Associated Press WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Come noon on Sundays, overlapping worship options reflect how much Worthington has changed from a typical Midwestern farming community to a majority-minority hub with migrants from around the world. An overflow crowd is still swaying to thumping praise music from one of 10 Latino choirs at St. Mary’s second
Continue ReadingDemocrat Kamala Harris says recent comments by her opponent, Republican Donald Trump, are “offensive” and that it’s clear he doesn’t understand women. She was responding to Trump, who said Wednesday that he will protect women, “whether the women like it or not.” The subtext of both Trump’s and Harris’ comments appears to be a 2022
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Over the past generation, immigrants from Southeast Asia, East Africa and now predominantly Central America have transformed Worthington, a once overwhelmingly white farming community. Students of color constitute more than 80% of those enrolled in K-12, Spanish is most children’s first language, and soccer is far more popular than
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Two Guatemalans wearing traditional embroidered skirts bought coconut boba teas on an October afternoon at the bustling downtown Asian market. In decades past, the building served as this rural town’s hardware store where farmers shopped for hammers, nuts and bolts. Over the past generation, immigrants from Southeast Asia, East
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — With the death and destruction in Gaza on her mind, Soraya Burhani agonized over how to cast her vote for president. “For us, Muslims, I see that there’s no good choice,” she said. With the U.S. handling of the Israel-Hamas war and conflict in the Middle East looming over the
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — California voters will decide this election whether to increase the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour, which would be the highest in the US. The ballot measure, known as Proposition 32, calls for raising the threshold to $17 for the rest of 2024 and then to $18 in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Rocket barrages from Lebanon into northern Israel killed four foreign workers and three Israelis on Thursday, Israeli medics said, the deadliest cross-border strikes in Israel since it invaded Lebanon. Israel kept up airstrikes it says targeted Hezbollah militants across Lebanon, where health authorities on Thursday reported 24 people
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Commercial satellite images reveal that North Korea freshly carved at least two large trenches across its heavily armed border with South Korea after it blew up northern sections of unused road and rail routes that once linked the rivals earlier this month. Tensions between the Koreas are at
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A gas explosion in a residential building in southern Russia has killed five people and injured another four. Local emergency officials said the blast occurred early Thursday in the city of Cherkessk in the Karachay-Cherkessia region, which borders Georgia. They said the explosion severely damaged two upper stories of a five-story residential
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ROME (AP) — Severe food crises threaten hundreds of thousands in vulnerable areas, including Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti, Mali and the Palestinian territories, where populations face or approach famine, a report by the United Nations’ food agencies says. Conflicts, economic instability, and climate shocks — combined with reduced funding for emergency food and
Continue ReadingCNN By Curt Devine, Casey Tolan and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Before Election Day has even arrived, the “Stop the Steal” movement has reemerged in force, with some of the same activists who tried to overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss outlining a step-by-step guide to undermine the results if he falls short
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A judge in New Zealand will decide whether the owners of an island volcano suffered a miscarriage of justice when their company was convicted of failing to keep visitors safe following an eruption that killed 22 people in 2019. The company Whakaari Management, run by the island’s owners,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — A ban on protesting outside abortion clinics has gone into effect in England and Wales. However, it leaves a question mark over whether anti-abortion demonstrators who pray silently will be breaking the law. The law bars protests within 150 meters of clinics. It makes it an offense to obstruct someone
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — Tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk is trying to move a lawsuit over his $1 million giveaway to voters into federal court, short-circuiting a required appearance Thursday at a Pennsylvania court. Lawyers for the Tesla CEO filed a “motion of removal” in federal court late Wednesday night. Pennsylvania Judge Angelo Foglietta
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, Laura Paddison, Benjamin Brown, CNN and Pau Mosquera, CNN en Español (CNN) — Spain is reeling from its worst flooding in decades, after a year’s worth of rain fell in just hours this week in the country’s southern and eastern regions. The storm began on Tuesday and has so far killed at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s defense minister says India and China have pulled most of their frontline troops further away from their disputed border in the remote Himalayan Ladakh region. Rajnath Singh said Thursday that the process of disengagement of Indian and Chinese troops near the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh is
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CNN By Sarah Ferris and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson told a group of supporters on Monday night that Republicans will seek “massive reform” to the Affordable Care Act if Donald Trump is reelected — previewing a major piece of the GOP’s legislative plans for next year. During a campaign swing in Pennsylvania,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some 8,000 North Korean soldiers are now in Russia near Ukraine’s border and are preparing to help the Kremlin fight against Ukrainian troops in the coming days, the Biden administration said Thursday. The new figure is a dramatic increase from a day earlier, when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would only
Continue ReadingMAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Two medical groups in Mozambique say at least 10 people were fatally shot by police and 63 others sustained gunshot wounds when authorities cracked down on unrest following the presidential election. The country is bracing Thursday for more protests against a vote criticized as fraudulent by opposition parties and questioned by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have struck a residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, killing three, including two teenage boys, and injuring scores of others. The region’s governor says a 12-year-old boy was fatally injured when the building was hit by a Russian 500-kilogram glide bomb early Thursday. He said
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