Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has upcoming events scheduled in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as her campaign focuses spending on the “blue wall” states with the Nov. 5 election nearing. On Tuesday, Harris will sit for an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia. Two days later,
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — If it seems like the Emmys just happened, you’re not wrong. The 76th Emmy Awards are Sunday, roughly nine months after the last celebration of the best television. Last year’s Hollywood strikes delayed the show’s 75th edition until January, when “Succession” and “The Bear” dominated the show. “The Bear” will factor
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — If it seems like the Emmys just happened, you’re not wrong. The 76th Emmy Awards are Sunday, roughly nine months after the last celebration of the best television. Last year’s Hollywood strikes delayed the show’s 75th edition until January, when “Succession” and “The Bear” dominated the show. “The Bear” will factor
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. historian and author Timothy Snyder has led a charity run in Kyiv to raise awareness of the conditions under which Ukrainian prisoners of war are held in Russia as the conflict approaches a third winter. The race came following a recent escalation in Russian missile and drone attacks.
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Germany has struck a controlled migration deal with Kenya, which will see Berlin open its doors to skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers. The deal was signed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Kenya’s president William Ruto on Friday. Ruto landed in Germany on Friday for an official two-day visit.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — The French woman who was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband and raped by dozens of men while unconscious is becoming a symbol of the nation’s fight against sexual violence. Several hundred people gathered at Place de la Republique in Paris on Saturday in support of the 71-year-old Gisèle Pélicot
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany’s first hobby horsing championship has got underway in Frankfurt this weekend with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses. Roughly 300 riders, mostly youngsters, will canter around a gymnasium Saturday and Sunday, watched by 1,500 spectators. The competition
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A new attempt has begun to try to salvage an oil tanker burning in the Red Sea after attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The EU’s naval mission published images dated Saturday of its vessels escorting ships heading to the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion. It came under attack
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Emergency authorities say four people in eastern Romania have been found dead after torrential storms dumped unprecedented rain, leaving hundreds stranded in flooded areas. Rescue services scrambled to save hundreds of people in the hard-hit eastern counties of Galati and Vaslui. The storms battered 19 localities in eight counties
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump wanted to spend this week attacking one of Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ biggest political vulnerabilities. Instead, he spent most of the week falsely claiming that migrants are eating pets in a small town in Ohio and defending his embrace of a far-right agitator whose presence is causing concern among
Continue ReadingBy Dalia Faheid, Ashley R. Williams, Alisha Ebrahimji and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — On the morning of the shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school that left four people dead, authorities were “actively looking” for the teenage suspect after the school received a warning call from his mom – but there was a mix-up
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MORONI, Comoros (AP) — Authorities say the president of the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros has been “slightly injured” in a knife attack while attending the funeral of a religious leader. They say the suspect, who was identified as a 24-year-old male soldier, was found dead in a police cell on Saturday,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUKWO, Uganda (AP) — Thousands of mourners in Uganda have been paying their respects to Rebecca Cheptegei. The Olympic athlete was honored Saturday with a military funeral. She died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire. Military officers played a prominent role in the funeral as Cheptegei held the
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Firefighters on the ground and in the air are battling three major wildfires in Southern California. The Airport, Bridge and Line Fires have burned more than 110 thousand acres in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The Line Fire burning closest to us in the San Bernardino National Forest has burned just over 38
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says it launched a satellite into space with a rocket built by the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Iran described the launch Saturday as a success, making it the second such launch to put a satellite into orbit with that particular rocket. Independent scientists later confirmed the launch and
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish-American activist who was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank was laid to rest on Saturday in her hometown in Turkey with thousands lining the streets and anti-Israeli feelings in the country rising from a conflict that threatens to spread across the region. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi,
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Dozens of zoo animals from Big Bear are being temporarily housed at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert. Big Bear remains under an evacuation warning due to the Line Fire. Staff at The Living Desert received a call from staff at the Big Bear Alpine Zoo early Wednesday asking for help evacuating
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Storm Ileana has weakened to a tropical depression, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday. The tropical storm formed Thursday off Mexico’s Pacific coast as it moved ashore, making landfall on the coast of the Mexican state of Sinaloa Saturday, a day after it pounded the resort-studded Los Cabos. On Sunday, wind
Continue ReadingIn one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, the remains of more than 430 victims have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest some 70 kilometers (40 miles) inland from the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi. Seventeen months later, many in the area are still shaken by what happened despite
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MALINDI, Kenya (AP) — Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn’t numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his
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