Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The family of a Guatemalan journalist has celebrated his transfer to house arrest following his jailing for over two years amid his newspaper’s anti-corruption investigations. José Rubén Zamora, the founder of newspaper El Periódico, was released from jail Saturday evening. The daily specialized in anti-corruption reporting before closing a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LEWISVILLE, Texas (AP) — Deep in the heart of Texas’ sprawl, the city of Lewisville embodies the Lone Star State. Bisected by Interstate 35 and ribboned with six- and eight-lane thoroughfares lined with chain stores, Mexican restaurants and pawn shops, Lewisville, 23 miles north of Dallas, is the prototypical slice of the nation’s
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — A funeral home in Poland is apologizing after a corpse that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic. Polish media reported that a man was driving down a street Friday in a city in southeastern Poland when he first saw a sheet on his car window. When
Continue ReadingCNN By Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Cuba suffered a second nationwide blackout Saturday morning, hours after officials said power was being slowly restored. “At 6:15 am a new total outage occurred of the national electroenergetic system,” a post on the Cuba Electrical Union’s official Telegram channel said. “The Electric Union is working to reestablish
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The world’s final glimpse of Hamas’ leader was rough and raw, showing him wounded and cornered as he sat in a bombed-out Palestinian home and faced down the Israeli drone filming him, hurling a stick at it. For Israel, the scene was one of victory, showing Yahya Sinwar, the architect of Oct. 7,
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91. Stanford University announced Friday that Zimbardo died Oct. 14 at his home in San Francisco. A cause of death was not provided. In the 1971
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91. Stanford University announced Friday that Zimbardo died Oct. 14 at his home in San Francisco. A cause of death was not provided. In the 1971
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania has scrambled fighter jets for the second time this week after an unidentified object breached its airspace by the Black Sea. The Defense Ministry said two Spanish air force F-18 jets and two Romanian F-16s were dispatched but did not spot the target, which disappeared from the radar early Saturday.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Brain injuries are a growing problem for the U.S. military. And now, Special Operations Command is testing new ways to protect warfighters from blasts and to evaluate health risks, particularly during training. This includes having troops wear blast monitors and reshaping an explosive charge to reduce blowback. A former special
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Cuba suffered a second nationwide blackout Saturday morning, hours after officials said power was being slowly restored. “At 6:15 am a new total outage occurred of the national electroenergetic system,” a post on the Cuba Electrical Union’s official Telegram channel said. “The Electric Union is working to reestablish it.”
Continue ReadingBy David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — In the first two weeks of October, Donald Trump and his allies directed about a third of all their spending on broadcast TV advertisements to ads about transgender health care, a significant increase reflecting a major tactical shift from previous months’ ad expenditures. On the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which means it’s the perfect time to learn how to protect yourself from scams. “Scams have become so sophisticated now. Phishing emails, texts, spoofing caller ID, all of this technology gives scammers that edge,” said Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, Ivana Kottasová, MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — It was around 5:30 in the morning on Thursday in Washington, DC, when senior US officials first got word — and photographs — from their Israeli counterparts: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might be dead. For more than a year since Hamas
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Bo Lillis, Ivana Kottasová, MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — It was around 5:30 in the morning on Thursday in Washington, DC, when senior US officials first got word — and photographs — from their Israeli counterparts: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might be dead. For more than a year since
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — France’s foreign minister pledged his support for Ukraine’s plan for ending the war with Russia, telling reporters in Kyiv on Saturday that he would work with Ukrainian officials to secure other nations’ backing for the proposal. Unveiled by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this week, Kyiv’s “victory plan” hopes
Continue ReadingMAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Gunmen chased down the lawyer for Mozambique’s leading opposition politician and a senior opposition official and fatally shot them in their car in the capital, their party said Saturday. The killings came as the country waits for the results of a tense election that has drawn more allegations of vote rigging
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump has vowed he’ll kick millions of undocumented immigrants out of the US when he returns to power. In the months since cheering supporters waved “mass deportation now” signs at the Republican National Convention, Trump and his surrogates have offered various visions for how they’ll
Continue ReadingAP Basketball Writer For DeMar DeRozan, this path toward improved mental health started with writing a tweet. It led to him writing a book. Being in Sacramento isn’t the only new part of DeRozan’s story entering this NBA season. The six-time All-Star is now an author, after his book “Above the Noise: My Story of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel hit a herd of wild elephants in northeast Sri Lanka, killing two of the giant mammals and injuring one other as two of its tankers got derailed, authorities said. The collision happened in the town of Minneriya — about 200
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SHENGJIN, Albania (AP) — An Italian navy ship has taken back to Italy the first 12 migrants from newly opened asylum processing centers in Albania following a highly-debated court decision in Rome. The ship arrived in the southern Italian port of Bari on Saturday afternoon and the migrants were taken to the local
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