Month: April 2023

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up the marine snails from the seabed. But in recent years, Davis, 49, and conch fishers like

By ISABEL DEBRE and SAM McNEIL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Militants in Lebanon fired a heavy barrage of rockets at Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, forcing people across Israel’s northern frontier into bomb shelters, wounding at least two people and ratcheting up regional tensions a day after Israeli police raided Jerusalem’s most

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports. In a lengthy story published Thursday the nonprofit investigative journalism organization catalogs various trips Thomas has taken aboard Crow’s yacht and

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — No longer a theoretical threat, overfishing across the globe has wiped out species from areas where they once thrived. And one result is that it’s taken off the table beloved culturally important dishes. In the Bahamas, government officials and conservationists are working to save the conch

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press BLUMENAU, Brazil (AP) — They sent their seven-year-old to day care Wednesday and plunged into the deepest nightmare of any parent’s life. A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and burst into the day-care center in southern Brazil, killing little Larissa Maia Toldo and three

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Rising methane levels in the atmosphere last year again played a big part in an overall increase in the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported figures this week and called overall emissions “alarming.” Carbon dioxide gets more attention for causing climate change than

By ED WHITE Associated Press The former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board has agreed to plead guilty to accepting $110,000 in bribes when he led the panel over a two-year period, authorities said Thursday. Rick Johnson acknowledged in a signed court filing that he acted “corruptly” when he accepted cash and other

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III for the first time has signaled support for research into the British monarchy’s ties to slavery after a document showed an ancestor with shares in a slave-trading company, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said Thursday. Charles takes the issue “profoundly seriously” and academics will be given access to the royal