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By Rachel Polansky Click here for updates on this story DOUGLAS COUNTY, Georgia (WANF) — Any parent of an athlete knows how competitive high school sports can be and how upsetting it can be when your child doesn’t get playing time. But parents at one metro Atlanta high school said their football program is recruiting
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By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — After all their gaudy statistics during the regular season — 111 wins, Freddie Freeman and Trea Turner powering the offense — the Los Angeles Dodgers appeared on their way to fulfilling manager Dave Roberts’ spring prediction of another World Series victory. Not so fast. The
Continue ReadingBy Samiar Nefzi, Brittany Whitehead Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — The Burton Street community came together Saturday to celebrate the Burton Street Community Agricultural Festival. In 1913, Edward W. Pearson started off the event to bring the historically Black community together. A civil rights leader in the mountains
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BERLIN (AP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. The money will be used to help implement the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s strategy through 2026. The initiative is trying to end the polio virus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two endemic
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say four people were hurt, including three students, in a shooting during Clark Atlanta University’s homecoming outside a campus library early Sunday. Police say a large group of people were listening to a DJ near the Robert W. Woodruff Library around 12:30 a.m. Sunday when officers on patrol in the area
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Diplomats are calling on Ethiopia’s federal authorities and their rivals in the northern region of Tigray to agree to a cease-fire as heavy fighting raises growing humanitarian fears. African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat expressed “grave concern” over the fighting in a statement Sunday and called for an “immediate,
Continue Reading ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Diplomats are calling on Ethiopia’s federal authorities and their rivals in the northern region of Tigray to agree to a cease-fire as heavy fighting raises growing humanitarian fears. African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat expressed “grave concern” over the fighting in a statement Sunday and called for an “immediate,
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. The money will be used to help implement the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s strategy through 2026. The initiative is trying to end the polio virus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two endemic
Continue Reading BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Almost 100 people mostly from Haiti who were rescued from an overcrowded boat off the Florida coast had no food or water for two days. The U.S. Coast Guard says the 96 Haitians, as well as a passenger each from Uganda and the Bahamas, were spotted about 20 miles east
Continue Reading STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Residents of Stockton, California, were able to rest easier following the weekend arrest of a man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings over a period of three months in Northern California, the city’s mayor said Sunday. Mayor Kevin Lincoln said he shed tears
Continue Reading STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Residents of Stockton, California, were able to rest easier following the weekend arrest of a man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings over a period of three months in Northern California, the city’s mayor said Sunday. Mayor Kevin Lincoln said he shed tears
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish officials have shot back at Greek allegations that Turkey forced 92 migrants into Greece. Turkey called it “fake news” and accused Greece of the mistreatment. The communications director of Turkey’s president said Sunday that Greece’s migration minister was “sharing false information” after the minister tweeted a photo Saturday of the naked
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish officials have shot back at Greek allegations that Turkey forced 92 migrants into Greece. Turkey called it “fake news” and accused Greece of the mistreatment. The communications director of Turkey’s president said Sunday that Greece’s migration minister was “sharing false information” after the minister tweeted a photo Saturday of the naked
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz, CNN Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado on Sunday defended his party on the issue of inflation, arguing the US is dealing with a global problem as his GOP rival sought to pin blame on the incumbent senator for rising prices. In a pair of wide-ranging, back-to-back interviews with CNN’s Dana Bash
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniella Diaz, CNN Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado on Sunday defended his party on the issue of inflation, arguing the US is dealing with a global problem as his GOP rival sought to pin blame on the incumbent senator for rising prices. In a pair of wide-ranging, back-to-back interviews with CNN’s Dana
Continue ReadingBy Aimee Lewis, CNN It was a tumultuous afternoon at Anfield on Sunday. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was sent off, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola later claimed some fans had thrown coins at him and Liverpool condemned “vile” chanting from sections of fans in the away end. On the field, Liverpool won its crucial English
Continue Reading By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Before attending the packed Sunday morning service, Queen Sonja of Norway praised Mindekirken congregation for having maintained worship in Norwegian for all 100 years that the church has existed in Minneapolis. “It’s extraordinary to realize that, one hundred years after, Mindekirken is still fulfilling that purpose” of
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Roughly 2,000 people across metro Phoenix were still without power early Sunday morning, a day after intense storms brought rain, wind and even hail. Officials with SRP and APS, the two major utilities serving Maricopa and Pinal counties, said between them more than 13,000 customers lost electricity by 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The
Continue ReadingCNN By Nectar Gan and Simone McCarthy, CNN Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sunday vowed to steer China through grave challenges toward national rejuvenation, advancing a nationalistic vision that has put it on a collision path with the West. Speaking at the opening of the 20th Party Congress, where he is poised to secure a
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten and David Wright, CNN Seven Democrats in the 10 most competitive Senate races started this month and the home stretch to Election Day with bigger cash stockpiles than their Republican rivals, newly filed campaign finance reports show. But even with that financial edge, Democrats face a withering advertising assault in the final
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