By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It’s so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes to cool things off. Federal meteorologists and coral experts say more
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Creating the NFL schedule is a complicated process that requires tens of thousands of computers coming up with countless possibilities over a process that lasts about four months. There are several sometimes competing factors at play from keeping all of the television partners happy, to competitive balance for
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press Police records show that officers responded nearly 1,000 times in the past three years to an Iowa juvenile treatment center where a staff member was killed. Police say 50-year-old Kathleen Galloway-Menke was assaulted May 8 by a 15-year-old resident at the center, Ellipsis Iowa, in the Des Moines suburb of
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has marked the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that struck down institutionalized racial segregation in public schools by welcoming plaintiffs and their family members in the landmark case to the White House. Thursday’s Oval Office visit to commemorate the 1954 Brown v.
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is rising in a suburban New York park that will host one of the world’s top cricket tournaments next month. But on a recent Saturday morning, on the other side
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is rising in a suburban New York park that will host one of the world’s top cricket tournaments next month. But on a recent Saturday morning, on the other side
Continue ReadingBy MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A disability rights advocate made a complaint to New York State Police saying was shoved twice by state Senator Kevin Parker. Advocate Michael Carey says Parker got inches from his face Wednesday and yelled “I don’t care” before grabbing him by his shoulders and
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A major North Carolina political donor and his associate have been convicted a second time of attempting to bribe the state’s insurance commissioner to secure preferential regulatory treatment for his insurance business. Insurance magnate Greg Lindberg and former consultant John Gray were convicted Wednesday of bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A candidate for West Virginia secretary of state is hospitalized for copperhead snake bites sustained while he was removing election campaign signs. News outlets report Doug Skaff was bitten in the left leg and the right foot Wednesday in Danville. Skaff says he expects to be in a hospital in Charleston
Continue ReadingBy EDOUARD TAKADJI Associated Press N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad’s constitutional council has confirmed that President Mahamat Deby Itno, who seized power in 2021, won the May 6 presidential election and rejected an appeal by his main opponent. That’s according to final results released on Thursday. The council says final results show that Deby Itno
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC, KATHY McCORMACK and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from eating a large quantity of chile pepper extract and also had a congenital heart defect, according to autopsy results obtained by The Associated Press. Harris Wolobah,
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Lift to Rise, a local non-proof organization, is working to increase affordable housing in the Coachella Valley. They recently released a two year plan to bring 7,500 affordable housing units to the desert area by 2026. “Our two-year action plan primarily focuses on radically increasing housing stability,” said Heather Vaikona, the CEO and President of
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The community remains shocked and looking for answers after a crash that took the lives of Maria Reyes, Brandt Celli, and Katherine Vogts Tuesday night in La Quinta. Latest Details on the Crash Here The crash, which left three dead and an additional person with major injuries along Highway 111 and Washington Street, started when
Continue ReadingBy MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — South Africa has urged the United Nations’ top court to order a cease-fire in Gaza during hearings over emergency measures to halt Israel’s military operation in the enclave’s southern city of Rafah. It was the third time the International Court of Justice held hearings on
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — In emotional testimony Thursday morning, family members of Robert Card, the man responsible for two shootings that left 18 people dead in Lewiston, Maine, testified before the independent commission formed to investigate the October 25, 2023, mass shootings. “If you were to ask me what one thing I would
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus have announced raids and the seizure of property of 104 opposition activists who have fled the country. The action announced on Thursday was the latest step in the crackdown on dissent that has continued unabated for nearly four years. Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race in the nation’s third-most populous county. Harris County, where Houston is located, is a Democratic stronghold that’s been beset by GOP efforts to dictate how ballots are
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration has proposed an end to new coal leasing from federal reserves in the most productive coal mining region of the U.S. The move announced Thursday would limit future climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions from burning the fuel. It drew instant pushback from Republicans in
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Egypt’s Great Pyramid and other ancient monuments at Giza exist on an isolated strip of land at the edge of the Sahara Desert. The inhospitable location has long puzzled archaeologists, some of whom had found evidence that the Nile River once flowed near these pyramids in some capacity, facilitating
Continue ReadingROHNERT PARK, Calif. (AP) — The chancellor of the California State University system has suspended the president of its Sonoma campus for announcing an agreement with pro-Palestinian activists to pursue an academic boycott of Israeli institutions as well as “divestment strategies.” The message by Sonoma State University President Ming-Tung “Mike” Lee was issued “without the
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