Football provides a homecoming and hope in Lahaina, where thousands of homes are gone after wildfire | AP News

Football provides a homecoming and hope in Lahaina, where thousands of homes are gone after wildfire | AP News

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Fans decked in red streamed into the Lahainaluna High School football stadium, snacking on nachos and venison chili, bopping to the high school band’s rendition of “Sweet Caroline,” and exchanging long hugs with neighbors and classmates. It was homecoming, and for many of the fans, coaches and the players themselves, being

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Dispute between Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga turns deadly, killing 3 | AP News

Dispute between Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga turns deadly, killing 3 | AP News

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga forces briefly clashed Sunday in a dispute over control of a strategic military post, killing three, Iraq’s military spokesperson said.The dispute was over who controls three vacated posts previously in the hands of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants. It marked further tension in a fragile alliance

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Biden walks a tightrope with his support for Israel as his party’s left urges restraint | AP News

Biden walks a tightrope with his support for Israel as his party’s left urges restraint | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden told a crowd of Democratic donors over the weekend about a decades-old photo he took with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an aside that seemed intended to illustrate his long support of Israel and track record of speaking bluntly with the conservative Israeli leader.Biden said he’d written on the photo

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Manhunt continues for Nashville police chief’s son suspected in shooting of 2 Tennessee officers | AP News

Manhunt continues for Nashville police chief’s son suspected in shooting of 2 Tennessee officers | AP News

LA VERGNE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee were searching Sunday for the estranged son of Nashville’s police chief as the suspect in the shooting of two police officers outside a Dollar General store.Officers in La Vergne, a city about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southeast of Nashville, were investigating a stolen vehicle outside the store

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