Month: October 2024

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Authorities report at least nine people have died in a fire at a hospital in the island’s south that is being battered by a typhoon. The fire struck Thursday morning in an area that has been hit hard by Typhoon Krathon, which has brought torrential rains and heavy winds and brought

Associated Press ULM, Germany (AP) — The Ulmer Münster in southern Germany is the world’s tallest church. For now, anyway. The Gothic-style Lutheran church’s reign began in 1890 and is expected to end next year. That’s when Spain’s La Sagrada Familia Basilica’s “Tower of Jesus Christ” is set to be completed. At an eventual 172.5

Associated Press A former Colorado county clerk has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for leading a scheme to breach voting system data in her county. Judge Matthew Barrett handed down the sentence Thursday after a jury found Tina Peters guilty of most charges against her in August. Peters was the first election official

Associated Press LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) — Love is in the air on the Colorado plains — the kind that makes your heart beat a bit faster, quickens your step and makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. It’s tarantula mating season, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t a shock to many Black New Yorkers that Mayor Eric Adams has surrounded himself with African American civil rights leaders, clergy and grassroots activists since his indictment last week on federal bribery charges. Adams, a Brooklyn native who rose from the city’s working class to its highest

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Crude prices jumped on worries about worsening tensions in the Middle East, while U.S. stocks pulled back further from their records. The S&P 500 edged down by 0.2% Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite slipped less than 0.1%. The price for a

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Guy Boyd was hanging out with friends he had known for years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the night an accidental gunshot tore into his head. The high schoolers were too young to buy guns legally, but federal and state laws didn’t apply to the gun parts kit his best

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A historic building boom of big, bright Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temples — beacons to the faithful with steeples pointing heavenward around the world — is meeting resistance in some parts of the U.S., including one place not really known for moderation. In Las Vegas, just

Associated Press/Report for America HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It was just a month ago that Brooke Hiers left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived since Hurricane Idalia slammed into her Gulf Coast fishing village of Horseshoe Beach in August 2023. Hiers and her husband Clint were still finishing the electrical work

Associated Press Donald Trump is fond of a data chart that shows the stark contrast of the U.S.-Mexico border crossings between his time in the White House and President Joe Biden’s tenure. The chart has annotations of claims with no evidence and incorrectly identifies when Trump left office. Trump narrowly dodged an assassin’s bullet by

Associated Press PENSACOLA, N.C. (AP) — Rescue crews and volunteers facing obstacles at every turn in North Carolina’s remote mountains paddled canoes across swollen rivers and steered horses past mudslides in the rush to reach those stranded or missing by Hurricane Helene’s rampage that killed more than 200 throughout the Southeast. Now a week since

Associated Press LONG BEACH, Wash. (AP) — From clothes to metals used for manufacturing, most of the world’s everyday goods and raw materials moved over long distances are packed in large metal boxes the size of tractor-trailers and stacked on ships. Millions of containers cross the oceans every year. Not everything gets to its destination.