LONDON (AP) — Britain and Ireland are bracing as powerful wind and rain from Storm Isha are expected to batter a wide swath of the island nations and disrupt travel. The Met Office on Sunday issued an unusual blanket wind warning for all of the U.K. It says gusts could reach 90 miles per hour
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Sunday morning, the Palm Springs Police Department issued a road closure in the area of East Vista Chino between North Cerritos Road and North Sunrise Way. The closure is only affecting westbound traffic. The road is being shut down so crews can repair a power pole that was damaged in an overnight crash. Officials say
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden campaign will hit the airwaves in battleground states with its first abortion-focused ad of the year, featuring stark, emotional testimony from a woman personally affected by a state abortion ban who lays the blame directly on former President Donald Trump. It comes as the campaign is launching a full-court press
Continue ReadingBy RAHIM FAIEZ and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Russian private jet carrying six people has crashed in a remote area of rural Afghanistan. The Taliban say the pilot and some of the others on board have survived. The crash happened Saturday in a mountainous area in Badakhshan province. Regional spokesman Zabihullah
Continue ReadingBY MELINA WALLING and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem that’s concentrated
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — The race for the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary appears to be former President Donald Trump’s to lose, according to a new CNN poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire following Trump’s 30-point win in Iowa’s caucuses last week. Trump holds 50% support among likely Republican primary
Continue ReadingCNN By Arit John and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Hollis, New Hampshire (CNN) — Danielle Brown voted for John McCain in the 2000 New Hampshire Republican primary and for Barack Obama in the Democratic primary eight years later. On Tuesday, she intends to back former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to send a clear message to
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian death toll from the war between Israel and Hamas has soared past 25,000, the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said Sunday, while the Israeli government appeared far from achieving its goals of crushing the militant group and freeing more
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia. If carried out, it
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Three people were killed when a shooting erupted at what police believe was a party at a short term-rental home outside Houston overnight. Responding officers arrived just after 2 a.m. local time at an “active” and “chaotic” scene in Katy, a city located just west of Houston, in Harris
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s state-owned oil company says production has resumed at the country’s largest oilfield, ending a more than two-week hiatus after protesters blocked the facility over fuel shortages. The National Oil Corp. said in a terse statement it lifted the force majeure at the Sharara oil field in
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — The race for the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary appears to be former President Donald Trump’s to lose, according to a new CNN poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire following Trump’s 30-point win in Iowa’s caucuses last week. Trump holds 50% support among likely Republican primary voters
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said recently that he was “proud” to have a hand in overturning the abortion protections enshrined in Roe v. Wade, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake took it as a political gift, thinking to herself, “Oh my God, we just
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump’s effort to march to the Republican presidential nomination faces perhaps its greatest challenge on Tuesday when voters in New Hampshire hold the first-in-the-nation primary. The former president enters the contest emboldened by his record-setting performance in last week’s Iowa caucuses. But New
Continue ReadingBy Darya Tarasova, Teele Rebane, Radina Gigova, Victoria Butenko, Josh Pennington, Andrew Carey and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Shelling killed at least 28 people and injured 30, including two children, near a market in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, according to Russian officials. Moscow blamed Ukraine for the attack,
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN The Associated Press/Report for America LAST CHANCE, Colo. (AP) — Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert is moving from the mountains to run for election on the plains. While her new district is more conservative, Republican voters wait with a hands-on-hips skepticism for a good explanation. The move is the latest in Boebert’s
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez and Rachel Clarke, CNN (CNN) — More than a year and half after the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, a US Justice Department report detailing failures at every level of the law enforcement response may have a provided a small measure of hope for the victims’ families in their quest for accountability.
Continue ReadingBy SLAMET RIYADI Associated Press YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Merapi has erupted, spreading searing gas clouds and avalanches of lava down its slopes as other active volcanoes flared up across the country, forcing the evacuation of thousands. On the densely populated island of Java, Merapi unleashed Sunday clouds of hot ash and a
Continue ReadingBy TIM SULLIVAN AP National Writer APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — The decades fall away as you open the front doors. It’s the late 1950s in the cramped little offices — or maybe the pre-hippie 1960s. It’s a place where army-style buzz cuts are still in fashion, communism remains the primary enemy and the decor is
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least 25 people were killed Sunday by shelling at a market on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine, local officials reported. A further 20 people were injured in the strike on the suburb of Tekstilshchik, including two children, said Denis Pushilin, head of the Russian-installed authorities
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