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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys running back Miles Sanders is out for the season after he missed last week’s game with knee and ankle injuries. Executive vice president of personnel Stephen Jones said on his radio show that Sanders is headed for season-ending injured reserve. He didn’t specify what led to the decision. The…
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ top criminal court has again paused the execution of Robert Roberson, just days before he had been set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death in a shaken baby case. The execution stay was granted on Thursday by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Roberson had been…
McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say an explosion at a Tennessee explosives plant has left 19 people missing and feared dead. The blast occurred Friday at Accurate Energetic Systems, about 60 miles southwest of Nashville. The cause of the explosion is not yet known. A spokesperson for the Humphreys County Emergency Management Agency says there’s…
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday. The deal has raised hopes for ending the Israel-Hamas war, with all the remaining hostages taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack set to be released…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what he calls a “semiannual physical.” Trump left the White House around 10:45 a.m. Friday and returned to the grounds at 2:15 p.m., slightly ahead of schedule. Trump did not answer questions from reporters upon his arrival. The White House…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he hasn’t canceled a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping planned for late October in South Korea after earlier expressing anger about export controls China has placed on rare earths. Asked if he had backed out, Trump said, “I haven’t canceled.” Trump has also threatened an additional 100%…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mass firings of federal workers have begun. That was the announcement Friday from the White House as Republicans worked to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers to end the government shutdown. In a court filing, the budget office said well over 4,000 employees would be fired, though it noted that the funding…
Postal traffic to the U.S. remains down about 70% five weeks after the end of the “de minimis” exemption. The United Nations postal agency reported this on Friday. The exemption had spared low-value packages from duties and taxes. Since the U.S. ended the tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800, confusion has reigned. In…
