CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s Supreme Court has backed President Nicolás Maduro’s claims that he won last month’s presidential election and said voting tallies published online showing he lost by a landslide were forged. The ruling is the latest attempt by Maduro to blunt protests and international criticism that erupted after the contested July 28
Continue ReadingSTERLING, Mass. (AP) — A worker was killed after a portion of a rock ledge collapsed onto an excavator with the worker inside, burying it under rocks and boulders at a quarry site in Massachusetts. Firefighters and other rescue agencies responded to the collapse Thursday morning. Fire officials in the town of Sterling say crews
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DALLAS (AP) — Labor Day is a holiday celebrating the American worker. But from barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark it by finding ways to relax. This year is the 130th anniversary of the holiday. It’s celebrated on the first Monday of September. While actions by
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — A crash and large fire along a California freeway involving an electric Tesla Semi has drawn the attention of federal safety investigators. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it’s sending a team of investigators from the Office of Highway Safety mainly to look into fire risks posed by lithium-ion batteries.
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — A crash and large fire along a California freeway involving an electric Tesla Semi has drawn the attention of federal safety investigators. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it’s sending a team of investigators from the Office of Highway Safety mainly to look into fire risks posed by lithium-ion batteries.
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A Greek-flagged oil tanker carrying 150,000 tons of crude oil poses an “environmental hazard” after it came under attack from projectiles and arms fire in the Red Sea. The 25-person crew of the Sounion oil tanker was rescued after the attack by a vessel from Eunavfor Aspides, a European
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says it has reached an agreement with a credit collection company to avert the foreclosure of their historic hotel as he runs for U.S. Senate. The Greenbrier resort hotel came under threat of auction after JPMorgan Chase sold a longstanding loan
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A small passenger plane on a domestic flight in Thailand has crashed shortly after taking off from the main airport in the Thai capital Bangkok. Thai media said rescuers found no survivors at the crash site in a mangrove swamp about 40 kilometers southeast of the airport. Nine people were
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BERLIN (AP) — Naming two baby giraffes turned out to be a tall order this summer for a Berlin zoo. After the half-siblings were born on June 24 and Aug. 11 in the Tierpark, one of the city’s two zoos, officials turned to a school class and the 18-year-old daughter of the zoo
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators have closed one of two investigations into the performance of General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicles after the company agreed to do a recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in the probe began in December of 2022 after the agency received reports of inappropriate hard braking and
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer Shares of Entertainment giant Paramount Global are up Thursday after announcing it would extend by 15 days a period where it’s allowed to assess competing offers to its merger agreement with Skydance. The company made the announcement late Wednesday after confirming that it had received an offer from Edgar Bronfman, Jr. of
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer Shares of Entertainment giant Paramount Global are up Thursday after announcing it would extend by 15 days a period where it’s allowed to assess competing offers to its merger agreement with Skydance. The company made the announcement late Wednesday after confirming that it had received an offer from Edgar Bronfman, Jr. of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the state’s rejection of signature petitions in favor putting an abortion rights initiative on the ballot. The ruling Thursday dashes abortion rights supporters’ hopes of putting the measure before voters in the predominantly Republican state in November. Petition organizers had submitted more
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. has one of the worst maternal mortality rates of any wealthy nation. Experts say European countries that have far lower rates of maternal deaths can provide lessons for the U.S. Research shows the vast majority of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. Public health experts blame the United
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Four former hotel workers pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of felony murder in connection with the case of D’Vontaye Mitchell, a 43-year-old Black man who died this summer after he was pinned to the ground outside a downtown Milwaukee hotel in an encounter partially captured on video. Former security
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Italian authorities have launched an investigation after two easyJet flight attendants were injured when their flight from Corfu to London’s Gatwick Airport was buffeted by turbulence earlier this week. As a result of the incident, the pilot made an unscheduled landing at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport at 1:48 p.m. on Monday. In a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in Bangladesh’s capital Thursday allowed police to interrogate two journalists in their custody for four days in connection with the murder of a garment worker, who joined recent student protests against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that forced her to step down and flee to India earlier
Continue ReadingBy CNN Staff (CNN) — The Russian government has opened a criminal investigation into a CNN correspondent for reporting from Ukrainian-occupied Russia, an assignment defended by the news network. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN’s chief international security correspondent, at the invitation of the Ukrainian government, was escorted by their military last week to Sudzha in Russia’s
Continue ReadingOfficials say a fire has broken out at a hotel in the South Korean city of Bucheon, killing at least seven people and injuring 12 others. The director of Bucheon’s public health department says three of the injured people are in serious condition. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the blaze. An official with the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TORONTO (AP) — Freight trains in Canada could be running again within days after the government forced the country’s two major railroads into arbitration with their labor union Thursday, a move aimed at averting potentially dire economic consequences across the country and in the U.S. if the trains are sidelined for a long
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