TORONTO (AP) — A major highway, several other thoroughfares and a key transit hub in Toronto have been flooded as torrential rains washed over Canada’s largest city. Power outages also were reported in multiple areas Tuesday. Toronto police say part of the Don Valley Parkway running from the north part of the city into the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — Last summer in Boston, locals say, it seemed to rain every weekend. This year, the city has baked, with Mayor Michelle Wu this week declaring a heat emergency. Neither scenario has been ideal. Wu declared the heat emergency Monday through Wednesday, with temperatures forecast to reach into the high 90s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s casinos saw their sports betting revenue decline by nearly 24% in June, and sports betting revenue overall in the state declined by 9.5%, according to figures released Tuesday by state gambling regulators. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement reported that the nine casinos collectively saw
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister has accused the United States of holding the entire West “at gunpoint” and impeding international cooperation at a U.N. event. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations denounced that as “hypocrisy” by a country that invaded Ukraine. The exchange on Tuesday came at Russia’s showcase event
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday after a video was posted online showing part of a private phone call between the independent presidential candidate and Republican former President Donald Trump. The video shows Kennedy listening on a speakerphone as Trump shares disproven claims about childhood vaccines, an issue that has
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia appeals court has set a December hearing for arguments on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against former President Donald Trump. Trump and other defendants had asked the Georgia Court
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Lawyers say few people ultimately opted out of the $600 million class action settlement Norfolk Southern offered to people affected by last year’s disastrous East Palestine train derailment despite the questions residents raised about the deal. The plaintiffs’ attorneys said in a filing Monday that only 173 of the more than 190,000 households
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TAGAYTAY, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say the suspect in last week’s killings of two Australians and their Filipina companion at a Philippine hotel in a popular resort city south of Manila has surrendered. They say he claims that he wanted to retaliate against the hotel for firing him and that he randomly
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A team of Brazilian scientists has discovered the fossilized skeleton of what they believe is one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs. They made their discovery after heavy rains in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul accelerated natural erosion. The fossil found next to a reservoir is
Continue ReadingSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A rights report says the government of El Salvador has arrested 3,319 underage suspects and sentenced 579 during the harsh 2 1/2 year-old crackdown on street gangs. The report issued Tuesday by Human Rights Watch says the minors have been held in “inhumane conditions,” and sometimes in the same
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court says Minnesota’s law banning 18 to-20-year-olds from getting permits to carry guns in public is unconstitutional. Tuesday’s ruling affirms a lower court decision that concluded that the Second Amendment guarantees the rights of young adults to bear arms for self-defense. The three-judge panel cited a landmark
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Ohio Sen. JD Vance traveled to the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, he wasn’t there to reassure Europe and other global allies that America would aid Ukraine in its war against Russia, as all of the other senators were. Instead, Vance was there to deliver what he called
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Of the 49 vice presidents in U.S. history, nine of them — or nearly 1 in 5 — have risen to the presidency due to death or resignation. The first was John Tyler, who became president after William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia one month into his presidency. The most
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Guo Wengui, a self-exiled Chinese business tycoon whose criticism of the Communist Party won him legions of online followers and powerful friends in the American conservative movement, was convicted by a U.S. jury Tuesday of engaging in a massive multiyear fraud that ripped off some of his most devoted
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez has become one of very few U.S. senators convicted of a crime while in office. He’s also the first to be convicted of being an agent of a foreign government. This raises questions about his ability to serve the rest of his term. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican JD Vance have had their first chat since the Ohio senator became the GOP vice presidential nominee. But the two sides are still working on terms for participating in a debate. That’s according to three people familiar with the matter. Harris has agreed to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — A company is now selling $299 sneakers showing an image of Donald Trump with streaks of blood on his cheek and pumping his fist in the air after he was the target of an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. The white high tops are being sold as “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT High-Tops”
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal law enforcement officials are warning of possible copycat attacks or retaliatory violence after the attempt on Donald Trump’s life, as a visibly stronger security detail surrounds the Republican nominee and President Joe Biden. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has also received Secret Service protection. A threat on Donald
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York man whose 750-pound alligator was seized is suing the state Department of Environmental Conservation in an effort to get him back, saying the agency was wrong not to renew a license for the pet he looked after for more than 30 years. Conservation officers entered
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California school district involved in an ongoing legal battle with the state over the district’s gender-identity policy sued Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday over a new law banning districts from requiring that parents be notified of their child’s gender identification change. The Chino Valley Unified
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