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By TY O’NEIL, STEFANIE DAZIO and RIO YAMAT MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters aided by rain fought to contain a massive blaze that swept through the California desert into Nevada and could threaten the region’s famous spiky Joshua trees. The York Fire that erupted last Friday is California’s largest wildfire this year. As
Continue ReadingBy TY O’NEIL, STEFANIE DAZIO and RIO YAMAT MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters aided by rain fought to contain a massive blaze that swept through the California desert into Nevada and could threaten the region’s famous spiky Joshua trees. The York Fire that erupted last Friday is California’s largest wildfire this year. As
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday hurled misogynistic insults at a newly confirmed United States special envoy to monitor the country’s human rights issues and warned of unspecified security consequences if Washington continues to criticize its human rights conditions. The statement published by North Korea’s official Korean
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Not everyone is hostile to the coups in Niger and other African nations in the past few years that have worried the West. In the “family photo” for last week’s Russia-Africa Summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin stood next to Ibrahim Traore, the young military officer who
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Union leaders told striking Hollywood writers Tuesday night that they plan to meet with representatives for studios to discuss restarting negotiations after the first official communication between the two sides since the strike began three months ago. The Writers Guild of America sent an email
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s capital has recorded its heaviest rainfall in 140 years over the past few days. The city recorded 29.3 inches of rain between Saturday and Wednesday morning, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau said. Chinese authorities on Tuesday said the torrential rains around Beijing had destroyed roads, knocked out power and caused at
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Patrick Bailey picked off Geraldo Perdomo at first base for the final out in the San Francisco Giants’ 4-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night. It was the 19th time in 449 innings this season that Bailey has caught runners trying to steal, the
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Union leaders told striking Hollywood writers Tuesday night that they plan to meet with representatives for studios to discuss restarting negotiations after the first official communication between the two sides since the strike began three months ago. The Writers Guild of America sent an email
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Courtney Vandersloot scored 20 of her season-high 23 points in the second half, Breanna Stewart added 16 points and 12 rebounds, and the New York Liberty closed on a 10-2 run to beat the Los Angeles Sparks 76-69 on Tuesday night. Vandersloot also had seven rebounds and six assists, and Stewart
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press MILAN (AP) — During Europe’s heat wave last month, Floriana Peroni’s vintage clothing store had to close for a week. A truck of rented generators blocked her door as they fed power to the central Roman neighborhood hit by a blackout as temperatures surged. The main culprit:
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian Senate committee has recommended a ban on the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from federal government devices be extended to China’s most popular social media platform, WeChat. The Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media also recommended in a report late Tuesday that social media
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — A small plane carrying a Filipino trainer pilot and an Indian student is missing in the northeastern Philippines and the search is being hampered by bad weather. The Cessna 152 left northern Ilocos Norte province around noon Tuesday but failed to land three hours later as expected in Cagayan province. The
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By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — One person died and more than 50 people were injured after a bus rolled over at the Grand Canyon in Arizona on Tuesday morning, local emergency officials said. A total of 57 people were involved in the crash, which occurred at Grand Canyon West just before 10 a.m., Hualapai
Continue ReadingBy DENNIS GEORGATOS Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Juan Soto homered twice and drove in four runs, helping the San Diego Padres beat the Colorado Rockies 8-5 on Tuesday night. Ha-Seong Kim and Trent Grisham added RBI singles in the ninth inning. Fernando Tatis Jr. drove in a pair of runs with a double and
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Rhonda Hicks could have kept working into her 60s. She loved teaching and loved her students in Philadelphia’s public schools. As a Black woman, she took pride in being a role model for many children of color. But other aspects of the job deteriorated, such as
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The role that fake slates of electors played in Donald Trump’s desperate effort to cling to power after his defeat in the 2020 election is at the center of a four-count indictment released against the former president Tuesday. The third criminal case into Trump details, among other
Continue ReadingVILLE PLATTE, La. (AP) — Authorities say a deputy marshal and another man have died and a woman has been critically wounded in a shooting during a drug investigation in southern Louisiana. Ville Platte Deputy Marshal Barry Giglio died at the scene at about 8:30 p.m. Monday as he helped the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN Washington (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith reentered the public eye on Tuesday with a grand jury’s indictment of Donald Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination,
Continue ReadingBy BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Pope Francis is beginning a five-day trip to Portugal for World Youth Day. The international Catholic jamboree is expected to attract around 1 million people. Francis is in Portugal from Wednesday. The pontiff will visit the place from where 15th- and 16th-century Portuguese explorers set sail
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The historic indictment against Donald Trump in the special counsel’s probe into January 6, 2021, and efforts to overturn the 2020 election says that he “enlisted co-conspirators to assist him in his criminal efforts.” The charging documents repeatedly reference six of these co-conspirators, but as is common practice, their
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