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Virginia Evans and Susan Choi are among 6 finalists for the Women's Prize for Fiction
LONDON (AP) — Four debut novelists are among six books on a U.S.-dominated list of finalists for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, which is open to female English-language writers from any country.American authors take four of the six places on the shortlist for the 30,000 pounds ($40,000) prize, announced Wednesday by a judging panel led by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Among them are bestselling writer Lily King’s campus-set romance “Heart the Lover” and Susan Choi’s twisty family saga “Flashlight,” a finalist for last year’s... Read More
Senate hearings with RFK Jr. put Cassidyâs competing loyalties to Trump and science on display
Bill Cassidy’s roles as a lawmaker, a doctor and a political candidate will collide on Wednesday as he questions Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in two high-stakes Senate hearings.The Louisiana Republican chairs one of the Senate committees that oversees Kennedy's department and sits on another, giving him two chances to interrogate the secretary about his plans for an agency responsible for public health programs and research. As a doctor, Cassidy has clashed with Kennedy’s anti-vaccine ideas even though he provided crucial support for the health secretary's... Read More
The Latest: Iran attacks 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as Trump indefinitely extends ceasefire
U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States was indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran as a new round of peace talks was on hold.Pakistan had planned to host a second round of talks, but the White House suspended Vice President JD Vance’s planned trip to Islamabad as Iran rebuffed efforts to restart negotiations. Iran acknowledged the ceasefire extension but didn't say Tehran was ready to attend a new round of talks to end the war, state television reported Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Iran’s semiofficial news agencies are reporting that the paramilitary... Read More
Iran fires on 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as US maintains blockade and diplomacy stalls
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key waterway a day after U.S. President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire while maintaining an American blockade of Iranian ports.Iranian media said the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was bringing the two ships to Iran after seizing them in the strait, through which 20% of the world's oil passes in peacetime. The standoff over Iran's closure of the strait and the U.S. blockade raised doubts about when or if talks... Read More
China's foreign and defense ministers meet with Cambodian counterparts in joint '2+2' dialogue
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia and China on Wednesday held their first meeting of what is called a “2+2” Strategic Dialogue Mechanism, bringing together both countries’ foreign and defense ministers to deepen mutual political and security ties.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Defense Minister Dong Jun are visiting Cambodia to hold talks with their counterparts, Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn and Defense Minister Tea Seiha.
These talks are an initiative proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his state visit in April last year, aimed at boosting... Read More
Top Stories
- Senate hearings with RFK Jr. put Cassidyâs competing loyalties to Trump and science on display
- Iran fires on 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as US maintains blockade and diplomacy stalls
- Wall Street ticks higher in early trading with a tenuous ceasefire tested in Iran
- Researchers have spent decades breeding better potatoes for chips, and their work isn't done
- The Iran war could drive up costs for petroleum-derived products like clothes and crayons
- Pope calls for justice and closing income gap in Equatorial Guinea Mass with presidential family
- Searchers find body of 1 of 6 missing crew members from ship that overturned during typhoon
- Beneath Trump's ballroom legal case: A brief history of the White House bunker
- Trump media company replaces ex-congressman Nunes as CEO after stock plunge that wiped out billions
- Ukraine wants a Zelenskyy-Putin summit to jolt stalled US-led peace efforts
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- Virginia Evans and Susan Choi are among 6 finalists for the Women's Prize for Fiction
- Once punished for weaving, this Mexican artisan uses her loom for LGBTQ+ resistance
- Her kidnapped son was killed in a Gaza tunnel. A new memoir gives a searing account of her grief
- Alan Osmond, the eldest member of the Osmonds, has died at 76
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- Trump renews his call for Congress to intervene and pass legislation to control college sports
- Kings interim coach D.J. Smith hit by shattered glass as panel breaks behind LA bench in Game 2
- Road teams pushing back in early days of NBA playoffs, stealing away the home-court advantages