BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A newspaper in Idaho is reporting that workers had expressed concerned about bending or bowed beams and other structural issues before a steel airport hangar under construction collapsed in January, killing 3 people. The Idaho Statesman obtained police interviews and reports through a public records request. They show some employees told
Continue ReadingBy TOM GOULD and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province has left more than 70 children missing, with fears they may have drowned in a river or been kidnapped by militants as thousands of families fled,
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish military authorities say that a soldier seriously injured during a training exercise has died. The death raises the death toll to two. A military tracked vehicle ran over two soldiers. One was killed and the other was injured during the drill at a test range in Drawsko Pomorskie in northwestern
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry is struggling to stay in power as he tries to return home, where gang attacks have shuttered his country’s main international airport and freed more than 4,000 inmates in recent days. Henry remained in Puerto Rico as of midday Wednesday. He landed in the U.S.
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s health department has named a physician to address ways to lessen the effects of extreme heat in the arid Southwestern state as the first statewide heat officer in the nation. Dr. Eugene Livar was appointed to the role under Gov. Katie Hobbs’ extreme heat preparedness plan, the Arizona Department of Health
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — A federal judge in Texas said Tuesday that a US Commerce Department agency intended to help minority-owned businesses must offer assistance to all individuals, regardless of race, agreeing with White business owners who claimed that its policies were unconstitutional. The ruling from US District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The SAT college admissions exam is now entirely online. Rather than filling in a bubble answer sheet with a No. 2 pencil, US test-takers will be using a computer. US test-takers will use the fully digital version of the SAT on Saturday, March 9. Prospective college students are still required
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver his third State of the Union on Thursday night. It’s one of the year’s biggest pieces of political theater, and it will be carefully scrutinized as he runs for reelection. The speech starts at 9 p.m. ET and will be carried live
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The US government is spending nearly $1 million a month to maintain a luxury superyacht seized from a sanctioned Russian oligarch as part of the Justice Department’s effort to put pressure on the Kremlin. The 348-foot Amadea was one of the first trophies prosecutors claimed as part of a
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former college track and field coach has been sentenced to five years in prison for setting up sham social media and email accounts in an attempt to trick women into sending him nude or semi-nude photos of themselves. Thirty-one-year-old Steve Waithe, of Chicago, pleaded guilty last
Continue ReadingCOLDSPRING, Texas (AP) — A Texas sheriff whose office drew national scrutiny and an FBI investigation following a shooting last year in which a man is accused of killing five of his neighbors has lost his reelection bid. Greg Capers had sought a fourth term as sheriff in San Jacinto County, which is about 60
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — From the start, the case was highly unusual: a criminal prosecution centered on the disputed ownership of a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits. Its end was even more unexpected. In the middle of trial, New York prosecutors abruptly dropped their
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dean Phillips is ending his long-shot Democratic primary challenge of President Joe Biden after failing to win a primary contest. The Democratic congressman from Minnesota built his White House bid around calls for a new generation of party leadership while spending freely from his
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt sought Wednesday to bolster spirits within his Conservative Party with another tax cut for 27 million working people, hoping it can turn the political tide ahead of a general election this year. But with the tax cut trailed in advance and no
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has denied clemency for a death row inmate convicted of killing two people more than two decades ago. Wednesday’s 4-1 vote clears the way for Michael Dewayne Smith to be executed on April 4. Smith was convicted and sentenced to
Continue ReadingBy Alison Main and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips announced Wednesday that he was dropping out of the 2024 Democratic presidential primary and throwing his support behind President Joe Biden. “I ran for Congress in 2018 to resist Donald Trump, I was trapped in the Capitol in 2021 because of Donald Trump, and I
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected to vote to keep money flowing to scores of federal agencies before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline. The first package of six bills expected to be voted on Wednesday has a price tag of about $460 billion. Lawmakers are still negotiating a second
Continue ReadingCOLDSPRING, Texas (AP) — A Texas sheriff whose office drew national scrutiny and an FBI investigation following a shooting last year in which a man is accused of killing five of his neighbors has lost his re-election bid. Greg Capers had sought a fourth term as sheriff in San Jacinto County, which is about 60
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson and Jeremy Herb, CNN Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake says she will court voters who backed GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley – and those who would have voted for independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema – even as she criticized Haley’s campaign as a “vanity project” in an interview with CNN Wednesday. Lake,
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says more than 8,500 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, a record high since it began counting deaths a decade ago. The International Organization for Migration says the biggest increase in deaths last year was on the treacherous Mediterranean
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