Month: July 2022

By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Floodwaters have inundated or are threatening the homes of 85,000 people around Sydney. Rivers are starting to recede, but several remained at major flood levels Wednesday. Emergency responders knocked on doors overnight to order evacuations in two towns in the Hunter Valley north of

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A contract between shipping companies and 22,000 West Coast dockworkers expired over the weekend. But both sides continued to talk and said they want to avoid a strike that could savage an economy already stressed by soaring inflation and supply chain woes. The contract that expired

CALEDONIA, Miss. (AP) — Bradford Freeman, the last survivor of the Army unit featured in the World War II oral history book and miniseries “Band of Brothers” has died at the age of 97. Lowndes Funeral Home in Columbus, Mississippi, says Freeman died Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital–Golden Triangle. He will be buried Friday in

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday sued Arizona over a new law requiring people who use a federal form to register to vote to provide additional proof of citizenship if they want to vote for president or using the state’s popular vote-by-mail system. The law signed

QUINCY, Fla. (AP) — Officials say nine people died over the holiday weekend from likely drug overdoses in a rural Florida Panhandle county. After two women were found dead of an apparent overdose Friday, the Tallahassee Democrat reports that the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office put out an alert seeking the public’s help to warn others

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on 1 billion Chinese from a Shanghai police database in a leak that, if confirmed, could be one of the largest data breaches in history. In a post on the online hacking forum Breach Forums last week,