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Barbara Kingsolver returns with 'Partita,' her first novel since 'Demon Copperhead'

NEW YORK (AP) — For her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Demon Copperhead," Barbara Kingsolver is taking on a subject she rarely discussed in public while growing up in a small Kentucky town: classical music. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Thursday that “Partita” will be published Oct. 6. (Faber will release the book two days later in the UK). Like “Demon Copperhead,” “The Poisonwood Bible" and other Kingsolver novels, it's centered on a in...

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Governors arrive in Washington eager to push past Trump's partisan grip

WASHINGTON (AP) — In another era, the scene would have been unremarkable. But in President Donald Trump's Washington, it's become increasingly rare. Sitting side by side on stage were Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat. They traded jokes and compliments instead of insults and accusations, a brief interlude of cordiality in a cacophony of conflict. Stitt and Moore are the leaders of the National Governors Association, one of a vanishing few left a...

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Study finds warming world increases days when weather is prone to fires around the globe

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy — ideal to spark extreme wildfires — has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe, with the trend increasing even higher in the Americas, a new study shows. And more than half of that increase is caused by human-caused climate chang e, researchers calculated. What this means is that as the world warms, more places across the globe are prone to go up in flames at the same time because of increasingly...

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