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PERTH, Australia (AP) — Volunteers worked frantically on a second day Wednesday to save dozens of pilot whales that have stranded themselves on a beach in Western Australia, but more than 50 have already died. Nearly 100 long-finned pilot whales, stranded themselves Tuesday on the beach by the city of Albany, on the southern tip
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The truce that stopped the bloodshed in the Korean War turns 70 years old on Thursday and the two Koreas are marking the anniversary in starkly different ways, underscoring their deepening nuclear tensions. North Korea has invited delegations from China and Russia as it prepares
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El primer proyecto de vivienda asequible en Palm Springs en más de una década está a punto de completarse, pero no sin desafíos. Los líderes de la ciudad aprobaron el lunes millones más en fondos para abordar los sobrecostos y los problemas de la cadena de suministro que plagan la construcción de The Monarch Apartment
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By Wayne Chang and Jessie Yeung, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Two Taiwan police officers are under investigation after a botched sting operation led to a minor being sexually assaulted, prompting public uproar and an official apology from the local police department. The incident began in November 2020 when an unnamed 13-year-old girl met a
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — El mercado de la leche de origen vegetal está en auge, y ya se ofrecen bebidas hechas de semillas, nueces, legumbres, granos y mezclas de todos esos ingredientes, a menudo comercializados como reemplazos a la tradicional de leche de vaca. Sin embargo, no todas esas opciones de leche vegetal están fortificadas
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $910 million after Tuesday night’s drawing produced no big winners, extending a stretch of bad luck dating back to April. The numbers drawn were: 3, 5, 6, 44, 61 and the yellow ball 25 The absence of a winner for the estimated $820
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $910 million after Tuesday night’s drawing produced no big winners, extending a stretch of bad luck dating back to April. The numbers drawn were: 3, 5, 6, 44, 61 and the yellow ball 25 The absence of a winner for the estimated $820
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The horrors of war arrive through the night at a hospital in eastern Ukraine, a procession of stretchers bearing limp bodies whisked from the front line. The soldiers come with bandaged limbs soaked in blood, faces blackened with shrapnel fragments and stunned eyes fixed on the
Continue ReadingBy KRIS KEEHL Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Manny Machado, Juan Soto and Gary Sánchez homered to help the San Diego Padres beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-1 on Tuesday night. Blake Snell (7-8) limited the Pirates to two hits and one run in six innings. Steven Wilson, Robert Suarez and Josh Hader pitched three
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court on Wednesday will consider reviving the dismissed lawsuits of two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children for years, a move the court appears likely to make after a tentative decision that would order the cases back to
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court on Wednesday will consider reviving the dismissed lawsuits of two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children for years, a move the court appears likely to make after a tentative decision that would order the cases back to
Continue ReadingBy FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press IXTENCO, Mexico (AP) — On the slopes of the Malinche volcano, Juan Vargas starts the dawn routine he’s had since childhood, carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, Vargas worried that these heirloom varieties — running from deep red to pale pink, from golden yellow to dark blue
Continue ReadingBy FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press IXTENCO, Mexico (AP) — On the slopes of the Malinche volcano, Juan Vargas starts the dawn routine he’s had since childhood, carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, Vargas worried that these heirloom varieties — running from deep red to pale pink, from golden yellow to dark blue
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Nikki Carvajal, CNN (CNN) — The impasse created by GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s hold on military nominations is raising the stakes of the Senate’s final week in session as lawmakers are working frantically behind the scenes to try and find a solution that would get the Alabama senator to
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike had 30 points and eight rebounds, Jordin Canada made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 3.2 seconds left and the Los Angeles Sparks ended an eight-game losing streak with a 79-78 victory over the Indiana Fever on Tuesday night. Los Angeles scored seven of the final nine points to secure its
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s popular but polarizing prime minister, Narendra Modi, has a fondness for abbreviations that create buzz around his government schemes and dress down his rivals. Last week, Modi’s political opponents did exactly that. They announced a new alliance — called INDIA — to unseat Modi and
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Months after the last newspaper closed in a declining coal community in West Virginia, residents say they are already experiencing challenges getting and sharing information. In March, The Welch News in McDowell County weekly became another one of the thousands of U.S. newspapers that have shuttered
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pitcher Ken Waldichuk grew up around Bay Area baseball, so he knows how much fans here stand behind their beloved teams. On Tuesday night during San Francisco’s 2-1 win, supporters of the big-spending Giants rallied around the small-budget Oakland Athletics and both sides stood tall
Continue Reading By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Frantic purchases of ammunition, the daylight assassination of a mayor, and a growing body count inside Ecuador’s prisons signal that the country’s roiling security crisis is going from bad to worse. The Andean country, a relatively peaceful nation until a few years ago, is now plagued by a turf
Continue ReadingBy Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Tuesday vacated Bowe Bergdahl’s dishonorable discharge from the US Army, roughly six years after the former soldier was convicted of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after abandoning his outpost in Afghanistan in 2009. US District Judge Reggie B. Walton found that the military
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