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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday — a controversial step that the government says is essential for the decades of work needed to clean up the facility that had reactor meltdowns
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra entered prison to begin serving an 8-year sentence Tuesday, hours after returning to the country after years of self-imposed exile. The divisive former leader returned the same day that a party affiliated with him faces a key vote on its path to
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, Jason Morris, Katelyn Polantz, Holmes Lybrand, Jeremy Herb, Devan Cole and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump plans to turn himself in and be processed at the Fulton County jail on Thursday, following his agreement earlier Monday to a $200,000 bond and other release conditions. “I’ll be going to
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By Andy Rose, Alisha Ebrahimji, Taylor Romine and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — A Southern California clothing store owner was shot and killed after an argument about a rainbow Pride flag hanging outside her business, police said, as the LGBTQ+ community continues to face violence and threats across America. Laura Ann “Lauri” Carleton, 66, died
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CNN By Andy Rose, Alisha Ebrahimji, Taylor Romine and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — A Southern California clothing store owner was shot and killed after an argument about a rainbow Pride flag hanging outside her business, police said, as the LGBTQ+ community continues to face violence and threats across America. Laura Ann “Lauri” Carleton, 66,
Continue Reading By Jackie Prager, CNN (CNN) — On a stage more than 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles) away from the small township of Soweto in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Mzansi Youth Choir was seeing their dreams come true before their eyes. Confetti rained down at the “America’s Got Talent” (AGT) audition as the young group received the
Continue ReadingBy RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Presss ISLAMABAD (AP) — A new U.N. report says more than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago. The most targeted groups have been the former army, police and intelligence forces. That’s according to
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump keeps telling the lie that he won Georgia in the 2020 election. This weekend, he delivered a new false claim in support of that old false claim. Trump’s deception about what happened in Georgia has not relented even as he prepares to turn himself
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A jailed university student who pleaded guilty to inciting secession in Hong Kong has lost his bid to reduce his five-year sentence. Tuesday’s unanimous decision from the top court is expected to set the bar for other cases brought under the national security law Beijing imposed
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say that Israeli security forces stormed into a town in the north of the occupied West Bank, leading to fighting that killed a 17-year-old Palestinian. The Israeli military Tuesday conducted an arrest raid into the town of Zababdeh, south of the militant hotbed of Jenin. The Palestinian Health Ministry
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Google, Facebook, TikTok and other Big Tech companies operating in Europe are facing one of the most far-reaching efforts to clean up what people encounter online. The first phase of the European Union’s groundbreaking new digital rules will take effect this week. The Digital Services Act
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Colorful campaign posters adorn street poles, buildings, vehicles and trees in Zimbabwe, but the buzz surrounding the country’s upcoming general election appears to end there. The presidential and parliamentary elections taking place Wednesday are crucial to determining the future of a southern African nation endowed with
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The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is helping with response and recovery due to Tropical Storm Hilary. GET LIVE STORM UPDATES News Channel 3’s Angela Chen spoke with the state’s Office of Emergency Services about how they are helping and what their areas of focus are right now around the valley. Be the first to know
Continue ReadingBy FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and GERARDO CARRILLO Associated Press XOCHIACA, Mexico (AP) — The sound of hammers and chisels striking stone rings out on most Sundays in the cemetery of ancient Xochiaca, a village swallowed up decades ago by the urban sprawl of Mexico City. It’s the sound of the stone carvers of Chimalhuacan — as
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton, Rob Shackelford, Lauren Mascarenhas and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Hilary has triggered flooding, heavy rains and powerful gusts across parts of the western US and Mexico, transforming streets into raging rivers and forcing some residents to flee, and leaving others in need of rescue, even after the storm weakened
Continue ReadingBy DAVID CRARY AP National Writer The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech — and thus as a crowning moment for the long-term civil rights activism of what is sometimes referred to as the “Black Church.” At the march, King indeed
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher on Tuesday as traders waited for signs of interest rate plans from this week’s Federal Reserve conference. Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul rose. Shanghai declined. Oil prices edged lower. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index rose Monday for its first
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday will consider whether Texas can keep a floating barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border as both the Biden administration and Mexico push to remove Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest hardline measure to deter migrants from crossing. The scheduled hearing in Austin
Continue ReadingBy MARK J. TERRILL, JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — Crews worked to dig roads, buildings and care home residents out of the mud across a wide swath of Southwestern U.S. desert Monday, as the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years headed north, prompting flood
Continue ReadingBy MARK J. TERRILL, JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — Crews worked to dig roads, buildings and care home residents out of the mud across a wide swath of Southwestern U.S. desert Monday, as the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years headed north, prompting flood
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