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Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist on the steamy love triangle of 'Challengers' |
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NEW YORK (AP) â?? How sexy can a qualifying tennis tournament in New Rochelle, New York, be? When the on-court drama involves Zendaya, Josh Oâ??Connor and Mike Faist, the answer turns out to be quite a bit more than your average USTA singles match in Luca Guadagninoâ??s â??Challengers.â?? |
| JAKE COYLE | |
To pass Ukraine aid, 'Reagan Republican' leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump |
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WASHINGTON (AP) â?? For Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson, the necessity of providing Ukraine with weapons and other aid as it fends off Russia's invasion is rooted in their earliest and most formative political memories. |
| STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK | |
Ukraine uses long-range missiles secretly provided by US to hit Russian-held areas, officials say |
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WASHINGTON (AP) â?? Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials said Wednesday. |
| LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP | |
Arizona House advances a repeal of the state's near-total abortion ban to the Senate |
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PHOENIX (AP) â?? A proposed repeal of Arizonaâ??s near-total ban on abortions won approval from the state House Wednesday after two weeks of mounting pressure on Republicans over an issue that has bedeviled former President Donald Trump's campaign to return to the White House. |
| JACQUES BILLEAUD and JONATHAN J. COOPER | |
Police tangle with students in Texas and California as wave of campus protest against Gaza war grows |
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) â?? Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted Wednesday at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests. |
| JIM VERTUNO, ACACIA CORONADO and NICK PERRY | |
Russia vetoes a UN resolution calling for the prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space |
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) â?? Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space, calling it â??a dirty spectacleâ?? that cherry picks weapons of mass destruction from all other weapons that should also be banned. |
| EDITH M. LEDERER | |
She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump |
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NEW YORK (AP) â?? Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart.Lisa Pisanoâ??s combination of heart and kidney failure left her too sick to qualify for a traditional transplant, and out of options. |
| LAURAN NEERGAARD | |
About 1 in 4 US adults 50 and older who aren't yet retired expect to never retire, AARP study finds |
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WASHINGTON (AP) â?? About one-quarter of U.S. adults age 50 and older who are not yet retired say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income, an AARP survey finds. |
| FATIMA HUSSEIN | |
USDA updates rules for school meals that limit added sugars for the first time |
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The nation's school meals will get a makeover under new nutrition standards that limit added sugars for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. The final rule also trims sodium in kids' meals, although not by the 30% first proposed in 2023. And it continues to allow flavored milks â?? such as chocolate milk â?? with less sugar, rather than adopting an option that would have offered only unflavored milk to the youngest kids. |
| JONEL ALECCIA | |
The summer after Barbenheimer and the strikes, Hollywood charts a new course |
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â?? Barbenheimer â?? is a hard act to follow. But as Hollywood enters another summer movie season, armed with fewer superheroes and a landscape vastly altered by the strikes, itâ??s worth remembering the classic William Goldman quote about what works: â??Nobody knows anything.â?? |
| LINDSEY BAHR | |