Month: November 2024

Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The trial has begun for a man accused of holding down a teenage boy so colleagues could rape him at a New Hampshire youth center in the 1990s. Prosecutors said Tuesday that a brutal crime took place. The defense says that it never happened and that the accuser is

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s first stint in the White House proved to be a chaotic ride for the District of Columbia. Now with Trump set to return to power — backed by a Republican-controlled Congress and the momentum of a sweeping electoral win — local officials in the nation’s capital are trying

Associated Press HENNIKER, N.H. (AP) — When Hector Xu was learning to fly a helicopter in college, he recalled having a few “nasty experiences” while trying to navigate at night. The heart-stopping flights led to his research of unmanned aircraft systems while getting his doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then,

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British farmers have descending on Parliament to protest a tax hike they say will deal a “hammer blow” to struggling family farms. They packed the streets around Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office on Tuesday, demonstrating against the government’s decision to impose inheritance tax on agricultural property. The Labour Party government

Associated Press NEWLAND, N.C. (AP) — The Cartner family had known since last year that one of their farm’s Christmas trees would be headed to the White House this winter. But then Hurricane Helene struck, unleashing a deadly deluge across western North Carolina, including Avery County, where Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm has stood for decades.

Associated Press The Osprey is back in the air after being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight U.S. service members in Japan. But there are still questions as to whether it should be. The complicated aircraft flies fast like a plane but converts to land like a helicopter, and even

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The clock on her wall stopped almost as soon as the day began, its hands frozen by the Russian bomb that hit the dormitory serving as home for Ukrainians displaced by war. It was 1:45 a.m. in an upstairs room in the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Natalia Panasenko’s home

Associated Press CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) — Over a New Mexico training range named the Hornet, two Osprey aircraft speed 100 feet off the ground, banking hard over valleys and hills as they close in on a dusty landing zone. A flight engineer in the back braces a .50-caliber machine gun over the

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s president has opened the second day of a meeting of the world’s 20 major economies by calling for more action to slow global warming, saying developed nations must speed up their initiatives to reduce harmful emissions. The two-day meeting in Rio de Janeiro resumed for a second

TORONTO (AP) — Poet-novelist Anne Michaels has won the Giller Prize for her novel “Held,” a multi-generational examination of war and trauma. The 100,000 Canadian dollar ($71,000) Giller prize honors the best in Canadian fiction. Past winners have included Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler and Alice Munro. Michaels appealed for “unity” among “all the arts” during