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Month: September 2023

4 exceptionally preserved Roman swords discovered in a Dead Sea cave in Israel

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave, surfaced in a recent excavation by Israeli archaeologists near the Dead Sea, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The cache of exceptionally intact artifacts

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Environmental Protection Agency delays new ozone pollution standards until after the 2024 election

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level ozone — better known as smog — despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health. The decision by EPA Administrator Michael Regan means that

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Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombings

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. Junior defense minister, Pramitha Tennakoon, told Parliament Wednesday that the Cabinet has

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Lawyers claim cable TV and phone companies are also responsible in Maui fires

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Lawyers for residents and business owners of the Hawaiian town devastated by last month’s fires on Maui told a court that cable TV and telephone companies share responsibility for the disaster. The attorneys made the statements Tuesday, saying the companies allegedly

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The Rolling Stones are set to unveil their new album at an event in London

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A rock’n’roll juggernaut was descending Wednesday on London’s Hackney district, where The Rolling Stones are set to unveil their new album, “Hackney Diamonds.” Hard-core fans were already lining up Wednesday morning outside the Hackney Empire, where Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood will be interviewed onstage

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Bharat: por qué una invitación al G20 que llama a la India por su nombre sánscrito está irritando a algunos

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Nueva Delhi (CNN) — Las invitaciones a cenas en las que se hace referencia a India por su nombre sánscrito —Bharat— han avivado una disputa política y un debate público sobre cómo debe llamarse el país, su historia y su legado colonial, mientras Nueva Delhi se prepara para recibir a los líderes

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EU targets Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft in next phase of digital crackdown

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is targeting Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies. The six companies were classed as online “gatekeepers” that must face the highest level

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A ‘flower burial’ unearthed in 1960 reshaped the study of Neanderthals. A new discovery calls it into question

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — A grave unearthed in 1960 led researchers to hypothesize that Neanderthals interred their dead with flowers — challenging the prevailing view that the ancient humans were dumb and brutish. Now scientists say a key piece of evidence from the site, which helped shape the study of Neanderthals, might have been

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This summer’s swelter was a global record breaker for high heat ever measured, meteorologists say

By JAMEY KEATEN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Last month was not only the hottest August scientists ever recorded by far with

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Manhunt for escaped killer continues for 6th day, leaving school districts closed and a Pennsylvania community on edge

By Lauren Mascarenhas and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Chester County, Pennsylvania (CNN) — The manhunt for Danelo Cavalcante that has communities in southeastern Pennsylvania on high alert has shifted after the escaped murderer was spotted just south of the original search area, state police said Tuesday. Cavalcante escaped from Chester County Prison on Thursday morning and

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