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Liberian authorities burn $336 million in cocaine as senior police officials are implicated

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian law enforcement agents burned some 4.2 metric tons of cocaine worth about $336 million on Thursday, days after authorities announced the country's largest-ever drug seizure and implicated senior police officials in the trafficking operation. Authorities said investigators identified officers who had allegedly helped escort the cocaine after it arrived in Liberia. The chief of the highway patrol and the head of the major crimes unit have been charged, while a deputy police commander at the country's main airport is also a suspect, Police Inspector ...

AP-NORC poll: How views on Trump’s handling of Iran have shifted

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans say the war in Iran has not been worth fighting, and President Donald Trump's approval rating on Iran has fallen slightly since last month, according to a new AP-NORC poll. The results are a stark repudiation of the Republican president's approach to the conflict, which has dragged on far longer than he originally predicted. About two-thirds of U.S. adults say the war with Iran, which began Feb. 28, has not been worthwhile, according to the new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That includes the vast majority of ...

Pens sign veteran forward Novak to 3-year deal

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins signed dependable forward Tommy Novak to a three-year contract extension on Friday. The deal, which begins during the 2027-28 season, carries an average annual value of $4.65 million. The 29-year-old Novak collected 16 goals and 26 points in 82 games last season while helping the Penguins return to the playoffs following a three-year absence. Novak, who bounced between the second and third line during his first full season in Pittsburgh, had been scheduled to become a free agent next summer. The extension instead keeps him in the fold for ...

Sherrod Brown comfortably outraises Jon Husted as outside groups enter Ohio’s U.S. Senate race

Ohio Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Sherrod Brown raised more than twice as much as incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Jon Husted from April to June, according to campaign finance filings from both campaigns. Congressional candidates must file several financial disclosures throughout the year of their election. Reports for the second quarter of 2026 were due July 15. Brown’s campaign announced $14.1 million in direct second-quarter donations, with an added $3 million coming from an affiliated PAC. Husted’s campaign reported $3.4 million in direct donations and $4.3 million ...

Ukrainian War remakes war (syndicated column for 7/30)

Wars remake war. New weaponry, new tactics, new strategy time and again produce results no one predicted or thought possible. Revolutionary France's levee en masse and Napoleon's bold attacks prevailed over staid 18th-century siege warfare and subdued all Europe. The aggressive assaults produced horrendous casualties but were unable to move the Western Front trenches more than a few meters in World War I. Less than 20 years later, the European theater in World War II was the scene of blitzkrieg attacks — France, with Europe's largest army, was overrun in six weeks — followed by ...

Braving the deep end: Growth begins where our comfort zone ends (syndicated column for 7/30)

My son was furious when I picked him up from day camp, slamming the door when he got in the car. He had been downgraded from a "yellow" swimmer to a "red" swimmer. He hadn't forgotten how to swim. The YMCA had simply changed its policy. My son loves to swim. He likes donning goggles and swimming underwater, not to mention perfecting his handstand. But the YMCA had changed its safety rules, and rightfully so. The shallow end reaches 5 feet deep, and campers now have to be at least 5 feet tall to swim there without a life jacket unless they pass the swim test. My son is 4 feet, 10 ...