AP Science Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — For young people in some small island nations, a big decision always looms in the back of their minds. As climate change eats away at their home nations should they leave for higher ground or should they stay and tough it out, keeping their culture, heritage and home
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The victory plan that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will present to the White House this week asks the Biden administration to do something it has not achieved in the two and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine: act quickly to support Kyiv’s campaign. While Western dawdling has amplified Ukraine’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Former first lady Melania Trump is telling her story her way. In a series of videos ahead of the Oct. 8 publication of her self-titled memoir, the Slovenian-born model is defending her nude photos and her renovation of the White House Rose Garden, as well as sticking up for motherhood. She’s also airing
Continue ReadingAssociated Press An Alaska national park’s yearly celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber. Fat Bear Week doesn’t officially start at Katmai National Park and Preserve until Oct. 2, when fans can begin voting online for
Continue ReadingAssociated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Athletics had long ago carved out a Jekyll-and-Hyde legacy as one of Major League Baseball’s most successful — and sad-sack — franchises. Under their belts: nine World Series titles and 19 seasons of futility punctuated by 100 or more losses. This, though, is different. Now, legions of A’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors is challenging his life-without-parole sentence, saying that the New Hampshire Constitution prohibits it. Robert Tulloch was 17 when he was part of a conspiracy with a friend that resulted in
Continue ReadingSandra Iveth Santos ISLA VISTA, California (KMUV-TV) – Miles de estudiantes que regresan a la Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara están recibiendo información sobre las próximas elecciones al mismo tiempo que se preparan para el nuevo curso escolar. Hay un esfuerzo completo de divulgación de votantes dentro y fuera del campus. Se está llevando
Continue ReadingAssociated Press It has been a devastating week for Hezbollah and the people of Lebanon. Bombs hidden in the group’s pagers and walkie-talkies killed dozens of people and wounded thousands — many of them Hezbollah members. Israeli strikes on Beirut killed two of Hezbollah’s top commanders. And Israel has bombed what it said were 1,600
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential candidate, is less popular among voters than his Democratic rival, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Both Vance and Walz entered the spotlight this summer as relative political unknowns. As
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly, Andrew Seger and Jeremy Moorhead, CNN Lordstown, Ohio (CNN) — For this long-beleaguered region of Northeast Ohio, a gleaming new 2.8 million-square-foot manufacturing plant symbolizes something that has been fleeting in recent years: hope. Hope that years of promises – so often broken or deferred – have been replaced by action in
Continue ReadingCNN By Phil Mattingly, Andrew Seger and Jeremy Moorhead, CNN Lordstown, Ohio (CNN) — For this long-beleaguered region of Northeast Ohio, a gleaming new 2.8 million-square-foot manufacturing plant symbolizes something that has been fleeting in recent years: hope. Hope that years of promises – so often broken or deferred – have been replaced by action
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean. The Defense Ministry said the ICBM launched Wednesday morning carried a dummy warhead and fell into the targeted area. The ministry statement said the launch was part of annual routine training and was not directed against any country.
Continue ReadingBy CNN Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, Amy Simonson and Susannah Cullinane, CNN (CNN) — Evacuations are underway and time is running out for Floridians to prepare for Tropical Storm Helene, which threatens to hit as the strongest storm to make landfall in the United States in over a year. Helene formed in the northwestern Caribbean Sea
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James Jr.’s suspension was upheld by the NFL on Tuesday. The decision was made by hearing officer Derrick Brooks, who was jointly appointed by the league and the players’ union. James was suspended one game without pay by the NFL on Monday for repeated violations of rules
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago White Sox remained tied with the 1962 New York Mets for the modern major league record of 120 losses in a season, rallying to score three runs in the eighth inning and beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-2 on Tuesday night. Andrew Benintendi hit a tiebreaking, two-out
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By Dakin Andone and Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — The company that built and operated the Titan submersible asked employees to forego their pay as it faced economic challenges, according to former employees testifying before the US Coast Guard panel probing the vessel’s deadly implosion last year. OceanGate employees were asked to “defer our paychecks”
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir have begun casting votes in the second phase of a staggered election for a local government. for the first time in decades the election is not boycotted by separatists. It’s the first vote since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government scrapped the Muslim-majority region’s
Continue ReadingMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Twelve Singaporean military personnel have been injured in a collision between two armored vehicles during training in Australia. The Singapore Defense Ministry says the injuries occurred when one Hunter Armored Fighting Vehicle rear-ended another on Tuesday at Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area in Queensland state. The Singapore Army says all 12
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the heavy rainfall that caused floods killing 24 people in Central Europe earlier this month, a new flash study found. A collection of scientists that run rapid climate attribution studies said on Tuesday that the severe four-day rainfall was by far the heaviest
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Two former top editors of Hong Kong’s defunct online media Stand News will learn their sentences Thursday after a landmark sedition verdict. They were the first journalists to be found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious content since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. The
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