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PANAMA CITY (AP) — A U.N. report says child migration through Panama’s dangerous Darien Gap is up 40% so far this year. UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency, says that an estimated 30,000 minors have crossed the jungle-clad trail between Colombia and Panama. The report says a total of 139,000 migrants of all ages have made
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Council says high-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns about “the misuse of AI” by China and others in closed-door talks with Chinese officials in Geneva. NSC spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the countries exchanged perspectives on AI safety and risk management in “candid and constructive” discussions a day earlier. The
Continue ReadingANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A first-year U.S. Naval Academy student has stood victorious on classmates’ shoulders and placed an upperclassman’s cap atop the Herndon Monument after a grueling, slippery struggle. The Class of 2027 worked together Wednesday to scale the 21-foot obelisk covered in vegetable shortening to replace a white plebe “Dixie cup hat” with
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ and MASSINISSA BENLAKEHAL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Two Tunisian journalists are kept in pre-trial detention as authorities continued a wave of arrests targeting perceived critics of President Kais Saied’s government. Borhen Bsaies and Mourad Zeghidi remain behind bars after being apprehended. They were accused of violating a cybercrime law against
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to hold two campaign debates, on June 27 hosted by CNN and on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC. CNN says its debate will be held in its Atlanta studios and “no audience
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Something stopped Michael McDonald from telling his story publicly — him. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer with multiple Grammys just didn’t think he had one. McDonald, a member of both Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers who became a singular soul solo artist
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say a man has pleaded guilty in the fatal shooting of an off-duty New Orleans police officer and his friend during a holdup at a Houston restaurant in 2021. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said Wednesday that Frederick Jackson pleaded guilty to two murder counts in exchange for a 60-year
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to hold two campaign debates, on June 27 hosted by CNN and on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC, setting the stage for the first presidential face-off in just weeks. CNN says its
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Prime Minister Robert Fico returned to power in Slovakia last year. Having previously served twice as prime minister, from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2018, the 59-year-old’s fourth term made him the longest-serving head of government in Slovakia’s history. After five years in
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigators say the electrical blackouts experienced by the container ship Dali before it left Baltimore’s port were “mechanically distinct from” those that resulted in the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge hours later. National Transportation Safety Board Jennifer Homendy said during congressional testimony Wednesday morning
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Mexico’s consulate in central Florida was working Wednesday to support a community of farmworkers after a highway collision killed eight Mexican citizens and injured 40 other people who were on their way to pick watermelons. A Florida man pleaded not guilty to driving
Continue ReadingBy DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Paul Walter Hauser thanked his parents, voters, agents and fellow nominees in his acceptance speech in January when he won an Emmy for his role in “Black Bird.” Then, in a move more fitting for Sting than Stingray, Hauser cut a promo straight out of the squared circle. “That’s
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and the United States have signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile defense system as the allies seek to defend against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons. The weapons are possessed by China and Russia and being tested by North Korea. The
Continue ReadingPOTOSI, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing six women 20 years ago in Kansas City, Missouri, has died. The Missouri Department of Corrections says 62-year-old Terry Blair died Saturday morning. An autopsy is planned. Blair was imprisoned at the Potosi Correctional Center on six counts of first-degree murder. All six of the women
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other Dutch party leaders say they have brokered a provisional government deal. The move brings closer a government driven by the hard right in yet another European Union nation. The party leaders said Wednesday that they will put the text to
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Only recently has George Miller realized just how influential his medical education was to the world of “Mad Max.” Miller was briefly a doctor before finding filmmaking and his twin brother, whom he attended university with, remained one. As a resident at St. Vincent’s Hospital
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is in life-threatening condition after being wounded in a shooting after a political event Wednesday afternoon, according to his Facebook profile. The populist, pro-Russian leader, 59, was hit in the stomach after four shots were fired outside the House of Culture in
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump say they’ve accepted an invitation from CNN to a June 27 debate. Biden earlier Wednesday announced he won’t participate in fall presidential debates sponsored by the nonpartisan commission that’s organized them for more than
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says the White House is sending an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this weekend for the inauguration of the island’s democratically elected president. The move is certain to upset China but unlikely to draw excessive responses from Beijing as the two countries try to stabilize
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rising Wednesday with hope that inflation is heading back in the right direction, and the S&P 500 is flirting with its record set a month and a half ago. But a stall in spending by U.S. households tired after years of high
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