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By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — US Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 100 illegal rooster blades used for cockfighting at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge in Texas Thursday. Customs officers searched a truck and found six packages containing 96 rooster blades, according to a Customs and Border Protection news release. The blades, shaped like curved
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi airline says it’s not to blame for a bear’s escape from a crate in the cargo hold of one of its planes in Dubai. Iraq’s prime minister has ordered the country’s transportation minister to conduct an investigation into the incident. A video
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — An Oregon woman who went missing on a hike in north Phoenix has been found dead and it appears to be heat-related, according to authorities. Phoenix Fire Department officials said Jessica Christine Lindstrom, 34, went hiking around 8:30 a.m. Friday and was declared missing about nine hours later by Phoenix police. Fire
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s defense attorney says the former president never asked Mike Pence to overturn the will of the voters in the 2020 election, but only wanted the former vice president to “pause” the certification of votes to allow states to investigate his claims of election fraud. Those
Continue ReadingRABAT, Morocco (AP) — At least 24 people died in a bus crash Sunday in the central Azilal province of Morocco, marking one of the deadliest such accidents in recent years in the country. According to local authorities, cited by Morocco’s official news agency MAP, the accident happened when a minibus carrying passengers overturned at
Continue ReadingBy ASIM TANVEER Associated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90 others as rescue operations completed by early evening, officials said. Ten cars of a Rawalpindi-bound train derailed and some overturned, near the Pakistani town of Nawabshah, trapping many passengers, said
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has replaced the Soviet emblem that once adorned one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks with the country’s coat of arms. Erected in 1981, the Mother Ukraine monument rises 200 feet above the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, holding a shield that was once decorated with a
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops have killed three alleged Palestinian militants in the northern West Bank. Sunday’s shooting further escalated a wave of violence in which two other people were killed over the weekend. Sunday’s shooting took place near the Jenin refugee camp — the site of a large-scale military operation last month. The offensive
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Saying Gov. Ron DeSantis has followed the autocratic examples of governments in Russia and China, a group of mostly Republican former high-level government officials has called the Florida governor’s takeover of Disney World’s governing district “severely damaging to the political, social, and economic fabric of the
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Saying Gov. Ron DeSantis has followed the autocratic examples of governments in Russia and China, a group of mostly Republican former high-level government officials has called the Florida governor’s takeover of Disney World’s governing district “severely damaging to the political, social, and economic fabric of the
Continue ReadingVIENNA (AP) — A 19-year-old Israeli tourist says he was attacked by three men in Berlin and police say they arre investigating a possible antisemitic motive. Police said their state protection office, which is responsible for investigating politically motivated crimes, was looking into the case after the tourist suffered minor injuries to one of his
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — So much for the Pittsburgh Penguins trying to walk the fine line between protecting the future while also making the most out of the present. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and company — new president of hockey operations/general manager Kyle Dubas in particular — are all in
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian and Celina Tebor, CNN (CNN) — Charles Ogletree, the civil rights attorney and Harvard Law School professor who mentored the Obamas and represented clients including Anita Hill, Tupac Shakur and the victims of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, died on Friday, according to Harvard Law School. He was 70. The cause of
Continue ReadingBy Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — “Barbie” has answered the billion-dollar question with a resounding “yes.” Barely three weeks into its run, writer-director Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster has raked in an astounding $1.03 billion at the global box office, according to official Warner Bros. estimates. This makes Gerwig the first female director with a
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Eugene strengthened off Mexico’s Pacific coast. While it may briefly reach hurricane strength, it is expected to stay well off the coast. Eugene brought rain to some parts of Baja California. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Eugene was located about 125 miles southwest of the Baja resort of
Continue ReadingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A check-in area of a terminal at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was temporarily evacuated because of a security-related law enforcement investigation. Airport officials said on social media that the roadway leading to the upper-level section Terminal 1 was also temporarily closed on Sunday because of the investigation. Officials encouraged passengers
Continue ReadingTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Eight bodies of migrants have been recovered in the past two days off the coast of the Tunisian port city of Sfax, after their boats trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea toward Europe sank. Sfax court’s spokesperson say that civil protection rescuers and coast guards are finding migrants’ bodies almost every
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos and Maya Szaniecki, CNN Paris (CNN) — A swimming competition that was supposed to serve as a test event ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics was canceled due to poor water quality in the Seine, casting doubt over the French government’s audacious plan to clean up the famous river before next summer.
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The deadline arrived Sunday for Niger’s military junta to reinstate the country’s ousted president, but the West Africa regional bloc that has threatened a military intervention faces prominent appeals to pursue more peaceful means. In the capital, coup leaders appeared at a stadium rally where a
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — One of Libya’s top governing bodies has elected a new head, in a development that could further fracture the country already split between two rival administrations. Members of the Supreme Council of State, which is separate from both of the governments and is based in the capital of Tripoli, voted on Sunday
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