By Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Three people died after an Amtrak train struck a pickup truck in western New York north of Buffalo, fire officials said Saturday. All of the truck’s passengers were pronounced dead at the scene Friday night in North Tonawanda, the city’s fire chief told CNN in a phone call.
Continue ReadingIDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Six people were killed and 10 others injured early Saturday morning when a pickup crashed into a passenger van in Idaho. State police say the accident happened early Saturday morning when a pickup crossed the centerline on U.S. Highway 20 and hit a passenger van. The van’s driver and five
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58. Law enforcement officials told CNN that Stewart’s body was found outdoors in the Belle View neighborhood in northern Virginia early Saturday morning. No foul play is suspected, and
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say three people died and three others were wounded in an early morning shooting in Ohio’s capital over the weekend. Columbus police said the shooting was reported shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday in the Italian Village neighborhood north of downtown, with what may have been semi-automatic or automatic gunfire and
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press Arizona’s attorney general says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state’s fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes
Continue ReadingFORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — Authorities say residents ordered out of Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta due to a nearby wildfire are clear to return home. The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo on Saturday lifted the evacuation order for the Abasand, Beacon Hill, Prairie Creek and Grayling Terrace neighborhoods on the city’s
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is providing a $100,000 annual sponsorship to each Aces player for this season and 2025. The WNBA is investigating whether the sponsorships are allowed. This isn’t the Aces first run-in with the league over the last few years.
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is providing a $100,000 annual sponsorship to each Aces player for this season and 2025. The WNBA is investigating whether the sponsorships are allowed. This isn’t the Aces first run-in with the league over the last few years.
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — At Robert M. La Follette High School in Madison, Wisconsin, some college-bound seniors are still scrambling to submit their federal financial aid forms – but it’s not for lack of trying. One student and his father, for example, spent more than three hours sitting with a high school
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press Arizona’s attorney general says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state’s fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military government in the country’s western state of Rakhine claimed Saturday to have seized a town near the border with Bangladesh, marking the latest in a series of victories for foes of the country’s military government. Members of the state’s
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s president has vetoed the so-called “Russian law” targeting media that has sparked weeks of mass protests. The law would require media and non-governmental organizations to register as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad. President Salome Zourabichvili, who is
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from his own War Cabinet and his country’s closest ally over postwar plans for Gaza, even as the war with Hamas shows no sign of ending. On Saturday, Benny Gantz, a member of the War Cabinet and Netanyahu’s
Continue ReadingBY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan health authorities say clashes between government-allied militias rocked the western town of Zawiya, killing at least one civilian man and wounding 22 others. They say the clashes erupted early Saturday. The cause of the fighting was not immediately clear. The warring sides are allied with the
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have rallied within sight of the U.S. Capitol, chanting pro-Palestinian slogans and voicing criticism of the Israeli and American governments. The demonstrators marked a painful present — namely the war in Gaza. And they marked a painful past — the exodus of some 700,000
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is providing a $100,000 annual sponsorship to each Aces player for this season and 2025. “The city of Vegas I’ve always said, it’s a big small town and they just want the best for the people here,” point
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is providing a $100,000 annual sponsorship to each Aces player for this season and 2025. “The city of Vegas I’ve always said, it’s a big small town and they just want the best for the people here,” point
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma has lamented the high levels of poverty among black South Africans and promised to create jobs and tackle crime as he launched his new political party’s manifesto ahead of the country’s much anticipated elections. He told thousands of supporters at Orlando
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola’s idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic “Megalopolis,” one that particularly resonates with the director is: “When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we’re free.” “That’s me making this film,” Coppola says, speaking on
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola’s idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic “Megalopolis,” one that particularly resonates with the director is: “When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we’re free.” “That’s me making this film,” Coppola says, speaking on
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