AP National News

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “National Cinema Day” is bringing the big screen to moviegoers for a small price – no more than $3 –  as American theaters look to fill seats during the late summer lull. On Saturday only, movie tickets are just $3 in the vast majority of

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium’s federal police say a British con artist who is the subject of a Netflix documentary has been arrested in Belgium. He had fled France where he had injured two police officers. The police said 51-year-old Robert Hendy-Freegard was expected to appear before a Belgian judge on Saturday. He was arrested Friday

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies. The first attempt earlier in the week was also marred by escaping hydrogen, but

PRAGUE (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters from the far right and far left have joined forces to rally against the country’s pro-Western Czech government in the capital. Police estimated that the crowd at Prague’s central Wenceslas Square numbered around 70,000 on Saturday. Some of the groups represented at the demonstration included the major

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The family of a Tennessee woman who police said was abducted and forced into a vehicle while she was jogging near the University of Memphis campus has offered a $50,000 reward for information in the case. Memphis police have said 34-year-old Eliza Fletcher was last seen about 4:20 a.m. Friday. Police

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. will begin its autumn COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the coming weeks after authorizing booster shots made by Pfizer and Moderna that have been modified to target both the original virus and the widely circulating omicron variant. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said Saturday that it had approved the

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say unexploded ordnance detonated in southern Afghanistan killing four children and injuring three others after the kids brought it inside their school. The incident in Helmand province Saturday happened when the children discovered an unexploded shell and brought it inside their religious school and started playing

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has upped his rhetoric against Greece by threatening to “come down suddenly one night.” Erdogan has previously used that phrase to hint at looming military operations into Syria and Iraq against Kurdish militants that Turkey deems existential threats. Erdogan lashed out at

By CLAUDIA TORRENS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Miguel and Carlos Cevallos made a living by drawing posters for neighborhood nightclubs, taco trucks and restaurants in Queens, painting in the businesses’ basements or on their tables and attracting clients by word of mouth. Until an Instagram account changed a lot of that.

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — A stolen airplane circled over north Mississippi on Saturday morning, and police said they evacuated a Walmart store after the pilot threatened to crash into it. The Tupelo Police Department said in a Facebook post that the Walmart and a nearby convenience store had been evacuated. The plane started circling over

By JIM HEINTZ and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, was buried Saturday after a farewell ceremony attended by thousands of mourners but snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin’s

By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press At least nine migrants were found dead in the Rio Grande after dozens of people attempted a hazardous crossing near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials made the discovery Thursday while responding to a large group of people crossing the river following days

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions this year backing proposed ballot initiatives to expand voting access, ensure abortion rights and legalize recreational marijuana in Arizona, Arkansas and Michigan. Yet voters might not get a say because Republican officials or judges have blocked the

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor wasted little time after a decisive state vote in favor of abortion rights. Laura Kelly quickly sent a national fundraising email warning that access to the procedure would be “on the chopping block” if her party didn’t win in the November elections.

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the setting for “National Treasure,” the movie in which Nicolas Cage’s character tries to steal the Declaration of Independence. It has long been among the most trafficked tourist destinations in the nation’s capital. But what the National Archives and Records Administration has never been —

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press A fight is brewing in Tennessee over a legendary civil rights and labor organizing center whose alumni and supporters include Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt. The original Highlander Folk School was shut down and sold off in the 1960s as white Tennessee politicians tried to stop the civil rights movement.

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Laura Poitras’ Nan Goldin documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” is having its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, where it is part of the main competition slate. Poitras, before the premiere, thanked the festival for recognizing that “documentary is cinema.”

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Fuel prices have increased by about 30% across Indonesia after the government reduced some of the costly subsidies that have kept inflation in Southeast Asia’s largest economy among the world’s lowest. Long lines of motorbikes and cars snaked around gas stations as motorists waited for hours to fill up their tanks

By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan appealed Saturday to the international community for an “immense humanitarian response” to unprecedented flooding that has left at least 1,265 people dead. The request came even as planes carried supplies to the impoverished country across a humanitarian air bridge. Federal planning minister Ahsan Iqbal called for