By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States aren’t just plentiful, they’re downright weird. These insects are the strongest urinators in the animal kingdom, putting humans and elephants to shame. They have pumps in their heads that pull moisture from the roots of
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thunder and lightning delayed the start of the Easter egg roll at the White House for 90 minutes on Monday, but the event eventually kicked off under gray skies and intermittent rain. More than 40,000 people — 10,000 more than last year — were expected to participate
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A nearly $1 billion Powerball jackpot will tempt lottery players Monday night who think they just might hit it rich after three months without a big winner. No one has won Powerball’s $975 million jackpot since New Year’s Day, a stretch of 38 consecutive drawings without anyone matching the game’s
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are hanging near their records Monday at the start of a week with several influential economic reports. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in early trading, coming off an all-time high and its latest winning month in a romp higher that began in
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say dozens of migrants found in a wooden boat on the Mediterranean Sea between northern Africa and southern Europe have been transported to the Greek island of Crete. Greece’s coast guard says the boat carried 74 people. It is not immediately clear where or when the boat had launched
Continue ReadingBy RIAZ KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani counterterrorism police have arrested at least 12 suspects in connection with last week’s suicide bombing that killed five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver in the volatile northwest. Officials say those arrested are not directly involved in the attack but helped orchestrate Tuesday’s bombing. Some of them allegedly
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top security agency said Monday it has broken up what it called a “terrorist cell” in southern Russia whose members had provided weapons and cash to suspected attackers of the Moscow concert hall. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, said that on Sunday it detained four suspected members of the cell
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — A woman has died and a child has been injured in southern Poland when strong winds toppled trees. A spokesman for firefighters says a 23-year-old woman died Monday when a tree fell on her car in the town of Zakopane at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. A 2-year-old was resuscitated
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto pledged to continue his country’s “friendly policy” toward China as he met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday in Beijing. Subianto, who will succeed Joko Widodo in October, chose Beijing for his first official visit after his February election victory in a bid to emphasize the countries’
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The video shared by former President Donald Trump features horror movie music and footage of migrants purportedly entering the U.S. from countries including Cameroon, Afghanistan and China. Shots of men with tattoos and videos of violent crime are set against close-ups of people waving
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The video shared by former President Donald Trump features horror movie music and footage of migrants purportedly entering the U.S. from countries including Cameroon, Afghanistan and China. Shots of men with tattoos and videos of violent crime are set against close-ups of people waving
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A contentious new law against hate speech has come into force in Scotland. It’s being praised by some but criticized by others who say its sweeping provisions could criminalize religious views or tasteless jokes. Critics argue that the law will have a chilling effect on free speech.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools’ Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. he jokes were so consistently over-the-top that people learned to laugh
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Cyprus Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said Monday that ships carrying hundreds of tons of aid are approaching war-ravaged Gaza. Kombos told The Associated Press that the three ships have been granted permission to start offloading their cargo. The Israel-Hamas
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — Buying an affordable home in the United States has gotten a lot harder for many people since 2020. A new analysis from Bankrate.com finds that in 22 states and Washington, DC, buyers need a six-figure household income to comfortably afford a typical median-priced home. That’s a lot
Continue ReadingCNN By Sean Lyngaas and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge. Using their access to a computer network tied to Russia’s prison system, the hackers plastered a photo of Navalny on the hacked prison
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing a temporary, alternate channel for commercially essential vessels near the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, part of a phased approach to opening the main channel leading to the vital port, officials said. Crews have begun the
Continue ReadingBy Joshua Berlinger, Lauren Iszo and Tamar Michaelis, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Thousands of people took to the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over the weekend in the largest protests Israel has seen since the start of the war against Hamas, a significant challenge to the increasingly embattled leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Continue ReadingCNN By Joshua Berlinger, Lauren Iszo and Tamar Michaelis, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Thousands of people took to the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over the weekend in the largest protests Israel has seen since the start of the war against Hamas, a significant challenge to the increasingly embattled leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin
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