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NEW YORK (AP) — It's an idea whose time, as it were, may have come — again. The twice-yearly changing of the clocks in the United States could be a thing of the past if legislation currently in Congress that calls for permanent daylight time makes it through. But even as annoying as some find the back-and-forth of the time shift in the spring and the fall, that doesn't necessarily mean sticking to one would go over well. America has tried it before, most recently in the 1970s, and it didn't last.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States has intensified its strikes targeting Iran, hitting targets further north. American forces also fired into a ship it accused of trying to break its naval blockade on the Islamic Republic. Tehran retaliated early Thursday with missile and drone fire targeting Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait before dawn.

In the weeks after Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, the people that Trump appointed to run the Department of Justice, cybersecurity agencies and intelligence departments all said the same thing — the election was fair, legitimate and free of major fraud or foreign interference. In his second term, Trump has tried to use the levers of power to rewrite that well-settled history, something that he's expected to try again on Thursday night with an address to the nation.

MASAFER YATTA, West Bank (AP) — The blue-and-white Israeli flags flutter from hilltops and line the roads of the occupied West Bank, signaling the growing presence of Israeli settlements and the outposts they’re building on Palestinian land. For shepherds in the Jordan Valley, as well as in Masafer Yatta, a cluster of villages in the southern West Bank, the flags and expanding settlements have become inescapable features of the landscape, reminders of how daily life has narrowed.

PHOENIX (AP) — Election officials in Arizona's most populous county reached an agreement this week on how to jointly oversee the vote, ending a prolonged legal battle. Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap sued the predominantly GOP board of supervisors in June 2025, alleging it illegally took control of certain aspects of election administration. The board called the lawsuit frivolous and said Heap was wasting taxpayer money.

NEW YORK (AP) — The ESPYS return to New York on Wednesday as the annual awards show honors the year’s top athletes, teams and sports moments. After a couple of decades in Los Angeles, it's back in New York and being held at Lincoln Center.

As state policymakers continue to debate altering the recently reduced Medicaid payment rates for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT), one of western Colorado’s primary providers announced it cannot delay service reductions any longer.

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Former South Carolina congressman Joe Cunningham talks — and writes — like someone who has nothing to lose. Or, he is one brave man, willing to tell the unvarnished truth to his fellow Democrats. At 44, Cunningham isn’t nearly finished with what he started out to do when he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2018 after running on a promise to vote against Nancy Pelosi as House speaker.

Colorado Association for Viticulture and Enology announced that its long-time leader, Executive Director Cassidee Shull, is stepping down at the end of October after nearly 15 years with the organization. “Serving CAVE and the Colorado wine industry has been the greatest honor of my professional life,” Shull said in a statement. “When I accepted this role at 23 years old, I could never have imagined the journey ahead.