By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A young girl was pulled from a deadly landslide in a “miraculous rescue” Friday, authorities in the southern Philippines said, as rescue efforts hampered by poor conditions resumed for more than 110 others who have been missing for days. At least 27 people have been killed and 35 injured,
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Scotty Washington had 20 points and California Baptist eked out a 64-63 victory over UT Arlington on Thursday night. Washington was 7-of-14 shooting (4 for 8 from 3-point range) for the Lancers (14-8, 7-4 Western Athletic Conference). Blondeau Tchoukuiengo totaled 18 points and five rebounds. Yvan Ouedraogo
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Benjamin Griscti scored 18 points and Kyle Owens sank a jumper at the buzzer to rally UC Riverside to a 65-63 victory over Cal State Bakersfield on Thursday night. Griscti also contributed seven rebounds for the Highlanders (9-15, 4-8 Big West Conference). Nate Pickens scored 14 and
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 29 points, Michael Porter Jr. added 27 and the Denver Nuggets snapped the Los Angeles Lakers’ three-game winning streak with a 114-106 victory Thursday night. Nikola Jokic had 24 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists for the defending NBA champion Nuggets, who
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Pierre Crockrell II scored 14 points to lead UC Irvine to a 76-61 victory over UC Santa Barbara on Thursday night. Crockrell also had seven assists for the Anteaters (18-6, 11-1 Big West Conference). Devin Tillis scored 13, while Derin Saran added 11 points. The Gauchos
Continue ReadingBy SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press BIJELJINA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — In cities along a section of the Drina River, which forms a natural border between Bosnia and Serbia, there are simple, durable gravestones marking the final resting places of dozens of migrants who drowned in recent years trying to reach Western Europe. Their often decomposing bodies
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press NORTHRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — Dionte Bostick scored 23 points to lead Cal State Northridge over Cal Poly 78-65 on Thursday night. Bostick also added five rebounds and five steals for the Matadors (15-9, 6-6 Big West Conference). De’Sean Allen-Eikens scored 18 points and added five rebounds and six assists. Gianni Hunt
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, Elizabeth Wolfe and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — More than 150 law enforcement personnel are searching for a man in east Tennessee accused of fatally shooting a Blount County deputy and injuring another deputy during a traffic stop on Thursday, authorities say. Kenneth DeHart, 42, is wanted on warrants of first-degree murder,
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press How will America’s suburbs vote this year? A special election in New York next week may offer clues. The race for the congressional seat once held by George Santos is shaping up to be a bellwether in the fight for control of the House, as candidates test political messages that
Continue ReadingBy MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Chants of “Now! Now! Now!” ring out at nearly every protest in Israel imploring the government to do everything possible to win the immediate release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas. But a small group of hostages’ families is pushing a different message: Let the army
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ attorney general is telling public schools that they’re required to tell parents their children are transgender or non-binary even if they’re not out at home. Republican Kris Kobach is doing so even though Kansas is not among the states with a law
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Classified documents were found in a damaged cardboard box in President Joe Biden’s cluttered Delaware garage, near where golf clubs hung on the wall. A photo in former President Donald Trump’s indictment, meanwhile, shows stacks of boxes filled with documents under a chandelier in an ornate Mar-a-Lago bathroom. In
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for talks as anxiety grows in Europe about an impasse in Congress over new aid for Ukraine. Scholz will use his meeting with Biden on Friday to amplify the president’s own argument that a Russian
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press PARKSLEY, Va. (AP) — The owners of a Haitian food truck are suing a small town in Virginia over allegations that a town council member cut the food truck’s water line and screamed, ‘Go back to your own country.’ The married couple from Haiti is suing the town of Parksley
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of negotiations and delays, the Senate has voted to move forward on legislation that would provide wartime aid to Ukraine and Israel. Thursday’s vote was far from a final one. But it was a momentary victory for Republican Leader Mitch McConnell,
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Accepting the AP NFL Most Valuable Player award in person was bittersweet for Lamar Jackson. Jackson was a near-unanimous choice for his second MVP award announced at NFL Honors on Thursday night but the quarterback’s Baltimore Ravens fell one win short of playing in
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG and LINLEY SANDERS Most U.S. adults believe that air travel is generally safe in the U.S., despite some doubts about whether aircraft are being properly maintained and remain free from structural problems. About 7 in 10 U.S. adults say planes are a “very” or “somewhat” safe method of travel, according to a
Continue ReadingBy BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Authorities in a northern Indian town have imposed a curfew and ordered police to shoot violators after clashes over the construction of a Muslim seminary and a mosque left five people dead and more than 150 injured. An Uttarakhand state official said the violence in Haldwani
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s little doubt that Jon Stewart changed late-night comedy as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” from 1999 to 2015. He’s coming back for a second act during wildly different times. He begins hosting “The Daily Show” on Monday nights next week, through at
Continue ReadingBy Sebastian Shukla, CNN Freienthal (CNN) — A village in Brandeburg, north-eastern Germany, made up of a crossroad and 80 residents, became a microcosm of the country last week. As darkness pressed in on Freienthal, protesters whistled and brandished soccer-style red cards at cars heading toward the local village hall. Outside the hall, people grabbed
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