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Kari Lake wins GOP primary for closely watched Arizona Senate race, will face Gallego in November
PA Power and Policy

Kari Lake wins GOP primary for closely watched Arizona Senate race, will face Gallego in November

  • By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press
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Kari Lake has won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona, setting up a fierce battle against Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego for a seat that could be crucial to deciding Senate control. Lake on Tuesday defeated Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, who had contended he was more electable and the best candidate to secure the border. But Lamb ultimately struggled to raise the money needed to make his case to voters. Gallego ran unopposed in the Democratic primary for Senate. Lake, a former local news anchor, has built a national profile in former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.

Olympic women triathletes begin swim in Seine River after days of concerns about water quality
Olympics

Olympic women triathletes begin swim in Seine River after days of concerns about water quality

  • By KATE BRUMBACK and PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press
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The Olympic triathlons got under way Wednesday as the women dove in after days of delays and uncertainty over water quality concerns in the Seine River. Organizers said the latest tests of the famed Paris waterway showed compliance with quality standards. Elevated levels of bacteria delayed the men’s race from Tuesday. The women began their race at 8 a.m. Wednesday as originally scheduled with rain falling. The men will begin at 10:45 a.m. The decision to go ahead with the Seine swim for the triathlon competitions is a big win for the city and Olympics organizers. They undertook a more than billion-dollar plan to clean up the long-polluted Seine and have been steadfast in their insistence that swimming events could safely be held in the river.

Hamas says its leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran by an Israeli airstrike
World News

Hamas says its leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran by an Israeli airstrike

  • By ABBY SEWELL - Associated Press
  • Updated

Hamas says its leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on his residence in Tehran, Iran. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard also confirmed the assassination but did not say how it occurred. Israel has vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas over the group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw some 250 others taken hostage. The apparent assassination comes at a precarious time, as the Biden administration has tried to push Hamas and Israel to agree to a temporary cease-fire and hostage-release deal. In Israel’s war against Hamas since the October attack, more than 39,360 Palestinians have been killed.

Thaiss has 5 RBIs and Adell go-ahead homer as Angels overcome 4-run deficit and beat Rockies 10-7
MLB

Thaiss has 5 RBIs and Adell go-ahead homer as Angels overcome 4-run deficit and beat Rockies 10-7

  • By DOUG PADILLA - Associated Press
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Matt Thaiss drove in a career-high five runs, Jo Adell hit a go-ahead home run in the seventh inning and the Los Angeles Angels overcame a four-run deficit to beat the Colorado Rockies 10-7. Thaiss became the first Angels catcher to drive in five runs with two steals in the same game and the second catcher in major league history to achieve the feat after Detroit’s Mickey Cochrane in 1934. Taylor Ward drove in three runs for the Angels, who trailed 6-2 after two innings and won for the sixth time in nine games.

She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children
World News

She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children

  • By MARIAM FAM and SALAR SALIM - Associated Press

As the 10th anniversary of the Islamic State group's atrocities against Iraq's Yazidis approaches, a traumatized community is still in many ways convulsed by the legacy of the militants' onslaught. The ripple effects are felt in the anguish of families whose loved ones remain missing and the trauma of former captives, many of whom had been forced into sexual enslavement. They are felt in the agony of some mothers who say they've had to choose between their Yazidi families and the children whom they gave birth to after they were captured and raped by or married to the extremists. While the community has embraced the return of the kidnapped mothers, the children’s fate has proved much more contentious.

Israel-Hamas war latest: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran says
World News

Israel-Hamas war latest: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran says

  • By The Associated Press
  • Updated

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Tehran. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the assassination but suspicion fell on Israel, which has vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas over the group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw some 250 others taken hostage. Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday. Iran gave no details on how Haniyeh was killed, and the Guard said early Wednesday that the attack was under investigation. The top Hamas leader in Gaza is Yahya Sinwar, who masterminded the Oct. 7 attack sparked the latest Israel-Hamas war.