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By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press Trillions of gallons are lost from aging drinking water systems across the U.S., underscoring an economic and public health reckoning after decades of deferred maintenance and disinvestment that leave some communities struggling to provide reliable service. The problem is especially acute in older industrial and rural areas in the eastern
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An incident in the Red Sea has cut three underwater sea cables providing internet and telecommunications around the world as the waterway remains a target of Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said Monday. A statement by Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications acknowledged the cuts but
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly $6.3 million). The 143 Inuit women say Danish health authorities violated their human rights
Continue ReadingVILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has sharply criticized the Hungarian and Slovak foreign ministers for meeting with their Russian counterpart during a regional forum in Turkey. Tusk said that meeting Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the same day that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was buried in Moscow was “not
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday is hosting a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet who is visiting Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival of Netanyahu, is sitting down with several senior Biden administration officials
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian hard-line politicians dominated the country’s vote for parliament. However, the election Friday also saw a record-low turnout. It remains unclear if turnout was depressed by voter apathy or an active desire to send a message to Iran’s theocracy, though some in the country pushed
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Mikaela Shiffrin’s return from her downhill crash is still on schedule for this weekend in Sweden but the American standout might only enter one of the two World Cup races. Shiffrin’s team says “Mikaela is improving in slalom and feels that the slalom race is still realistic but the GS is
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are ending their proposed $3.8 billion combination after a court ruling blocked their merger. JetBlue said Monday that even though both companies still believe in the benefits of a combination, they felt they were unlikely to meet the required closing conditions before the July 24
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Police are searching for three suspects who they say pulled up to a King City, California, house party and opened fire Sunday evening, killing at least four people and injuring three others. Three men died at the scene and a woman who was shot was taken to a hospital,
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling barring liberal politician Boris Nadezhdin from running in the upcoming presidential election. Nadezhdin, a city council member, was nominated by the Civic Initiative party to run in an election President Vladimir Putin is all but set to win. He has been vocal against the
Continue ReadingKATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s two largest communist parties joined forces to form a new coalition government that would include smaller parties as partners. Maoist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal will remain the prime minister a year after he was elected to the office. Dahal has ended his partnership with the Nepali Congress party which
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG and MATT OTT Associated Press Wall Street drifted modestly lower before the open on Monday as markets turn their attention this week to a trove of labor market data and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s appearance before Congress. Futures for the S&P 500 slipped 0.1% before the bell and futures for the
Continue ReadingBy Ally Barnard and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — Malaysia may renew the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the country’s transport minister said Sunday, as the 10th anniversary of its disappearance nears. Flight MH370 became one of the world’s most puzzling aviation mysteries when it vanished with 239 aboard en route from
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press KUCOVE, Albania (AP) — NATO member Albania has inaugurated a refurbished Soviet-era air base, the alliance’s first in the Western Balkan region. The air base is named after the small town of Kucove, 52 miles south of the capital Tirana. Officials said the new air base will serve as a
Continue ReadingBy KATIE MARIE DAVIES and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has vehemently rejected allegations that Russia’s leak of a conversation by high-ranking German military officers was an indication Berlin was preparing for war against Russia. The government is at the same time trying to contain the domestic fallout from the
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British police have recovered a Ferrari stolen from Formula One driver Gerhard Berger in Italy almost three decades ago. The red Ferrari F512M was one of two sports cars taken while their drivers were in Imola for the San Marino Grand Prix in April 1995. Neither was ever found, until London’s Metropolitan
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Shehbaz Sharif has been sworn in as Pakistan’s new prime minister. It’s the second time he’s had the job. Monday’s swearing-in ceremony saw Sharif pledging to perform his duties and functions with honesty and loyalty and always for the country’s independence. But he has a tough task of bringing lawmakers together to
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — An online protest campaign exposing corruption has rattled government officials and others in Uganda, where street protests are practically outlawed. The campaign, which relies on leaks of official documents, has been presented on the social media platform X as an “exhibition” — in a sequence of
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The National Weather Service is warning of an elevated fire risk through Monday in areas of the northern Texas Panhandle where large wildfires are burning. Strong winds spread flames over the weekend and led to the evacuation of the small town of Sanford. A cluster of
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti have ordered a nighttime curfew after an explosion of violence when gang gunmen overran the two biggest prisons and freed thousands of inmates over the weekend. A 72-hour state of emergency began Sunday night. The government said it would set
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