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U.S. women's national team captain Lindsey Heaps said she was grateful to get the chance to play in San Diego, where her husband Tyler Heaps is the sporting director of MLS expansion side San Diego FC ...

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Stan Ellis (R-Bakersfield) won a special election for the Assembly on Tuesday. Ellis succeeds Vince Fong, who won a congressional election last year. Assembly District 32 has been without ...

An Amtrak Acela trainset snakes its way through State Street station in New Haven, Conn. Some Acela trips between Washington and Boston have been cancelled for a third straight day. David Lassen ...

Operator: Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Trip.com Group 2024 Q4 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today’s conference is being ...

Woodside Energy Group (ASX: WDS) (NYSE: WDS) (LSE: WDS): Woodside today reported record production of 193.9 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe), or 530 Mboe/day, for the full year 2024. The ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Protesters against the Dakota Access oil pipeline congregate, Nov. 21, 2016, on a long-closed bridge on a ...

Whether you first encountered Rick Steves via his popular line of guidebooks or his genial series of PBS travel shows, you probably already recognize him as the Northwest’s preeminent authority ...

Most Americans realize that our federal government has, in recent decades, spent so recklessly that it runs ever-increasing annual federal budget deficits (currently nearly $2 trillion) and now sits ...

Ukrainian and US negotiators are seeking to move past the breakdown in transatlantic relations this week to finalize a deal on critical minerals, a person with knowledge of the talks said.