Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish parliamentary commission has begun debating a contentious bill to manage the country’s substantial stray dog population. Animal rights advocates fear the measure could result in a mass culling and are calling for its withdrawal. An estimated 4 million stray animals wander Turkey’s streets and rural areas. While
Continue ReadingCORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon authorities have recovered the body of award-winning chef Naomi Pomeroy following her drowning in a river accident. The Benton County Sheriff’s Office says it located her body Wednesday morning in the Willamette River between Corvallis and Albany after canoers saw it and called 911. Pomeroy died Saturday evening after the
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Yumi Asada, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has formally apologized to a group of plaintiffs who were forcibly sterilized under the country’s decades-long former eugenics law following their lengthy campaign for justice. The Eugenic Protection Law, in place from 1948 to 1996, allowed authorities to forcibly sterilize people with disabilities,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Security planners for the Republican National Convention have had to contend with the winding river that snakes through downtown Milwaukee and near the Fiserv Center convention site. Roughly half a dozen police departments, along with state and federal agencies, have boats patrolling the river 24-hours-a-day until the convention ends this
Continue ReadingBy CNN Staff (CNN) — Night three of the Republican National Convention included former President Donald Trump’s choice for vice president, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, and other speakers who made false and misleading claims throughout the night. Here is a list of fact checks from CNN’s Facts First team. Vance’s misleading claim about Trump
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — As President Joe Biden flies back to Delaware from Las Vegas on Wednesday night, cutting his trip short after testing positive for Covid-19, he faces one of the most momentous decisions of his long political life: Should he heed the rising calls from his fellow Democrats to extinguish his
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SARVER, Pa. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday to remember the former fire chief shot and killed at a weekend rally for former President Donald Trump in the rural area of Pennsylvania shaken by violence perpetrated by a local 20-year-old man. A sign outside Lernersville Speedway in Sarvar, Pennsylvania, where the vigil
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says it was time for the Biden administration “to do better than just playing defense” to Iranian threats on Trump administration officials. His remarks Wednesday were some of the first from one of the targeted Trump administration officials since reports this week that the
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Bishop and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — A man arrested Monday in Milwaukee wearing a ski mask and carrying a concealed weapon without a permit in the vicinity of Fiserv Forum – the site of the Republican National Convention – was also carrying a backpack containing rifle ammunition, a mask from the movie
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will be the first state to receive federal funds under a program to create regional networks, or “hubs,” that produce hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity, officials announced Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Energy said the California Hydrogen Hub will receive an initial $30 million
Continue ReadingBy Mauricio Torres and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN (CNN) — The United States has raised concerns about the recent arrests of Venezuelan democratic opposition figures ahead of the country’s elections this month, as authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro told his supporters he must win at the polls to avoid a possible “bloodbath.” “If they do not want
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will be the first state to receive federal funds under a program to create regional networks, or “hubs,” that produce hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity, officials announced Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Energy said the California Hydrogen Hub will receive an initial $30 million
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A Colton man pleaded guilty Wednesday to his involvement in a Palm Desert jewelry store robbery more than two years ago and was immediately sentenced to three years in prison. Demetrius Thornton, 25, entered the guilty plea to a felony robbery charge at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. A related charge of assault
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister blamed American journalists Wednesday for helping delay talks with his U.S. counterparts about a possible prisoner exchange involving imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. A day before Gershkovich is scheduled to appear in court on espionage charges, Sergey Lavrov told a U.N. news conference that
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to lift a judge’s order temporarily blocking the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students. The ruling on Wednesday comes from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A panel of judges kept in place a preliminary injunction issued
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Four days after a gunman’s attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump, the public is still in the dark over the extent of his injuries, what treatment the Republican presidential nominee received in the hospital, and whether there may be any long-term effects on his health. Trump’s campaign has refused
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines is celebrating members of Team USA as the athletes head off to Paris for the Summer Olympic Games. The airline organized a send-off Wednesday for archers, fencers and other U.S. athletes at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The airline had T-shirts and water bottles at the gate where archers, fencers,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Paul Skenes, Shohei Ohtani, Jarren Duran and the rest of this year’s All-Stars drew 7,443,000 viewers on Fox, up 6% from the 2023 game but the second lowest for the event. The American League’s 5-3 victory at Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday night saw an increase from the 7,006,000 viewers for the
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Paul Skenes, Shohei Ohtani, Jarren Duran and the rest of this year’s All-Stars drew 7,443,000 viewers on Fox, up 6% from the 2023 game but the second lowest for the event. The American League’s 5-3 victory at Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday night saw an increase from the 7,006,000 viewers for the
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An 84-year-old man from Palm Desert was killed in a crash with a truck carrying propane tanks earlier this week in Johnson Valley. David Bell, 84, of Palm Desert was pronounced dead after a crash Monday afternoon on Highway 247 near Rattlesnake Canyon Road in Johnson Valley, authorities announced. Details on what led up to
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