LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will hold the next meeting of the European Political Community on July 18. The government announced Tuesday that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will host leaders from about 50 countries at Blenheim Palace. The 18th-century country mansion was the birthplace of wartime leader Winston Churchill. Sunak said the
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GRAHAM Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say police have detained two Afghan citizens accused of planning to attack police near the Swedish parliament. The prosecutors say federal police detained the the pair on Tuesday in the eastern German city of Gera. The prosecutors allege that the Islamic State group’s affiliate in
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Grant Thornton Invitational began last year to strong reviews from the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour players who took part in the first mixed-team event since 1999. Next on the horizon are the Olympics. The format already is set for the Summer
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer For the second straight year, Purdue’s Zach Edey is the unanimous headliner for The Associated Press men’s college basketball All-America team. The 7-foot-4, 300-pound senior topped all 62 ballots from AP Top 25 poll voters in results released Tuesday. The reigning AP national player of the year claimed all
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer For the second straight year, Purdue’s Zach Edey is the unanimous headliner for The Associated Press men’s college basketball All-America team. The 7-foot-4, 300-pound senior topped all 62 ballots from AP Top 25 poll voters in results released Tuesday. The reigning AP national player of the year claimed all
Continue ReadingBy BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders said Tuesday that all groups and political parties except one have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti, which remains engulfed in gang violence. The original nine-member council was whittled down to eight members after
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Author Rebecca Serle often adds elements of magic to her writing. In her last book “One Italian Summer,” she writes about a woman who goes on vacation and meets a younger, more carefree version of her mother. In her new novel “Expiration Dates,” protagonist Daphne enters each romantic relationship knowing
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men in a racist assault and for his role in a separate episode where a white man was sexually assaulted. Hunter Elward, 31,
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court has asked for arguments related to a question over what legislative boundaries should be in place for a potential recall election organized by supporters of former President Donald Trump. The recall targets the state’s top Republican, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, because
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden embarked Tuesday on a three-day campaign swing in the Sun Belt geared largely toward courting the Latino voters who helped power his coalition in 2020. His trip, which includes stops in Nevada, Arizona and Texas, coincides with the formal launch of Latinos con
Continue ReadingSTANTON, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a man died and a woman was injured when they lost control of their vehicle at an off-road adventure park in eastern Kentucky and it fell off an 80-foot cliff. Powell County Search and Rescue said in a social media post that crews responded to the crash Saturday evening
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s lawmakers unanimously passed a new national security law that grants the government more power to quash dissent in the southern Chinese city. The legislation, passed Tuesday, is widely seen as the latest step in a sweeping political crackdown that followed pro-democracy protests in 2019
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Nearly a year has passed since Lamont Butler hit a buzzer-beater that sent San Diego State to the NCAA championship game. He’s seen it so often on social media and TV that he never had search it out himself. “It’s kind of hard to miss it,” he said. Especially
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A special investigations unit in South Africa has searched the home of the Speaker of Parliament and seized evidence as part of a probe into accusations that she accepted bribes in her previous role as defense minister. The search and seizure operation at the
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One person suffered serious burn injuries in a Palm Desert house fire Tuesday morning, according to firefighters. CalFire Riverside County confirmed to KESQ News Channel 3 that the fire was reported at 7:33 a.m. on the 73300 block of Guadalupe Avenue, in a neighborhood just west of San Pablo and south of Fred Waring Drive.
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Souvenirs bearing the image of 70-year-old Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sell like T-shirts at a Taylor Swift concert. Just outside Mexico’s presidential palace, throngs of mostly Mexicans crowd around a booth selling plush talking dolls, earrings and plastic sandals plastered with the face of
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist and author, had promised to give $1 million to 250 organizations last year through an “open call” for applications. On Tuesday, she announced she would give $640 million to 361 organizations instead. That makes her organization Yield Giving’s first round of donations more than double
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Nearly a year has passed since Lamont Butler hit a buzzer-beater that sent San Diego State to the NCAA championship game. He’s seen it so often on social media and TV that he never had search it out himself. “It’s kind of hard to miss it,” he said. Especially
Continue ReadingBy DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Reddit, that vast, lively and sometimes chaotic repository of internet discussion, is expected to carry a valuation up to $6.4 billion when it conducts its initial public offering on the stock market. The offering also makes Reddit one of the first online companies to offer
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova and Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — Russian state media confirmed on Tuesday that the Kremlin replaced the head of the country’s navy following a string of successful Ukrainian attacks on its Black Sea fleet. Adm. Alexander Moiseyev was for the first time officially introduced as acting commander in chief of the Russian Navy during
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