He is only 16. But Luke Littler has risen to sudden stardom in Britain with an unlikely run that has him on the verge of a world title. Littler has become a sensation after making it into the World Darts Championship final as an unseeded player. Millions will be tuning in Wednesday to watch his…
SRINAGAR, India — India’s top court on Monday upheld a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to strip disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s special status as a semi-autonomous region with a separate constitution and inherited protections on land and jobs. The five-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court ruled that the region’s special status had been a…
Police in Edna, Texas, are investigating the murder of a 16-year-old cheerleader who was found dead by her mother in their home’s bathtub earlier this week, her family said. Lizbeth Medina was a cheerleader at Edna High School who had dreams of becoming a nurse, said her aunt Ana Medina. Raised by a single mother,…
A top New Hampshire political operative who worked for Americans for Prosperity’s political arm and was upset with the group’s endorsement of Nikki Haley is joining a super PAC supporting Ron DeSantis. Chris Maidment is the latest staffer with AFP — a branch of the powerful Koch network — to leave and join the DeSantis effort…
JERUSALEM — Like most parents of newborns, Hanan and Fathi Beyouq’s faces light up when they see their triplets’ faces. As the small face of their daughter Najwa emerges from under a pink blanket, their voices rise with excitement as they blow kisses and coo her name. But unlike other parents, Hanan and Fathi can…
Answering questions from her lawyer, John Langford, Moss said she began her job at the Fulton County Department of Registrations and Elections in 2012 as a temporary worker and described the joy she felt when she was hired for a permanent position, how she dropped to her knees and cried in the living room when…
HENNIKER, N.H. — Chris Christie kicked off a two-day New Hampshire college tour soon after Wednesday’s GOP debate, trying to grow the anti-Trump Republican coalition among student voters. He held town halls on four different college campuses across the Granite State: Franklin Pierce University, Keene State College, New England College and University of New Hampshire,…
HONOLULU — In life, Abigail Kawānanakoa embodied the complexities of Hawaii: Many considered her a princess — a descendant of the royal family that once ruled the islands. But she was also the great-granddaughter of a sugar baron and inherited vast wealth thanks to Westerners who upended traditional ways of life through the introduction of…
After an active weekend, yet another powerful atmospheric river storm will drench the Pacific Northwest with heavy rainfall, wind and some mountain snow through midweek. The Pacific storm fueled by the atmospheric river will make its way into the Pacific Northwest in the overnight hours Monday into Tuesday, bringing multiple rounds of heavy rain, gusty…
A Missouri family says that when they went to a funeral home to pick up their loved one’s ashes, they were given an urn along with a cardboard box containing something they did not expect: the man’s brain. The family of Frederick Dean Love Jr., 68, said the ordeal last year has left them suffering…
