Month: November 2021

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A TV station says a Los Angeles police helicopter recorded images of what appeared to be a human-shaped inflatable toy floating in the sky about two weeks after the second of three airline crew reports of a possible jetpack flier. KNBC-TV reports the helicopter crew took photos and video of the

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of public land despite concluding that burning fossil fuels from those parcels could carry huge costs and contribute to climate change. Burning oil, natural gas and coal from federally-owned lands accounts

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A senior Taliban official says a group of Islamic State militants set off an explosion at the entrance to a military hospital in the Afghan capital. He says three women, a child and three Taliban guards were killed in the blast in Kabul. It was one of the most brazen IS

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A month after a Southern California offshore oil spill, environmental advocates say they plan to sue the federal government over the failure to review and update plans for platforms off thecoast. The Center for Biological Diversity says it sent notice Tuesday to the Secretary of the Interior of its intent

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The city of Louisville will pay a total of $3.65 million to seven people who say they were sexually abused by police. Attorney Tad Thomas told the Courier Journal that Metro Louisville settled with the plaintiffs, who said they were abused in the department’s now-defunct explorer program for youths interested in

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer The U.S. Department of Justice is suing to block a $2.2 billion book publishing deal that would have reshaped the industry, saying consolidation would hurt authors and readers. German media giant Bertelsmann’s Penguin Random House, already the largest American publisher, wants to buy New York-based Simon & Schuster, whose

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Activist progressives and more moderate candidates are competing for the chance to address Seattle’s problems of homelessness, crime, policing, and racial and economic injustice as voters cast their ballots by Tuesday in the city’s elections. A consequential race for mayor tops the marquee, with City Council President

NICEVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A sheriff’s investigation refutes allegations that a Florida Panhandle teacher subjected her students to pornography by letting them watch the R-rated movie “Alexander.” Parents of a 15-year-old girl told school officials she was traumatized by the Niceville High School teacher showing a movie that they considered to be “porn.” Okaloosa County

By EMILIO MORENATTI and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LAS MANCHAS DE ABAJO, Canary Islands (AP) — Antonio Álvarez lost his home and two business. Then he had to watch the lava devour the dozen acres he dedicated to growing the Canary Island banana. Álvarez is one of thousands of farmers and workers on Spain’s La

By AMER COHADZIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The chief international representative in Bosnia is warning that the war-scarred Balkan nation could face the biggest “existential threat of the post-war period” if the international community does not curb threatened separatist actions by Bosnian Serbs. In a report scheduled for delivery to the U.N. Security