Month: April 2024

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press VERSAILLES, France (AP) — The historic Versailles Palace Gardens will soon host the Paris Olympics equestrian sports. Meanwhile, the select number of riders of the National Equestrian Academy handling the palace’s famed royal stables continue to care for their beloved horses: Almost every day at dawn, they enjoy the quietness

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A pair of giant pandas will soon make the journey from China to the U.S., where they will be cared for at the San Diego Zoo as part of an ongoing conservation partnership between the two nations, officials said Monday. The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance said its caretakers recently visited

KENNER, La. (AP) — Three Louisiana police officers were wounded by gunfire in a standoff with a man who was later killed by a police sharpshooter. WGNO-TV reports Sheriff Joseph Lopinto says a sniper from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office shot and killed the suspect on Sunday at a house in Kenner where he had

By The Associated Press Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children, Palestinian health officials said. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was just 5 days old. Israel has regularly carried out airstrikes on Rafah since the

BERLIN (AP) — Nine people charged in connection with an alleged far-right plot to topple the German government are going on trial in one of three cases linked to the plot that came to light in late 2022. The trial that opens Monday in Stuttgart is the first one and focused on those defendants of

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s leader is facing a week of high-stakes talks to save his job and re-energize the country’s independence movement after he torpedoed a coalition with the Green Party by ditching a target for fighting climate change. First Minister Humza Yousaf, whose Scottish National Party has been weakened

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is talking with liberal opposition leader Lee Jae-myung about how to revive bipartisan cooperation, after Yoon’s conservative party lost massively in recent parliamentary elections. Monday’s meeting is their first since Yoon took office in 2022 after defeating Lee in

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Police allege in court documents that four teenagers plotted to buy guns and attack Jewish people days after a Christian bishop was stabbed in a Sydney church. Five teens were charged in court last week with offenses including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family, but these days many of the kernels in the package might not be Hawaii-grown. This little-known fact is surfacing at the state Legislature as lawmakers wrestle

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s leading presidential candidate repeatedly touted the social programs of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and walked a fine line between supporting the national oil company and promising a clean energy transition in the second debate ahead of the June 2 election. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum of the

By GRAHAM BREWER Associated Press SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — Powerful tornadoes that ripped through several Oklahoma communities over the weekend were particularly dangerous because they dropped from the sky after dark, catching residents off guard as the twisters tore through homes and businesses, uprooted trees and tossed vehicles. The storms, part of an outbreak of

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER, CAROLYN THOMPSON and MARGERY BECK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Protests are roiling college campuses across the U.S. as upcoming graduation ceremonies are threatened by disruptive demonstrators, with students and others sparring over Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and its mounting death toll. Many campuses were largely quiet over the weekend