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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of Louk’s twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world, bringing to light the scale of the Oct.
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says that several gunmen opened fire in central Afghanistan, killing at least four people, including three foreign nationals. He says four suspects were arrested at the scene in Bamyan province, a major tourist area, and an investigation was underway into the late Friday evening attack. No one immediately claimed
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden has spoken to Black leaders at the National Museum of African American History and Culture about the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision that desegregated schools. It’s part of a stepped-up effort to highlight his administration’s commitment to racial equity
Continue ReadingBALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has applied for a presidential pardon ahead of sentencing on her recent perjury and mortgage fraud convictions. According to The Baltimore Sun, the Congressional Black Caucus expressed support for her cause in a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday. Mosby has argued the prosecution was
Continue ReadingBy SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The 35 American and other international doctors came to Gaza in volunteer teams to help one of the territory’s few hospitals still functioning. They brought suitcases full of medical supplies and had trained for one of the worst war zones in the world. They knew the
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man accused of setting a house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family in 2020 in a case of misplaced revenge was set to appear in court Friday to enter a plea. Twenty-year-old Kevin Bui is charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, arson
Continue ReadingBy GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Members of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group in the country’s rebel-held northwest have fired bullets in the air and beaten up protesters with clubs, injuring some of them. The protesters have been demonstrating for weeks to demand the release of detainees and an end to the
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — The last U.S. zoo with pandas in its care expects to say goodbye to the four giant bears this fall. Zoo Atlanta is making preparations to return panda parents Lun Lun and Yang Yang to China along with their American-born twins Ya Lun and Xi Lun, zoo officials said Friday. There is
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Tribune is being sued by some of its staffers, who say they and other women and Black journalists are being paid less than their white male counterparts. The complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Chicago also names Tribune Publishing Co. and Alden Global Capital, which took control of the
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine commuters in Buenos Aires are being hit by an abrupt 360% increase in subway fares, one of the most dramatic price hikes in libertarian President Javier Milei’s harsh budget austerity campaign. After weeks of hearings, an Argentine judge on Thursday lifted an order that
Continue ReadingBy JEFF MARTIN and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues have joined Roger Fortson’s family, friends and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Friday overhauled its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena that have marked church history, putting the brakes on making definitive declarations unless the event is obviously fabricated. The Vatican’s doctrine office revised norms
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer FORT COLLINS, Colorado (AP) — Tick season is starting across the U.S., and experts are warning the bloodsuckers may be as plentiful as ever. Another mild winter and other favorable factors likely means the 2024 tick population will be equal to last year or larger, some researchers say. “It’s
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The final surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina’s flagship public university has died. Ralph Frasier died last week in Florida at age 85. Frasier, his older brother LeRoy, and
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a Tennessee man to 80 years in prison for raping a woman a year before he was charged with kidnapping and killing a school teacher who was on an early morning run. Cleotha Abston received 40 years in prison for aggravated rape,
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press South Dakota voters will decide on abortion rights this fall, getting a chance at direct democracy on the contentious issue in a conservative state where a trigger law banning nearly all abortions went into effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned. The state’s top election official announced Thursday that about
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Attorney John Eastman pleaded not guilty on Friday to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for his role in the effort to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in Arizona to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Eastman, who devised a strategy to try to persuade Congress not to certify
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it found the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Gaza, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of Shani’s twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world, bringing to light the scale of the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. The military on Friday
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested Friday morning on his way to the PGA Championship, with stunning images showing him handcuffed as he was taken to jail for not following police orders during a pedestrian fatality investigation. In a span of four hours, the top-ranked
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A weeklong search for a new prime minister has flooded the inboxes of a transitional presidential council with dozens of candidates jostling to become Haiti’s next leader. Political parties, business leaders, the diaspora and even religious institutions had until Friday to submit their choice for a
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