LAS VEGAS — Former President Donald Trump is now the biggest favorite to date over Vice President Kamala Harris in election betting odds after a flurry of wagers.

Trump replaced Harris as a slight -115 favorite on Oct. 7 before increasing his edge to -130 on Oct. 11. On Friday, Trump had climbed as high as a -173 favorite at Pinnacle, where ...Read more

BOSTON — Shortly after their son received a “D” grade for using AI on a history paper at Hingham High School, his parents filed suit — claiming that “artificial intelligence is here to stay.”

“While artificial intelligence is a new technology and it is still emerging, it is widely accepted. Business, other industries, academia and...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams might think it’s “common” to accept tens of thousands of dollars in benefits in exchange for pressuring a city agency, but it is “nonetheless illegal,” federal prosecutors argued Friday in opposing the mayor’s motion to toss a bribery count in his sweeping corruption case.

On the heels of his indictment...Read more

Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro on Friday appointed controversial businessman Alex Saab as the country’s minister of industry and production, despite the charges that had been brought against him in the United States for allegedly running a massive corruption and money-laundering scheme.

Saab, who was released from a Florida prison after ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The murder trial of accused suitcase killer Sarah Boone got underway in earnest Friday — after 4 1/2 years of delays and four days spent picking a jury — with Boone under significant pressure to take the stand in her own defense.

That may be the only way Boone can use the “battered spouse syndrome” defense her attorney...Read more

WILMINGTON, N.C. — North Carolina voters showed up in record numbers on Thursday to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting.

The State Board of Elections reported that 353,166 people voted in person on Thursday — slightly breaking the first-day record set in 2020, by about 4,500 votes.

“Yesterday’s turnout is a clear sign ...Read more

Roughly a fifth of voters are expected to vote by mail in the 2024 election, according to recent polls, meaning millions of ballots will be in the hands of postal workers.

Is the U.S. Postal Service prepared to process and deliver that kind of volume in a timely manner? In short, yes, according to officials and election experts.

But they ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center continued Friday to keep track of two systems with a chance to form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm, with the most likely in the western Caribbean.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, that broad area of low pressure with widespread showers and ...Read more

DETROIT —A Thumb-area man accused of threatening to kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer along with other Democratic politicians, law enforcement officers and members of the LGBTQ+ community was sentenced Thursday to almost three years in federal prison.

The 32-month sentence for Sebewaing resident Randall Berka, 31, is the latest for someone convicted...Read more

Hamas is likely to name Qatar-based Khalil al-Hayya as a successor to slain leader Yayha Sinwar, aligning it closer to Iran and giving its main backer more sway in the next stage of the group’s war with Israel.

Al-Hayya is a protégé of Ismail Haniyeh, Sinwar’s predecessor who was believed to have been assassinated by Israel in Tehran in ...Read more

MIAMI — Donald Trump’s comments on Kamala Harris’ race and his false statements about Haitian immigrants eating their neighbors’ pets in Springfield, Ohio, are being used to avoid talking about the issues that are affecting voters, panelists said at an event to discuss combating anti-immigrant rhetoric at The African American Research ...Read more

The killing by Israeli forces of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar leaves the Palestinian militant group wounded, but hardly a spent force, analysts say.

Even before Sinwar's death in a surprise encounter with Israeli troops in southern Gaza, the organization had been severely degraded militarily by more than a year of all-out warfare with Israel. But ...Read more

SpaceX is set to launch its 99th operational flight of the year with a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday night if the winds diminish.

A Falcon 9 with 20 Starlink satellites is aiming for liftoff from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 7:31 p.m. Eastern time with a backup option on Saturday at 7:06 p.m.

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington on Friday made public a mixture of miscellaneous documents filed as evidence by prosecutors in the criminal case against former President Donald Trump over his push to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.

Despite the disclosure, hundreds of pages in the new filing from Special Counsel John L. “...Read more

The U.S. ramped up its calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying Israel’s killing of the top Hamas leader had removed one of the main obstacles to peace.

Israel said it had eliminated Yahya Sinwar on Wednesday in the besieged Palestinian territory, just over a year after he ordered an attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and his militants ...Read more