise poultry for food without giving the birds antibiotics. The grant, announced Monday by the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, will fund a project led by Kumar Venkitanarayanan, an animal science professor at UConn, with a team of 30 researchers from 8 colleges and universities. The school said the project is designed to create a sustainable program for antibiotic-restricted broiler production in the poultry i...
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A group of Louisiana residents are trying to drum up support for reopening the Lafayette Science Museum, which the mayor says the city can't afford to keep up and running. Renee Sonnier and Blake Lagneaux are among those hoping to bring attention to the museum now that it's on the chopping block. KATC-TV reports that Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory announced layoffs at the museum in May, saying there isn't enough funding for it. "I don't want the opportunity to go by where citizens find themselves in a position t...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Magnolias and stars. Crosses and guitars. Beer cans and crawfish. A Gulf Coast lighthouse. Elvis Presley and Kermit the Frog. All appear on proposals the general public submitted for a new Mississippi flag. Mississippi recently retired the last state banner with the Confederate battle emblem that's widely condemned as racist. A nine-member commission will design a replacement that cannot include the Confederate symbol and must have the phrase, "In God We Trust." The public submitted nearly 2,700 proposals, which were p...
